I think there’s an argument for betting against your preferred election outcome as a sort of hedge – even if something horrible happens to your country, at least you get a windfall out of it that you can spend on trying to cope
The 1994 Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series is fantastic and the Gentlemen of the Han are my heroes for translating and sharing it.
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When MechWarrior 5: Clans captures the absurd vibes of BattleTech, it reminds us why that 40-year-old franchise is still so cool.
Megalopolis was a very fun movie. You have to just ride it, like a Jodorowsky movie, and don’t worry too much about what anything means.
I’ve found that my opinion of Fleet Week closely tracks the ratio of how much I can see the planes to how much I can hear the planes.
It’s a minority viewpoint that I think most people dismiss out of hand. One of the most prominent thinkers in the space is arguably better known as the author of “Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality”, yet somehow is also a serious technologist.
Yes: the people who wring their hands that we’re on the verge of creating a superintelligent artificial general intelligence with no sense of right and wrong. They basically assume that AI tech will continue to improve linearly, so however good it is now is how close we are to Skynet.
