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wagwangbosy commented on British naval dominance during the age of sail lesswrong.com/posts/YE4Xs... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

roter · 10 months ago

There is also the theory that the British just had more practice at gunnery and sailhandling while blockading the French/Spanish in the various ports.

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

The french navy had been super formidable throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. I don't really get how they folded so quickly to the UK.

wagwangbosy commented on Human quarter--mile.com/Human... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

sidkhuntia · 10 months ago

Can you explain why so? What are your thoughts on this?

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

I guess it depends on what you mean by emotions. If you mean emotion as a state of consciousness then you would have to prove that consciousness is not an emergent property of matter and that CPU's don't have this property. Consciousness is hard to debate though since its pretty metaphysical in nature and there's no real argument against solipsism, so all argumentation starts with the axiom that all awake adult humans are conscious.

However, if you mean emotion as a stimuli, ie. a input to the brain net thats endogenous to the system(the human), then there's no question machines can achieve this, in fact the reasoning models already probably do this where different systems regulate each other.

wagwangbosy commented on Human quarter--mile.com/Human... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

This idea that machines cant have "emotions" is ridiculous.

wagwangbosy commented on Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities techcrunch.com/2025/05/14... · Posted by u/rpgbr

billllll · 10 months ago

I ride Muni, BART and Caltrain all the time (I'm car-free in SF), and I have no idea what you're talking about. Here are the actual statistics of crime per vehicle mile on Muni: https://www.sf.gov/data--crimes-muni

Crime in SF and other big cities have been going way down. If anything, you're probably safer than ever in SF (and other common political targets like NY and Chicago).

Also, how can you know that Muni is more dangerous, if you're too scared to even get on in the first place? Can you really say your fear is based on facts and experience?

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

He's probably talking about the walgreens on 4th and townsend and that area (also near where i live) has been getting worse in the past year. It was 1 of 2 neighborhoods that had an uptick in crime to the tune of 50%+. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-neighborhoods-d...

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wagwangbosy commented on Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder news.illinois.edu/review-... · Posted by u/gnabgib

boomboomsubban · 10 months ago

You see more unhealthy drinking as less stigmatizing because it's associated with a "generally healthy" activity. That's weird.

It'd be like saying eating two burgers with lettuce and tomato is healthier than one without.

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

Who is comparing 2 burgers to 1 burger.

wagwangbosy commented on Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder news.illinois.edu/review-... · Posted by u/gnabgib

boomboomsubban · 10 months ago

It is a weird line in the sand that many people draw. If I had two drinks alone every night I would see that as more troubling than having three drinks with friends every night.

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

How is that weird? Socialization is generally healthy, which is why there's less of a stigma. It's not like the average alone drinker is doing pushups while shooting whiskey.

wagwangbosy commented on Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018) science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

senderista · 10 months ago

> What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse.

Um what? The eastern Roman Empire survived for almost another millennium. Maybe the journalist confused it with the western Roman Empire (which had already collapsed)?

wagwangbosy · 10 months ago

Its a weird comment, but the eastern empire did contract bigly after the plague

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