...takes you to 1999

A YouTuber? Seriously? We Americans trust the experts. For those who don't know, the rsilvergun account was recently exposed as being a Malaysian, complete with screenshots of zir other social media. Only foreigners think random YouTube channels are more trustworthy than experts. We Americans went through this during covid. People were eatating horse paste! And refusing life saving vaccinations. Oh, how we all laughed when Herman Cain died.

Sorry, you seem to think your link invalidates the point. It does not, but you're welcome to make up a strawman and answer it. I would dress up as a batman to keep you honest, but in my culture we don't know what that is. Thanks for playing, though.

As whacky as the research sounds, theres precedents, albeit less funny ones.

Back in the 1980s where I lived, supermarkets used to always stick cardboard cutouts of policemen around the shop, cross-armed and staring. Apparently those where really effective.

Nobody actually thought it was a real policeman staring, but the psychological effect was enough that people felt too *observed* to actually go and do the crimes. I can only assume what this shows is it doesnt really matter what the authoritarian figure is , be he commissioner gordon, or batman, its enough to make people feel anxious about wanting to do good, or rather to be SEEN as doing good.

As the philosopher foucault observed, panopticon doesnt work by the prison guards doing the discipline, but the discontinuous sense of being observed made the prisoners discipline themselves.

Seeing as most of my life experiences seem to be outliers in any reported statistics, am I right to question the truth of nearly everything?

Are your feelings hurt?

Since communicating with real people has been stressful for 5+ decades for me, just how insensitive a clod did you just reveal yourself to be?

The uranium has never been the expensive part of nucllear.

its building the bloody thing. The reality is nuclear is stil one of the most expensive forms of power out there whilst solar and wind (Especially in australia) are by far the cheapest. Its kind of weird to ignore the obvious solution to go for a plan that wont even come online until a decade after the solution is due.

Do you realize you sound just like losing Republican Washington state gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp who said the election must have been rigged because no one he knew voted for winner Inslee?

How does it feel to be losing the vibe war?

If your goal is to use the least amount of violence, does it make sense to avoid killing plants by uprooting them for their underground food value? Is it more violent to rip a carrot up or pick up an apple fallen from a tree?

Are you saying native Americans are too small to count?

"Economists would say auctioning assets ensures they are put to the best use they can be."

ChatGPT:

That only works if prices are rational. If prices are noisy, as Fischer Black argued, then auctions simply reward whoever is best positioned to exploit mispricing. The highest bid under noise is not the same thing as the highest real economic use, so the efficiency claim collapses once you drop the rational-pricing assumption.

Would Betteridge say no?

Would AI make that mistake?