Tycho

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by Tycho 8y ago
No.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Any news about the Russian government should be read with the understanding that the Western political establishment is desperate to find a pretext for entering the war in Syria and deposing the Assad regime, which has the military backin
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by Tycho 8y ago
The universe is in a process of entropic decay. Entropy is death. Life is the opposite. Life creates order, reverses the decay. Music is spontaneous order, but nuanced, like life. Music is a celebration of life.
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by Tycho 8y ago
which single argument?
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by Tycho 8y ago
Not everyone is convinced about John McCain’s heroism and integrity. http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-when-tokyo-rose-ran-...
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by Tycho 8y ago
NN Taleb’s books. He has said that books should surprise the reader every single page or else it’s not real writing.
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by Tycho 8y ago
It just doesn’t really matter what Wikileaks say on their Twitter account, the important thing is the documents they host on their site. They’re not a newspaper. They only ask that people examine the documents they publish. Their own impart
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by Tycho 8y ago
I mean it’s pretty hard to bullshit the public if your only method is to release authentic documents.
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by Tycho 8y ago
In the digital age, much of “journalism” is just an unnecessary obfuscation layer easily abused by powerful actors. Dumping the source documents provided by whistleblowers is preferable to withholding them from public gaze and printing a st
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by Tycho 8y ago
i think you’ve interpreted it a bit too literally
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by Tycho 8y ago
WikiLeaks just publishes documents. Where does faith come into it? Faith is for the NYT congregation.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Are these the things that Assange has done? Regardless, wikileaks is one of the most powerful forces in bringing to light information that the public should know. The fact that the founder is holed up in a foreign embassy because of a naked
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by Tycho 8y ago
The establishment press is panicking because they can no longer effectively perform the role of narrative gatekeepers. Information will simply route around them via internet services. Hence their current hypocritical attacks on all alternat
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by Tycho 8y ago
Hoodwinked by Russian bots no doubt. Certainly nothing to do with the low credibility of the political establishment.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Or going the another way, why such faith in the climate fitters? Global warming skepticism has got almost nothing to do with “climate denial PR campaigns” and everything to do with people having functioning BS detectors. To wit: * lofty cl
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by Tycho 8y ago
You know what else spreads online? Truth that the mainstream media wont touch, or would rather suppress. Take for instance this smug, misrepresentative Washington Post editorial on a documentary about the geopolitically significant Magnitsk
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by Tycho 8y ago
Has there been any studies linking ASD/Aspergers to exogenous circumstances of childhood? (eg. older than average parents, lack of playmates, frequent re-locations...)
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by Tycho 8y ago
Not surprising really. The big schools skim off the top student talent, brand them with a degree, place them in top jobs, and repeat the cycle. There's no particular pressure for them to be great educators.
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by Tycho 8y ago
As usual, NY Post has the best headline https://nypost.com/2017/08/01/creepy-facebook-bots-talked-to...
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by Tycho 8y ago
I was thinking how things like this could revolutionize healthcare by reducing the need for doctors, who we never have enough of. But you know the saying, AI is always the thing we can't do yet? Meaning the goalposts shift, and stuff t
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by Tycho 8y ago
Yes - as with all things, higher reward is for higher risk.
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by Tycho 8y ago
The difference is temptation. Climbing a mountain is arduous. Addiction is not likely to be a problem. Even reading becomes kind of a slog. Video games are engineered to feel effortless and supply a constant steady buzz (or dopamine hit or
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by Tycho 8y ago
The essence of nerdiness is the elevation of the abstract at the expense of what's real, including the elevation of accomplishment in abstract domains (eg. video games) at the expense of developing social skills and progressing towards
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by Tycho 8y ago
Video games are fine for some people, but for nerd-like personalities they present far too great a temptation to supplant real life goal obtainment with virtual status/achievement. I think its helpful to make people aware of this tende
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by Tycho 8y ago
The solution we need is search that doesn’t rely on an information monopoly like Google.
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by Tycho 8y ago
And consider this: in psychology we actually have the possibility of running and repeating controlled experiments. Think how bad things must be in other fields where that’s not the case.
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by Tycho 8y ago
I think the framing of the question is part of why people struggle. People obsess about gym/running and eating certain types of food. All of that is completely unnecessary. Whatever your level of activity is, eat to that goal. Sometime
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by Tycho 8y ago
Why would you assume i meant this was on top of maintenance calories? I find it so bizarre that people look at food this way, that the main challenge is to not over-eat. To somehow eat more without incurring surplus calories. The real cha
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by Tycho 8y ago
He had an additional objection which was that the portrayal of Mediterranean diversity through the choice of a black (sub-saharan) character was extremely condescending - like "if you're not white European, we'll just pick s
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by Tycho 8y ago
This just seems like an incorrect analysis, not a limit of rationality. Dosage matters. Dosage specifies a quantity and a time frame. One donut per day is fine. Five donuts is not.

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