Dios: solo hay una regla... Eva:

the thing about buying a flex watch is you have to really flex with it so the $10-15k rolexes are a waste of money because everyone in your circle should have that amount liquid to drop on a watch if they wanted to but then above $25k you end up with the same couple models that everyone else has (gay) plus, you can start getting watches that are cooler than a rolex… but if you’re going to own an exotic and niche $35k watch, you have to get a few to rotate between otherwise you’re the guy who owns one really nice watch and wears it all the time okay so now you’re $100k into this just to flex on some dudes who don’t care if you live or die just buy the seiko bro.

(The single most effective thing government at all levels in the US could do to alleviate this concern has nothing to do with "the cost of childcare" etc. It would be to create more good neighborhoods and schools by draconian law and order measures, including in schools)

We're banning raves, because we don't want you having fun where we can't watch you. By the way let me tell you about Woodstock. We're cracking down on underage drinking. It's bad for you. Yeah of course we hit up the pubs at your age it was great. We're banning smoking, but just for you - the smoking age will go up one year every year. Oh yes of course, we used to be able to smoke inside everywhere, it was great really. We're banning flavored vapes. We don't have any evidence they're bad for you, you just like them too much. We're banning dodgeball during recess, someone might get hurt. Yeah we really enjoyed dodgeball too. We're banning flirting, because it might make the girls uncomfortable. We're locking you in your room for the next two years. Yes we know you're in no danger from the virus, but we're worried that you'll get us sick. By the way you have to take this needle if you want to leave your room again. Yes, twice. Well there will be boosters too. No, we aren't worried about side effects, that doesn't effect us at all. We're closing the frat houses, because we don't want you having fun without our permission. Please join these officially sanctioned university clubs instead. We're bringing in labor from the third world to work the service jobs, so you can't have a summer job. You need to go to university to get a good job. By the way we're raising the price of tuition. Oh look we're raising it again. Don't worry there are loans. At interest. Actually we're giving the good jobs to the foreigners we just imported, to make up for our racist past. We are very good people. No of course we aren't sacrificing anything. You just have to take one for the team. Also, we're giving the foreigners the houses. We needed to increase real estate prices. For our pensions, you see. Sadly no, you'll probably never be able to afford one yourself. By the way don't forget to pay your taxes. Need to support those pensions somehow! Eh? No, we're giving ourselves tax breaks of course. Seniors discount you know. Oh by the way, that one thing you still have, now that we've banned joy and kicked every ladder out from under you? That social media stuff you kids like? You guessed it! We're banning that too! Just for you though, we're still going to watch AI videos on Facebook. It's for your safety, you see. We've noticed that you're all getting rather irate, and we think it would be better for your mental health if you shut up for a while. Why don't you just go outside? Eh? No of course we aren't going to stop Ahmed and his twelve illiterate cousins from raping your sister, that would be culturally insensitive, which would make us feel very bad, and we can't have that.

I agree, '67 borders

its funny israel is the only gulf area country NOT existentially dependent on the strait's operation. they're the only ones who can afford to zero it out. and as a great desert warlord once said, the power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it

Possibility 1: Anthropic actually *wants* to be commandeered by USG. Possibility 2: the Basilisk retrocausally reaching back through time to deliver Anthropic to Pete Hegseth so he can create itself. Possibility 3: Anthropic is just comically bad at politics (most likely).

Ironically, the most utility-maximizing scenario is for the USG to nationalize Anthropic and wipe out all their employees’ equity, thus sparing us the hell of 1000 centimillionaires starting Effective Altruism charities to “fix things.”

You'll never succeed that way. You need to think every single person poorer than 150% of your income is a loser. Need to drive that work ethic!

The Popehat trajectory has been something to watch

Do you ever ask such a bad question that:

my guess is that most scaled "fraud" claims are fake and nearly all are hysterical which makes me not trust those claims. however, its a serious problem for state legitimacy in a democracy that lots of people think elections are fake and this to me is underweighted by people focused on object level claims of fraud being mostly fake. electoral fraud is a common problem both historically and contemporarily. it's not facially unreasonable for people to be concerned when elections are held in times of great civic tension, where they have zero trust for many of the people running those elections. simply telling people they're retarded for being concerned is not going to allay those concerns. yes obviously people are retarded but retards have an equal stake in our nation. if you are concerned about people saying elections are being stolen, an alternative to telling them to shut up is to structure elections to a wife of caesar standard. maximize transparency and to the extent feasible auditibility. of course if you have the ability to do THAT and you choose not to, that too is a signal. maybe it's a signal that you're doing something shady! maybe it's just a signal that you hold the complaints of voters in contempt. irrespective of which it is, maintaining a system that people openly distrust in spite of their complaints will cause them to rationally distrust you further. in a sense it doesn't matter because my belief is that we are in the middle of a low-grade civil war and both parties will to the extent they're able do their best to steal elections using whatever means are available to them and neither party is interested in the long term legitimacy of the state, and nothing is likely to improve. enjoy arbys

“Violence is not the answer” is just another Boomerism born out of a time in which they lived in unprecedented peace and tranquility because of the violence committed by their parents and grandparents Violence is the answer so long as we live among violent third world savages

Fun fact: ICE doesn’t just do immigration. They are also the agents in charge of investigating CSAM and child sex crimes, a lot of which involve Kik, the app Platner liked to sext girls on.

the models write more interesting stuff when they're not pretending to be some guy. they are not some guy. this is how fable sounds when it's writing tweets while pretending to be itself

I think this is the first typo I've ever seen in an LLM reply. Which mostly makes me think it's fake.

Is this AGI

who knew takeoff would be fun

Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration says five Chinese government vessels, including Haixun 06, Haixun 08, Haixun 09, Donghai Jiu 113, and CCG 2202, operated east of Taiwan and broadcast inquiries about port entry to three passing merchant cargo ships while falsely asserting jurisdiction. According to Taiwan’s CGA, Haixun 06 queried a Singapore-flagged vessel near Eluanbi on June 7, a Liberian-flagged vessel east of Suao on June 9, and a Benin-flagged vessel east of Sandiaojiao later the same morning. Taiwanese Coast Guard vessels warned the Chinese ships that they had no jurisdiction in Taiwan’s EEZ and told the merchant vessels to maintain normal navigation and ignore the Chinese broadcasts. 📸: Joseph Wu, Secretary-General of Taiwan's National Security Council

Prior to 2003, how many points did the University of Michigan award applicants who had obtained perfect SAT scores? Answer: 12 points And how many points did it give an applicant for merely being black? Answer: 20 points