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by 542354234235 6y ago
Larger vehicles also lead to deadlier collisions. Rarely is anything a pure universal good with no tradeoffs.
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by 542354234235 6y ago
We don’t mandate 5 point harnesses in all vehicles, even though they would save far more than 57 lives. Life is a never ending risk calculation and a constant tradeoff between safety and convenience. There is a point where everyone would st
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by 542354234235 6y ago
It isn’t negative or positive, because “would be” people are not real. They are an abstract idea in someone’s head. There are an almost infinite number of would be people. Every time a contraceptive is used, that is a would be person not bo
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by 542354234235 6y ago
This is clearly a case of “a difference in amount makes a difference in kind”. The complete sterilization of the human race is so different from “multi child households will be less likely to have a third child”. They are incomparable to ac
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by 542354234235 6y ago
> This idea that something that is (at most) a mild inconvenience We don’t mandate 5 point harnesses in cars. We don’t mandate helmets in cars. Both of those are milder and would save more lives than having to buy bulky and expensive car
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by 542354234235 6y ago
There are three doors. You have picked one, leaving two other doors. It absolutely explicitly says he opens one door. The only options are a goat or a car. If it was a car, you would have lost already and so there is no problem. If it was r
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by 542354234235 6y ago
> unless it is explicitly stated that Monty knows where the car is and that he deliberately opens a door with a goat. That has been part of the explicit problem ever since it was first presented back in 1975. "Suppose you're on
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by 542354234235 6y ago
> And if we apply that logic to every industry, we end up driving people's standards of living back centuries. That assumes that the only way to reduce CO2 is to halt the industry, and that is not true for most industries. The probl
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by 542354234235 6y ago
I think it should be. It is an industry where the weight of the goods is very closely tied to the cost, which isn’t really the case for car or train travel (obviously weight is a factor but 30 lbs plus or minus isn’t changing the cost to ge
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by 542354234235 6y ago
DeGENErate
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by 542354234235 6y ago
> Once that happens, the value of those networks will rapidly deteriorate as people will seek out more authentic experiences with real people. Will they? People interact with these things because they are giving the brain what it wants,
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by 542354234235 6y ago
There are multiple issues. Self censorship is a problem, but conspiracy thinking is also a problem. Dr. Steven Novella recently said something to the effect of “the problem is that social media has automated conspiracy theory”. What he was
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by 542354234235 6y ago
> I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window. I'm not doing anything wrong, but I still close the door when I take a dump. The idea that someone wanting privacy m
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by 542354234235 6y ago
First, this says nothing about if this is different than it used to be "back in the day". Second, it has never been true anywhere that almost all people in a given field felt totally comfortable voicing controversial opinions arou