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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4675 on: November 23, 2022, 07:46:46 pm »

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« Reply #4676 on: November 23, 2022, 07:47:51 pm »

Ah, we did but the percentage is getting updated as more results are coming in.
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« Reply #4677 on: November 25, 2022, 05:34:17 pm »

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4678 on: November 26, 2022, 07:55:58 am »

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4679 on: November 28, 2022, 09:04:40 am »

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4680 on: December 06, 2022, 06:18:46 am »

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4681 on: December 06, 2022, 05:44:08 pm »

Hearing some talk on 538 about Raphael Warnock as a presidential candidate. Very speculative, he hasn't said anything, but he would be a "compelling candidate".

I'm completely for it. Not I think he's particularly great, but he's much better than Biden and much better than Harris. And it would be nice to perhaps lessen the connection between religion and right wing stupidity.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4682 on: December 06, 2022, 05:47:26 pm »

I just want the American president to be a non-insane person of reasonable age, is that too much to ask? Most other countries... ... well I think "most" is still correct ... ... do it

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« Reply #4683 on: December 06, 2022, 05:48:03 pm »

Like Germany. Look at us. Lead by a totally whatever politican. Go Germany!

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4684 on: December 07, 2022, 03:05:15 am »

Here's what my brain cooked up tonight.

Yudkowsky joins a bounce class/club. Not Eliezer Yudkowsky, but his daughter (which he doesn't have) and some of her friends. They perform some kind of practiced entry routine, and it's quite good, and all the other students and the instructor show appreciation.

Then they sit around and start talking. The instructor seems to know Eliezer and perhaps try to make an impression on his daughter because of that. He starts talking about his world view, involving various conspiracies. Then he asks her something specific, I forgot what, but something about what she thinks about one of his takes. While she doesn't insult him, her reply shows that she's not buying it in the slightest, nor is willing to lie about it even a little.

Later, he kicks her out of the class and she confronts him about it. He's like 'don't play so innocent, you know what you did'. And she's just puzzled, being like, 'yes I know I said that to you, but come on, that can't be the reason why you kicked me out'. This is also the only line I remember verbatim. As in, just a total disbelief that the person she's talking to could actually be that shallow.

And then later there was this segment from her perspective where, even though she was kicked out and even molested by him, she feels incredibly happy with her life because... (don't quite remember why, but certainly has no regrets with how she handled it).

This is probably a metaphor for something.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4685 on: December 07, 2022, 03:08:22 am »

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4686 on: December 07, 2022, 04:56:49 pm »

Ah -- I'm better than 14.48% of people at memorizing lots of details from an image!

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4687 on: December 07, 2022, 04:58:51 pm »

I was guessing for almost all of them.  Who was pushing the shopping car? Man I have no clue.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4688 on: December 09, 2022, 08:23:08 am »

Scott Alexander:

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Go anywhere in Silicon Valley these days and start saying the word “cryp - “. Before you get to the second syllable, everyone around you will chant in unison “PONZIS 100% SCAMS ZERO-LEGITIMATE-USE-CASES SPEEDRUNNING-THE-HISTORY-OF-FINANCIAL-FRAUD!” It’s really quite impressive.

This is my experience as well, only on reddit rather than SV. Let's see what the article says!

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4689 on: December 12, 2022, 04:09:50 am »

Scott Alexander:

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Go anywhere in Silicon Valley these days and start saying the word “cryp - “. Before you get to the second syllable, everyone around you will chant in unison “PONZIS 100% SCAMS ZERO-LEGITIMATE-USE-CASES SPEEDRUNNING-THE-HISTORY-OF-FINANCIAL-FRAUD!” It’s really quite impressive.

This is my experience as well, only on reddit rather than SV. Let's see what the article says!

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The saying goes: a book is a mirror; if a monkey looks in, no apostle looks out. Cryptocurrency is like this too. If people are looking in and only seeing the monkey gifs, that’s not crypto’s fault.
This must be the ultimate libertarian coping mechanism: If a system does something good, then that's evidence of how amazing it is, but if something goes wrong, it's always individual people's fault, never the system's.
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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4690 on: December 12, 2022, 04:35:38 am »

What's even more annoying is that this saying isn't even remotely true about books. Otherwise it would be no issue to distribute copies of Mein Kampf, or (to name a favorite of right-wing hysteria) to give pornographic books to children.
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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4691 on: December 13, 2022, 05:04:29 pm »

Somehow you always find these things to complain about in Scott Alexander's essays. I don't remember that particular bit at all, meaning it didn't seem central to the essay. What I remember is the % of scams and the use cases.

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« Reply #4692 on: December 13, 2022, 05:05:33 pm »

(And I often agree with the specific point; yeah the "x is a mirror" thing is overused. It's a little true for everything, but nowhere near the full story, and certainly not for books.)

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4693 on: December 14, 2022, 03:34:02 am »

Somehow you always find these things to complain about in Scott Alexander's essays. I don't remember that particular bit at all, meaning it didn't seem central to the essay. What I remember is the % of scams and the use cases.
Well it's literally the last sentence, i.e. the conclusion.

I lack the expertise to say much about the rest of the claims. Thoguh the use case section seemed exclusively "here are some countries whose banking systems are even more terrible than crypto, therefore crypto is good", and the scamrate investigation seems... dubious at least, considering that it doesn't even cover the most prominent scandal in crypto.
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« Reply #4694 on: December 14, 2022, 08:49:36 am »

As far as I'm concerned, crypto is good because it helps people buy and sell illegal recreational drugs. It is generally unacceptable for things that don't infringe on the consent of anyone involved to be illegal, and any tools that enable these kinds of crimes to be committed relatively safely are therefore good.
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« Reply #4695 on: December 14, 2022, 12:32:09 pm »

Somehow you always find these things to complain about in Scott Alexander's essays. I don't remember that particular bit at all, meaning it didn't seem central to the essay. What I remember is the % of scams and the use cases.
Well it's literally the last sentence, i.e. the conclusion.

I lack the expertise to say much about the rest of the claims. Thoguh the use case section seemed exclusively "here are some countries whose banking systems are even more terrible than crypto, therefore crypto is good"

This is actually the argument though, isn't it? Like he's saying that crypto is in fact really bad (in terms of quality-of-service rather than morally) and much worse than the banking system, but because it's decentralized and accessible from everywhere, it's still useful.

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« Reply #4696 on: December 14, 2022, 12:33:48 pm »

So, it's almost inconceivable that this would happen in a real game, but it did. It's that one in several hundred games moment that could be taken straight out of a puzzle. What's more, I actually did find it this time.



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« Reply #4697 on: December 14, 2022, 03:41:11 pm »

My entire life I was wrong about how Psychic and Ghost interact in generation 1. I used to think they're both very effective against each other. Then that Ghost is actually weak against Psychic but Psychic is strong against ghost. Literally all of this is wrong.

Actually, Psychic is normal (??!!!!) against Ghost, and Ghost has no effect against psychic

it's just that the only ghost move that does regular damage is lick, and who cares about lick, so it really doesn't matter, and Nightshade is set-damage which ignores type-effectiveness including immunity

... and there are only three ghost pokemon, all of which are also poison, and psychic is strong against poison, hence psychic is strong against all ghost pokemon. But still!

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« Reply #4698 on: December 14, 2022, 03:42:29 pm »

And of course, ghost was meant to be strong against psychic rather than have no effect, but there was a programming error. So it went from 0x to 2x in gen2, which is (insert joke about factor infinity). Lovely

Just like Focus Energy was meant to multiply your crit chance by x4 but actually multiplies it by x1/4.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #4699 on: December 14, 2022, 04:22:25 pm »

On topic: I found a pretty decent necro on BGG: over two years just to answer a rules question that was already correctly answered.

Nowhere near as good as the 11-year necro to let someone who had been inactive for years know that Kant never said the quote they had in their signature from the SQL server forums though, that one is the best I've ever seen by far.
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