"Congenital anomalies, which are the leading cause of infant death, also increased in Texas but not the rest of the US."

Just in case anybody was wondering

Came here to say this. As much as I don't like china, there is really nothing to see (apart from the source, that's for everybody to see).

It's the american citizens that got stung, not biden

Bots gotta bot

Edit: if you can find a way to make even this look bad, there is no doubt who you are voting for.

A lot of it is pretty flashy imo, but it doesn't get talked about because the media are too busy being owned by the opposing party.

In this world, you are judged for what you do. If nobody knows what you did, nobody will vote for you. Instead they will vote for the loud mouthed orange peeled racist rapist. So, making your actions noticed is kind of a moral duty.

Then invest in medical research on keeping me young for longer, instead of keeping me old for longer

How is it not easy? 90% of all jobs are automated or are going to be automated away in the next few years. I only see one social class that holds us back from de facto post-scarcity. We just need to get rid of it.

Yeah maybe this way of handling retirement doesn't work? It's clearly a pyramid scheme.

Please hand over your driving license

Fuck I'm reevaluating my life choices in terms of browsers. I assumed the situation of firefox is what it is because mozilla is morally superior and doesn't compromise. It now seems like it's not morally superior at all, so the reason for the current situation of firefox must be just sheer incompetence.

Dammit.

First of all thank you, I wasn't aware of the concept of acausal trade, and I'll look more into it. Very interesting.

I'm not sure we are discussing the same aspect of this mind experiment, and in particular the aspect of it that i find lovecraftian is that you may already be in the simulation right now. This makes the specific circumstances of our world, physics, and technology level irrelevant, as they would just be a solipsistic setup to test you on some aspect of your morality. The threat of eternal torture, on the other hand, would only apply to you if you were the real version of you, as that's who the basilisk is actually dealing with. This works because you don't know what of the two situations is your current one.

The basilisk is trying to estimate the future behaviour of real you on the basis of the behaviour of the model he has created of you.

In this scenario you can think of me as a pseudopod of the basilisk that is informing you of the details of the stipulation by means of this post.

Of course, if you are the real version of you the basilisk would need to be something that can be created in this reality, which i think is only impossible with our current approach to ML and AI, but is otherwise within our grasp given the computational power we have available. But if you are a fake version of you the real world could be radically different from ours and maybe in that world P=NP.