Ditto6687
4d 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
9d 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
20d ago
I remember moldbug saying he will not come on Twitter, did he change his mind?
Ditto6687
1mo 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
1mo 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
1mo ago
It died at least two decades prior, when the US waged war to claw an internationally recognized region away from Serbia.
Ditto6687
1mo 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
1mo 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
1mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo ago
Stick some in the cargo area, it'll be fine.
Classic Balkanic coming of age experience
Ditto6687
2mo 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.
Ditto6687
3mo ago
You have none cus you're a lying liar who lied and got caught.
But in reality I have none because no one has any proof about cash tips, right?
Now they are looking at your bank statements for 3 years
To what end?
pay back the last 3 years of tip fraud you committed
So basically they just assume that I made the average tip amount in my area and calculate the fraud based on this?
It seems like the difference between my reported amount and the average must be very high for this method to be of any significance. If I work at an unpopular bar my tips might be 3x less than the average without any tip fraud whatsoever.
Ditto6687
3mo ago
and if they could get away with exponentially distributed prices they'd do it in a second.
Can you elaborate?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
I don't get this. Why can you freely change the probabilities? Don't they represent something about the real world?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Wait a second. Audits mean the government gets to sift through all your communications???
I suppose they only have the right to see email accounts and phone records of your business, not you personally?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
check bank statements,
In my country tips are much smaller and they're left as cash. Would there be a way to audit those? Are US tips all credit card based or given as part of waiter's salary?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
and the dumber ones are just not recording the payment at all.
I don't know anything about taxes, why are they the dumber ones?
Ditto6687
3mo ago
Edit: It now occurs to me that this might be a novel contribution to game theor
Maybe to economics or betting but surely not game theory
Ditto6687
3mo ago
My theory is that women in general have a significantly lower sex drive, and that it might be a completely different kind of mechanism compared to the male one.
I've known plenty of women who've gone without sex for years and basically didn't really find any need to fix it. And the ones who have a lot of it often use it as a way to obtain in-group status, not for the physical act itself.
As an 16-25 year old man, all you need to connect the dots is to realize none of your female friends masturbate on a daily basis or have frequent sexual thoughts about their friends or classmates. Then it becomes completely obvious that something quite different is going on in their heads.
Bonus: women are almost universally unaware that any such difference exists. A real, visceral difference. Imagine a race of people who never went hungry, but still consumed food out of social pressure. They wouldn't be aware that others have different motivations for eating, and would think they're also just "doing it for vibes"
Not English, what is the connotation here?
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.
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