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by Retra 7y ago
You're right that all we can do is speculate. That means that we can't assume things will work as they always have, or as they currently are. Which means you have to assume things will change.
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All of the available information includes information about which information is safe to ignore.
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The only distinction is that with law, you can actually hold people responsible for their actions in a way that matters.
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Only if you look at thing 'additively.' Zuckerburg also has the authority to put a stop to any development he likes. The people who work for him do not, really.
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by Retra 7y ago
Look, you're the one saying that elderly people are so miserable that we should not prolong their lives. >It's not "wildly pessimistic" to spend time thinking about what happens after people get beyond that point. You
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by Retra 7y ago
Ok then. Let's just take this broad conversation about "most people" and distort it with wildly pessimistic and self-contradictory assumptions. I can only repeat myself here. If you want to live longer, you want better health
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by Retra 7y ago
But you seem to be morphing the definition in order to sculpt your narrative, which is why I'm asking you to nail it down.
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by Retra 7y ago
That decline is what kills you. If you live longer, it is necessary that this decline be inhibited. Saying you don't want to live longer is basically the same as saying you want to be less healthy.
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by Retra 7y ago
I feel like we might be habituated to justifying our own failures in terms of the restrictions life makes for us. I'm not a billionaire because I couldn't be. I'm not a world-class piano player because I couldn't be. And
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by Retra 7y ago
What you call entitlement, I call a vice. You don't build a business model upon a framework of addictive & memetic psychology and then blame your customers when they feel entitled to it. That entitlement is the whole point. Most of
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by Retra 7y ago
What do you mean "most"? What kinds of mental illnesses are you referring to here?
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Couldn't that be illusory? There's more people watching films now than there ever has been before. And if there were only one film released this year, it would surely break all the records because nobody would have anything else t
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by Retra 7y ago
Why should anything which is not illegal be forbidden? If there's no law against it, it should be safe to assume society and community approve of the behavior according to your personal discretion.
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by Retra 7y ago
Perhaps if somone named names and provided evidence of misconduct, they could take those blinders off under a pretense of actually seeing something?
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by Retra 7y ago
You can advocate for a policy without adopting it in your personal life. Especially if changing your personal life would have insignificant impact when compared to a policy. People can do whatever they like on their own. We elect politician
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by Retra 7y ago
And how do you change 1 person into many, if not by making public arguments?
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The Peano axioms don't do very much, they just help model the natural numbers. You still need something to model the logic and provide foundations more complex subjects like analysis.
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Maybe you're just being vague, but I don't think that's even possible. I would say the effect is more that that it can innapropriate supplement their understanding of reality in matters that aren't contradicted by realit
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by Retra 7y ago
>It's become a trend in the industry to let superficial attitudes shape popular opinion. Well, yeah. Popular opinion is always a trend, and it always follows superficial attitudes. That's basically a tautology. The question is
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by Retra 7y ago
If you think merely rebranding something will make it more acceptable, then perhaps you've found the real reason people don't like Perl: it is a language that appears to be built around the superficial. Like someone who takes 30 m
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by Retra 7y ago
Novelty has diminishing returns when you don't optimize for something else; there are many more ways to be wrong than there are to be right, after all.
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30 tasks x 0.25 hours per task is 7.5 hours. Looks simply like a calculation.
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It is impressive when you compare it to all the buildings built from wood framing.
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't have the freedom to spend $13M as I see fit... I don't think if your spending budget were 1/100,000th of mine, you would consider us equally free.
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by Retra 7y ago
That depends on the child. It's not the case that every child would rather know they are loved than that they are intelligent. Love doesn't create any fewer unwanted obligations than intelligence does.
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Even Nostradamus could correctly predict the fallout from his own actions. Saying "the US will come after me" isn't a revelation when you do things the US government doesn't like. The question is whether they are justifi
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by Retra 7y ago
I thought 'millenial' referred to someone who entered adulthood and started participating in the economy at around 2000. Now it refers to people born 20 years later? Is every child going to be a millennial in perpetuity now?
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by Retra 7y ago
That is bullshit, and not at all what I'm trying to say.
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>Disinformation does affect people greatly but those it affects were already receptive to its message and looking for more. My point is that its effects are more pronounced, more reliable, and significantly harder to correct in the prese
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by Retra 7y ago
Yes, but... the difference between low-budget/amateur stuff is more than just acting. It's hard to know that it is even primarily acting. I just don't believe that successful actors are so necessarily due to their acting ta

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