niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

people are always creating new programming languages, but nobody ever writes a new linker

real niplavistani moment

"hey I just give you 11% of my income of the next year, and your boyfriend gives you 4% of his, deal?"

"deal."

i might_{2\%} be able to fix her

in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? 'why don't X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?' damn economists

everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind

When you wget a file from a substack and then open the local file, the post is shown for around 0.1 seconds and then it vanishes and is replaced by **Failed to load posts**

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All the comments are gone

madam this is the EA forum

arguent screens off emotional valence

Eh consideration attribution is probably human-impossible for these types of questions

Hm, I noticed the snarky thought "I can't come up with any large scale positive development[1] that I would attribute to redistribution".

But now I'm like "that's too snarky, you might just ask people for examples".

E.g. I'd attribute rising lifespan with improved nutrition (core cycle in the economy improving).

[1]: like, at least over several decades and hundreds of millions of people

regularised monarchy

presidential democracy is just myopic dictatorship

Everything I don't like is an externality

A guide for arguing with libertarians I don't like