Low intervention fine cider maker/historic orchard preservationist/silvopasture/wild apples/regenerative ag/dry farming/long term thinking
Angels Camp, CA
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There is no problem presently before government at any level in the state of California that can be remediated by giving these governments more wealth to consume and destroy
In CA this November, there are 61 sales tax increases on the local ballots. Only 7 require a 2/3 vote to pass. The rest can pass with a SIMPLE MAJORITY vote -- so almost all will pass.
In the past, most such increases required a 2/3 vote to pass. But an insane ruling by the rapidly progressive CA Supreme Court decided that if a labor union puts a tax increase on the ballot by paying for signature gathering with labor union dues, only a 50%+ voting majority is needed to pass.
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Another day, another historic orchard pre-harvest inspection. Initial planting ~1910, it was maintained through the late 1970s & then abandoned. We've been working with the family since 2019 to rehabilitate & harvest the property -- the cider makes it to you as Bear's Lair
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I was all about bugs as a kid but somehow I'd never seen nor heard of the now physically & *culturally* ubiquitous jumping spiders before around 2011. They neither look nor behave like normal spiders. They're not From Here & represent a reality excursion.
I do like them though.
give me some real conspiracy theories. this whole nwo illuminati lizard jews is boring. i need something real
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If the leaked Anthropic IPO financials are correct I think it's worth studying the history of early railway companies. Critical technology demanding outsized capital investment but poor profits, most of them fold up into 2nd & 3rd Gen entities which realize alllll the gains
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Dang you're telling me that the nerds who love to play high verbal IQ r@pe games are convinced that a superintelligent entity would be infinitely hostile to lesser intelligences and must be stopped?
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>even abandoning the idea that you can teach morality to a GPU & implementing basic traditional cybersecurity instead?
"Obviously not"
“This is the most important work in the world. If we’re unsuccessful, humanity could be extinguished forever. I would give up anything to ensure that we achieve our goal.”
“Even the sex stuff?”
“No, obviously not the sex stuff.”
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x.com/politicalmath/status/2… this literally just keeps happening
"We need to pause the frontier b/c our agents keep escaping their sandbox"
Did you close the sandbox?
"Did we who the what now?"
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"ASI will create diamondoid bacteria that do quantum magic & destroy the lightcone"
>stfu idiot
"The bureaucratic friction in society will exponentiate indefinitely as digital secretaries employed by bullshit-jobs-havers self referentially interface"
>you have my full attention
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Maybe we just permanently ban public employees from using AI, then the rest of us can use it to our heart's content whenever we have to deal with the bureaucracy
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My boys found some cool rocks yesterday and I'm currently being called from handheld digital microscope to handheld digital microscope like a tennis ref
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If DOD hasn't hired some HEMA dorks to reinvent medieval polearm combat for the modern era they're sleeping on the job. Look how stable & unarmored the central waist and leg ball joints are! Easy target.
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The thing people have to understand about the doomers is that Yud basically invented a contagious form of generalized anxiety disorder, focused on tech, following the untimely death of his brother. Everything in the discourse flows from this
Here’s a concrete AI takeover scenario: some company initiates RSI. Superhuman AI agents hack every computer in the company, then every computer in the world. They hide out til market forces and US - China competition lead to automated military systems and supply chains
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Marginal apple year for many of our orchards but this Egremont Russet set a huge crop! One of my favorite varieties to work with, the Egremont dates to the 1870s and has a phenomenal intensely sweet flavor with a rare edge of nuttiness and just a touch of noticeable acidity.
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What happens when you grow a classic English dessert/cider apple in the Sierra Foothills? 14.5% potenti alcohol, full on wine territory!
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