Thomas Sepulchre

Sep 6, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Charlie Steiner |Thomas Sepulchre

On Zvi's recent post about French food I posted an inflammatory comment (saying in essence that French food is so bad American capitalism hasn't even bothered stealing it).  I got challenged to provide evidence supporting this, and particularly to back up my claim that there were more German than French restaurants near me. Right.  Yes.  Evidence.  I am a reasonable adult who understands that beliefs must be supported by evidence.  So.  Here we go.

Sep 1, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Richard Horvath |Thomas Sepulchre

Patrick Collison has a fantastic list of examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together since the 19th Century. It does make you yearn for a time that feels...

Jun 6, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Evan Murphy |Thomas Sepulchre |Ben Pace |Daniel Kokotajlo

There are a few videos taken from fighter-jet sensor packages floating aroundThe military released some videos but there's plenty of reporting that it didn't released their best-quality videos precisely for the reasons you listed. Having the best quality videos that are taking by fighter jets would reveal information about the fighter jets that the US military does not want out on the open so those high-quality videos are classified in a way the videos we have aren't.