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My first impression of this thing is that even though this is the Andes "strain" and can travel from person to person, this thing is not new...it has existed for some time and never became a pandemic. So when the government started saying that transmission from person to person was difficult, I was prone to believe them. I suppose I still am, but...
We have RFK Jr in charge...

Here is a semi-interesting conversation I recently had with Claude:

## User

Suppose Ai becomes superintelligent, or we meet aliens who are superintelligent, or a god reveals itself, what are the practical locally computable using PCP or interactive protocol ways that a human could ensure such an interaction was honest/correct?

## Claude

This i...

In Matthew 19:12,

For there are some eunuchs who were so born from their mother’s womb, and there are some eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

Dear iidb:

We are currently putting up a friend of a friend who wandered out to a local bar and got drunk on his ass. Now he is home and LOUDLY BABBLING about the supremacy of Christ, and the falsity of evolution and the big bang. I am uncertain what to do apart from either killing him or myself. Currently the topic of LOUD BABBLING is Sodom and Genorrah etc. Al...

Melania Trump, or someone (something?) writing for her, provided the WashPo with a brilliantly wishy washy, meandering, content free / lacking in any sort of subject direction Op-Ed...