Consequentialists usually offset their dogmatic moral theory with a bunch of dogmatic empirical claims in a desperate effort to approximate common decency.

The Grinch:

AAAAAHHHHHHH

Reading Finnegan's Wake on the subway but going "huh" and "what" and scratching my head a lot so people don't think I'm reading it performativley

wrong a really strong man tried to open it once

I always think this quote is ironic because what he invented is very close to faster horses. Would be more apt to say this about the telephone

– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944)

between Twitter and the polling I’d wager Twitter is a better thermometer for tomorrow’s revealed attitudes. it has been in the past, though I suppose it could have decoupled

IMO at least _some_ of the valorisation of moats/network effects is just a side effect of the planning fallacy. It would take way more than a day to clone Duolingo, you would need dozens of language experts among other things

Now we can see that Marks & Spencers invented AGI decades ago and have been using it to perfect the middle class shopping experience

God forbid the fully automated luxury communism cashew nut drone uses slightly too much packaging

AND THE TOTAL COST WAS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE STARSHIP PROGR–

philosophy and many math sects (like probability) are actually highly intuitive fields with no real issues until they let in the secret english majors that want to be weird and cute about definitions

Some people are generational posters they just don't know it

Say what you like the man knows how to maximise engagement

METR hyperstition

italian communist's bitch wife: I gotta migraine 😫 italian communist (mishearing): I got-a *our* grain

Hayley Welch's empire grows every day

I feel like Dishoom is really phoning it in these days

In Metatopia all lone wolf shooters will have scrutable motives