Meta note: Is it... necessary or useful (at least at this point in the conversation) to label a bunch of these ideas right-wing or left-wing? Like, I both feel like this is overstating the degree to which there exists either a coherent right-wing or left-wing philosophy, and also makes discussion of these ideas a political statement in a way that seems counterproductive. 

Like, I think a post that's like "Three under-appreciated framed for AGI (Geo)Politics" that starts with "I've recently been reading a bunch more about ideas that are classically associated with right-leaning politics, and I've found a bunch of them quite valuable, here they are" seems just as clear, and much less likely to make the discussion hard in unnecessary ways.^[1]

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   And like, I think this is symmetrically true in that I think a discussion that didn't label hypotheses "grey tribe hypotheses" or "left-wing hypotheses" or "rationalist hypotheses" also seems less likely to cause people to believe dumb things. 

Huh, this is pretty cool. It wasn't intuitively obvious there would be an incentive-compatible payment scheme here.

Glad to have left it then! Hope you didn't waste too much work.

Isn't that intentional in that the contest closed a year ago?

Hmm, I still don't believe this. An AC is still ultimately hooked up to a single 240V outlet and so simply can't consume that much power (usually maxxing out at 3000W, and almost always more like 1500W). 

And ultimately the only thing that matters here is power consumption, which basically all gets converted into heat. I would be surprised if AC ends up more than 50% of power consumption, and 0.4C would still mean that electrical power consumption would be increasing ambient temperature by a full degree, which doesn't seem realistic to me.

Oops, that's a weird side-effect of the way we implemented spam purging (which is a more aggressive form of deletion than we usually use). We should really fix some bugs related to that implementation.

things worse by increasing average (outside) temperature

The effect of this clearly must be miniscule? Like, everything that uses N watts makes the outside hotter, but that heat dissipates almost immediately outside?

I deleted and banned the user, their last 3 comments were clearly AI generated and followed the usual AI-slop structure. Sorry for this one slipping through the cracks.

I apologize! I had low probability on that, so my best guess is you meant something else by that.

You were still making a statement about Ben's assessment of Zack, which is still kind of weird to disagree-react to, and separately, you are still very obviously mistaken as almost everyone who has interacted with Zack, at least within the past few years, would be very likely to attest. I like Zack, but it's very obvious that in conversations he has lots and lots of feelings barely contained (and indeed, he says so frequently).

Said, you reacted to this: 

In-person I regularly read you as being deeply pained and barely able to contain strongly emotional and hostile outbursts.

with "Disagree". 

I have no idea how you could remotely know whether this is true, as I think you have never interacted with either Ben or Zack in person! 

Also, it's really extremely obviously true. Indeed, Zack frequently has the corresponding emotional and hostile outbursts, so it's really extremely evident they are barely contained during a lot of it (since sometimes they do not end up contained, and then Zack apologizes for containing them and explains that this is difficult for him).