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by acituan 6y ago
I’ve just enumerated the use cases. For them, a simple “That is not appropriate” or “Imagine what would others think of you” would be examples to shame based instruction. It is perfectly OK to invoke the fear of a loss in social connection
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by acituan 6y ago
Legitimate shame is a pro-social emotion against breaking purity codes. For a child this could be around cleanliness (“don’t defecate on anywhere other than allowed places”, “don’t fart while eating”), boundaries (“don’t show your genitals
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> If you're over 10 years of age you should know what your limits are. Propositionally knowing things is very different than being able to make the right decisions when the moment comes. A 10 year old neither has the fully developed
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What percentage of these technologies were available when you were a kid? Chances are addictive nature of these engagement driven websites would have sucked up our curiosity and autodidactism to an extent that there wouldn’t be much time le
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> Anyone don't want longevity for humans? Not sure what the downvotes are about but problems of longevity is studied under vampire stories, e.g. Interview with the Vampire. They eventually get nihilistic and lost in ennui because th
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by acituan 6y ago
Not meaning this in an derogatory manner but this sounds to me something like what Peter Pan wanted. He didn't want to leave never land and he wanted to be everything ( pan ). This is also well studied in the Jungian psychology under
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> I would look at this as something where the interests of the society or species as a whole diverge from the interests of individuals. This is spot on, and exactly what is going at the genetic level. The reason we have sexual reproducti
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by acituan 6y ago
I don’t follow. Just because something causes fear doesn’t mean that it tells us anything about its truthiness. When faced with something novel, the right approach is to be cautious, for some optimal values of novel and cautious . If we
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by acituan 6y ago
> SARS-CoV-2 isn't very novel. The long-term clinical effects appear to be fairly similar to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV Sure, novel is a sliding scale. But it has been novel enough for our immune systems, and that is sufficient reason
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> there is no evidence COVID is special wrt long term complications. It is impossible to establish evidence for long term complications of a novel virus that has been with us for less than a year. > you shouldn’t believe something wit
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Most people who come to US are escaping horrid conditions of their home countries (a good portion of which is not unrelated to US foreign policy). Most immigration is not a luxurious, touristic affair but comes out of necessity. There are e
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> We have a duty as a nation to attempt to heal the damage that we have caused. 25% percent of the US’s population as a nation is 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, a substantial portion of which arrived after 1965 because desegregatio
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by acituan 6y ago
> Best way to get people to do the right thing: pay them to do it. This is strictly not the best way because it both requires the extra cost of reinforcement to be administered, and tragically fails for anything we haven’t installed that
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by acituan 6y ago
> I think you're talking Chernobyl here, without actually saying Chernobyl Yes. > True, but that cuts your argument. As it turns questions of science into ideological ones. That’s fair enough. If I am understanding correctly, you
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> Sure, GLF focused on idealistic purity rather than expertise 1986 USSR bureaucracy didn’t fail only for a lack of expertise either. > There are also a lot more agricultural experts in the US than nuclear experts. It is not a numbers
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> Just remember that the greenest kilowatt hour is the kilowatt hour never produced. Not only it is like saying the safest human is a dead human, it is also wrong. We can easily harvest energy for our human endevours and put a portion of
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by acituan 6y ago
> When bridges fail, they don't affect potentially millions of people's health. If you are saying bad policy decisions are inherently less scaling than nuclear disasters, I would remind you the Great Leap Forward and the tens o
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> But what kind of sympathy can regular people give without falling into the logic that everyone is entitled to a partner? I think it is a leap to assume sympathy would escalate to entitlement. As deeply social species, it is in everyone
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No doubt they would try, but their prediction is bound to be at best as good as predicting the preference without asking the preference, which makes it profiling and not polling anymore. And as OP suggests, they failed at this spectacul
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by acituan 6y ago
> social acceptability of admitting that one voted for an unpopular candidate Not sure why you are getting downvotes. This phenomenon has been academically researched and documented under the name “preference falsification” with many pas
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by acituan 6y ago
> ultimately just comes down to paternalistic protection of the poor disenfranchised gig workers that you clearly view as being less than capable, rational adult humans That is one way to editorialize what is going on. An alternative exp
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> Real fairness is everyone playing against the same rules and being treated the same under the law. That is symmetry, not fairness. By your definition someone born with a disability should not be accommodated (because everyone has to be
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> I don't really think it's the responsibility of individuals to maximize GDP Insofar we are in economic competition with other countries, I think being as productive as we can be is also a game of autonomy, survival and value
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> We could just as easily say that the taxpayer won't be responsible for the cost. I thought Covid made it obvious that there is no insular, zero-externality health of individuals. Public health is a public commons, and we will be r
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by acituan 6y ago
> Your "better" study is not an experiment and its conclusions are not supported by empirical evidence. I think their method does count as a natural experiment and as such does have empirical evidence. From the article: “Pres
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by acituan 6y ago
Indeed foreclosures are the lowest in 15 years because “as the federal government has banned lenders from pursuing most delinquent loans until at least the end of August 2020” [1] [1] https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/r
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by acituan 6y ago
That is completely irrelevant, unless you are claiming they are doing absolutely the best that can be done. They are not, and we have a huge headroom. My argument is against singular control points, so I am not suggesting myself or any si
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by acituan 6y ago
Indeed. Now imagine how much more of that we could get if he didn’t also obsess about escaping to Mars. His money and attention is a constant sum, anything foolish is going to be replacing something wise.
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> necessary for efficient resource allocation in the absence of (hypothetical well-implemented) dictatorial central planning Replacing a singular dictator with multiple agents that concentrate power is not necessarily more efficient. The
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by acituan 6y ago
> The whole point of TFA is that pure intelligence (particularly "computational thinking" type of intelligence) is no substitute for the knowledge and methodology already explored by various humanities and social science fields

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