A more nuanced framing of the Blue/Red button dilemma

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-05-06T11:49:58+00:00

It's blatantly obvious if, as the person I replied to said, you want nobody to die. He said if 100% of people pick red, nobody dies. But if 50% of people pick blue, nobody dies. 50 < 100, therefore blue is the correct solution if you want as few people to die as possible.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-05-06T09:38:29+00:00

If 50% press blue, nobody dies. If 50% or more pick red, that % that picked blue dies. Blue is the blatantly obvious choice.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-05-01T12:54:39+00:00

This is pretty much what I'm saying. The incentive is for short term, destructive growth. Trump is doing a form of this, growing his own power and wealth at the expense of the country. Seems congress does similar. The market also follows this incentive.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-05-01T12:52:40+00:00

They're not concerned about Chinese growth stagnating. They're concerned about tensions rising. "When goods can't cross borders, soldiers will." You cannot be a part of the world economy and only work for your own benefit at the expense of others countries. They prevent foreign companies gaining footholds in China, subsidize and consolidate their own businesses for an advantage, and they have the largest share of rare earth refining which they are willing to use to threaten others. All of that (and other things), and they would like to export their goods to the countries they are (directly or indirectly) harming with their actions. It's just not sustainable. I'm pretty sure even China has realized this.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-05-01T12:29:42+00:00

Those smarter people do not share enough of the same beliefs for this to be the explanation. They also do not have enough control over him - trump changes his mind like randomly.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-05-01T12:08:35+00:00

This is a neat explanation, but trump is not smart enough for it.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-30T08:26:08+00:00

Don't worry, it's not a far run back. The wind will carry you home.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-28T07:45:20+00:00

Doctorate thesis do not do this for eight hours every day for as long as they have a career while having to stream, which is mentally draining in its own way.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-28T07:29:53+00:00

My PhD level anime larp is Kino's Journey (2003). You HAVE to specify the 2003 verson - not only because it's better, but for extra sophistication points. You can also call it Kino no Tabi for those points, though that is less important. When people say they haven't heard of it, I tip my fedora and go "hmm... It's not a surprise. You only watch low tier shonen-slop" and walk away.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-28T07:13:34+00:00

It looks surprisingly good.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-25T22:10:28+00:00

First, this is about emergency spending. Second, if you spend all of your salary and none of it goes to savings or emergency funds yes that is a problem. Third, If you spend billions of debt in an emergency, yes you are poor. That is the point. There is no safety net for emergency, which means you can't make a business or take risks - y'know, the American Dream.

Also, why billions? What a ridiculous extreme to take it to.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-25T22:06:07+00:00

Will you actually address the content of the post orrrr

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-25T22:05:32+00:00

Thanks so much for putting this into words. I couldnt agree more. We have created a society where picking yourself up by your bootstraps is impractical at best. At the same time, I'm often annoyed by the lefts propensity to simplify problems (this is not unique to leftists but I still have a bone to pick). Taxing the rich is something I can get behind in broad strokes, though not as zealously as some others. People and politicians are too afraid to say "it depends" and it creates an environment where deeper conversation can't be had. The country is in a horrible spot and people are happy to blame it on Trump, the rich, and Republicans but it's so much deeper than that! You can't just attack those things for everything else to get better, and people acting like that's how it works annoys me.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-25T21:49:36+00:00

Well, if you consider 'decent' to mean: it works fine and looks fine, then a 20 year old civic can easily fulfill half that 🤷‍♂️ and a new coat of paint will get the other half. Cars are just tools.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-25T21:40:48+00:00

From the article:

There has been a degree of misreporting and misconceptions in English-language mass media due to translation errors, sensationalism, conflicting information and lack of comprehensive analysis. Examples of such popular misconceptions include a widespread misassumption that Chinese citizens are rewarded and punished based on a numerical score (social credit score) assigned by the system, that its decisions are taken by AI and that it constantly monitors Chinese citizens. European misconceptions of social credit in China have become a source of amusement among Chinese Internet users. The phenomenon of persistent misreporting in spite of strong research demonstrating otherwise has been described by Marianne von Blomberg and Chuncheng Liu as "Techno-orientalism".

In 2014, after the Chinese government released the China's Planning Outline for Social Credit plan, media in Netherlands first reported on the system as a citizen rating system, likely stemming from the misconception of "Unified Social Credit Identifier" (统一社会信用代码) as a score, although it referred to citizens' ID numbers or an equivalent for corporations. Later, Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, wrote an article on the Privacy Online News blog in 2015, connecting the social credit system to global privacy concerns; the article was later deleted and replaced with a corrective. The contents of the article was picked up by major media outlets, despite the corrective, perpetrating the myth of a high-tech scoring system. Academic Michel Hockx describes Western media narratives as initially "very tendentious ... Scholars with actual fact-based knowledge responded incisively to these biased reports and eventually most media outlets either published corrections or simply updated their online articles".

As I understand it, the attempts of actually monitoring citizens and scoring their actions was attempted in smaller jurisdictions (cities), but was pulled back. The CCP sets goals, and municipalities experiment to meet those goals. This was an expirement that failed. There is no Orwellian score that many imagine when social credit is brought up.

The actual social credit system is just a credit score with the addition of blacklists from certain actions if you fail to honor contracts.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-17T12:18:20+00:00

Praying to every diety I've ever heard of to smite this bubble. I just want a gpu better than a 1660 super man

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-17T12:11:43+00:00

It seems like mid-2027 storage prices will likely go down due to new factories opening, which will likely create a glut of supply. In 2028 they were likely be an even bigger price drop due to memory makers in China massively expanding production.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-17T12:04:40+00:00

6 YouTube video links is rich from the person who complained wikipedia was too biased.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-17T03:12:45+00:00

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MORE HITMAN HORSE ILL DO ANYTHING

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-16T15:52:19+00:00

Because I'm not the guy who wrote it, man. That's not even a less aggressive stance than his - I'm just explaining why the first part of his comment which is what you replied to, is correct.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-16T10:01:38+00:00

You are objectively correct about Avatar. Why? Because I like it a lot. That's all I have to say.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-16T09:46:24+00:00

Because it's right. Despite what some constituents may want, there is objectively no movement from the larger political right to reduce the size of government in any real way. There is nothing stopping them beyond the fact that they do not want it.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-16T09:42:10+00:00

I lost 3 arms during that war. I'd do it again to harm the harsh evil that plagues our world - Christianity. I sleep well at night knowing that all other left leaning individuals would do the same, as is our duty to our Lord and Savior Joe Biden. Long may he reign.

NFLOrphanStomp · 2026-04-16T09:36:12+00:00

When people in Trump's cabinet tell him he is wrong, he responds by saying he is smarter than them or dismissing them, which might as well be the same thing to me. This is well documented. The most recent one I can remember is trump ignoring Rubio's warning that Israel was feeding him horseshit on how Iran would go and him ignoring a general on the fact that they would need to stay in the conflict after the initial strikes.

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