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by acituan 6y ago
> You seem to hang on this notion that people are merely consumers, especially those who want to live longer, so they must die. That is not an intrinsic property to people. But so far, at this scale, the only normativity we were able to
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by acituan 6y ago
> but is dreaming for immortality immature? Immortality is the very essence of maturity, it’s purest expression Assumption of immortality is pretty much the epitome of childish narcissism, coming from a lack of having contextualized ones
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I am not advocating that, in fact I am with you in how bad it is, but I am also telling what the incentive structure looks like and what would it take to move it to the other equilibrium point. There are many and different types of agents i
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by acituan 6y ago
I guess I don't quite get what you suggest we should subsidize. China and India are two of the big, emerging polluters, and their exports only account for roughly 20% of their GDP. So a good 80% chunk will run on non-green energy even
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> Writing them a check would be the most obvious way. How much the check should be for exactly? This is important because even if we assume we can get perfect compliance if we paid for it, you might find the amount required surprisingly,
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> Can you elaborate on multiagenct cooperation? In short what Paris Agreement intends and what it fails to achieve. It assumes signatories will be voluntarily reducing their carbon emissions without binding enforcement, and they don&#x27
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> Anyway, you don’t have a market at all without government That is not true, in fact most of the markets in history operated either without currencies (e.g. barter, farm labor etc) or with currencies that have inherent value (e.g gold,
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by acituan 6y ago
> Yet people are continually intervening in markets, almost always without causing failure. An intervention that produces undesired results can be stopped or modified, provided it it not forced by legislation or biased perception, and so
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> Just about everything humans do is an exogenous intervention on markets, one way or another Markets is simply the name for a particular collective of human interactions in response to pricing signals based on supply and demand, it is
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> market forces that create these problems can be marshaled to solve them. For example, if the wealthiest countries implemented a carbon tax including a border adjustment (accounting for goods from countries with a laxer carbon policy) w
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Good psychiatrists who can also do therapy are worth their weight in gold. I think this is a huge loss for anyone that made and could make use of his psychotherapy. It would have also been a loss for the rest of the world to not make use of
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by acituan 6y ago
They do. Psychotherapists cannot prescribe medication but are licensed to deliver psychotherapy. Psychiatrists, who are MDs, can prescribe medication but also can do psychotherapy if they choose to do so. I even know psychiatrists that only
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by acituan 6y ago
The source research paper is pretty interesting but the article is not well written and conflates reputable sources with personal opinions while not shying from making big conclusive statements. Several problems; > The researchers also e
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by acituan 6y ago
> So people who are sterotypically nerds do better at sterotypically nerdy things? I don’t get what makes you think that that is the conclusion. Study doesn’t look at the cluster of open source contributors against “rest of the world”, t
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by acituan 6y ago
> Overall this seems to be a rather obvious result. "Popular people are more likely to have their pull requests accepted" That is not the result at all; they are leaving social factors (follower count etc) aside to specifically
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> It's fascinating that a monthly visit to your local shaman may still be more safe and effective for depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline than anything western medicine has been able to produce. I get the romanticized enthusi
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> I think we are going to find that attention is dominated by working set memory, and people who can juggle even twice as much stuff are going to operate fundamentally differently I would be careful equivocating working memory, attention
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> What remained the same: healthy people still can't relate very well to people with a mental disorder. I'm not sure if there exists a such crisp boundary. Lifetime prevalence of mental illness in the US is about 50%. In any gi
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> Maybe if there's one, for me, then it'd be that humans already come from nature with capacity for self-determination, conflict resolution, sociability, organization. All those other structures mostly hijacks that and messes i
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> I find it hard to believe you've talked to any real anarchists, or at least listened to them True scotsman fallacy aside, what the top minds on anarchy think is not as relevant as what most people/anarchists understand of it,
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by acituan 6y ago
> That group has very little to fear from Covid due to weight, unless they have other serious health conditions. Being 10 or 15 pounds overweight isn't going to be a meaningful problem when dealing with Covid. If you're 80 or 1
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I’ve picked my numbers from each of these countries’ censuses, whereas your source claims an estimate , and I cannot verify their methodology because source of that table takes me to an unrelated telegraph.co.uk article (likely a bug in th
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by acituan 6y ago
> It should be 5 years minimum in federal prison. Police should recieve drastically stronger charges and sentences when they violate the law, not the other way around. If someone above was found to have known about it and didn't rep
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I find it naive that people directly jump to policy design phase and start suggesting fixes. This framing implies that current policies are a result of not having thought any better at the time of enactment and simply fixing these codes wil
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by acituan 6y ago
> hmm, when I hear "Eastern Europe", I don't think "ethnically homogeneous", I think "substantial Roma minority". What first comes to our minds doesn't constitute data, and is prone to create avai
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> So if your country doesn't have an obvious minority population that has systemically been kept behind, you're not going to see as much police corruption. I don't buy this. There are plenty of ethnically homogeneous count
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I don’t see this from an idealism perspective at all. Patreon is just a payment processor platform that made it easy for the long tail to have subscriptions, that was their unexploited profit opportunity. That opportunity diminishes as the
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> To hit a few hundred million in revenue a year and earn their valuation, they're going to need to start competing with not just YouTube and Twitch, but major music labels and indie-friendly TV/film studios. They're goin
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Thanks for your kindly inquiry to clarify it. Indeed shame been excessively associated with its shadow side because that is how we have been using it, while even those light versions could feel distressing enough for particularly sensitive
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by acituan 6y ago
> You are completely alone in the universe. Nobody is going to make any choices for you or help define your life. You have to decide who you are and how you live. That depends a lot on what you think you are. As far as hyper-individual

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