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
Never send an architect to do an engineer's job.
Also, this is a nuts?! A tall building fell over like a yard sign in the wind, but did NOT crumble when it hit the ground! Probably lots of survivors?
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RT @WarMonitors
⚡️In Turkey, the chief architect of a residential complex in Hatay province, which fell during the earthquake, was detained at the airport.
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1624067847184871425
From Twitter
I think so.
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RT @paulg
Musa al-Gharbi recently published an article saying that wokism had peaked. So I asked @TheFIREorg, which among other things tracks cancellation attempts at universities, and sure enough all 4 of the measures they track are down. Maybe we've turned the corner!
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1624245399933558785
From Twitter
> MrBeast paid for a thousand blind people to get surgery that helped them see[…] the top three videos [about it are] about the backlash to his efforts.
> there..seems to be some deeper wellspring where people..hate the idea that other people are allowed to make the world better
From Twitter
What's going on?
I thought all the rivers had already been dammed up 15 or 20 years ago!
From Twitter
RT @YaBoyFathoM
NEW JAILBREAK BRO IM FUCKING DYING (not fake)
From Twitter
RT @zeynep
Not an article I wanted to write.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.
For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.
We must act now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html
From Twitter
What actually happened:
EAs realized the far future was the most important thing, but the far future is hard to predict or influence—except that extinction is ultrabad for the far future, and we can always work to prevent it right now.
But we CAN influence 100s of year away..🧵
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RT @ESYudkowsky
via Dank EA Memes
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1621896459523346433
From Twitter
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission tends to have anti-nuclear leadership (and always has).
But while this article says the NRC will require reactors be built to absurdly high standards, it doesn't actually show that it's *impossible* to meet them.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/new-red-tape-makes-new-nuclear-reactors-impossible/
From Twitter
RT @Don_Standeford
Washington: for the first time, Russia is not complying with the New START, the last and only nuclear treaty still in place between the US and Russia, and says Russia has canceled talks, suspended inspections on its nuclear arsenal, and refuses on-site inspections.
From Twitter
RT @War_Mapper
The chart below shows how control of the country has developed each month over the course of the war.
Prior to the invasion on 24th February 2022, Russia occupied approximately 6.45%.
From Twitter
RT @alex_buraks
You probably heard about Yandex, it’s the 4th biggest search engine by market share worldwide. Yesterday proprietary source code of Yandex was leaked.
The most interesting part for SEO community is: the list of all 1922 ranking factors used in the search algorithm
[🧵THREAD]
From Twitter
RT @TheStudyofWar
The pattern of delivery of Western aid has powerfully shaped the pattern of this conflict. The latest ISW report focuses on the impact of delays in sending high-end weapons systems to Ukraine on Ukraine’s ability to take advantage of windows of opportunity throughout this war.🧵 https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1619902402013925379
From Twitter
RT @SmartUACat
This news in all over internet now. At least two more years of war. Prepare.
From Twitter
FWIW, I'm like 75% sure that the universe is
(1) endless
(2) NOT infinite
When people believe in an infinite universe they start talking about Boltzmann brains and infinite copies of themselves infinite distances apart from each other. Don't pull that with me.
From Twitter
I was concerned that YouTube allowed an obviously-fake dub-over of Elon Musk to make it sound like he invented/endorsed a product,
but seeing it on Twitter is hilarious somehow
From Twitter
RT @Nrg8000
According to @Ipsos polling, 81% of Indian respondents say that 'India must support sovereign countries when they are attacked', the 2nd highest in the world, yet 62% say Ukraine is none of India's business and India shouldn't interfere, the highest in the world.
Very confused...
From Twitter
RT @ukrbravery
Russian war reporter from russian state TV, Aleksandr Sladkov, promotes famous russian nazi Aleksei Milchakov who says that Ukrainians must be destroyed so they can't raise children.
We are appreciate these videos. They help to debunk russian lies.
RT highly appreciated 🙏
From Twitter
RT @nuclearny
New York's electricity mix shift 2019-2022 (including rooftop solar) shows the increase in fossil combustion due to the forced premature closure of #IndianPoint, which produced 2.5x the carbon-free energy of statewide #solar & #wind. #ClimateCrisis #CLCPA #NYActsOnClimate
From Twitter
RT @bradyafr
Russian forces in Ukraine have built hundreds of kilometers of field fortifications over the past few months.
This interactive map shows where many of these sites are located and links each to satellite imagery. (1/4)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1rRKs40IEbGRsV0Fhky25l5OkPJ_vUvQ&usp=sharing
- 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
