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by 09bjb 7y ago
I am definitely not a trained ethicist, philosopher, etc...but my personal view is that morality in a society largely comes down to whether and how power is shared. The weak and vulnerable will stay that way without some help, and the power
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Extending this thought: if you thought that the primary concern of so-called elite institutions was ever "fairness", you're mistaken. They deal in Influence. And yes, it's highly ironic that the current fashion for ident
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by 09bjb 7y ago
If Harvard's "best interest" isn't fairness but rather perpetuating Harvard as an institution for the maximum amount of time into the future, then its admissions behavior makes sense. Colleges and Universities are instit
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by 09bjb 7y ago
An alternative explanation is "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." Certainly holds true for me: the experience, it turns out, depends more on where I am in t
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by 09bjb 7y ago
I disagree that the field of Mathematics can be reduced to a definable game. Many recent breakthroughs have been a creative cross-pollination of mathematical fields...not that this will be totally off-limits to a sufficiently general AI.
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by 09bjb 7y ago
I agree that there's some aspect of volition, desire, the creative process...whatever you want to call that aspect of human thought that seems to arise de novo . But speaking of de novo , I'm not at all sure that a desire to thi
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Don't worry, plenty of us would consider that rude :) It's really the same as checking your phone during a conversation. Is it useful for me to give you my full attention if yours is constantly changing channels?
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Yep, this is the kicker. They're not highlighting any other form of rewards (such as 2% cash back on everything, or airline miles) so it's not really moving the needle on anything other than the fact that it's Amazon-branded.
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Welcome to pharmaceuticals in general (and many of the biggest biotech companies, come to think of it). I didn't find the exact number in a cursory search, but I've read that a fairly preposterous proportion of the drugs that have
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Agreed. I'd have to dive in more on what "relation analysis" is (you probably mean "relational analysis"?). I guess what I'm saying is that you're unlikely to get push-back from the monist crowd on the mat
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by 09bjb 8y ago
From no perspective, consciousness is subordinate to the rocks that govern physical rules /(tongue-in-cheek non-dualist "nonsense")
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by 09bjb 8y ago
I think the non-dualists in the parent comment here would agree, saying something vaguely Alan Watts-y along the lines of "consciousness and matter are merely two sides of the same coin and imply each other mutually." Come to thin
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by 09bjb 8y ago
And yet for every one of these sadists, a Viktor Frankl pops up to say "“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own w
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by 09bjb 8y ago
I think the difficult part of all this is that "experience" has been irreducible so far and extremely difficult to isolate as some kind of physical substance or variable. We can analyze the "actual stuff" in every dimens
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by 09bjb 8y ago
My understanding is that yes, you're not covered if the bank suffers losses and passes them on to you. The entire industry is one giant moral hazard due to complete lack of skin in the game on the part of the banks. They don't own
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Not an expert in this domain but I'll cover the basics: ecurities are a euphemism for stocks and similar. Banks have been loaning out the money you deposit since the beginning of time; it's how they make money. They don't kee
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Agreed. Not that many drugs aren't inherently risky, but stress/despair/loss of purpose cuts across lines (pun intended) of wealth and is a guarantor of increased addiction potential.
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by 09bjb 8y ago
I hate to be this guy, but...how is this different from affirmative action? I'm not saying it's wrong, but affirmative action is discriminating based on race. Surely it hasn't been illegal this whole time?
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Weight training tends to be moderately cardiovascular. Not an out-and-out replacement for cardio, but your heart will be pumping hard at higher weights/reps. Same thing for a long session in a hot sauna. Just throwing some nearly-as-go
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Just came here to say that I think protecting your CV at all costs from any kind of "gap" is some of the most overrated career advice out there. Take risks, show some self-direction and self-respect. Companies and colleagues will
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Seriously. What a great filter for people you wouldn't want to grow close to anyway. "If we can't talk about corporate servitude, why talk at all?" /s, hilarious.
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by 09bjb 8y ago
As someone who has "taken a lot of time off" to spend time _on_ the things I think are important, may I suggest answering the work question with "I'm currently working on _____" or "Right now I'm spending
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by 09bjb 8y ago
This is the kind of mindset that discourages people from taking healthy risks. There are any number of legitimate ways to explain a gap, such as, "No, I was not actually playing video games and surfing reddit the entire time! I actuall
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Personally I'd be willing to risk open-mindedness spreading to people in society that "might not be able to handle it" rather than slide further into a dystopia where we're kept stupid on purpose because we might be hard
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Just the opinion of an internet stranger here, but I think the medicinal benefits are touted because they're a way to get a foot in the door and start the conversation about the utility of these substances. Society still has PTSD (pun
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Your best resource here is probably https://erowid.org/experiences/
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by 09bjb 8y ago
Psilocybin and LSD are on their way to legalization, but the enormous host of compounds in their phenethylamine family might not be so lucky due to a systematic problem with U.S. drug scheduling policy. This family shows enormous potential
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by 09bjb 8y ago
And Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan again back in the 80s...the interventionist policy has always been about U.S. corporate interests abroad, not about democracy or peace. https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product&#x2F
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by 09bjb 9y ago
With Turo (I'd imagine this service is similar), the service or the customer has to provide it. The risk with these services is competition: the better it is, the more people start using it...and then the parent business takes a bigger
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by 09bjb 9y ago
I mean, it'd be malicious if that's what I was after. I don't engage in these discussions because I'm a troll, I engage because I think they're important. It's possible that every "believer" throughou

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