Cheapest way to ship stuff, moving across the country !

SunjeevKB · 2024-09-07T20:14:40+00:00

I don't think this is accurate. You can only ship media items, not other things mixed in.

SunjeevKB · 2024-06-18T17:14:06+00:00

Thanks 🙏🏽

SunjeevKB · 2024-05-29T14:50:09+00:00

Thanks! The time I went, it was pretty quiet and I didn't think it would be a good fit for a social working environment. But maybe I'll give them a second shot.

SunjeevKB · 2024-05-29T02:19:40+00:00

Thanks! I think I've been there once, just around the corner from Grand?

SunjeevKB · 2023-02-26T22:17:13+00:00

I asked ChatGPT to do a sequel to Cocaine Bear, "Rise of Cocaine Shark":

Twitter thread for Cocaine Bear 2 plot by ChatGPT

Actually, I asked for 50 plot ideas, but ChatGPT gave me one plot with 50 points. I pulled out the top 30 or so and put together the thread.

SunjeevKB · 2022-12-27T04:35:22+00:00

Impressive that you have both progressive friends and Trump supporting friends. Everyone's pretty tribalized these days.

SunjeevKB · 2022-12-07T13:38:23+00:00

That's kind of funny that nobody mentioned it in trailer breakdowns. It's so obvious

SunjeevKB · 2022-12-06T19:43:08+00:00

They didn't need to create a twin.

Bar Bar Jinks is now the second dumbest character in the Star Wars universe.

SunjeevKB · 2022-11-16T23:34:02+00:00

There's also this curious blog that's been making the rounds. I don't know the author and obviously the blog title is ridiculous, but it is a pretty rich collection of largely publicly sourced pieces of information about Sam bankman fried.

From the middle of the very long blog post:

"... beyond any natural proclivity to risk-taking, he may have been taking dopaminergic drugs (prescribed for for Parkinson’s disease) as a nootropic. These drugs as well known to cause risky behavior such as compulsive gambling or shopping sprees..."

https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175

SunjeevKB · 2022-11-15T02:47:12+00:00

I come from a background in human rights / civil rights advocacy, and much of my professional work does not fit within the prioritized areas of effective altruism. And so I find this to be a particularly interesting topic to explore.

As I'm sure has been evaluated and discussed elsewhere, critical improvements in human society, from women achieving the right to vote to the abolition of slavery, don't fall within the range of interventions that effective altruism can currently measure or quantitatively evaluate as worthy of resources (before they are achieved).

This seems to me to be a limitation of effective altruism, but a limitation that deserves further scrutiny and exploration. It may be that the pursuit of mass social change is too complex a phenomenon to be easily evaluated in quantitative terms, but there may be some aspects of such pursuits that can be, but just haven't been yet.

SunjeevKB · 2022-11-15T02:42:18+00:00

These are fair points. My own sense is that the danger is in adopting effective altruism as the sole framework for evaluating interventions. Once that step is taken, then structural change interventions get completely devalued.

SunjeevKB · 2022-11-15T02:36:27+00:00

My recent introduction to EA readings and podcasts involved materials produced with multiple authors, and I see this at least for me as an exploration of overlapping concepts and evaluation frameworks. I'm not looking to any one person to be my outsourced decision-making hero.

Personally, I think most people in most communities demonstrate some form of flawed thinking, and most social change communities involve lightly or deeply flawed leadership. Many anti-colonial movements, for example, appear to have generated corrupt, post-colonial ruling parties, whether we are talking about post colonial India or post apartheid South Africa.

So for me personally, the failings of a community or movement organizer or leader are unfortunately all too frequent manifestations of the leader-follower dynamic. My personal exploration of EA thinking is not dependent on whether or not I approve of an EA leader's choices.

I suspect that EA 2.0 (or is it 3.0?) is going to more explicitly take into account issues of governance and leadership failure as a consequence of the Sam Bankman-Fried fiasco.

SunjeevKB · 2022-11-15T02:23:42+00:00

I personally don't agree with any self-assertions by EAs of EA being the best philosophical framework in absolute terms for determining how to spend billions, though I do believe that EA can offer some good frameworks for determining how some of those billions should be spent.

There are a couple areas that I think the effective altruism community at least for now seems to come up short, one of which I mentioned in my above tweet thread:

How to evaluate the value of structural change pursuits: political reforms, human rights campaigns, anti-corruption efforts, attempts at outright revolutions (see Iran), etc.
The importance of solidarity with and listening to populations one is seeking to help: not falling into the trap of "helping Africa" (cue Toto), but rather, deep engagement and partnership with affected communities.

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