David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
From Twitter
RT @AlecStapp
The Green Revolution in one chart
Food abundance is very good and underrated
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RT @SmartUACat
Enemy captured Sil train station NW of Soledar.
Enemy likely captured Klishchiivka.
If enemy is able to cross the road 5 km north, we'll be talking about operational encirclement of Bakhmut.
From Twitter
Starting to wonder if I should be an "ea" rather than an "EA".
The community is nasty sometimes. And not just, in this case, to Nick Bostrom, but to anyone who questions the nastiness being directed at him.
It's depressing. And looks a lot like value drift.
From Twitter
It's called Swanson's law, but the more general phenomenon is called Wright's law: the more of something you build, the cheaper it gets.
Conversely if we stop building stuff (e.g. nuclear reactors) they get more expensive.
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RT @_HannahRitchie
Cost of solar PV modules, per Watt 📉
In 1975: $115
In 2021: $0.27
That's 425 times lower.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices?yScale=log
https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1614277784725229573
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RT @Gerashchenko_en
"I won't hide it - it's nice!"
Propagandists excitedly comment the rocket strike into a residential building in Dnipro.
25 people confirmed dead in the strike, 73 injured, 43 are missing in Dnipro as of now.
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RT @SmartUACat
Latest update on Dnipro.
At least 5 dead, 39 injured (7 of which are children).
The youngest is 3 years old. A 9 year old girl is in serious condition
From Twitter
RT @hausfath
A few year back we were joking that climate skeptics would soon be saying “no warming since 2016”. Now they actually are.
In reality, short term variability can make you over interpret pauses or accelerations in what’s a pretty clear trend: https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-global-warming-has-not-paused-over-the-past-eight-years/
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RT @HopfJames
An informative article about nuclear's situation. I found this graph showing construction times vs. year to be interesting. It shows short (~ 5 yr) construction times for initial demo reactors and the first batch of GW-scale reactors that followed. 1/
https://www.powermag.com/being-pro-nuclear-wont-be-enough-heres-why/
From Twitter
RT @Meaningness
Prophesy: Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—explaining how science would stagnate, in 1948. https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science
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Wow, at the exact time when Europe really needed to save natural gas!
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RT @ryans_wx
I have never seen a forecast like this. Ever.
https://twitter.com/ryans_wx/status/1608676351585980417
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RT @jasoncrawford
Amazing progress on tap water hookups in rural India:
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RT @TGTM_Official
This is how China and Russia see the world.
If one of your neighbor hates you, maybe is his problem. When all of your neighbors hate you, maybe stop and question yourself: "Am I the problem?"
From Twitter
"We held a sham referendum and everything! That means the front line is in the middle of Russia! You're helping Ukraine bomb Russia! That's terrorism!
"Now please, we need you to stop Ukraine from holding a referendum declaring Ukraine's former territory to be a part of Ukraine"
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RT @wartranslated
Dmitry Rogozin woke up and sent to the French ambassador to Russia a letter with a piece of shrapnel that got stuck in his body after …
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1610565024270925825
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That is some A-grade paranoia.
BTW I know I'm not supposed to believe this, but in a world where computers are somehow impossible, "Brave New World" is a pretty good alternative actually.
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RT @elonmusk
From Twitter
Re "doctor shopping": if I visit a *series of doctors* hoping for assisted suicide, I really want to die!
Why should the state deny my wishes?
Anti-MAiD people want it both ways. The slightest pressure to use MAiD indicates a failing system—but so does doctor resistance to it!
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RT @RichardHanania
On Canadian euthanasia. I explain how MAID has been misrepresented in the media, and why it is a humane policy that preserves individ…
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1610269363390779397
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RT @TVNewsNow
WATCH: Shocking moment on live TV tonight that a reporter on France’s TMC TV channel was eyewitness to a missile strike on the ‘Altair’ hockey arena in Druzhkivka, Ukraine
- Home page
- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
