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by acituan 5y ago
> But that's not how assimilation happens these days right? What about cultural imperialism? A language shapes your identity because it literally gives the grammar to your thoughts. But other cultural goods like music, netflix, yo
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> When looking at social media, it’s part public forum that needs some type of discovery/filter mechanism, and part a tool for individual users and community to communicate and collaborate. > The barrier in current social media n
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First incompleteness theorem says even with axioms you can't "compute" all truths in a formal system . That is a far cry from "we need axioms to compute truths".
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> Philosophy tells us that you can't compute truth without relying on axioms. Philosophy tells no such thing. It is not the province of philosophy to tell us the final word on what is what, and without corresponding it to any empiri
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Indeed, I'd argue a good chunk of the experience came from the respect and reverence the audience had to the occasion. Not unlike in a church, or kind of like a primal gathering around the fire, except this time around the projections
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> These projects contribute to the success of the business in one way or another. If you want your workers to care about the success of your business, then pay them with the success of business (e.g. shares). If you are only paying an
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> To play devil's advocate, screen play time (i.e. video games) has inspired a whole generation of computer engineers to follow this career I hear you. Our games were mostly indie though and computers weren’t connected to the intern
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> If your product causes harm in any way—regardless of the benefits—you're going to have a difficult time getting regulatory approval Question stands, is that a bad thing? Besides not everything FDA approved becomes a prescription m
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> I fail to see how what we have now is inherently worse...especially for cultural minorities. Exploiting psychological weakness to keep people's attention goes back a long, long way. That's never going away The "attack su
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> I've come to the conclusion that this is the 21st century's "TV rots your brain." We've replaced channel surfing with doom scrolling. The difference with the TV is that TV didn't have individual, high gran
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I think these are great questions, because there is a way it touches on fundamental values such as the freedom of speech. Human attention/willpower/judgement etc are exhaustible resources, and they don't scale like a machine
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I would guess the number of people who have opted-out of the notifications are either not reported, or the aggregate opt-out ratio doesn't make a ding on overall notification conversion rates. In other words, people don't have a u
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The thing with information is that once it is shared, it can't be unshared. Sure, blocking cross-site tracking would ostensibly make monopolistic accumulation of new data more difficult, but except for the most decay prone informatio
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The context of the thread is that somehow there is something romantically magical about mushrooms especially for humans . Me (and bunch of other people in the thread) throwing bunch of other compounds at it is to disprove that there is any
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> But as earlier post pointed out, we don't really know why they do these things, why should they be so beneficial to us? Why does St. John’s Wort, passionflower etc have antidepressant effects? Why does penicillin mold produce an a
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by acituan 5y ago
You definitely need diagnosis to be called “clinically depressed”. For all we know lay folk use the word depressed for feeling bummed. (Not insinuating this is the case with the GP)
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> A "microdose" is enough to alleviate symptoms of depression without risking one's psychological stability. Not only the body weight of the person is going to matter, yields of active substance varies heavily and there is
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> Complex, self-reinforcing systems do not fail linearly. I am with you. This is called the criticality of a complex adaptive system. It is the grain of sand that will collapse a sand heap into chaos. The problem is we don't know wh
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by acituan 5y ago
I think you're confused about the forum you're in. If you have a counter argument to people's arguments , all the power to you and you're more than welcome to discuss, in the hopes that we can learn something more about
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> It seems biased to assume apocalyptism. You might be right. And that is the whole point; how do we make sure we are not making proportionality errors in either direction ? What is the objective measure? What is the criteria to use to
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> I'm confused as to what part of my commentary you found irrational or dishonest. Climate predictions are complicated but the negative valence coupled with the confidence in your predictions doesn't represent that. That is
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> It's been relatively fixed on the timescales that human civilization has grown - in particular our modern civilization as it exists over the past few hundred years. That's the crux of the argument; zoom in enough and it looks
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From the article in contrast to what you said; > Perhaps the true lesson to be learnt here isn’t about helplessness and giving up. It’s about getting up, trying again and again, and staying with the story till the end. I find the possibi
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by acituan 5y ago
Thanks for the honest inquiry, I’ve been responding between sleep cycles and my responses has been more combative than necessary. My main grief with his exploration (and the reason for trying to dig out his thesis) is that gifted folks, whi
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Please don’t confuse rationality with rationalism . Nor we should reduce it to inferential processing of axioms and propositions. I’m surprised your cursory reading of philosophy haven’t encountered for example the Aristotelian golden rat
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To me rationality is a pretty important normativity, not that I am after it for power. But since you seem to precisely know what I think, exactly how powerful should I feel about it?
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> Any philosophy that just asserted that the Universe has meaning was a non-starter, for me. > Humans create meaning in the face of an uncaring, indifferent Void. I hope you realize that your assertion, which asserts a complete lack
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I am the original poster. There is no attack to the credibility of the author, there is questioning the lack of a consideration on the confounds and a sufficient explication of the term gifted. Disappointingly a crowd of people emerged dema
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> but if you're expecting a broad study correlating the Big 5, ACEs, existential depression, and giftedness, you should 1) look elsewhere, or 2) go get your PhD and do the work. My expectation is not that he had done a different st
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Do you have a counter-argument to the content other than pretending to know my knowledge, experience, intentions on the matter, and ascribing an inflated self-importance to discredit me as a whole (also known as ad-hominem)? Have you chec

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