abandonliberty

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by abandonliberty 23d ago
Wow, I was hoping this was an option to not have the stupid center-mounted huge screen. I'd pay extra for analog controls.
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by abandonliberty 1mo ago
A great book on this is 'Active Measures'. Most things have an organic start, which are then amplified / co-opted by various actors. The concept of Nuclear Winter first came up in the USA, then the Russians caught wind of it
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by abandonliberty 2mo ago
It's unclear which message you're trying to convey, but your math checks out. The net CO2 impact of natural processes is -19Gt/yr. Humans add +37G/yr for a net +18Gt. If we stopped everything, you'd expect -19Gt&#x2
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by abandonliberty 3mo ago
Systematic thinking may be associated with autism. Explains why they're showing up in the crosshairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathising–systemising_theory
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by abandonliberty 3mo ago
A real consideration for warehouse staff in some areas.
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by abandonliberty 5mo ago
In addition, a good human knows when to ask for help or feedback. Our AIs are always just as confident whether their output is brilliant or terrible. That's more or less the opposite of what I'd want.
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by abandonliberty 6mo ago
I love this insight, and it generalizes. Just swapping out humans with AIs won't just fix everything, because many of the biggest problems are structural or emergent. I'm hopeful that we can use AI models to pressure test better o
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
Democracy had enemies before the founding of the Republic. Our founders warned us that it would require constant maintenance: "a republic, if you can keep it," warned Franklin. Washington cautioned us that political parties would
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
You can get vastly different outputs claiming that the input is yours or not.
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
Wouldn't we expect AJE to be pretty biased in this situation? I was thinking something from Europe or Asia (SCMP) might have less skin in the game.
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
Abortion used to be a Catholic issue until a Republican strategist saw an opportunity. The point is to get citizens fighting each other on things that are personally important so we're too busy to fight for things that are nationally i
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
>Despite their self-image, I don't think liberals are actually any better at empathy than anyone else. I can see how you think this, since othering and dehumanizing responses rise to the top when people ask how Republicans can suppo
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
One of my favorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xwedodah >Xwedodah (Persian: خویدوده xidude; Avestan: xᵛaētuuadaθa) is a type of consanguine marriage historically practiced in Zoroastrianism before the Muslim con
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by abandonliberty 7mo ago
They could also help with color-blindness and face-blindness.
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by abandonliberty 9mo ago
I'd recommend something like Breakfast with Seneca. It's an awesome read, and should hopefully help to differentiate the philosophy or school of stoicism and whatever we have now. We're still human, and the collaborative prob
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by abandonliberty 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy I came up with this idea, too, but was beaten to it by at least 100 years.
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by abandonliberty 11mo ago
Many people raised the alarm back then, and were shouted down by promises that these laws would only be used when appropriate. In 2002, very few would've been okay with tearing apart American families, parents, and children based on th
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by abandonliberty 11mo ago
>It's the same reason vacuum cleaners didn't reduce the amount of cleaning work to be done. It's true that some of the some of the capacity created by technology was consumed by increasing standards, the data do show a sig
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
It's incredibly difficult to stop a well-funded, 50-year plan to subvert a democracy. The attention spans of politicians, corporations, and the public are measured in days, months, or years, not decades. After 9/11, the Bush admin
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
I saw the same thing immediately. The robot arm could be calibrated to use a real slicing motion as well. They're misrepresenting the actual performance of this product. 100% confirmed meme product.
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat shows up in this list as not replicated, however, it is one of the most studied phenomena in psychology. >meta-analyses and systematic reviews have shown significant e
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
I know someone who was concerned about depression, and went to get checked. The diagnosis was normal. They were having an appropriate emotional response to very challenging situations.
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
I was really surprised when I first got an iPhone. After all the hype about it being so intuitive and polished, it was just different. Some things better, some things worse. But Apple devices take a bit longer to go obsolete, and seem just
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
The speed of light is rather unaccommodating. We run into human-perceptible relativistic limits in latency. Light takes 56ms to travel half the earth's circumference, and our signals are often worse off. They don't travel in an id
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
Adguard works fine? How are they not friendly?
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
Pain, like sleep, is a super interesting field and specialization, that is somewhat secondary for most medical practitioners. In physiotherapy, we used to think that structural issues like slipped disks caused pain, but when we started imag
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
Apple wants you to buy both... $100/year may make it worth it for them.
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by abandonliberty 1y ago
As were many of us before our first introductory freedive course.
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by abandonliberty 2y ago
More cyclists on the road makes it safer for cyclists. Combined with risk compensation, this seems enough to make helmet laws a net negative. Well studied. Wear a helmet though, they work!
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by abandonliberty 2y ago
You're rolling a die and claiming the result was dictated by the die. All outcomes are probabilistic. Though there's a shocking amount of convergent evolution.

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