adrian smith

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• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  (*) Or whether it is possible to build genuine AI using such methods. i imagine an important element of a "genuine ai" would be some way to model the world and any entities that might happen to be wandering about...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  the OPEC black-mail that's a kinda one-sided way of looking at not being able to get way-below-market prices any more i mean i could wish it had gone to people less inclined to piss most of it up the wall...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  (I met Isaac) i used to enjoy his introductions to the stories in the hugo winners anthologies for the flavor of the con atmosphere (?), but he did come across as having a fairly, er, forward flirting style...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  well, yeah, if ur not saving ur not saving gold, it may be that for a lot of americans their house was their savings, which brings us back to the fire (FIRE) sector issues...
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  sorry, i meant FIRE sector - finance/insurance/real estate, my dislike of capitals has let me down here...
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  For one, other than possibly you, I know no one who owns gold for security. not everyone who does makes a point of advertising the fact...
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  isn't the upward rampage in house prices also correlated with the rise of the fire sector, which seems to have been more vigorous in anglophone countries than most other places?...
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  greg, keep ur hair on, it's just a blog comment about a counterfactual, ur libel winnings would be 7p or so, payable in nfts...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  However, it's likely that those reports are exaggerated. we bathe in a sea of narrative management the stuff about gaza is the worst yet...
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  Really? "Sudetenland"? u think i'm celebrating it but i'm just describing it western governments and the whole western press have been telling themselves and us what they want to hear about what's happening there and what the consequences are going...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  They are already doing it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66393949 we were discussing "what's left" - the bits they've taken are effectively russia now, unless and until some economic or military circumstance (fondly hoped for by peter zeihan) manages to prise them away again...
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  russian settlers? very unlikely imo, though they apparently have a yearning for odessa, and it might be best for the ukrainians to open negotiations before they're ready to take it, ukraine without a coastline would be a very sad camper...
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  You misspelled 'conquest', I believe. oh, he doesn't want it all but i suspect whatever's left is going to be neutral...
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  Quite possibly because North Korea attacked South Korea at the start of the Korean War? tradition is a fine thing but the circumstances are a little different now South Korea and Japan (and China, and Russia) have a pretty good...
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  a lot of shit that we've been keeping a damper on is going to boil over or perhaps a lot of shit that you've been stirring up would start to settle down putin's going to get what he wants in...
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  America is very lax about kickbacks and gifts. this lad may have gone too far tho https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/01/bob-menendez-new-jersey-bribery-charges...
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  yeah, i probably have a narrower definition of affordable than a lot of people, new builds seem to run to 3-4 sen man or more just for the house around here, i'm interested in something second-hand - kind of tempted...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Real estate backed money is the ticking nuclear time bomb underneath the British, US, Japanese, Chinese, Canadian, Australian, and a bunch of other economies. not sure about japan, it was madness during the bubble but now with the shrinking population...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  'Grindstated' & 'Sigma Male' are both terms from contemporary online male hustle culture it's usually (the noun) grindset, a play on mindset, which has been a popular self-help thing for a while there's a whole damn hustlebro ecosystem out there,...
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  The term apparently gained popularity in the late 80s. seems to have mainly taken off (!) in print since 2000 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=helicopter+parenting&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3...
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  it turns out that a combination of generally available birth control, female education and emancipation, and rising prosperity cause birth rates to drop well below replacement levels without authoritarian measures such as enforced contraception or China's one child policy isn't...
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  So, once Iran gets nukes, how long do you reckon it would be before one got passed to Hamas and Tel Aviv becomes a glowing hole in the ground? be kind of obvious where it had come from, and israel...
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  Most anti-D/Biden "news sources" talk about how terrible the economy and crime are. Either without giving numbers or giving them in the abstract with no comparison to the past. lot of what i've seen has been about the southern border,...
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  That's not an age thing: did you see the incident where Liz Truss got lost trying to find her way out of a room after doing a TV interview? no but that was plausibly a one-off, whereas biden seems to...
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  You see, Biden's age issue isn't about him per se but about Kamela becoming president should something happen to Joe. well they say u can retain a mastery of the higher levels of statecraft while being unable to find ur...
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  Some people need to remember that HONESTY is a christian virtue they should probably be called "ChrINOs"...
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  oh right, i was confused because they called it "the world's first rim-driven jet propulsion motor", but in fact it's just a turbofan as u say...
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  Add another product category that won't be using petrochemicals. i wouldn't be so sure of that, a jet engine is still gonna need to burn something to produce exhaust gases...
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  god yeah, radio mille collines, didn't think of that...
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  But if you want real ethnic tension look at the Rohingya people and specifically the exiles in Bangladesh. did u see the stuff about meta's involvement? https://erinkissane.com/ it's some wild shit...