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by acituan 5y ago
All of those reasons are valid, but not unique to hospitality industry. I think we might be backgrounding one particular reason too much: customers are a headache. One of the subheadings of the article is "They're just yelling the
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> the contents of Facebook is a corporate business decision, not a reflection on morality. Are you suggesting business decisions are exempt from having moral consequences? Are the decision makers somehow less culpable as long as it is &q
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Invoking linguistic determinism here is a strawman. Never said all cognition is exclusively shaped by language.
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> That is part of the externalisation of language, not the system of thought (which we know very little about). Actually we have some idea and one theory is that they are not as distinct systems as we’d like to think, at least they work
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> All this to say, we can be adults and let everyone get the same information and make their own choice, or we can go the other way where someone who thinks they know more than us (and you hope it's you but it doesn't have to b
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Kind of like drug cartels having the agenda of producing drugs that human nature has a high propensity to be drawn to? In the face of hyperstimuli, we can't talk about mere human propensities as a justification, else we would have alre
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> I never made a concrete claim that consciousness is located in a specific brain region. I speculated that, but the truth is we don't know if it's one sub-region which represents consciousness, or a combination of many. Perfec
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> I believe the most plausible explanation is that there is a precise structural and functional integration located in the brain which gives rise to consciousness. Without sufficiently explicating what that structure may be and how it in
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> Which part of an internal combustion engine creates the forward motion of a car? Is it the fuel injector? The spark plugs? The pistons? Of course it's none of these things: the function of an engine is obviously a result of all of
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by acituan 5y ago
That depends how you draw the lines around the selfhood of Google. Did 2004 Google have the same intentions as 2021 Google? Organizing information and making it useful sounds altruistically anti-misinformation. And maybe the search engine o
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> "Misinformation" is just another word for "falsehood" or "untruth." That’s not sufficiently true. In fact, asserting untrue propositions is one of the easiest-to-counter ways of misinformation. Real pros u
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> suggest that misinformation is some new phenomenon Misinformation in this shape and form is a new phenomenon. And it is not just the scale; - the number of agents that push their version of misinformation is at least an order of magnit
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> A cardboard car does not function as a car does. That's exactly the point. It is contrasting the appearance of the thing vs the structural & functional organization (logos) of the thing. Without the second, it is not the th
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> What's the difference between the image of virtue and just virtue? What’s the difference between a real car and a perfect cardboard replica? One has functionality and interiority. The other is just exteriority. In the King Midas
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We’re not talking about individual choice but an inherent ir/rationality in censorious behavior. Vast majority of the consumers probably make pragmatic rather than idealistic consumption choices. Eg when you source a new iPhone, you so
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> But I often see NVC abused as passive aggressive manipulation as opposed to open communication. That's because it is a passive aggressive framework. Violence is primarily a physical concept, and made use as as a relational metapho
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> Wonderful, instead of having to go to a city where people of all kinds mix together with ambition and purpose, it's so much better for people to just stay where they grew up and stick to people who just happen to be born near them
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> Is hanging out with highschool buddies forever because in remote world you never leave your hometown supposed to be the replacement for second/third gen remote workers? That would be an example of not being surrounded by strangers
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You're exclusively focusing on the first generation of remote workers, which had already responded to an existing non-remote setup. A second or third generation of reliable remote work would play an entirely different strategy which wo
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> Anything that increases your exposure to strangers and builds trust will be a boon to society. It takes a few bad exposures to ruin your mental model of strangers. And I am not convinced it is entirely a bad thing. The concept of bein
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> Wonder how much of this is driven by social media and the internet today. The word 'Toxic' is just thrown around now and everything is 'Toxic'. You're spot on. The article coyly makes a mention of the real caus
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The hinge of this analysis is on the word "outperformed". Performance of what you're measuring exactly? If our sole performance criteria was churning out LOC and subsisting on adderall, any new grad can kick ass. But you wo
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The difference is, in 2021 internet is a wildly different and heavily monetized place with lots or perverse incentives. It is not the internet we've checked APOD on nasa.com
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You're absolutely right, one could optimize with respect to any of the infinite attributes a thing has. We could have optimized for the shininess of the doses, or how good they smelled, and those would be ridiculously irrelevant proper
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Exactly this. The concluding claim from the paper; > Thus, this study is consistent with the proposal that the majority of preschool children do not seize opportunities to engage in structured empirical investigations with the explicit p
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I mean we are digging a tangential hypothetical but still that’s not true. The other people are not changing, the grounding through which they are perceiving you is not changing. Whereas due to the recursive nature of self-reflection, you
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Not really, as the trials were done on representative samples of the general population, we know at least we are not underdosing anyone wrt those metrics. Reducing the dose as much as possible would be minimizing it.
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I'm not an expert in histories of those countries, but could you be forgetting a massively bloody military coup in 70s in the name of anticommunism in Argentina, or a history of complete international isolation and 15 years of civil
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> Complete bollocks. Thanks for your sophisticated analysis.[1] Psycho-activeness of language has an incredible depth of account from philosophy to semiotics. But a simple enough paper I found for you that exemplifies (not exhaustively
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> That has been talked about ad nauseam for the past 10 years. Imperialism goes way more back than 10 years. It probably has been nauseating for some for at least a century. > Maybe it's time to remember that non-wealthy countri

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