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A wealthy businesswoman who poisoned her son in a Manhattan hotel room was sentenced to 18 years in state prison for manslaughter on Thursday, ending a bizarre case that turned on her claim that she murdered her child to prevent him from being sexually tortured.
Just before being sentenced, the woman, Gigi Jordan, asked Justice Charles H. Solomon of State Supreme Court to show compassion. As she did at trial, she repeated her contention that she killed her 8-year-old son, Jude Mirra, and had tried unsuccessfully to kill herself because she feared the boy would end up in the custody of his father, a man she believed had sadistically abused him.
"I loved Jude more than anything in the world, that I believed that he would live and die in unbelievable agony," she said, breaking into tears. Then she added, "I'll live with the guilt for the rest of my life, every day."
But Justice Solomon said he did not believe much of Ms. Jordan's story. There was no credible evidence presented at trial, he said, that Jude had ever been sexually abused. He also said he doubted she had tried to kill herself as she had testified. "The defendant appears to have psychological problems," he said.
The judge went on to say that he had yet to hear genuine remorse from Ms. Jordan, pointing out she gave an interview on national television during jury deliberations in which she said her only regret was that she had not done a better job ending her own life. "Never said, 'I'm sorry,' " Justice Solomon said.
"There are tragedies here," the judge added. "All of her money. All her resources. She decided to kill him. There are so many things she could have done, different courses she could have taken."
Justice Solomon had wide leeway under the law and could have sentenced Mr. Jordan to as much as 25 years in prison, as Matthew Bogdanos, the lead prosecutor, had urged him to do. "Maybe I'm old-fashioned, Judge, but where I come from you don't kill children," Mr. Bogdanos said in arguing for the maximum sentence. "The list of reasons to kill children is pretty short. It's zero."
But the lead defense lawyer, Allan L. Brenner, urged the judge to be lenient, emphasizing that the jury had believed Ms. Jordan's claim that she killed her son out of love. "They sent their message that she should have mercy," he said.
Jurors on Nov. 5 rejected the prosecution's call for a murder conviction and found Ms. Jordan, 54, guilty of manslaughter instead. The panel accepted her argument that she had acted in the grip of an "extreme emotional disturbance." Under state law, that defense allows jurors to opt for manslaughter rather than murder in some cases.
Jude was found dead in a bed at the Peninsula around noon on Feb. 5, 2010, after the police and a hotel security guard broke into the room. The door had been barricaded with a chair. Ms. Jordan was on the floor next to the bed, surrounded by pills. A pill crusher and a syringe used to force-feed patients were discovered, along with empty vodka bottles.
During four days of emotional testimony, Ms. Jordan admitted she gave her son — who had autism and did not speak — a fatal dose of sleeping pills and tranquilizers, asking him to wash the pills down with juice.
She characterized the killing as an act of mercy. She testified that her first husband, Raymond Mirra, had threatened to kill her, and she feared once she was dead, her son would end up in the custody of her second husband, Emil Tzekov, a yoga instructor she thought had sexually abused the boy for years. She testified that she had intended to kill herself with pills as well but failed.
Neither of her former husbands testified at the trial. Both have strongly denied the allegations. Mr. Mirra has sued Ms. Jordan for defamation.
Her lawyers said Ms. Jordan, who will not leave prison before summer 2025, had hoped for a less stiff sentence. They said they would appeal both the verdict and the sentence, asserting that Justice Solomon made errors in his rulings.
One of the defense lawyers, Ronald Kuby, said the judge at sentencing seemed to ignore the jury's finding that Ms. Jordan had objective reasons to fear for her life and to believe her son had been abused. He accused Justice Solomon of "paying lip service to the jury's decision" but still handing Ms. Jordan a long sentence.
"The judge didn't believe it was objectively reasonable," Mr. Kuby said. "Because the judge didn't believe it, he was going to sentence Ms. Jordan as if she had been convicted of murder."


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There were five speakers at the event and the discussion covered topics like how residential demand drives commercial development, Vulcan building in Bellevue for the first time, and the potential Chinese investment coming from the trade war.
Here is what some of the attendees had to say about the event:
The chief economist of Windermere Real Estate, Matthew Gardner said, "I'm actually more excited for the future of the Eastside today than [for] Seattle. The potential for growth here is more substantial."
Vulcan Real Estate, which is planning two large downtown projects, sent Scott Matthews the senior director of acquisitions and residential development. "One of the things we like about Bellevue is there has been significant housing stock created here. Over the last 10 years a lot more residential has been built," Matthews said. "That's an important part of the infrastructure here and there's more to come. It's the live-work-play model. What the livability of downtown Bellevue looks like from the standpoint of a resident, we think that is important."
Kidder Matthews senior vice president and partner Holly Yang spoke on the impact of China on U.S. real estate. "The trade war is very concerning. When there is this uncertainty, people tend to pull back. We haven't felt a direct impact on commercial real estate yet, but the impact is felt by developer clients because construction costs have shot up so much due to the tariffs on steel and aluminum," Yang said. "That's one direct impact on the U.S. side. On the China side, the currency has devalued. That makes investors more eager than ever to ship the money overseas to invest."
Mike Schreck, executive manager of Newark Knight Frank, said, "We're seeing FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) continuing to take down more space. The one that's not up here is Netflix. There are other sectors that are going to drive demand for space. Security and online payments are big ones. Those two I would put first and foremost. And obviously the cloud, which will continue. There are many more companies that are planning on coming up here in the short term."
The founder and CEO of Urban Renaissance Group – a company that invests in the Eastgate I-90 area – Pat Callahan said, "At one time, the I-90 submarket achieved the highest effective rents on the Eastside. That's going back 20 years. It was the result of being so connected to the interstate."
"It was by far the easiest place to get to. I think the submarket has an even better future for a lot of reasons. One is the transit access is increasing and ultimately light rail will be there," he said. "The interstate will always be there and will always be an advantage. Outside of downtown Bellevue, I think it's one of the top three Eastside markets along with Redmond and Kirkland."
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Meet Dawson Whitfield, CEO of Logojoy, where logos are made easy with the help of AI. Just five months from launching, Logojoy has evolved from a one man-show, to an ever growing production of eleven employees.
Logojoy is an online logo maker with the goal of "making design accessible and delightful," says Whitfield, "we want to make it easy and fun for you to create your logo." Their automated logo-maker is designed with the idea of acting as a stand in designer. Customers can easily create branded logos, with the same high quality that an experienced designer can deliver - at a tenth of the cost and without the hassle.
What's to come from this budding AI company? Whitfield sees Logojoy becoming the "defacto design partner that every business uses." Using their algorithms, they hope to generate banners, business cards, menus and much more.
With growth accelerating at an astonishing rate of 90% per month, Dawson knew he couldn't waste time on administrative tasks, He needed a payroll service that would manage all the calculations and payments.
Solving the Mystery
When hiring his first employee, Whitfield had no idea how to execute payroll. He didn't know where to start, much less what needed to be done. It was "chaotic and sporadic; completely unscalable and unmanageable."
Payroll was a mystery to Whitfield and he needed someone with answers. At the speed at which he was hiring, he needed a quick and simple payroll service to handle his growing HR needs, which is when he found Knit.
The team at Knit guided him through the process and told him exactly what information he needed to provided. Knit then promptly and effortlessly brought Logojoy and its employees onto the payroll service platform - without Whitfield having to lift a finger.
Knit has taken care of all of Logojoy's payroll runs and compliance needs since.
"As a Founder, I juggle so many things. What's been phenomenal about Knit is that I don't need to ask questions because they understand my situation. Knit just knows what I need and they get it done."
Stress-free Payroll Service
As Knit began managing Logojoy's payroll service, Whitfield stopped worrying about his payroll. Knit's platform automatically makes sure his employees are paid accurately and on time. They even take care of all the tax calculations which Whitfield felt hesitant about as a new business owner. He can now focus his time and energy on growing Logojoy.
Aside from business, Whitfield has also seen an improvement in his personal life, "the stress has gone down big time because payroll was a big worry for me."
Celebrating a Growing Team
A fast growing team should be fun and exciting. Before Knit, hiring new employees was intimidating for Whitfield because he didn't know how to properly bring them onboard. With Knit, all Dawson has to do is send a quick message with his new hire's personal information, start date, and pay details, and Knit takes care of the rest.
With the help of Knit, Whitfield can now fully enjoy growing his team without feeling daunted by the process, "Payroll is a confusing concept and Knit made it simple."
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Tax Credits Available for Educational Expenses
It's fall, and that usually means that it's back to school season.
If you're not too cool, then school may be on your horizon. If you're an adult, there are plenty of reasons to start hitting the books whether it's your first or second time. You can expand your skill-set to get that promotion, or ride out a rough recession that's leaving you with more free time than you would like.
If you decided to take the plunge this fall, or are thinking about it, here is how the tax code helps:
Scholarships and Fellowships: If you're lucky enough to obtain either one of these, the funds you receive are tax free. You must be getting a degree, your school must be eligible and your funds can only go toward qualified education expenses.
Lifetime Learning Credit: Use this credit to help pay for undergraduate, graduate or professional degree courses, including those that enhance your job skills. If eligible, you can qualify for up to $2,000 per year.
Tuition and Fees Deduction: Up to $4,000 in tuition and related expenses may be tax-deductible for students and their parents.
Coverdell Education Savings Accounts: These accounts are set up solely for paying education expenses for a designated beneficiary, who must be under 18 years old when it's set up. You can create as many accounts as you want, but you can only contribute a combined total of $2,000 per year to all of them. The funds are tax-free when distributed.
Qualified Tuition Programs: Also called 529 plans, these are maintained by states and allow you to prepay a student's educational expenses for an eligible institution. You can't contribute more than what's needed, and similar to Coverdell accounts, contributions aren't tax-deductible. A QTP and a Coverdell account, however, can be set up and contributed to simultaneously.
Student Loan Interest Deduction: Up to $2,500 in student loan interest is tax-deductible if your gross income is less than $75,000.
Work-Related Education Expenses: You may be able to deduct such expenses on Form 1040, Schedule A. To be eligible, the expenses must be for education that enhance or maintain your job skills or be required by your employer or the law for you to keep your job. The education can't go toward making you qualified for a new line of work.
You may not be educated in the thousands of pages in the tax code, but you'll want somebody who is if you have back tax debt. A tax attorney knows all of the IRS' rules and regulations and can be your advocate if the IRS is threatening you with a wage garnishment or bank levy. You could end up with some super-sized savings!
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The Agency conducted an 18-month long selection process to find a new firm to run its Customer Service
After reviewing proposals from a dozen companies, the Agency selected GCS to manage the strugglingCustomer Service Center in-house for them.
The GCS customer service experts staff and manage reservations and service issue resolution. The client inherited a new culture able to maintain local employment, meet all service levels and delight the customers. Meanwhile, costs are down and remain under budget.
There is a growing need for agencies to work with the public sector for real solutions to managing communication, human resources, and cost. They should consider the benefits of sourcing the call center as a separate entity to gain real expertise in the most effective ways to communicate with customers.


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Many can be very mouthy as they like to hold things in their mouths and like nothing more to grab and hold on to your arms and hands. This can be difficult to deal with when they are young as this can be very sore but does become gentle as they mature. This is usually done out of affection on their part and seems to be in a lot of the breeds make up. I myself use rope toys to try to deter them from arms and hands and if you make such a positive fuss when they show off with their toys in their mouths usually works a treat.
If you have read the above and are still wanting a Newfoundland then maybe its the breed for you.
(Beware puppy farmers can have fab adds that can be very misleading and on the most charge the same as good breeders so please research and don't just rush out and buy a pup/dog on a whim.)
Over the next year or so the KC are bringing in more rules to help fight puppy farming and New breeding/breed rules, Hopefully this will help.
***Don't just believe what a person trying to sell you a puppy says-
If they say they show and your not sure ask them to show you some proof. Ask lots of Questions and never buy a puppy on the spot. Make sure you see the puppy's Mother and she is in Good Health and Father if also living with-in the home.
One good way of finding a good breeder is to find a close CH show and there you can view the dogs and get a Catalogue with names and contact information.
***You should get a good contract of sale, copies of both parent Health checks, Pedigree and some form of insurance for you new puppy.
***Kennel Club rules state no one is allowed to advertise there puppies as show quality as at such a young age there can be no guarantees. I would also add to that although good breeders use only good quality dogs with good health test results, look in to pedigrees and confirmation, even if going back five generations on both parents sides of good health tests etc no one can guarantee 100% that any puppy/dog will not develop health problems, Just the same as us humans having baby's,
Get in contact with either the Northern Newfoundland club or The Newfoundland club as they will always keep you right .


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Why? Why didn't Microsoft do this the first time? It was as simple as a Start button!
This past weekend, I geeked out in my man cave (maybe I should call it a man cove as I live on an island) and installed the new Windows 8.1 Preview. I completely document the Windows 8.1 Preview deployment experience here in a 10-minute video. You will witness the "real world" as I seek to go where no Harrybbb has gone before: using Windows 8.1. I encountered a few challenges along the way, including the inability to redirect the installation to Drive D, and how the installation must be completed on a monitor in landscape, not portrait mode.
Overall, it's a serious WIN for Windows 8.1. Sure, the tired old guys in the SMB community are already complaining about it, but these nabobs of negativity seek out #FAIL. I am super impressed with the improved navigation via the Start button experience and the stability of the Preview release. I'll continue to report on my journey as I download numerous applications and give Windows 8.1 a real test drive.
My prediction? Windows 8.1, now reportedly going to OEMs like Dell in a mere seven weeks (end of August) will provide the "reason for the season" in 4Q for SMBs to upgrade to this new OS. And don't overlook the potential end-to-end experience from mobile phone – tablet – PC that no other manufacturer can match right now.
Again – watch my Windows 8.1 Preview installation video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKGCGsGymQ&feature=youtu.be.


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  Mount Sloan (BC) - Northeast Ridge, September 2008
Mount Sloan as seen from the approach with Northeast Ridge visble in center.
ōHello bear, hello bearö I called out while crashing through the heavy bush. We must be getting really close to Ault Lake or at least the large clear-cut area north of the lake, I recall thinking to myself. Looking down a steep slope above a ravine, I finally got a glimpse of what lay ahead. ōWhatÆs this I see?ö It seemed impossible at the time, but I could see a sliver of Downton Lake and it appeared disturbingly closer than I expected it to be. More importantly, how did we end up with the lake in front of us when it should be to our left? Eli and I had been dutifully following flagging no more than 15 minutes ago. How did we screw this up? My altimeter read 5000-ft ¢ lower than Ault Lake and possibly also below a key logging road that would lead us safely back to the car. We had maybe two hours of daylight left and were in no mood to spend a cold night clinging to a steep, bear infested brush slope.
In contrast, the hike up towards Mount SloanÆs Northeast Ridge earlier that morning was much more pleasant. That said, I could have done without the 3 or 4-mile grunt up the Ault Creek Valley forest road (we were stymied by the first water bar only seconds after turning off of Hurley River FSR). We eventually stopped at the bridge over Ault LakeÆs outlet creek and stopped to check our beta for where to go next. Rather than following the trail towards the lake as per the guidebook, we chose to take a forest road that led away from the peak for a short distance. By doing this, we were able to easily gain the toe of the ridge and avoid the worst of the brush (or so a report on CC.com suggests).
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Hiking up Ault Creek Valley forest road. We witnessed two vehicles and a small trailer parked alongside the road. What would one possibly want to tow with a trailer up here? Hmm?
Eli catches a glimpse of the peak from a break in the trees. We encountered a fair amount of knee-high brush hiking through the forest here, but this would prove to be nothing compared to the route we took on descent.
Lights out for Eli.
As the craggy ridge began to loom closer, EliÆs pace seemed to slow somewhat. We stopped to rest at a large platform just before where the ridge transitions to 3rd and 4-class rock. Eli wasnÆt feeling well and didnÆt feel up for the climb. Glancing upwards, I noticed a party of two approaching a prominent tower above. By the time I turned my attention back to Eli, he was already fast asleep.
View from our rest spot towards the town of Gold Bridge. Ault Lake at bottom-center.
Hesitant to solo the route, I decided to just ōcheck outö the lower ridge and return. Leaving everything behind, including my camera, I descended from the platform and traversed left into a large, slabby gully. Despite its steep appearance, the rock here made for easy, but enjoyable scrambling. Reaching my turn-around point within minutes, I figured thereÆd be no harm in going a bit farther and I set my sights on the next target.
The author atop the first tower (photo taken on return).
I avoided a steep wall by traversing left and rounding a small arĻte. A short 4th-class descent brought me to a large, sandy gully. Following footsteps up loose ground, I exited the gully at right and scrambled up more 3rd and 4th-class rock finishing with a short, but steep pitch to regain the crest. Suddenly finding myself atop the first tower where I spied the twosome from earlier, I was surprised how little time it took me to get here. Looking up the ridge, I could see the other party now nearing the final summit tower. ōOk, okģIÆll just go to the next tower and then stop.ö
Looking down from top of second tower (photo by "Dru" - taken on a climb of Sloan's South Face on 9/13/2008).
An exposed finger traverse on the horizontal ridge crest led to a section of ōsidewalk in the skyö after which I descended a ramp on the east side of the crest. Traversing left across a small amphitheater, I climbed back up a short gully to gain a spur that led back up to the ridge. A long pitch of blocky 3rd-class rock then brought me to the top of the second tower. The party ahead hooted and hollered at me from the summit. By this point the temptation was just too much to resist, and besides, I was having too much fun. IÆd have a hard time forgiving myself if I turned back now.
View from Sloan summit towards Tchaikazan area around Chapman/Fluted peaks (photo by "Dru" - taken on a climb of Sloan's South Face on 9/13/2008).
Down-climbing steep rock from the second tower, I traversed left across another small amphitheater, crossed over another arĻte and continued traversing left across a talus funnel below a large snow patch directly beneath the summit. Scrambling up rock on the left side of a small watercourse flowing from the snow patch, I zigzagged up steep ledges on 4th and low-5th rock. A final scramble on blocky rock saw me to a large, flat platform on the summit. The other party was nowhere to be seen, and I just assumed they had descended the standard route. I scrambled over to a nearby highpoint to get a better westward view. Wow! And no camera eitherģargh! The vast Lillooet Icefield and broad Bridge River Valley with the Dickson Range (second photo from top) on the opposite side of the valley really gives a sense of the scale of these mountains. I could identify a few odd peaks listed in McLaneÆs Alpine Select ¢ Sampson, Vayu, Thiassi. ThereÆs enough here to keep me occupied for years to come!
Mount Vayu in midground just left of center with the Northwest Ridge at right (photo by "Dru" - taken on a climb of Sloan's South Face on 9/13/2008).
Worried that Eli might be concerned about my whereabouts, I allowed myself all of five minutes on the summit. Retracing my route back to the ledges, I noticed the twosome traversing above the snow patch. We exchanged a few words before making haste back across the loose talus funnel. I made it back to the top of the first tower in good time and yelled down to Eli. Having just awoken, I think he thought I was still on my way up. The climb took me less than two hours round-trip from where Eli was resting.
Mount Thiassi in background right (photo by "Dru" - taken on a climb of Sloan's South Face on 9/13/2008).
Following the ridge back into forest, we easily identified a faded strip of flagging which we blindly assumed would lead us back down to the trail exiting from of Ault Lake. This wasnÆt the same way we went up, but figured itÆd make for a faster descent. Following pink, blue and yellow flagging, we raced down the thick brush, confident that weÆd just stumble onto the trail. Yet, when I glimpsed Downton Lake looking down from the top of the ravine I knew weÆd taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Our location verified by GPS, we began thrashing east careful not to loose any more elevation. The slope angle eventually eased-off, and flagging mysteriously reappeared. We reached the clear cut shortly thereafter, and quickly located the forest road we had followed earlier that morning. Saved by technology!
Sampson, Delilah and Sessel left-to-right (photo by "Dru" - taken on a climb of Sloan's South Face on 9/13/2008).
Hopes of catching a ride back to the car were dashed when we heard what sounded like an ATV motoring away from us. We obviously lost a lot of time wandering around the bush ¢ enough to negate any gains IÆd made on the other party while descending the ridge. The idea of using an ATV as an approach aid however warrants some merit. Just imagine the access!
I grabbed the oh-shit handle and dug my fingernails into the side of the seat as Eli rallied his WRX back up to Railroad Pass. Imagine our surprise when we were passed by a minivan going at least 60mph. Eli gave chase, but try as we may there was no way we could keep up. Gotta love BCÆs forest roads and the maniacs that drive æem! A few more trips like these, and the WRX will need a suspension overhaul IÆm afraidģnot to mention a spare tire or two. And yes, the Shell station in Pemberton does carry instant tire repair, but that wonÆt do any good when one can almost stick a finger through the puncture hole!
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Lately I've been implicitly writing about how religion isn't some quirk of human cognition but the result of humans unwittingly designing something that appeals to our brain architecture. Much like how blockbuster movies, apple pie, roller-coaster rides, or even crack-cocaine are human designed. Furthermore, I've been writing about how religion isn't some unique evil set loose upon the world that we must work to destroy, but rather something that we should try to harness and use as a well thought-out instrument towards our betterment.
Indeed, there's nothing we can do to change the laws of physics, but we manipulate those laws to give us heavier than air flight, the Internet, GPS satellites that account for Einsteinian relativity, and GMO food to feed many more people than natural food. Human cognition should be "exploited" in the same manner to make life better. People already exploit human cognition for their own personal gain. We should use it instead to improve the world.
But why is it so easy to see religion as a unique evil? Memes.
Memes, just like genes, can reproduce. And in that paradigm, successful reproduction depends on not only adapting to the environment the meme/gene finds itself in, but a gene/meme that fully exploits its environment to reproduce will outcompete other memes/genes. Moreover, genes/memes can manipulate their hosts to change the environment to better fulfill that selfish gene/meme's ability to reproduce. This happens in nature with parasites, where they change the behavior of their host to make the parasite more likely to reproduce successfully. Sometimes, to the detriment of the host.
Memes do this too.
Imagine you have an idea, much like the thesis of this post. That we should use the way we know how human cognition works in order to make the world better. A more fleshed out version of this would be filled with complexities and nuance; one that at least attempts to make sure that things don't go awry. I mean, let's face it: "exploiting human cognition" is ominous enough. But a successful meme is going to be successful due to the environment it finds itself in. The free market of ideas doesn't select for truth, but for reproductive fitness.
I'll say this again: In the free market of ideas, memes couldn't care less about accurately modeling the world. Memes get set in the population by how virulent they are. Think viral videos. Just because a video goes viral doesn't mean it's true. A viral video has been "naturally selected" to propagate through memespace due to its success in a particular time period and environment. The same principle is in effect for any and all other memes or ideas that you are presented with and eventually become part of your identity. Human beings are especially susceptible to this due to our natural tendency for groupthink. Do you think you can find out what's true just by sitting around and thinking really hard? Think again. The tools you'll be unwittingly using will be the ones to make friends; those tools working in the service of whatever large-scale memes are part of your identity. This is generally called "bias". You are biased, and so just like aircraft engineers account for the laws of physics and aerodynamics to build planes, you should account for human bias when attempting to navigate memespace.
So what, specifically, is the logical outcome of meme fitness? Memes that are optimized for virulence — memes, again, are not intentionally designed by humans per se — are most likely the memes that you identify with. And in the rat race of ideaspace, the optimization will take priority over any and all other goals. Indeed, it might even come to pass that you sacrifice a terminal goal for more optimization. Scott at Slate Star Codex calls this sacrificial behavior Moloch:
A basic principle unites all of the multipolar traps above. In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don't take it die out. Eventually, everyone's relative status is about the same as before, but everyone's absolute status is worse than before. The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse… Any human with above room temperature IQ can design a utopia. The reason our current system isn't a utopia is that it wasn't designed by humans.
But these institutions not only incentivize others, but are incentivized themselves. These are large organizations made of lots of people who are competing for jobs, status, prestige, et cetera – there's no reason they should be immune to the same multipolar traps as everyone else, and indeed they aren't. Governments can in theory keep corporations, citizens, et cetera out of certain traps, but as we saw above there are many traps that governments themselves can fall into.
The United States tries to solve the problem by having multiple levels of government, unbreakable constitutional laws, checks and balances between different branches, and a couple of other hacks.
Saudi Arabia uses a different tactic. They just put one guy in charge of everything.
This is the much-maligned – I think unfairly – argument in favor of monarchy. A monarch is an unincentivized incentivizer. He actually has the god's-eye-view and is outside of and above every system. He has permanently won all competitions and is not competing for anything, and therefore he is perfectly free of Moloch and of the incentives that would otherwise channel his incentives into predetermined paths. Aside from a few very theoretical proposals like my Shining Garden, monarchy is the only system that does this.
But then instead of following a random incentive structure, we're following the whim of one guy. Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino is a crazy waste of resources, but the actual Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus wasn't exactly the perfect benevolent rational central planner either.
The libertarian-authoritarian axis on the Political Compass is a tradeoff between discoordination and tyranny. You can have everything perfectly coordinated by someone with a god's-eye-view – but then you risk Stalin. And you can be totally free of all central authority – but then you're stuck in every stupid multipolar trap Moloch can devise.
The libertarians make a convincing argument for the one side, and the neoreactionaries for the other, but I expect that like most tradeoffs we just have to hold our noses and admit it's a really hard problem.
Democracy is less obviously vulnerable, but it might be worth going back to Bostrom's paragraph about the Quiverfull movement. These are some really religious Christians who think that God wants them to have as many kids as possible, and who can end up with families of ten or more. Their articles explicitly calculate that if they start at two percent of the population, but have on average eight children per generation when everyone else on average only has two, within three generations they'll make up half the population.
It's a clever strategy, but I can think of one thing that will save us: judging by how many ex-Quiverfull blogs I found when searching for those statistics, their retention rates even within a single generation are pretty grim. Their article admits that 80% of very religious children leave the church as adults (although of course they expect their own movement to do better). And this is not a symmetrical process – 80% of children who grow up in atheist families aren't becoming Quiverfull.
It looks a lot like even though they are outbreeding us, we are outmeme-ing them, and that gives us a decisive advantage.
But we should also be kind of scared of this process. Memes optimize for making people want to accept them and pass them on – so like capitalism and democracy, they're optimizing for a proxy of making us happy, but that proxy can easily get uncoupled from the original goal.
Chain letters, urban legends, propaganda, and viral marketing are all examples of memes that don't satisfy our explicit values (true and useful) but are sufficiently memetically virulent that they spread anyway.
I hope it's not too controversial here to say the same thing is true of religion. Religions, at their heart, are the most basic form of memetic replicator – "Believe this statement and repeat it to everyone you hear or else you will be eternally tortured". A slight variation of this was recently banned as a basilisk, and people make fun of the "overreaction", but maybe if Jesus' system administrator had been equally watchful things would have turned out a little different… The point is – imagine a country full of bioweapon labs, where people toil day and night to invent new infectious agents. The existence of these labs, and their right to throw whatever they develop in the water supply is protected by law. And the country is also linked by the world's most perfect mass transit system that every single person uses every day, so that any new pathogen can spread to the entire country instantaneously. You'd expect things to start going bad for that city pretty quickly.
Well, we have about a zillion think tanks researching new and better forms of propaganda. And we have constitutionally protected freedom of speech. And we have the Internet. So we're pretty much screwed.
A topical example explains Moloch more readily: The airline JetBlue recently sacrificed customer comfort for profits:
This fall, JetBlue airline finally threw in the towel. For years, the company was among the last holdouts in the face of an industry trend toward smaller seats, higher fees, and other forms of unpleasantness. JetBlue distinguished itself by providing decent, fee-free service for everyone, an approach that seemed to be working: passengers liked the airline, and it made a consistent profit. Wall Street analysts, however, accused JetBlue of being "overly brand-conscious and customer-focussed." In November, the airline, under new management, announced that it would follow United, Delta, and the other major carriers by cramming more seats into economy, shrinking leg room, and charging a range of new fees for things like bags and WiFi.
When I read Scott's opus on Moloch, my amorphous cynicism about humanity finally solidified. And I thought "That's why I think humanity is fucked!"
Another blog — one of the, uhh… perushim of Less Wrong — has a concept with a lot of overlap with Scott's Moloch and breaks it down into four sort of… sephiroth, or aspects, or emanations, or… something… of what they call "Nature or Nature's God" ("Gnon", since you have to spell the acronym backwards to make it more ominous, right?). The four sephirot of Gnon are:
Azathoth. Death. Evolution. The blind idiot alien god that shapes our biological nature and guides our genetic destiny according to who lives and who dies. Contrary to popular belief, the telos of evolution is not progress to more "advanced" forms; it will ruthlessly twist organisms for a few points of inclusive genetic fitness, and abandon "important" features of an organism (eg. our intelligence) as soon as they stop being critical to fertility.
Cthulhu. Pestilence. Hosted Evolution. Memetics. Epidemics. The tendency for popular forms to be those most able to propagate themselves by capturing transmission institutions and getting repeated. Contrary to popular opinion, the "marketplace of ideas" does not select for truth and good, but virulence. Truth/good selection only happens if the mass idea-propagation systems structurally favor truth and good, which they often do not. The current result being that "Cthulhu may swim slowly, but he only swims left."
Mammon. Famine. Capitalism. Techno-Economical Optimization. Production. When a form succeeds by exploiting a technological resource-use opportunity, that is Mammon at work. Thus we have an efficient and recycling biological ecosystem, and human capitalism has driven the creation of great works of technology. But Mammon will ruthlessly recycle forms not contributing to the cutting edge of production, including us, if it comes to that.
Ares. War. Conquest. Empire. Agricultural Civilization won not because it was "better" in our sense, but because 100 malnourished toothless peasants with sticks beats one of even the healthiest and best trained tribal warriors. War is computation with weapons, and the truth thus revealed is simply which sociomilitary group is stronger.
Another LW user, jaime2000, sums up Gnon:
Gnon is reality, with an emphasis towards the aspects of reality which have important social consequences. When you build an airplane and fuck up the wing design, Gnon is the guy who swats it down. When you adopt a pacifist philosophy and abolish your military, Gnon is the guy who invades your country. When you are a crustacean struggling to survive in the ocean floor, Gnon is the guy who turns you into a crab.
Basically, reality has mathematical, physical, biological, economical, sociological, and game-theoretical [my link] laws. We anthropomorphize those laws as Gnon.
So back to my original point. What would a more "rational" religion look like? I can't really tell you (in general it'll probably have some group dancing or group singing, maybe some extreme rituals, a good narrative/mythos/story; maybe all of that at once), but I can tell you what would probably happen to this more rational religion. Since, you know, it won't be just itself in the world… it'll be a religion that is stuck in a world where if that religion is to survive in the minds of us humans, it's going to be subject to an optimization process. You can probably see where this is going.
This rational religion will be designed with a bunch of nuance and subtlety, probably about using Bayes Theorem and decision theory appropriately. And on paper it'll be good. But human minds aren't designed for nuance and complexity. Our minds are designed for simplicity; they are run by our intuition. And our intuition doesn't like dealing with complexity. It likes feels. There will then grow out from this nuanced rational religion a simpler one for the masses because that's what sticks for the lowest common denominator. The two religions carry the same name, but one spreads more rapidly due to it being optimized for spreading, not for nuance. It spreads more rapidly due to winning in the marketplace of ideas, not due to its subtlety. And so the "winning" optimized version of this new rational religion overtakes the marketplace instead of the rational-optimized version. But the original version is not doing much to correct this, because they both carry the same banner; cooperation wins over defection in an iterated prisoner's dilemma, as any rationalist would know. And as such, a Mott-and-Bailey-like situation happens between the sort of neighboring-ring-species religions. One version is the actual nuanced version and the other only pays lip service to being the nuanced version. But they both have the same name.
The fact that people Mott-and-Bailey is probably evidence enough that this has happened throughout history. There are motts/baileys for Christianity, for Communism, for feminism, for America, for The Ravens, the list is endless. There's always the academic, nuanced version and then the version optimized for spreading; the version that beautifully haunts the halls of the academe and the version that gorges in the troughs on Tumblr; both falling under the same name.
I mean, I think that Marcionism is — was — the most rational version of Christianity. But it lost out in the marketplace of ideas in ante-Nicaea Christianity because it wasn't optimized for its time period. Imagine a Christianity that completely ignored Jews, that didn't have deplorable lines like Τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ. ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν; a Christianity without centuries of Jewish pogroms, expulsions, and holocausts. But that more humane Christianity lost to the one better optimized for "winning". The same thing will probably happen to any rational religion that we design, since it will ultimately be subject to Gnon and its sephirot, sacrificing its terminal goals to Moloch so that it can better optimize its winning power. Though I hope I'm wrong.


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Black Friday has at least taken the media focus off some of the dafter stuff going on in our little island. Apparently, zillions of us will have 'bet' on buying online bargains within a twenty-four hours period. The knock-on short -term employment generated by this activity must have its good and down side. The existing delivery services cannot cope with the demand, so are increased and complemented by all sorts of distribution methods. The zero hours contractors, come to mind as do as do self-employed drivers many of whom, work to tight margins.
Many retailers in the U.K, both online and in the high streets, like Black Friday, (an American Import) as it generates the consumer to shop. It is said that the U.K is big with online shopping, more so that many other countries worldwide. Logistically, retailers large and small have to be creative. One way to be creative has been to extend bargain hunting with special offers for a about a week before Black Friday and a week after.
Yours truly has ordered a book, not especially because of Black Friday, but, it's just that I remembered about it; so while the grey cells were working, I decided to go for it. The book will be delivered by Royal Mail, (what's left of it). I think I do quite well, as a rule, shopping in sales at other times. Most of the inspiration for gifts I buy is found that way. This year though, inspiration has been in short supply, a bell-weather, I think, of a tougher retailing market.
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Most Do Not Get It
Points for your consideration, especially Americans. One, a war has been planned for years. Even Pope Francis has noted that WWIII could happen any time. Two, the powers that be do not want what most people want-freedom. They want a ruling class and a slave class. I have known this for a long time. Three,… Read More
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Last night, thousands gathered at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for a remembrance service which included the ringing of the great bells. This could be the sign of a turning back to the roots of the greatness of France. Did you see this? http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/11/13/the-vatican-catholic-leaders-react-to-paris-attacks/
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Watching news from France and praying…. Third Week on the Passion of Christ starts tomorrow in my Ignatian retreat. Seems so timely… Update on Sunday Night, GMT -1 President François Hollande on Saturday promised a "merciless" response to the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people, as French officials issued an appeal… Read More
Pray for France, Pray for the Free World
The Vatican called it "an attack on peace for all humanity" and said "a decisive, supportive response" was needed "on the part of all of us as we counter the spread of homicidal hatred in all its forms". http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34814203 Latest reports suggest there are 128 dead, around 205 injured, including 99 serious injuries with bullet… Read More
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Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of peninsular India and the meeting point of three oceans-the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Besides its importance as a Hindu pilgrim center, it is famous for its beautiful views of sunrise and sunset over the waters. The multicolored sand is a unique feature of the beach here.
Kanyakumari was once referred to as the Alexandria of the east. This place has been a great center for art, culture, civilization, and pilgrimage for years. It was also a famous center for commerce and trade. During the early part of the eighth century AD Islam entered the southern part of India through the sea route with traders and missionaries. Through St. Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles of Christ, Christianity arrived in this area in AD 52. Islam, Christianity and Jainism have greatly contributed to the architectural wealth and literary heritage of this place. Kanyakumari was also under the control of the Cholas, the Cheras, the Pandyas and the Nayaks who were great rulers of south India. The architectural beauty of the temples is the work of these rulers.
During the British Raj, Kanyakumari was bestowed the dry title of Cape Comorin, necessitated perhaps by the Englishmen's inability to pronounce local names.
Legend has it that Kanya Devi, an avatar of Goddess Parvati, was to wed Lord Shiva, the destroyer in the Hindu trinity. But he did not turn up at the auspicious time and the wedding never took place. The rice and cereals meant for the marriage remained uncooked. Even today, one can buy stones there that look exactly like rice and cereals. Local folks believe that they are the leftovers of the legendary marriage that could not be solemnized. As for the princess Kanya Devi, she became a virgin goddess blessing pilgrims and tourists alike.


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"The Western Tapes, 1983" captures Lone Justice just before they became Los Angeles' cowpunk darlings with their 1985 self-titled debut. This was so early in their artistic development, in fact, that producer Marvin Etzioni wasn't even a band member yet. There's a freshness and innocence about these six recordings that will remind you just how special Lone Justice was at their inception and an example of what made Los Angeles' roots music scene in the '80s so memorable.
Although "Don't Toss Us Away" was a hit for Patty Loveless, it's always a thrill to hear it sung (as it's sung here) by its writer Bryan MacLean's half-sister, Maria McKee. McKee, at or around 19, sounded wise beyond her years. She may have been inspired by icons like Dolly Parton, but she by no means had that much life experience. Nevertheless, you'd never guess this to be non-drinking aged woman listening to her sing these songs.
Many of these songs feature relatively simple arrangements, including acoustic guitar strumming and electric guitar fills. Some ("The Train") also include fiddle. "I See It" finds McKee singing a duet with band partner Ryan Hedgecock for a two-stepping country song about the impending apocalypse. It's infused with religious passion, as McKee was also a passionately religious girl at the time.
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AAT has long called for action to be taken against overseas residential property investors; briefing all MPs, including the Prime Minister and Housing Minister, on the subject last year and again as recently as June 2018.
In 2017, AAT members were asked, "Should an additional tax be paid on property purchases by overseas investors?" 78% said "Yes" compared to just 14% who said "No".
As a result, the organisation is naturally pleased that the Prime Minister has confirmed the Government's intention to levy an additional Stamp Duty charge on overseas residential investors.
Phil Hall, AAT Head of Public Affairs & Public Policy, said:
"Put simply, it doesn't matter how many houses are built in the UK, there will never be enough to meet demand because demand is not simply coming from the 65m currently resident in the UK but from across, Europe, Asia and America.
Years of London property purchases by the super-rich from Russia, China, America and various other countries are well documented but it's not just London that overseas investors are setting their sights on. Liverpool, Manchester and other parts of the UK are proving equally attractive. What's more, it is no longer the super-rich alone who are snapping up properties across the country.
Middle income earners from across the world, especially China, Malaysia and Singapore, are finding UK property an increasingly attractive proposition. This has been exacerbated by the weakness of sterling following Brexit. The Prime Minister's recently stated intention to impose an additional 1% Stamp Duty charge, potentially rising to 3%, on overseas residential property investors is a sensible, measured response to this increasing problem."
International examples
There are numerous international examples of residential property purchases being successfully prevented, restricted or taxed differently. For example, property can only be purchased by residents in Singapore and Iceland. Non-residents in Poland must have either lived in the country for five years or more or can demonstrate some other form of significant connection to the country e.g. marriage to a Polish citizen. Similarly, Denmark and Hungary impose some limits on who can buy property within their borders and Australia and New Zealand have imposed restrictions as a direct result of an explosion in overseas property acquisitions, primarily from China.
Prime Minister, Theresa May MP, said:
"Britain will always be open to people who want to live, work and build a life here. However, it cannot be right that it is as easy for individuals who don't live in the UK and don't pay taxes here, as well as foreign based companies, to buy homes as hard working British residents."


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Rare Diseases of Neurodevelopment: Maintain the Mystery or Use a Dazzling Tool for Investigation? The Case of Rett Syndrome
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2019Source: NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Gabriele Ruffolo, Pierangelo Cifelli, Catarina Lourenço, Eleonora De Felice, Cristina Limatola, Ana M. Sebastião, Maria J. Diógenes, Eleonora Aronica, Eleonora PalmaAbstractThe investigation on neurotransmission function during normal and pathologic development is a pivotal component needed to understand the basic mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental pathologies. To study these diseases, many animal models have been generated which allowed to face the limited availability of human tissues and, as a consequence, the most of the electrophysiology has been performed on these models of diseases.On the other hand, the technique of membrane microtransplantation in Xenopus oocytes allows the study of human functional neurotransmitter receptors thanks to the use of tissues from autopsies or surgeries, even in quantities that would not permit other kinds of functional studies.In this short article, we intend to underline how this technique is well-fit for the study of rare diseases by characterizing the electrophysiological properties of GABAA and AMPA receptors in Rett syndrome. For our purposes, we used both tissues from Rett syndrome patients and Mecp2-null mice, a well validated murine model of the same disease, in order to strengthen the solidity of our results through the comparison of the two.Our findings retrace previous results and, in the light of this, further argue in fav...
Source: Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
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Integrated analysis of human transcriptome data for Rett syndrome finds a network of involved genes.
CONCLUSION: Integrative analysis of omics data and prior knowledge databases is a powerful approach to identify links between mutation and phenotype especially in rare disease research where little data is available. PMID: 30907210 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ehrhart F, Coort SL, Eijssen L, Cirillo E, Smeets EE, Bahram Sangani N, Evelo CT, Curfs LMG Tags: World J Biol Psychiatry Source Type: research
In conclusion, a large number of approaches based on targeting microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs are expected in the field of molecular diagnosis and therapy, with a facilitated technological transfer in the case of rare genetic diseases, in virtue of the existing regulation concerning these diseases.
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VIII World Rett Syndrome Congress&Symposium of Rare Diseases was held in Kazan, Russia from 13 to 17 May 2016. Although it has been a while since the event, specific problems highlighted by the contributors ...
Source: Molecular Cytogenetics - Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Ivan Y. Iourov, Svetlana G. Vorsanova, Yuri B. Yurov and Thomas Bertrand Tags: Review Source Type: research
Key issues in Rett syndrome: emotional, behavioural and autonomic dysregulation (EBAD) - a target for clinical trials
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The mechanisms of neuro-genetic disorders have been mostly investigated in the brain, however, for some pathologies, transcriptomic analysis in multiple tissues represent an opportunity and a challenge to unde...
Source: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Stephen Shovlin and Daniela Tropea Tags: Review Source Type: research
Rett syndrome: a seminal book on extensive multidisciplinary analyses for rare disease, Published online: 25 May 2018; doi:10.1038/s41431-018-0163-xRett syndrome: a seminal book on extensive multidisciplinary analyses for rare disease
Source: European Journal of Human Genetics - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Pierre Bitoun Source Type: research
The reversal of the Rett syndrome disease process in the Mecp2 mouse model of Guy et al. (2007) has motivated families and researchers to work on this condition. The reversibility in adult mice suggests that t...
Source: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Angus John Clarke and Ana Paula Abdala Sheikh Tags: Position statement Source Type: research
Environmental enrichment intervention for Rett syndrome: an individually randomised stepped wedge trial
Rett syndrome is caused by a pathogenic mutation in the MECP2 gene with major consequences for motor and cognitive development. One of the effects of impaired MECP2 function is reduced production of Brain Derived...
Source: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Jenny Downs, Jenny Rodger, Chen Li, Xuesong Tan, Nan Hu, Kingsley Wong, Nicholas de Klerk and Helen Leonard Tags: Research Source Type: research
In this study, we generated a mouse line carrying deletion of eight conserved amino acids in AT-hook 1 domain by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology. Mecp2 ΔAT-hook1/y mutant male mice exhibited low locomotor activity, motor incoordination and cognitive deficit. In addition, these mutant mice exhibited increased anxiety. Moreover, pain insensitivity was noted in the mutant males. However, the social interactions were unaffected in AT-hook 1 mutant mice. Thinner CA1 region of the hippocampus was observed in the mutant mice. On the molecular basis, Western blot analysis sh...
Source: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Molecular Basis of Disease - Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research
Finding patients using similarity measures in a rare diseases-oriented clinical data warehouse: Dr. Warehouse and the needle in the needle stack
Conclusion This tool offers new perspectives in a translational context to identify patients for genetic research. Moreover, when new molecular bases are discovered, our strategy will help to identify additional eligible patients for genetic screening. Graphical abstract
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Fatal Promises screens at BITHAR Film Forum in Boston
Fatal Promises will be screening at the 2012 BITHAR Film Forum in Boston, MA.
This groundbreaking forum will consider the role of film in advancing womens rights and recognize the many governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) efforts to combat sex trafficking.
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The Chinese National Space Administration recently invited NASAs head to visit China. The hope is that would be the first step in future cooperation between the two agencies, a first date in case we need to get married some day.
This kind of exchange and the cooperative work that would hopefully come of it can only be good. Confidence Building Measures between China and the US, particularly in space, are absolutely essential. Both America and China have each expressed concerns about the other looking to weaponize space:
The pace and scope of Chinas military build-up already puts regional military balances at risk. China is likely to continue making large investments in high-end, asymmetric military capabilities, emphasizing electronic and cyber-warfare; counter-space operations Quadrennial Defense Review, Feb 2006
China is developing or improving counter-reconnaissance and counter-space capabilities using a range of solutions from low-tech denial and deception to high-tech lasers and space-tracking devices.
DOD Assessment of Chinas military power, 2005
At present, the danger of weaponization of outer space is increasing with each passing day. Taking weapons into outer space will lead to an arms race there and make it a new arena for military confrontation.
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Chinas White Paper on Arms Control, Sep 2005
Each nation is likely to weaponize space in the coming decades if its convinced the other is trying to do so thats Arms Races 101. Theres no guarantee (and, admittedly, not a great chance) that cooperation in peaceful space exploration will prevent a space arms race. But it cant hurt.-- Matthew TompkinsUPDATE 9:30 AM: Looks like there may be some cooperation between the Russian and American military space programs, too.


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