Across all sports the US has over 3 times china’s all time medal totals in both summer and winter games. Not even having double is a pretty significant underperformance.
Maybe we should conclude gun culture makes a nation better at track and field because people get more practice running away 😂
Yeah fuck suicidal people and anyone killed by cops they had it coming. Jesus christ.
As for “justifiable homicide”, you mean like… when the other guy had a gun… You want to discount those deaths why?
If we take your number at face value. This is kind of a trolley problem thing right. Should 99 people get to have a nice day out at the range once a month, which they could easily replace with any other leisure activity, if it means one person has to die violently. If you honestly like those odds then fair play mad max.
You missed the point. Saying that calling it “fun” is problematic doesn’t imply that you can’t have fun, of course you can (I have, a tonne). I assume the above comment called it problematic because they weighed the “fun” of gun owners against 40k dead Americans a year and decided maybe we shouldn’t be focusing on the entertainment.
You can absolutely have more gun control and not really inhibit firearm sports or hunting BTW. The USA ought to have a monopoly on Olympic shooting medals if that weren’t the case 😅
Not wanting to to call the private ownership of deadly weapons fun is hardly “intense”. Of anything it undersells the point.
Speaking as someone who enjoyed regular target rifle practice and competitions for the best part of a decade since you insist that matters.
Obviously everyone knows there are costs. It’s free (at the point of use) but almost noone needs the brackets to be explicit. The point being that it’s more efficient and you continue to get it even if you have no “gross income” because we’re not monsters.
Also how many countries have a “fixed percentage” with literally no allowances or brackets. I can’t think of any.
Yeah I think if you peek behind the curtain a bit on the models it become harder to ignore the rampant hyperbole. Like really high dimensional transformers are a cool and powerful thing that didn’t exist 5 or so years ago, but it’s not magic and does have limitations. I guess the next 5 years will be a good test of whether we’re focused on the right things and allocating effort for the betterment of everyone when it comes to building and using models. I tend to think not but I hope to be proven wrong (and have no power to stop the hype train anyway).
I have views on vibe coding in particular since you mention it, but hey I do use an LLM a tonne while writing stuff myself so I guess there’s really only a fairly narrow margin separating me from the boosters.
Great writeup. Not sure if “conspiracy theory” is the right word, but i for sure see the magical thinking and the power dynamics described.
Yeah that’s the cleverer and faster bit. Generative AI has been a thing for at least 15 years (was in the AI field at the time and saw it presented at conferences). I would argue that attention structure in modelling was the new technology I guess. But most of the breakthrough is really just the money to scale.
Anyway pattern recognition is amazing and powerful and we can get excited about that without getting caught up in a superintelligence cult.
I remember now that this BS comes from freakonomics. The irony of that bastion of “contrarian thought” is that so many people seem to have lost their ability to think critically while reading it.
Peer reviewed journals articles are not “a survey”. That’s the highest standard of proof we have. You’re been repeatedly demonstrated false and just stick your head in the sand. I’m out as that this point seems like bad faith argument.
And for the record I’m not suggesting anything. I’m giving you facts and sources. Which you respond to with nothing more than a dismissal of avoidable death and violence as not important. It’s pretty weird honestly.
Tell that to the 46000 victims a year Alex Jones.
And yet you keep claiming water isn’t wet.
OK rambo, how many fascists have you shot so far…
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/160/10/929/140858
Why do you keep talking about “magic” and “accidents”. Just because you don’t want deadly weapons to be a risk factor doesn’t mean that they aren’t. It’s just a fact. And an obvious and intuitive one at that.
Yeah, obviously a company that sells pool safety products wants to emphasise pool safety (and I’m not trying to say pools aren’t dangerous BTW)
A) includes drownings in bathtubs an natural water (where majority of drownings happen) B) so people who died to domestic violence or suicide are safe are they?
“You wanna do statics, do them right and stop making shit up.”
Source for majority of drowning deaths non-pool related: https://www.statista.com/chart/34873/rates-of-unintentional-drowning-deaths-and-drowning-locations/?srsltid=AfmBOoreeroH378wf2OA0D3nU9ZbuMfzFgmO1VcicvcFUwRF2G1scUA_
Source for actual total gun deaths, because danger doesn’t just mean accidents: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/
This is really only close to true statistically if you’re under 4, thank fuck America isn’t shooting many toddlers yet (but the number isn’t zero). There are about 1200 deaths a year in domestic pools in the US and 46000 gun deaths.
In a small company noone would try to label you “l5” or “l6” and probably an actual human would make your comp decision. You take the byzantine incentive structure away and people just try to do a good job.