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We need a word for government by stupid people desperately trying to consider themselves smart. Oh wait.
September 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We need a word for government by stupid people desperately trying to consider themselves smart. Oh wait.
My intuitive explanation for observation causing wavefunction collapse, the "bowling ball model": imagine you were blindfolded and could only observe the universe by flinging bowling balls and seeing if they rebound. Under these circumstances it's hard to measure without altering.
August 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My intuitive explanation for observation causing wavefunction collapse, the "bowling ball model": imagine you were blindfolded and could only observe the universe by flinging bowling balls and seeing if they rebound. Under these circumstances it's hard to measure without altering.
If I ever make a video game, the fastest movement will be running forwards while looking forwards. Moving sideways, diagonally, or backwards slows you. Looking up or down slows you. Jumping slows you. Everyone watching speedruns will thank me.
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If I ever make a video game, the fastest movement will be running forwards while looking forwards. Moving sideways, diagonally, or backwards slows you. Looking up or down slows you. Jumping slows you. Everyone watching speedruns will thank me.
What if we lived in a world identical to ours, but in which David Chalmers's "Philosophical Zombie" argument was utterly stupid? Would we be able to tell the difference?
June 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What if we lived in a world identical to ours, but in which David Chalmers's "Philosophical Zombie" argument was utterly stupid? Would we be able to tell the difference?
The worst thing about Musk's involvement in SpaceX? For the first time ever, we're letting crypto-fascists play a pivotal role in space exploration.
May 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The worst thing about Musk's involvement in SpaceX? For the first time ever, we're letting crypto-fascists play a pivotal role in space exploration.
I'm wary of trans-rights arguments that invoke traditional gender norms and gender policing. "Anti-trans laws will force someone who looks like THIS to use YOUR bathroom!" Um, fine with me I guess?
May 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm wary of trans-rights arguments that invoke traditional gender norms and gender policing. "Anti-trans laws will force someone who looks like THIS to use YOUR bathroom!" Um, fine with me I guess?
If you're American, the hardest thing to say may be "I'm sorry". If you're French, the hardest thing to say is "uncoordinated squirrel".
May 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If you're American, the hardest thing to say may be "I'm sorry". If you're French, the hardest thing to say is "uncoordinated squirrel".
Those of us who prefer working from an office are so underrepresented online. Face-to-face collaboration is more effective. Conversations with co-workers are fun. I benefit from imposed structure and love home-work demarcation. I made it work as a single parent of 2 kids. I'm Team Office.
May 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Those of us who prefer working from an office are so underrepresented online. Face-to-face collaboration is more effective. Conversations with co-workers are fun. I benefit from imposed structure and love home-work demarcation. I made it work as a single parent of 2 kids. I'm Team Office.
Underused civic arguments, #1: No amount of "neighborhood feedback" excuses transportation/roadway designers from their ethical obligation to create safe infrastructure.
May 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Underused civic arguments, #1: No amount of "neighborhood feedback" excuses transportation/roadway designers from their ethical obligation to create safe infrastructure.
How much of a nerd am I? I'm side-eyeing the "Periodic Table Lickability" meme for claiming Lead is more lickable than Iodine. 😒
May 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How much of a nerd am I? I'm side-eyeing the "Periodic Table Lickability" meme for claiming Lead is more lickable than Iodine. 😒
Re "Amazon is driving local bookstores out of business!": Amazon is 30 years old. We are likely in equilibrium. The viability of some number of small bookstores is established. Also, you're old.
May 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Re "Amazon is driving local bookstores out of business!": Amazon is 30 years old. We are likely in equilibrium. The viability of some number of small bookstores is established. Also, you're old.
To people who brag about their critical thinking skills, your frequently-missed point: the most important person to be critical of is *oneself*. What are my false beliefs? My faulty habits of mind? My biases and prejudices? My personal vanities and defensive behaviors? Where am I wrong?
May 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
To people who brag about their critical thinking skills, your frequently-missed point: the most important person to be critical of is *oneself*. What are my false beliefs? My faulty habits of mind? My biases and prejudices? My personal vanities and defensive behaviors? Where am I wrong?
Guitarists refer to vintage/antique instruments which have been stowed away (and are thus in amazingly good condition for their age) as "closet queens". TMYK! 💡
May 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Guitarists refer to vintage/antique instruments which have been stowed away (and are thus in amazingly good condition for their age) as "closet queens". TMYK! 💡
If you've struggled with the artificial concept of imaginary numbers, wait until you hear about "negative numbers".
May 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you've struggled with the artificial concept of imaginary numbers, wait until you hear about "negative numbers".
Is RFK a secret proponent of conservation-of-health, in which reducing petroleum, dino nugget, and soda consumption must be counterbalanced by drinking bleach and forgoing protective medicine? He is the demented Gygax Druid of health policy.
April 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Is RFK a secret proponent of conservation-of-health, in which reducing petroleum, dino nugget, and soda consumption must be counterbalanced by drinking bleach and forgoing protective medicine? He is the demented Gygax Druid of health policy.
Wondering what proportion of those who call slavery America's "original sin" intend the Christian connotations of irredeemability and appeal to grace. "America is ruined, indelibly stained, beyond our power to fix"? Those I know who'd use "original sin" are idealists and energetic activists.
April 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Wondering what proportion of those who call slavery America's "original sin" intend the Christian connotations of irredeemability and appeal to grace. "America is ruined, indelibly stained, beyond our power to fix"? Those I know who'd use "original sin" are idealists and energetic activists.
Somehow science-fiction authors never predicted the 21st-century blossoming of manifold platforms where complete strangers call you a "cuck".
April 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Somehow science-fiction authors never predicted the 21st-century blossoming of manifold platforms where complete strangers call you a "cuck".
I was, on viability grounds, immediately skeptical of reports that Amazon.com would show tariff impact. Amazon can't see into supply chains for 3P inventory. Impact would have to be self-reported. What are the incentives? What's the game theory on truth-telling? How to verify? It's unworkable.
April 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I was, on viability grounds, immediately skeptical of reports that Amazon.com would show tariff impact. Amazon can't see into supply chains for 3P inventory. Impact would have to be self-reported. What are the incentives? What's the game theory on truth-telling? How to verify? It's unworkable.
Thanks for restoring sanity to Canadian elections, Donald Trump.
April 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thanks for restoring sanity to Canadian elections, Donald Trump.
I want to meet the person at Facebook who decided that Meta AI's ad campaign would be "now you can create images no one has ever wanted."
April 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I want to meet the person at Facebook who decided that Meta AI's ad campaign would be "now you can create images no one has ever wanted."
I get it, I get it... we live in a world of hard men and hard choices, not some childish fairyland in which everyone in the US has rights.
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I get it, I get it... we live in a world of hard men and hard choices, not some childish fairyland in which everyone in the US has rights.
Curtail the Executive Branch. Withdraw emergency powers. Make the President a bureaucrat and Presidential elections boring.
April 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Curtail the Executive Branch. Withdraw emergency powers. Make the President a bureaucrat and Presidential elections boring.
The Presidency is a single point of failure.
April 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Presidency is a single point of failure.
Grievance from the Declaration of Independence that's hitting me particularly hard right now: "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences."
April 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Grievance from the Declaration of Independence that's hitting me particularly hard right now: "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences."
There's no reason we should still record "Sex" on passports at all. They have a photo. "Sex" on ID documents is a vestige which provokes conflict but adds virtually no incremental information.
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
There's no reason we should still record "Sex" on passports at all. They have a photo. "Sex" on ID documents is a vestige which provokes conflict but adds virtually no incremental information.