Ditto6687
17d ago
Being in charge of a health insurance company is like being a world leader: you are going to be making decisions that result in some people living and other people dying. There's no way around it. Your whole job is allocating scarce healthcare resources.
Do you think it's always a tradeoff between who gets treatment, never a tradeoff between profit and treatment?
BDSM is a fetish and participation in it motivated presumably by lust. DV, while superficially similar in that both involve violence (simulated vs. real) seems to come from a completely different place than BDSM. Anger, low impulse control, and both intensified by alcoholism in most cases. Presumably no one wants to be the target of DV, but it would not surprise me if the BDSM community contained more subs than doms.
Edit: I've caused quite a ruckus with misplacing my comment it seems. That's what you get for posting on mobile. But I'm still on my phone and at work so I will move this later when I find the time
Ditto6687
20d ago
Can you link me to some articles about drug use causing insanity? I'm very out of the loop. The last I read on this question was Scott's "more than you ever wanted to know about marijuana" article years ago.
I'm most curious in the mechanism. I find it hard to imagine that any sort of serious "insanity" doesn't correspond to heavy, mechanical (+deleterious) changes in the brain. I.e. if this is serious I expect neurodegeneration and neurotoxicity to be involved.
But I would be very interested if a more "subtle"/soft mechanism was the cause. E.g. something like trauma, or "he couldn't handle the machine elf truth", etc.
Ditto6687
21d ago
nobody wants to live there.
Wrong, I'd like to live in both Moscow or Sankt Petersburg, and probably wouldn't mind many other places.
Ditto6687
22d ago
Wasn't sseth a LoL YTer in the olden days? I might be mixing him up with Dunkey though
Ditto6687
23d ago
Yeah, mine too, and it's pretty funny since we are a Slavic nation, one that might not compare favorably to Russia when it comes to civilizational accomplishment and so on.
A certain aspiring class in our countries seems to be possessed by a complex of lesser value, and would rather see their neighbors fail, even though to a German we may as well be the same. Like that scene in Borat.
Then again, probably all parties are guilty, don't doubt for a second that Russians are bad winners and arrogant. Slavs may be fine individually, but our group characters on average and in a political aggregate will never be able to overcome our history and circumstances like Scandinavians did, for example. Nobody is even interested in that.
Ditto6687
1mo ago
Dursleys are people who say “settee” and “pleased to meet you” and so on.
Not English, what is the connotation here?
Hermione’s background is upper-middle.
I'm rusty on my HP lore, but where is this implied? I don't remember her family situation being discussed much in the books or shown in the film.
Ditto6687
1mo ago
Anecdotal, but in my experience material concerning mothers with borderline personality disorder seems strongly oriented toward women, while the material oriented toward men is far more concerned with getting over a borderline ex-GF/wife than dealing with a borderline mother.
Do you know where I can read up on this?
Ditto6687
1mo ago
Off topic but whats the best intro to Civ4 for someone who can't even parse the map? Aside from playing the game solo obviously that's the best.
Ditto6687
1mo ago
I remember moldbug saying he will not come on Twitter, did he change his mind?
Ditto6687
2mo ago
The footnote (no. 28) continues the argument:
I support embryo selection but I don't buy the argumentation Gwern puts forward in this footnote. People may be fine with rolling the dice naturally, but still take issue at monumental, population wide changes due to engineering.
"Yes, I'd love my kid to be selected from a better distribution, but I fear long-term effects if this policy is implemented at mass-scale because I am not a geneticist and it seems risky" is a perfectly consistent position.
Ditto6687
2mo ago
Those are all more or less well-defined terms you could bump into depending on your social circles. It might be beneficial to just read up on them a bit
Ditto6687
2mo ago
It died at least two decades prior, when the US waged war to claw an internationally recognized region away from Serbia.
Ditto6687
3mo ago
I mean to what extent is being fans of a fictional world whose themes appeal to them comparable to astrology? LotR doesn't come with some woo-woo belief system attached.
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Off-topic slightly, but are the women at these parties presumed to be prostitutes? Or is it more like a "two couples who know each other met and had a crazy night" story which got blown out of proportion for sensationalist reasons?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Somehow these temperaments seem less violently offensive to rational thought than astrology.
Astrology has an "in-your-face" stupid effect, whereas the temperaments at least attempt to explain some causal mechanism.
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Public Choice Theory suggests that for certain policies democracy and majority voting is no guarantee of quality
Is there a salient example for this?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
I understood that part, but I still don't understand the broader implications. In particular, you seem to be implying that electing a candidate preferred by the median voter is better than the alternative, and I asked about the reason why. I can come up with some reasons, e.g. you don't get policies such as reparations or bloody deportations because those are preferred only by the extremes. But what about broader policy questions, or those unrelated to polarization or culture war?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Median in terms of polarization? I like your comment but you didn't do a lot of work to actually describe the particular outcomes that would be better if the median voter had more say.
Do you expect higher quality decisions from the median voter? Or is this just about avoiding outcomes such as wokism/far right?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Stick some in the cargo area, it'll be fine.
Classic Balkanic coming of age experience
Ditto6687
3mo ago
since the TRF differential between advanced and non-advanced countries is the real problem that we as a global species need to deal with.
I wonder if there may be entire industries and ways of life whose realization depends on economies of scale.
In other words there may be a limiting number of people such that for any smaller amount, it becomes uneconomical for i.e. advanced microchip research to continue.
Sorry I don't know much about this debate, what are the benefits? Are they mainly convenience wrt not needing to switch the clock twice per year?
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