Bakary

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We already have evidence that the explosion in availability decreases the overall quality, even if the quantity of high-quality productions also increases greatly. Every creative platform is going to be flooded with the equivalent of a Redd
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>but a company should not do unethical things that it _knows_ is detrimental to its users' health, wealth, or happiness. By definition, an ad company cannot avoid being detrimental to those things because the profit from ads comes f
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We'll have procedural generation that will be hard to distinguish from human-made content. Goodbye repetitive Skyrim filler caves!
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Looking at this from another angle: even though our self-interest is strong, we live the majority of our lives under social rules that promote virtue (or rather, virtue is defined by the social rules). The number of humans who can actually
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Other countries are not ignored, it's just that their looting pales in comparison and British culture gets talked about more by virtue of being in English.
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You are not in traffic, you are traffic
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Of all businesses a boutique kids shoe shop is sure to attract the Facebook crowd as it exists today in the West at least
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This is exciting news not because it's Amazon, but because this could create economies of scale and decrease the price of more flexible alternatives
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We'll lose adaptable products in exchange for locked-downed FAANG-ecosystem garbage. A very questinonable choice
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The key takeaway is that what you are currently evaluating as a neutral, logical, science-based way of looking at the world is actually based on very specific philosophical and epistemological ideas that are ironically not themselves based
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This is just absurdly simplistic. The enlightenment did not appear in a vaccuum either. It is predicated on specific philosophical arguments. This becomes immediately apparent when you consider non-Western industrialized nations. The scient
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If there's anything affecting reproduction rates, it doesn't seem to be permissive sexual norms but rather poor economic and professional conditions that preclude the establishment of a family, in conjunction with the general decr
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This is a great theory, and I am inclined to agree, but how does it explain large, stable adult websites encountering such roadblocks?
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The French writer Houellebecq had a pretty compelling explanation for this. With religious norms ebbing away or being transformed (even among right-wingers), sexuality becomes another market parallel to the standard economic one. This was a
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If we frame the idea a bit more precisely: 1) Pornography studies can be an aspect of sociology, and it's not uncommon for sociologists to specialize in a narrow area. 2) The study of pornography isn't all that narrow to begin wit
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Initially, what I meant by a critique of right-wing ideas is that the Harrison Bergeron character can be read as a Randian fantasy of a great being held back by socialist busybodies. I doubt a right-winger would much identify with the gover
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I understand this criticism but I am not sure what you are posting it in response to or what arguments you are assigning to the discussion. My point is simply that the story focuses on an aspect of life of some emotional and philosophical s
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Perhaps 6) would be the turbo-meaningless LinkedIn-like framing of work and life in tech jobs. The tone is very artificial and inhuman. It exists in other industries but the effect is particularly acute in tech. It's as if there is a l
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Mental illness has no stable meaning other than in relation to the society which it inhabits. The disorders are defined based whether they are serious enough to affect your ability to function in the target society.
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Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863) Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
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After checking it looks like the expression second degree doesn't map to English from my own language and I was translating too literally (in the first degree? lol)
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Isn't the dramatic discursive style abundantly supported by the acuteness of the problem, and the various non-climate related advantages accrued from the methods used to mitigate it? The fact that annoying/religious-oriented peopl
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I don't think this condescension is warranted for two reasons. Vonnegut operated this satire clearly within American cultural parameters and the dichotomy, though one-dimensional, is linked to many different foundational ideas in vario
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It can't exist by definition. Or if it can I'm not equipped to visualize it.
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It's not clear to me if the story is supposed to be a second degree satire of left-leaning doctrine or a third degree satire of right-leaning fantasies. No matter its goal, the story hits a raw nerve. The mix of emotions over inequalit
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That exists too but most backers are going to want either some sort of privileged access to content or a parasocial relationship with the creator.
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There are plenty of professions and occupations that are harmful to the rest of the world, and not always in an obvious way. We are facing unprecedented existential risks due to our production and consumption patterns. We don't even ne
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The article lists communication costs, the bystander effect, slack aping, and the perception that the employee's efforts doesn't count. But there is one additional crucial piece of the puzzle: the sense of being a stakeholder as o
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Where do you think 'virtue' comes from, and why do you think we value it? It's an evolutionary advantage like any other.
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What about adding a recurring 8 hour calendar block that comes every 17 hours? Then you have a graphical representation of your sleep across time that allows you to fit appointments in. If you can't program it, and the software makes t

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