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A day full of intellectual stimulation and fun doesn't sound like a "waste" to me
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How would you define what intelligence is, in simple terms to a layman?
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Perhaps it signals the person has a healthy work life balance. >We go to work to get paid for our skills, not to go camping together or share our love of bird watching. Some people prefer to work on teams where they're treated more
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>Did Google openly support one candidate or party? Yes https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-emails-google-eric...
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PCI regulations are weak and do little to cover the majority of threats.
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>So the solution then, should be to socialize people in such a way that such views do get challenged. Which is precisely the opposite of what these major corporate speech platforms are doing by creating filter bubbles and deplatforming w
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Algorithmic bias does not have to be an intentional "hack" to have drastic effects.
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Have you never heard of algorithmic bias? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_bias It's quite real, and it is not illegal (in the US), so asserting this is a "conspiracy theory" is silly. Softwar
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Classification
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Genetic testing is far more scientifically revealing than just eyeballing something because it's based on actual objective tests, data, and math. Just like radio astrology is far more scientifically revealing than just looking up at th
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When Copernicus mathematically determined that the sun was at the center of the universe rather than the earth, was that "actual comprehension", or "perceived comprehension"?
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Who is suggesting that consciousness is completely dependent on having "the laws of physics perfectly tuned"? Obviously there are other conditions outside the scope of just physics that must be met to foster life
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Yes, up until the recent advent of genetic sequencing, we humans have often mistakenly considered two organisms that look the same to the naked eye as being the same.
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When our understanding takes one step forward and 2 steps back, there is a net loss of comprehensive understanding
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Without genetic testing you could not objectively know for sure if that was a lion or some other species. Just because a lot of people agree on something based on shallow observations does not make it objective science. Thats moreso the rea
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>But the only people that talk as if they were the same thing are creationists, not scientists. What do you mean, "the same thing"? Are you implying the evolution of matter into chemistry into life into consciousness is not an
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Why did you interpet what I said as meaning there is no distinction between different forms of matter/life?
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Objectivity cannot be achieved without a control group. So when we attempt to objectively study consciousness with consciousness, we have reached a point of recursion. >objective: Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual o
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>"Does a rock have intentions?" Didn't all organic life arise from inorganic molecular structures like rocks? As a result of the theory of the big bang, molecular structures have progressively evolved in complexity, eventu
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>There are many things we don't understand, and as time pass we gradually understand more and more of them. On the contrary, when it comes to the fundamental nature of the universe, the more we've come to understand, the more w
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>Personal experience still counts as evidence. It doesn't count as objective evidence
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Facebook paid teens $20 a month to access their browsing history and DMs https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-pays-people-to-access-the...
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According to the article, the alarm bells should be going off when there are obviously absurd amounts of drugs are being ordered. >The Walgreens employee was bewildered by the quantity of opioids the company was shipping to just one stor
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>Religion was created as a tool to control people and explain natural disasters. Mythology and religion also orignally served the role of upholding a unified value system and conception of reality which is critical for social cohesion an
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Is abstaining from conspicuous consumerism virtuous? If so, there is virtue to be gained by not exposing yourself to the incessant, persuasive, and obnoxious advertisements of television. When I quit TV I stopped wanting/caring about h
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>What should be the best way for people happy working with their colleagues or team but concerned about other things with the organisation to continue their good working environment and share their views? Maybe it's just a HR thing.
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When one spends the vast majority of their time working on computers with minimal human interaction, all kinds of social deficiencies arise
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Equating corporate lobbyists and special interest groups with "secret cabals in black robes"? That is caroonish indeed. Unless of course you consider black suits and ties to be "black robes" ;)
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>There is no grand conspiracy to keep drugs illegal Many people working together to keep something illegal in order to profit is not a "conspiracy", it's lobbying. >semi well intentioned system How is valuing money and
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