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“"I do solemnly swear (or affir…”

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion"

What would one be expected to do if one were elected with an explicit determination to have a constitutional convention and poll the people to invent a new system to replace the constitution of the united states of America with a better one with even more liberty for all and super-justice and uber-freedom?

Should one swear that oath?

“Scott Alexander is back postin…”

Scott Alexander is back posting again. Now on a Substack.

That means I have to finally decide how much money he deserves once I sober up I suppose!

I'm pressing subscribe regardless and so should you.

That old indo-european word "ṛta" ends up meaning a lot of things after it splits and split and splits and splits meaning eh?

From Scott:
"The top and bottom chess sets in this picture are exactly the same color [...] "a slightly different context can confuse our brains so completely that we mistake white for black and vice versa. I believe the same laws of thought apply in the frontal lobe as in the visual cortex. The same forces that transform gray chess sets to white or black, outside our conscious control or comprehension, influence how we think about policies, coalitions, and principles, making them appear self-evidently good or viciously evil. I think this is the century where we'll either learn to understand and deal with our cognitive biases, or else all kill each other."

Amazing. Welcome back Scott.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/youre-probably-wondering-why-ive

“300m: left turn…”

300m: left turn
500m: left turn
800m: right turn onto bridge
1700m: Exit bridge straight over crossroads
2100m: Hit top roundabout
2300m: Exit top roundabout
2700m: Left turn
2800m: Left turn
2800m: Left turn
2900m: Right turn
3600m: Left turn
3700m: Right turn back onto bridge
4600m: Exit bridge,
4800m: Cross roundabout
5100m: Right turn
5200m: Left turn
5200m: Left turn
5300m: Straight on at lighthouse
6000m: Final Jump

“Bobbie Sanders #subgenius”

Bobbie Sanders #subgenius

“Fisherman with Brexit-regret: …”

Fisherman with Brexit-regret: "The reality is, it's now Jan 20, and we've yet to send a single consignment to Europe from Britain"

#brexitreality

I think everyone I know who voted leave expected to stay in the common market, and only leave the EU.

I told them that would mean being rule-takers with no say in the rules, but I didn't think to say that Brexit would be overtaken by extremists who'd force us out of the market too, and leave the country isolated and unable to export.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aB8C4cbBno

“Writing a car-chase story for …”

Writing a car-chase story for V0.3 of Starship was probably a mistake you know.

Currently trying to plan how the chase around my island-city works and timing the various twists and turns of dialogue with the twists and turns of the chase.

The draft script just had things like "jump" and "crash" in them, but now they have to fit to the actual map with actual times.

And working in continuous VR I can't just jump-cut and pretend 2km of road didn't happen or anything. It's all gotta match, time and space events.

I'm barely started with a plan here and it's doing my head in.

“The only way I've found to mak…”

The only way I've found to make working in Windows tolerable is to usually have a shell open to my server where I can at least run a proper bash prompt.