Chathamization

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by Chathamization 7y ago
Decoupling the certification elements from the education elements would probably help. Have a third party, possibly a government entity, allow anyone to be assessed for competency in a particular field and receive a certificate showing thei
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Yeah. The widespread belief that memory is reliable - a false belief that this article propogates - is probably a lot more problematic than any of the research being discussed. It's not uncommon to see people presented with facts sugge
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by Chathamization 7y ago
It's nearly impossible to improve on something if you're convinced that there's no room for improvement and that anyone who offers constructive criticism is a hater. If you know you have a blind spot for something, getting co
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by Chathamization 7y ago
I mean, there definitely seems to have been a large decline in population, economic output, political cohesion, urbanization, record keeping, trade, etc., in much of the former Roman world following the fifth/sixth century. I suppose i
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by Chathamization 7y ago
It's not uncommon to see incorrect answers highly upvoted on AskHistorians - even ones from flaired users. That's one of the problems with the sub - though it's better than most Reddit subs, it's still far below the qual
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by Chathamization 7y ago
True, productivity growth is very low compared to the past. It seems that the long recession coincided the hyping of certain new tech (self-driving cars, drone delivery) leading some people to wrongly believe that we were on the verge of ro
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Also, a county closing all schools for several years lead to significant drops in IQ scores[1]. [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2294274?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Kurzweil is an interesting case. His predictions have been impressively wrong for the most part, yet he seems to refuse to admit it.
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by Chathamization 7y ago
There seems to be a tendency to exaggerate the breadth of things that people should study. When you ask for specific instances where something would be useful, you usually get a hand wavy answer that since X field is connected to what you w
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by Chathamization 7y ago
This reminds me of the excuses for spending billions of dollars hosting the Olympics. "All the infrastructure improvements will help the locals!" Well, yes, but if infrastructure is your goal there are a lot less costly ways to go
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Yeah, it's strange. People think that tourists from cruise ships are destroying the city because they visit for several hours, but then they recommend that tourists should stay in the city for several days? What's always funny to
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by Chathamization 7y ago
I think one blindness we have is seeing the question of what to do with these workers as pertaining to the future. But it's hard not to look at things like "bullshit jobs"[1][2], or entire sectors that are parasitic (advertis
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by Chathamization 7y ago
That's a large part of the problem. Another is that the vast majority of online content and votes comes from a small minority of people who are probably mentally ill[1]. Also, the way sites like Reddit (or HN) work are also in oppositi
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by Chathamization 7y ago
> His point was that even if energy itself is cheap there’s a floor to how it is valued relative to the total economy for such a vital commodity. I don't think that's true though. There are vital commodities that have been effe
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by Chathamization 7y ago
> per-capita energy use has surged dramatically over time Per capita energy use seems to be declining in advanced economies[1]. > But if energy became arbitrarily cheap, someone could buy all of it, and suddenly the activities that co
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by Chathamization 7y ago
It seems like a larger and larger percentage of our economy is being taken up by parasitic sectors that have a net negative value for society. Advertising, soda, highly processed food, credit cards, car dealerships, (most) sales people, etc
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by Chathamization 8y ago
> First, when zoomed out, outliers in all possible tasks become more common Sure, but we should consider which outliers most internet discussions end up encouraging. They're going to encourage people with fewer family/community
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by Chathamization 8y ago
> IMO this is too restrictive. You reduce philosophy to a job title or diploma title. I guess, many philosophers would not agree with this definition. I'd say that it is usually what we treat philosophy as when these discussions com
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by Chathamization 8y ago
It makes me wonder why more effort isn't put into finding alternatives to this fundamentally broken system.
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by Chathamization 8y ago
That's a valid point, but it's worth pointing out that it can be applied to many more things than just marijuana (TV, video games, alcohol, social media, most articles people read, many apps, etc.). There's an enormous sectio
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by Chathamization 8y ago
Here's a decent breakdown: https://thinkprogress.org/the-full-global-warming-solution-h...
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by Chathamization 8y ago
One mistake people make is pretending that every choice we make is a hard one with no good answers. Sometimes there are good decisions and bad ones, and we end up making bad ones even when the good ones are obvious. We often see this happen
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by Chathamization 8y ago
Indeed. Also some platforms (I believe Coursera and EdX were like this last time I used them) only let you access old content if you signed up with a course when it was active. So you are incentivized to sign up for any course if you think
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by Chathamization 8y ago
You're right, and productivity growth isn't particularly high at the moment (indicating a low rate of automation compared to past decades). I also think it must take a colossal lack of imagination - not to mention lack of awarenes
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by Chathamization 8y ago
Most people don't seem to realize this. Even if the nearest star had an earth level civilization, we wouldn't be able to detect its signals[1]. [1] https://www.seti.org/faq#obs12
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by Chathamization 8y ago
Its funny. I think if you took away the context of it being an old Shakespeare play, most people would find The Taming of the Shrew (which 10 Things I Hate About You is very loosely based on) fairly abhorrent.
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by Chathamization 8y ago
I had the opposite experience. I saw Shakespeare plays every year as a child and enjoyed them a lot. As I got older, however, I began enjoying them less and finding more issues with the plays. I think it would be worthwhile for people to ex
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by Chathamization 8y ago
> It's not just about bullshit jobs but about bullshit consumption, and the curious moral frameworks that support it. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Many jobs seem to have a net negative value for society - soda, h
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by Chathamization 8y ago
>) There is less and less actual work to be done due to technological progress; I don't think that's actually true. Here's a quick list I threw together on another post: >Replication crisis? Aging infrastructure? Global
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by Chathamization 8y ago
> Every year there are articles about how Burning Man has 'lost' or is 'done'. Yeah, I wonder what the earliest article about that is. I did a brief search for the decline of Burning Man found a Wired article from 199

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