Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
18hr ago
Quantumfreakonomics
19hr ago
There is no more wretched hive of scum and villainy masquerading as a pillar of respectable society than college football. The players are at best academic frauds -- enrolled in fake classes and pretending to earn a fake degree -- and at worst are public nuisances empowered by administrators and politicians. The coaches are all snakes, recruiting young men with promises of loyalty, comradery, and respect, then skipping town on a private jet the moment a bigger school calls. Not even manslaughter will prevent an overperforming coach from falling up.
And then there are the conferences. Not content with sharing the financial benefits of America's culture of amateur college sports, the big schools collude amongst themselves to hoard all of the viewership and revenue. The resulting turf squabbles are more dramatic than the on-field product, reminding one of European diplomacy during the Long 19th Century.
I still watch it of course.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Before I waste any more of my time thinking about this, is there any evidence that the degradation of the new reflecting pool coating was caused by vandalism as opposed to run-of-the-mill incompetence?
I don’t really care about the algae. That seems like a fixable problem.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
There is almost no demand for small, cheap, low-performance cars in the United States. People have tried. They don’t sell.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
No. The Milky Way is 13 billion years old, but only 100,000 light years across. A sufficiently advanced civilization would be able to colonize the galaxy using only sublight tech.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
There are loads of exoplanets, dust clouds with organic chemicals, and strange radio sources discovered every week. The reason you never hear about them is that you need an advanced background in spectroscopy to make sense out of the data.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
With modern technology, one would think that it would be possible to put women in frontline combat roles. Yet empirically, this doesn’t happen. Watching videos of the shooting, it hit me that there must be some psychological “it” factor for tactical situations that women don’t reliably have.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
A far wiser man than either of us once noted that the principled application of left-wing equality and classism rhetoric results in sexual justice for incels.
A not insubstantial reason for the rightward shift of young men is that they notice that the left applies Marxist logic to every problem except the one problem that they are bothered by most of all.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
There is a gigantic difference between the male-line/female-line extinction rate ratio and the number of women who reproduce per every male.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
The abstract talks about X2 statistics. Now I am not a statistics nerd, but I have encountered the letter χ (chi) in passing and happen to know that it does not identify as X or x.
One time in physics class I said “doubleyou” instead of “omega” and everyone laughed at me.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Everyone's a libertarian until they get the slightest whiff of power huh?
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
He gets points right off the bat for not titleing every video "IMPOSSIBLE FLAVOR!!!!!!" or "THIS FOOD IS INSANE???!!!???" like every other YouTube channel.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Not make a fuss about jihadist Muslims killing their citizens because it will mess up Trump's "peace deal"
Yeah, that's how peace deals work. Hezbollah has killed 4 Israeli civilians since the 2025 Gaza ceasefire. Israel has extracted more than enough Lebanese blood to get even.
The dissolution of the friendship between the US and Israel is not good news for Iran, Syria, etc.
Yes, I know that if Israel had their way they would turn the greater part of the Middle East into Gaza. The United States has an interest in preventing any more refugee crises. It would be good for Israelis to keep in mind that American foreign policy has many settings below "zero aid".
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
A good start would be to use an actual Islamic honorific for Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, instead of crudely repurposed pentacostal slop.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
Oh my god, the administration is going to strong-arm Anthropic into financing data-centers in Iran.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
I haven't been able to get a single bit of erotica out of it.
Notably, going by Claude's Constitution, Anthropic considers underage erotica to be a 100% absolute Hard No, in the same category as genocide, biological weapons, and coups.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
I think its fine if someone doesn't want to work for a Jew, but obviously he isn't getting hired in New York after that. I'm sure there are plenty of businesses in Iowa that could use a Cornell grad.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
My understanding is not that this person herself was seen as a security risk, but that she was not trusted to deliver an honest technical opinion given her (loudly displayed) background.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
I can imagine a world where the 2015 MIRI Corrigibility paper came out the other way. Then we could point at the math and say, “See! Nothing to worry about.” We do not live in tht world.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
If there was a 10% chance that the H-bomb would reverse gravity, and Eisenhower told Oppenheimer to fix it, and Oppenheimer said, "I can't. That's just what H-bombs do." Then yes, Eisenhower's job would be to stop the test and put the entire department on administrative leave.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Annex the Caldwell LDS Temple. Rename it the Nampa Temple.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
now that you have substack tactics guys breaking down gifs and so on.
I request links
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
I think it's ITAR. I don't know all the technicalities of the legal regime, but it sounds like the proximate concern of the government is that China/Iran/North Korea/Russia would be able to use Fable to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their own code. This would be a big blow to US offensive cyber capabilities. Think Stuxnet exploits getting patched.
It’s pretty annoying that every gun case now is constitutionally required to be an 18th-century literature review, especially if we have to do the extra work of figuring out which laws were and weren’t racist.
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