The cited article shows that there is no difference in the death rate of donors between opt-in an opt-out countries.

But it does not support the claim that most countries are opt-out. They only look at OECD countries, where opt-in is in the majority (18 opt-in vs 17 opt-out).

Is this satire?

Edit. Dumb question. Of course it is. But I wasn’t sure until I saw it cross posted to the onion.

Wizards of the Coast PR released a brief and uncredited statement defending the announcement of the new controversy.

“We know you piggies will swarm like the swine you are around the trough once we put this shit up for sale. We could put a little turd in each booster pack and as long as we said 1 in 4 turds had bits of foil in it they’d sell out immediately because no piggie can resist a bucket of sweet sweet slop.”

I’m surprised it isn’t already illegal to install software on someone’s phone without their consent or knowledge. Sounds like a form of property damage.

Are there any rules about the legitimacy of the results when not enough people vote? 300x8 ballots is not nearly enough for a city like NoLA.

I love both movies. But I’ve never thought of the two like this. I agree wholeheartedly with your analysis.

As a side note. I’ll make a man out of you is my favorite Disney song.

I’ve listened to Jordan Peterson a lot in long form conversations. This is my generous interpretation of his views.

Peterson believes that all humans have a hierarchy of values and desires.

Eg you go to work in order to get money in order to get food in order to live in order to play tennis in order to enjoy yourself…

At the top of this hierarchy is the thing that you’re ultimately after in life. Jordan defines this thing as “god” and defines the pursuit of it “worship”. Therefore, everyone has a god and everyone worships.

He also believes that the past doesn’t really exist, as much as our societal memory of it. He would say that the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible is “True”, because it is the archetypal brotherly rivalry that we all embody in some sense.

Putting this together. The Bible is “True”. Everyone has a “God” they have a personal relationship with and that they “worship”.

He is essentially defining things such that everyone is a Christian. Then he says that people just don’t understand what Christianity really is.

Maybe im just dumb. But when I read “shrink the economy”, I thought it meant negative GDP growth. But they actually mean a 0.06%-pnt reduction in the positive GDP growth. i think they should have used a better word.

I don’t see the political charge. How do you mean?

Someone secretly recorded their private conversation and leaked it? How does that happen?

Im not in the loop about what people are expecting of ai or what state of the art models can do. But here’s my review.

Ive found chatgpt useful for code snippets, rewording paragraphs, writing emails, fun images. It saves time, but I still need to adjust things. I also use an llm for code suggestions, which I love.

I can not use it for things I don’t already understand well. Whenever I try to diagnose issues in my Linux computer, i feel like I get dragged down tangents and I get confused and after many messages it completely forgets what we’re doing. I would need to already know how things work to be able to navigate this.

It doesn’t do well with niche information. I haven’t been able to have it make me a functional EDH-deck. I have not been able to get basic information about my not-so-niche field of research. It gets things wrong too often for me to trust it as a source of information.

Overall ive found it very useful for the things I’ve found it useful. I understand why it fails at the other tasks. But I assume that someone better equipped than me could prompt-engineer, or adjust the model somehow, to make it useful for those tasks as well.

But ive also heard of really impressive uses, like alphago and alphafold. Im sure there are more recent examples.

But I honestly don’t understand what people are envisioning that these ai are supposed to do. Im probably just ignorant about the state of the art, but it seems absurd to me that an ai could tell you how to make government efficient by just throwing existing data at it, to use a topical example.

By the end of ww2, the nazis were the underdogs.

What does it mean that it’s an Indonesian hospital? Is that just it’s name?

My pie in the sky hope for UBI is that it would be large enough so that you don’t need to work to live, maybe with some frugality.

At that point I’d be fine with scrapping minimum wage altogether. Companies would have to offer a job/salary that attracts people who aren’t desperate.

It would be much easier to quit a job. And I think it would broadly increase the value of labor. Automation would increase, but that wouldn’t be a problem, because its no longer a problem to be unemployed.

Lets just do a single time zone

I don’t know anything. Why not the spirit?

I’ve been told he’s really concerned about additives in food, pointing to the regulations in the EU favorably. Im also concerned about the poor quality of food regulations and enforcement in the US. So I’ve been cautiously optimistic on that front.

Should I not be optimistic? Am I misinformed? Has he said/done things to undermine this position? I haven’t followed RFK particularly close.

They do. But one thing that bugs me about the nutrition labels in the US is that they show “amount per serving”, rather than per 100ml or per 100g, which they have in the EU (at least in Sweden). it makes it a step harder to compare nutrition labels in the US.

I also feel judged when they tell me a bag of chips contains many servings.

Nice try FBI

What do you do for a living? How does NPD impact your work? Is it beneficial or detrimental? I imagine there are careers that would be particularly suited for someone with NPD.

Only 0.001% randomly selected books get a fanbase.