It is quite strange. One would think a judge would easily throw this out.

I mean there is probably not a specific rule I could point to that a high school athlete couldn't ride a bike or a motorcycle in a 400m track run either.

There is probably not a specific rule that you can't shoot the shot put out of a canon either.

I would just assume the judges have the slightest bit of common sense.

> I mean there is probably not a specific rule I could point to that a high school athlete couldn't ride a bike or a motorcycle in a 400m track run either.

There most definitely is such a rule, and there most definitely are people who have tried to do that - and been the cause of the original rule wording ; and others who still have tried to do so by "creatively interpreting" said rule.

Have you met humans?

Tiktok especially.

The only time I have ever seen Tiktok videos is from dating someone younger and watching them engage with Tiktok over their shoulder out of curiosity.

To me, it felt like my brain was being scrambled. The worst part was I could tell they were addicted to that same feeling.

It is not really fair if a person is addicted to having their brain scrambled while I found the experience absolutely horrendous.

If I engage with Tolstoy/Dostoevsky audiobooks in my free time instead of having my brain scrambled, there is obviously going to be huge carry over to all sorts of other activities. Focusing at work is just one of them.

I love LLMs but that sounds like one of the worst ideas I can even think of.

What I find interesting about the covid mRNA vaccine is I remember being sick in March 2020 and I can't remember being sick since.

I can remember getting a sniffle at night and waking up fine the next morning a few times.

I think I had two doses of covid mRNA vaccine.

I have actually forgot what it is like to be sick. It almost feels like the covid vaccine gave me some kind of super immunity. I never get the flu shot either. I have not had the flu in 5 years for sure.

I think this is more likely a result of increased standards of cleanliness that have remained

Empiricism and rationalism both tempered by a heavy dose of skepticism.

On the other hand, maybe that is some kind of fallacy itself. I almost want to say that "scientific thinking" should be called something else. The main issue being the lack of experiment. Using the word "science" without experiment leads to all sorts of nonsense.

A word that means "scientific thinking is much as possible without experiment" would at least embedded a dose of skepticism in the process.

The Achilles heel of rationalism is the descent into modeling complete nonsense. I should give lesswrong another chance I suppose because that would sum up my experience so far, empirically.

EA to me seems like obvious self serving nonsense. Hiding something in the obvious to avoid detection.

I assume not only do they believe what they are writing but would believe you and I just don't "get it".

To be fair, there are things I am really into that seem just as ridiculous to an outsider/non-connoisseur. Microtonal music for example. I have seen youtube comments before on pieces I really do love saying that people must be pretending to like this music because it sounds so awful to them.

Or wine tasting comes to mind. I love wine but the wine tasting connoisseur seems ridiculous to me. We really are having two different experiences though.

The writers probably are perceiving these things and not just making them up.

The thing is I can understand wine tasting, or microtonal music, or poetry, or lots of other things. I don't really "get" those things either, but I can see how it's something that other people do "get". I do understand it on some level.

But this kind of stuff ... I don't really understand how anyone can say something like that with a straight face. But maybe that's just a failure of empathy on my part *shrug*

You assume it's people writing it. It was probably written by AI. Nobody cares.

It is like arguing that the exodus from the rust belt in the late 80s and 90s was good for the cities because it made the cost of housing go down.

This is true if we focus entirely on housing cost and basically ignore all the down sides. Of course, ignoring the perspective of those who owned real estate too at that time.

Real estate always has quite a bit of preference falsification associated with it too. Everyone is always publicly outraged at the cost increase of real estate while those who own the increasing real estate are internally quite happy with the situation. I suspect that is the main variable why we can never solve this problem.

The part missing is that Musk massively over payed for the bloated unprofitable business.

I would think Twitter is profitable with the cuts that were made it is just not nearly profitable enough to justify the investment.

Non-negative cash flow from operations but lighting money on fire when you add on the debt that was used to purchase the company.

I think it depends on what laptop.

Asus laptops have always worked flawlessly for me.

I am writing this on an Asus laptop with linux mint. Everything just works perfect out of the box.

I could buy three of these laptops instead of the same setup on a mac is the major selling point for me.

I never thought of an actual hourglass but I do love the idea too.

Something almost ritualistic about it. I have to get one myself.