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New comment by adammarples in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

adammarples — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:28:11 +0000

Yes but unfortunately you never paid for what rights your neighbour had, so nothing is being taken from you

New comment by adammarples in "Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity"

adammarples — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:55:33 +0000

Anti-missile shielding

New comment by adammarples in "MiMo v2.6"

adammarples — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:44:20 +0000

This is not the same. If everyone wants mowed lawns, and everyone is busy working on that, there is no opportunity cost, everyone is working on their top priorities. The broken window fallacy is a fallacy because the headline gdp figure doesn't account for the destruction of the window which cancels out the benefit. In the grass mowing analogy nothing has been destroyed, useful and priority work has been done all around.

New comment by adammarples in "Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain"

adammarples — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:22:58 +0000

The comments in the other post on this topic had an article which slammed Sagan's book for being outdated and espousing debunked triune Brian theory. The article was called "your brain is not an onion with a lizard inside".

New comment by adammarples in "OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints"

adammarples — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:43:15 +0000

But I think the point is they learn "role" from the tone, and would ignore the JSON just like they ignore the tags already.

New comment by adammarples in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

adammarples — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:19:17 +0000

Just sorting it out for him

New comment by adammarples in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

adammarples — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:56:28 +0000

Brainlet swarms lol

New comment by adammarples in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

adammarples — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:37:58 +0000

Just have a global, personal gitignore in your home folder to cover them

New comment by adammarples in "The Highest Point in the Netherlands"

adammarples — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:30:20 +0000

Substance abuse is a poor description for taking magic mushrooms

New comment by adammarples in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

adammarples — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:39:55 +0000

Meetings magazine from 30 Rock is real

New comment by adammarples in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

adammarples — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:29:58 +0000

If you live in what sounds like the desert and you're constantly watering your trees, it might be the case that you've picked non-native species that don't handle heat well. Check out the crime pays but botany doesn't on YouTube, he does a lot of videos about this, people in Texas etc planting English oaks and needing to water them all the time while native species are ignored or cut down because they're "messy".

New comment by adammarples in "LLMs are making me lose my savviness"

adammarples — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:39:28 +0000

That's not how addictions work

New comment by adammarples in "Data centers' 'oh s–t' moment"

adammarples — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:19:38 +0000

Spacex for one. An AI company they say.

New comment by adammarples in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

adammarples — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:42:35 +0000

I think you mean mibionaires

New comment by adammarples in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

adammarples — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:04:52 +0000

Never seen a sloppier hero image

New comment by adammarples in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

adammarples — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:57:11 +0000

No, "on record" here means simply "recorded", ie. measured. It doesn't mean "a record", like a maximum.

New comment by adammarples in "The Sloppification of Peptides"

adammarples — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:59:02 +0000

You've never heard of Ozempic? It's not a silicon valley thing, it's made by Novo Nordisk, Denmark's second biggest company, and Ozempic is partly why they're so big.

New comment by adammarples in "Fast and Hard Code"

adammarples — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:07:46 +0000

I don't even know any more. I wanted a weather bapp that shows the whole forecast on one page with no scrolling, so I was ambitious and asked anti-gravity to build one for me. Half an hour later, done. Then I asked codex to review it and half the stuff didn't even work, made up wind gust data, misaligned hourly data, polluted caches. So I asked codex to fix the issues. Did it? I don't even know, it said it did.

New comment by adammarples in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

adammarples — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:25:39 +0000

All we have to do is plant trees. Millions of trees, and reduce beef farming.

New comment by adammarples in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

adammarples — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:23:12 +0000

This is not an argument for global warming, but do bear in mind that cold kills far more and on balance global warming has saved lives here. The issue is going to cause worse problems than heat deaths though. However, a big wet bulb event could completely reverse that count.