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world’s most annoying person: AI is going to destroy the world. one chatgpt query causes one nuclear bomb explosion and nobody is sentient anymore because of too much AI

me: i don’t think that is true

other most annoying person: buy my new AI cryptocurrency printer

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Does anyone know if the names "Buffy" and "Giles" in Buffy the Vampire Slayer are deliberate references to the 1960s CBS sitcom Family Affair? In the latter, "Mr Giles French" is a somewhat formal and emotionally reserved English valet whose employer becomes responsible for the care of three orphans, named Cissy, Jody and Buffy. I've never seen it -- it sounds, uh, not good -- but Wikipedia suggests it was pretty popular at the time (and that, at least as far as merchandising went, Buffy was kind of a breakout character).

I'm aware that both "Buffy" and "Giles" are real names -- other famous Buffys include the Los Angeles philanthropist Dorothy "Buffy" Chandler, who died the same year the first season of Buffy aired, and the folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie -- and I know there's no "Giles" in the original 1992 movie. But it just seems like such an odd coincidence for these two unusual names to both appear together twice in different television shows. Even ignoring the fact that in both cases Buffy is a young American girl who the strereotypically English adult Giles assumes something of a parental role for.

And yet I've never read anything from anyone involved in making the show that would suggest this was a deliberate choice, and in fact I don't think I've even seen anybody else suggest it. Is it just that, by the 1990s, whether because of the influence of Family Affair or otherwise, "Buffy" had become a generic name for a particularly childish or unserious girl, and then when the show was made her new Watcher was called "Giles" by chance?

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What if they discover a second bible in the large hadron collider?

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sorry for being beautiful and right about everything you can kill me if you want

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Buffy doesn't think she's better than other people because she's the Slayer. When the show has other characters suggest that she does -- Anya in Empty Places, for example -- then either those characters are meant to be wrong or the writers themselves are in error. Buffy knows very well that being the Slayer is a responsibility and a burden; it's not something she ever asked for and, especially when she's young, it's something she's often tempted to give up.

However, that doesn't mean that Buffy doesn't think she's better than other people. I don't agree at all with the idea that, when Conversations with Dead People has her admit to this, it's somehow out of left field or out of sync with the character as established in the show so far. Honestly I'd say it's a pretty fundamental part of who Buffy is as a person.

The mistake that Anya (or whoever) is making is in assuming that Buffy thinks she's better than other people because she's the Slayer. Buffy actually thinks she's better than other people because she's Buffy Summers.

(She's right, too.)

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Flowchart of my powerful posts

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Keynes, in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1919), describes how before the war, despite rises in population, food had been getting cheaper, due to the colonization of the Americas and then Africa, but then says

That happy age lost sight of a view of the world which filled with deep-seated melancholy the founders of our Political Economy. Before the eighteenth century mankind entertained no false hopes. To lay the illusions which grew popular at that age's latter end, Malthus disclosed a Devil. For half a century all serious economical writings held that Devil in clear prospect. For the next half century he was chained up and out of sight. Now perhaps we have loosed him again.

and this not long after the development of the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production. Ammonia production from atmospheric nitrogen, that is, so the industrial analogue of the nitrogen fixation that soil bacteria do, where the inert nitrogen gas that makes up most of our atmosphere is converted into chemically active compounds. During the war this was turned towards producing gunpowder in Germany, to compensate for the loss of access to mineral nitrates due to the blockade, but the process is also the first step in the production of chemical fertilizer, or rather specifically nitrogen fertilizer, the other important elements being phosphorus and potassium.

Later Paul Ehrlich would write The Population Bomb in the midst of the Green Revolution. The Malthusian era never arrived.

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They're both named Robert too! And they worked together at the University of Chicago

got my wires crossed.... the guy who measured the electron charge with an oil drop experiment is millikan, the molecular orbital guy is mulliken. Never noticed the resemblance before. Annoying

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Being a student is cringe. Like what do you do, learn things?

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Burnishing my centrist-popularist bonafides by conceding that, while of course we need to develop exowombs to replace natural birth and socialize the means of human reproduction, when we do can target status-quo levels of gentle population growth instead of flooding the earth with billions of new life.

Don't want to break the Overton Window here! Maybe we need an environmental impact statement first.

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This famous portrait of Kant is comically bad! It looks like a silly picture your friend would take of you as a joke. Why this angle? Why this lighting? Why did you paint a portrait of his forehead? Baffling.

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I love how the y-axis is just labeled 'Joule' with no numbers. Gives it an air of mystery.

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Everybody's really excited about identity these days so I'm starting a new thing like gender or race but it's called SNINFT and I think it's gonna be really big. There are five sninfts and everybody has two of them and the five sninfts are called norble, wizit, needo, somp, and rud. your first sninft is inherited from your great grandma and then your second sninft you pick when you come of age and you can't change it later even if you don't like it BUT there's a bonus thing which is you can swap your first and second sninft whenever you want so if you are needo/somp you could switch to somp/needo and that would be fine. anyway I'm thinking we can all start worrying about sninft all the time and having wars over it and killing each other and stuff and then get more enlightened because of progress and change our minds to it doesn't really matter.

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they should put a big magnet in mecca that is so huge that its magnetic field is stronger than that of the earth, and all the compasses on earth point to it. this will make it easier for muslims to pray towards mecca. now you may say "but what about pilots?" well there are a lot more muslims then pilots so i think muslims get priority.