Emma_Goldman

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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Career thieves wouldn't scour a park for wallets, no, but many people are opportunistic thieves. If they happen upon money with no one in sight, they'll just take it, without thinking it's a big deal. The case in the article
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I don't think that's true at all, most people I've come across use it in an off-handed way to express solidarity with victims of police violence, or their general distaste for racialised and/or militarised policing. Full
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I've always hated the phrase 'ACAB', and I say this as someone whose username is Emma Goldman. It's the institution, and its functional role in society, that's the structural problem. There are many well-intentioned
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Click through onto specific posts, and it reads: "Get the app to like, reply and post." I suppose this is so it can, like Twitter, be shared and embedded elsewhere for reference. There is no general landing page if you go to threa
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I still can't believe it's app-only, that there's no desktop version. I refuse to wall off parts of the internet into silos that I have to enter through downloadable portals.
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I have little faith. FB degenerated year after year, in a blazing arc of self-destruction that almost everyone understood was going to kill the app. Yet these user-hostile changes were continually justified internally as 'increasing vi
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I am not confident in this study. Anyone who has studied in the area knows that there's self-sorting by field, which runs, from most to least conservative: Ethics < political philosophy < political theory. Most 'activist&#x2
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. The idea that AI will mean that 'creative people' suffer from a 'total decline in cultural relevancy' is extreme philistinism. Culture is meaning and meaning is human; AI predicts from a train
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"Second, sure the US doesn’t want to lose control of the mostly peaceful, prosperous, and free rules-based order it created after the disastrous first half of the 20th century. And rightly so." Which has been the justification
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I know. I said that in the comments below.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
What a bizarre and pointless contortion - this is exactly why I now avoid commenting on the internet. I said the aeropress combined immersion and high pressure. What is 'high' is obviously relative, as I just qualified. I did not
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
There is. What effect that has is an interesting question. Aeropress FAQ: "The AeroPress filter is 2.5 inches in diameter so the area of the filter is 4.9 square inches. If you press down firmly on a scale, it is relatively easy to get
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I did think of writing ' relatively high pressure' to pre-empt this pedantry. Higher pressure than just immersion, much lower than espresso. How hard you push modulates the pressure, but any added pressure is more than in a Frenc
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I don't see how it's any bother. You have to put the grains and water in with it upside down anyway, so whether you put it onto the mug during or after immersion involves equal effort. In my experience there's some leakage if
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
This is exactly my set up! Although I adopted it as a PhD student precisely to avoid those expensive options in the first place. I've just never found any cause to change since. Aeropress allows you to combine immersion and high pressu
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
In my experience, the time taken to read a book increases super-linearly with its difficulty. A brilliant work of philosophy can take weeks of dedicated study to understand, and in the most extreme cases, entire careers. Mastering a truly d
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I didn't say nothing would compare for thousands of years. I said it wouldn't be a mere 'footnote'.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
WW2 was the deadliest conflict in human history, and involved both the Holocaust and the first - and so far only - military use of nuclear weapons. To say nothing of the fact that it completely reshaped the international order and led direc
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Why are you holding forth on something which you clearly know absolutely nothing about? I say this as someone who thinks that effective altruism is broken.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I think the OP is being unfair to Will and EA, but your statement is pretty outrageous. No one's ever come up with a moral or political philosophy other than utilitarianism - are you serious?
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I have followed EA for ten years and there is absolutely no doubt that its most prominent voices - Will MacAskill, Nick Bostrom, Rob Wiblin, Eliezer Yudkowsky, not to mention Sam Bankman-Fried - ascribe enormous significance to AI. I myself
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Wow... that is a shocking level of philistinism given his parentage. His own mum wrote a seemingly well-received book, and Will MacAskill, who he claims is his moral hero, has written three books.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I don't think this means anything. They might just not want any publicity, or to be harassed by malcontented FTX depositors. In the context of the FTX implosion, their LinkedIn profiles are far from harmless.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
This is my sense of what happened. Alameda's bets went bad in the crypto crash earlier in the year. FTX loaned it up to $10bn in customer deposits against trumped-up collateral (its own token). Somehow, Alameda must have lost most of t
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Thanks - this is the most succinct summary of the financial nexus leading to FTX's spiral into insolvency that I've seen, and squares with my own understanding. What we don't know is how the chain of cause and effect played o
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I really disagree. I work in academia in Europe, where we are in the ludicrous position of writing articles and books with public funding, which are gifted to publishing companies who then sell it back to the public at extortionate prices.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Exactly. The idea that there is a zero-sum trade-off between pirated books and for-profit books is nonsense. I look through hundreds of books every year - often just skimming the introduction, or most relevant chapter - and if I like them e
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
> His intelligence and breath was clear. That bad huh? Hehe. I emailed Chomsky some horribly pompous 'intellectual' questions when I was eighteen. I cringed when I read them years later. But Chomsky answered within a day, giv
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
As someone who has made this trip countless times, London-Edinburgh is sluggish. The UK's only true high-speed network is the Eurostar from London ('HS1'), under the channel. Paris-Marseilles in 3.5 hours is a better comparat
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Honestly, this just strikes me as typical of the the kind of heavy-handed, bureaucratic box-ticking that now dominates academia. One of the first things I had to do as a post-doc was complete a 4-page document on whether my chair was comfor

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