Jiro
4hr ago
You are not going to get low risk and absolute fortune at the same time for anything in the real world.
Jiro
2d ago
The left absolutely subscribes to America being number one, its just their version of America instead of what America actually is or what the right and normies say they want.
If I'm from Mars and landed my saucer in America to take it over, would you say that I wanted America to be number one, I just wanted this to be an America run by Martians?
"I want America to be number one" has to imply a certain amount of respect for America as it is or the idea becomes meaningless.
Jiro
2d ago
I just said "risk aversion". That's the whole point. You can't make an absolute fortune without risk, and I don't want to take the risk. The implication of
You can make an absolute fortune on that prediction, if it comes true.
is that anyone who really believed that would spend their money on it in order to make a fortune, and that anyone who refuses to spend the money doesn't really believe it.
This implication is not true when there is risk.
This is just a slight variation on "you don't really believe it, because if you did you'd bet money like a real rationalist".
Jiro
3d ago
It is not possible to 1) lose nothing if it went badly and 2) make a fortune if it went well.
Jiro
3d ago
Sorry, risk aversion. The probability that would let you say "that's pretty likely" is not the same as the probability that would make it make sense to sink a lot of money into something. If I thought it was 80% likely, for instance, I certainly wouldn't take that 20% chance of losing my shirt. At best I might slightly change the distribution of money that I was going to invest anyway.
Jiro
9d ago
Define "good for". If you waste your life playing video games, but you would otherwise have starved to death, is that good for you? I would say that it is, ignoring semantic questions about whether "better" counts as "good".
Jiro
9d ago
As recently as the 60s Indonesia launched an anti-Chinese/anti-communist pogram that killed a few million people.
Wikipedia says half a million total and that the Chinese were "thousands".
Jiro
13d ago
Even if you have both number 2 and 3 together so that you are not applying double standards to Jews, this amounts to "someone who supports politics that I don't like should be put in jail and forcibly removed from power". "Getting the country into a war" is not special; in a democracy, people are permitted to advocate for policies that you consider harmful.
Jiro
13d ago
The Blair Witch Project was a successful low-budget film, and it managed to achieve fame even without the help of internet video distribution!
The Blair Witch Project is a special case because being low budget is inherently part of the story, which alleviates most of the problems caused by having to be low budget. This doesn't generalize.
Jiro
14d ago
The issue here isn't even Bari per se, it's the criteria defining the nature of the pool.
I wouldn't count "critical of wokeness without being outright MAGA" as a problem with the nature of the pool, in the sense you seem to mean. That's probably going to be the best you'll get if you're going through journalists--exactly what should the pool have been instead?
Jiro
14d ago
It also gives a lot of authority to religions, for instance Israel does not recognize secular marriage, thus effectively banning any gay marriage- as no faith in Israel officiates such unions.
Israel recognizes foreign marriages, including gay marriages.
Jiro
18d ago
But they're not. US healthcare is overpriced, but the money is flowing to doctors and hospitals, not to the insurance industry, whose profits are small.
I don't see any numbers in that linked post, or in the posts linked from that, that compare hospital profit and insurance industry profit.
And even some of the links from that post blame the problems on the insurers when you seem to think they don't.
Jiro
18d ago
I'd like to point out that this is the exact same argument feminists use when they say that any advice like "Don't get drunk in a skimpy outfit and hang around lots of desperate horny men" is actually blaming the victim and morally wrong.
Feminists are saying that it is possible to say such things sincerely but most people who say them in real life aren't? I find this unlikely as a feminist position.
Jiro
19d ago
"I reworded the AI material back in my own words again" is still AI. Just because it's in your own words doesn't mean that there isn't something in the structure that still carries over from the AI version and can be noticed. (And obviously there was enough for people to notice.)
Jiro
20d ago
A less literal answer is that it's all the years when an adolescent is expected to have adult-type responsibilities, but without adult-type privileges.
I don't think there is such a thing. Normally, both privileges and responsibilities get gradually added as someone gets older. Things like having to work to pay rent are adult responsibilities, and people in that age range rarely have that responsibility. And I'm sure you can name privileges that someone just below 18 has that someone at 10 doesn't.
Jiro
23d ago
If you are a young earth creationist studying geology, and you refuse to date any rock to older than 4000 BC, you will fail.
The stated grading criteria for the essay were very unlike "what is the age of this rock?".
Jiro
26d ago
I'd say this is legitimate. It's easy to support very harmful actions based on abstract principles when the harmful consequences don't fall on yourself. Sometimes you need to do this anyway (punishing criminals, not allowing underage drinking) but it's often a warning sign that someone is applying principles in a very self-justifying way.
If mod sanctions and AAQCs are done in a sensible manner, it should not be possible for a post to get both. If it is, that implies that one of the two processes has failed. The solution is to fix the process, not to arbitrarily separate them.
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