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MeFi post:
Climb Dance.
How on earth has this never been posted? Fantastic clip, I'm going to watch it for the nine thousandth time now just because.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 12:19 PM on October 12, 2008
MeFi post:
flash friday
Bubble Tanks 2 took too many hours from me already, why do you hate me?
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 6:00 PM on October 10, 2008
MeTa post:
OH SNAP LOL
Huzzah! (I'm still listening to the polka. I clearly have issues)
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 12:04 PM on October 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Beyond the Reach of God
Just to throw some fuel on the fire here, Overcoming Bias is not Yudkowsky's blog, it's Robin Hanson's.
I see nothing in either science or rationality that implies that death is anything but an outcome of evolutionary math and therefore conceptually vulnerable. I sure as heck don't want to die, there's so much left to be done.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 3:22 PM on October 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Monolith delivery?
Who needs those ivory tower intellectual astronomers. Small town values will stop the near earth objects.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 7:44 PM on October 6, 2008
MeFi post:
The "Ultimate 9/11 Truth Showdown": Taibbi vs. Griffin
The idea that there is any room at all to debate what physically happened regarding airliners, buildings, etc is insanity, plain and simple. There's not a shred of evidence, physical or circumstantial that even implies otherwise. These are 'truthers' and IMO deserving of therapy or, failing that, internet ridicule and two-minutes-hate.
Of course we can all debate who knew what when and sundry details like that but by its very nature we'll never really have any concrete... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:42 PM on October 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Specialization is for insects?
Install a graphics card? Calibrate an HDTV? Those aren't skills they're just reading the manual.
Drive a stick? You don't get to call yourself a driver unless you can even if you don't. Now double-clutching or threshold or left-foot braking, those are skills.
Sharpening a knife didn't make the list?
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 1:58 PM on October 2, 2008
WRC cars run snow courses with very narrow, studded ice tires, and there would be an objective result if wider were actually better, namely course times (and trophies). I'd say that if you're driving on something that's recognizable as a road, that other vehicles have driven on in the past you want narrow tires to get at the packed snow. If you're driving on greenfield or very low traffic area you probably want a snowmobile or at least very large paddled mud tires at very low pressures. And I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:52 AM on October 3, 2008
Ask post:
Neglect my ride
I'm dying here, these are all fantastic!
To clarify, permanent is fine as long as it's not actively destroying the car. Can you somehow let part of a panel rust without it spreading to the body/frame?
This isn't a prank and I certainly won't use all of these so don't let legality or sanity slow you down.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Skorgu
at 12:19 PM on October 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Because there are more important things to do on Friday night
Washington Mutual has 143 billion in FDIC insured deposits, which is three times the size of the FDIC fund.
If the FDIC runs out of money the Treasury will print more. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that there's draft legislation sitting on a shelf somewhere to cover just this emergency. Not that that's a wonderful thing in the long run, but I don't think every single WaMu account holder will just be SOL come Tuesday if this bailout doesn't happen.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 3:15 PM on September 24, 2008
You're right, shiu mai baby, the "from a distance" argument is horseshit. So tell me, should I vote for Kelly or Fougere or Boyd? Outhit or Christie? Regan, Lorincz, Khosla, Munday, or Ennis? Because the internet is as fully accessible in your part of the world as it is in mine, too.
Just to be clear, we are in a US election thread, no? It's one thing to be ignorant of the electoral politics of another country in general, quite another to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 1:51 PM on September 26, 2008
My apologies I wasn't nearly clear. I don't think Obama thinks himself the messiah. Rather, I think that many have created an impossible hype that he is some post-political Über-candidate and will somehow be able to magically cure the many problems we face — forgetting that there is a Congress and Divers Politicks to be dealt with before any of his language becomes law. Being above it all is a brilliant campaign move, but at some point things come down to a vote.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 2:54 PM on September 26, 2008
butterstick: I don't think he thinks that but his campaign has absolutely run with the image of being different and above "politics as usual." The shoulder-wipe, the middle-distance stare, the non traditional campaign signs and logos, the focus on ground campaigns instead of lawn signs and traditional polling, etc. He's run a nontraditional campaign from the start and that imagery has been central to it. And it's going to win him the election.
Miko,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 4:16 PM on September 26, 2008
Elections, for all but the most hardened policy wonks (myself included) are won not by the text of speeches but by their emotional content. Obama's message is wonderful. Obama's words are exactly as you say. I have no quarrel with any of these things.
But the image, the nonverbal cues in his campaigns, eight years of fury and resentment combined with a very charismatic orator with a message of a fundamental shift in how the country is run and you don't see that perhaps... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:01 PM on September 26, 2008
MeFi post:
Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate
Konolia is very effective, she just made the Obama campaign $60.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:25 AM on September 4, 2008
Actually the $60 was mine, not fourcheesemac's. I'd love to have a back and forth with konolia, there are some fascinating corners her beliefs seem to trap her into and I'd love to investigate them, but this (text on the interenet, not mefi) is such a terrible forum to have any kind of nuanced discussion.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 3:52 PM on September 4, 2008
Nobody said, "Vote for Bush--he's cuter than Kerry."
I've got a half-dozen distant relatives and in-laws that disagree. Plenty of people vote for the "taller one with the better hair."
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 10:12 AM on September 9, 2008
I <3 this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 3:05 PM on September 26, 2008
MeFi post:
What makes people vote Republican?
I'm starting to doubt the ability of the USA as a country to survive this schizophrenia. Each side is completely convinced of their own righeousness and no amount of persuasion or fact can budge either.
Of course I'm part of the problem. I've never met a conservative who can lucidly explain their position or back it up with facts. This, to me, is flat out immoral; basing your decisions on statements that cannot be refuted means you are vulenerable to being gamed by... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 6:42 AM on September 11, 2008
Democrats and Republicans react very differently to misinformation and refutations.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 6:35 AM on September 17, 2008
MeFi post:
F1 + F2
Yay it's just like work.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:20 AM on September 17, 2008
Level 10 is very hard if you do it the "obvious" way, 11 and 12 are much easier. Walkthrough here if you're really stuck.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 6:08 AM on September 17, 2008
MeTa post:
please delete please please
This whole line of thought is disturbing to me. "Slippery slope" is very overused but I think it comes into play when one starts to apply cost-benefit analysis to human lives.
Neurotypical people don't have to justify their lives on spreadsheets that shows their costs and benefits to society over their lifetime; people with disabilities don't have to, either
People place values on their own lives,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 8:32 AM on September 16, 2008
What I do know is that that kind of rhetoric, about pulling back and ignoring emotions, has typically been used to justify monstrous inhuman decisions. (I am not accusing you of so using it.) I think supposedly irrational, "emotional" attitudes have done a lot more to save human life than Spock-like "rationality,"
Blaming "ignoring emotions" for human failures to act morally is pretty thin. I don't think citing a fictional... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 12:49 PM on September 16, 2008
DevilsAdvocate: only that one should not apply a cost-benefit analysis to human lives.
One might believe, for example, that all human lives are equally, but finitely, valuable
If you'll pardon the snark, I wonder what you think a cost-benefit analysis is since you've just suggested most of one yourself :)
For some reason, this doesn't so much as raise eyebrows when we're talking... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 1:41 PM on September 16, 2008
If you'll pardon the snark, I think a cost-benefit analysis of human lives would take into account the...um...what do they call them?... oh yeah, the costs and benefits of those lives. Assigning an equal finite value to every human life independent of the costs and benefits of each life does not seem to me to be a cost-benefit analysis.
Well, no it's not. It's half of one, namely the 'benefit'. The costs are everywhere from medical expenses to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 4:20 PM on September 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Why does everybody hate me?
the horrors of the US mental health system
Future generations will look on us with the same confused pity for our treatment of the mentally ill as we look on the icepick lobotomists of the past. The level of stigma, antipathy and outright hatred towards the mentally ill in American society is disgusting from the outside, it must be nightmarish from within.
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:49 AM on September 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Consider my opinion changed.
Wow, tough crowd. The missing context is that Yudkowsky is trying to talk about Real AI and the problems inherent in it. He's slowly making his way through huge tracts of context where our ideas and even thought processes are counterintuitive, misleading or useless due to the fact that we are intelligent ourselves. Single posts don't stand alone all that well without that purpose and, of course, the last few months of context-building.
Hence the movie AI bit. I don't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Skorgu
at 5:12 PM on September 10, 2008
MeTa post:
Palin thread weirdness in recent activity.
Stop whining. (Not mine, and I'm not loading the whole thread on this anemic machine to figure out whose it is, sorry)
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 9:58 AM on September 4, 2008
MY CPU MY CHOICE!
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 4:53 PM on September 4, 2008
Ok, someone else brought it up so I didn't have to. That mefi-tail page with the last 100 comments is brought to you by cillit bang (warning comment in giant Palin thread).
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 8:56 AM on September 5, 2008
cortex: as of ten seconds ago: 99K vs 3.2M, no that's not a typo.
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 1:30 PM on September 5, 2008
It's a server-side PHP script, he pulls the whole thread once every 10 minutes, trims it and only serves the last 100 comments as flat text, no client-side mojo at all. This is all from the text on the page and observing it behave, I have no inside info.
I'm now sorely tempted to ask him for the source and write up an API wrapper to grab any given range of posts...
posted to MetaTalk by Skorgu
at 2:42 PM on September 5, 2008
