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I just looked at the Build Back Better bill for the first time. It's 2,135 pages. How many people actually read and understand such a thing before deciding whether it should be passed or not?

I often wonder about this with Twitter accounts. How many are already GPT-3 generated?

We'll need another GPT-3 bot to detect the GPT-3 bots.

"We tried to ruin you but we failed so we didn't really try to ruin you"

Just look at the summer of 2020. There were many many examples of protests that turned into riots. Some included federal buildings too. Dozens of people were killed and billions of dollars in damages. It's obvious partisanship to frame these events so differently.

Correct, coal is worse. But notice I said nuclear is the way to go.

The hype is going to die down the more we see landscapes and entire mountains being covered with non-recyclable, toxic panels:

https://twitter.com/ScienceIsNew/status/1458512267150966786

It strikes me as environmental vandalism. Solar panels make sense on roofs, not so much on landscapes. Maybe the desert, but you have transmission loss and still have to deal with the large amount of toxic landfill they generate. Nuclear makes much more sense for anything approaching base load.

Bill Maher had a segment on this recently about progressives that don't acknowledge progress and are afraid of it in practice. A kind of willful blindness. Steven Pinker calls it Progressophobia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9KVYAdYwg

Right, it's where the mob is and where the journalists and politicians are. They use and watch Twitter very closely and it informs what actions they take. Companies too.

I don't think the root problem is any one person, given that Twitter is even more destructive to society. It's the users, it's the incentives of the platforms, it's bad actors. There's low trust, a breakdown of institutions, a raging culture war. It's complicated.