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by acituan 5y ago
> I'm not going to comment on the quality of the article or whether 'giftedness' is a meaningful construct Just that it is made aware, instead of leveling a counter-argument, you are only appealing to authority. Everyone,
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by acituan 5y ago
So many words for mere conjecture that is ultimately going to be used as a pat on one's own back for feeling bummed. I especially love the author's self-designation as gifted and not once expanding on this very narrow dimensionali
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> Humans have a larger neocortex compared to other mammals, which gives them more storage, working memory, and computational potential than other animals. Computational cognition models are more and more replaced by embodied cognition mo
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Fantastic way of putting it, thanks.
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Come on now, you're doing more cherry-picking than the article. The title of the article is "Car break-ins are up as tourism returns to San Francisco", not the title selected for the HN submission. The money quote is actually
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by acituan 5y ago
> I read the deck not the videos, but their is a section on “nice” versus "kind" slice that is the complete opposite of your straw man Thanks for drawing attention to the existence of the slide deck, that was much more easier t
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I have no doubt you will receive remarks about whataboutism, maybe rightly, but I find this peculiar too. On one hand there is a personified "evil", which we are very good at handling mentally, dishing out imaginary punishments, r
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I don't doubt the consequences you've laid out, but isn't rent seeking[1] a simpler explanation as the motivating principle? For spatial goods, keeping a cap at density means preventing an increase in supply and keeping/
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by acituan 5y ago
Thanks for your input regarding critical thinking skills. Below are my suggestions for you, inspired from CBT skills. Normally it is a faux pas to point out cognitive distortions in other people's thinking, but looks like you're u
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Without due speculation we could only talk about fully established facts. That would make a very infertile conversation. Also you should have more trust for your fellows in dialogue here, that they do have some immune function against misin
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> This is why they demand the butts back in the cramped open seating office It is also the astronomical real estate money they had sunken into new office spaces.
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I think a better characterization would be "status is not necessarily reciprocal"; the person evaluated for status does not need to be aware of the evaluators, as long as they can leverage the evaluated status itself. I think this
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> > It's really interesting to see how a crowd of tech workers who generally are trying to pave the way are so quick to attack and be negative. > This statement is utterly useless. It provides no value to the discussion, doesn
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The point was not about the article but the "crowd of HN".
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> Even more so: "a crowd of tech workers who generally are trying to pave the way" are professionally engaged in using, critiquing and developing user interfaces. “I don’t like it” is not a critique though. The people you would
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Exactly this. Status requires keeping track of people’s standing, but we can’t naturally do that for numbers greater than Dunbar’s. There comes in play the prosthetic status through indirect signals and symbols, from the feathers on a tri
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> There is also no replacement for the overwhelming satisfaction and pride that hard work and determination inevitably leads to. Maybe the satisfaction and pride of clever work that saves us from the hard work? Animals do hard work too
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by acituan 5y ago
Unfulfilled religiosity is liable to displace rationality with rote purity codes and magical thinking. No NPR, incantation of 165 words will not conjure our will to save the environment into existence. Understanding the root causes, the gam
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> yet how many countries have been able to produce their own COVID vaccine and use it for their own people? One of the best things about international economy is that not every country needs to invest in their own $anything if they can i
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"Focus on the downsides of democratized information; here are some cherry-picked experts." - Vox the entertainment website
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by acituan 5y ago
The difference is with one you know you don’t know, with the other “authority” gives people a false confidence at scale and worst case you join the botnet of the narrative warfare. PS: to salience: to make salient.
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by acituan 5y ago
I prefer just the opposite, even if the jargon is harder to consume at a glance, the extra layer of editorializing can obfuscate central facts or salience peripheral details based on whatever their target demographic wants to hear (nothing
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by acituan 5y ago
> Based on childhood mortality alone > So your argument is “things aren’t perfect in the US, so the US has no right to claim its approach is better”? That’s an absurd statement. The core of the problem is exemplified with cherry-picki
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Not trying to be sarcastic but looking at the child obesity rates and educational crises, medication rates etc; disease, malnutrition and lack of education are adjectives that also fit the US. This is exactly why “we know the right way , w
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by acituan 5y ago
> I am implying pointing out that the idea of sex as a discrete variable with two choices in humans is wrong. > the gametes are eggs or sperm ... there is no law of nature that ... there aren't intermediate states for any specifi
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Roughly competitive doesn't cut it when the competition itself is designed to find out and honor the outliers. If top 3 men in archery has consistently higher scores than the top 3 women, pitting them against each other would mean wome
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by acituan 5y ago
> The point is that many other things have explanatory power as well and that choosing which categories to consider is ideological. Why have separate sports for sex? No need to complicate; if we didn't have sex segregated sports, fo
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My definition says "could produce gametes", not "can have offsprings". Re intersex; congenital anomalies do not define a category (if the term congenital anomaly offends you, I am using the WHO definition). Just like if
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> The fact is sex and gender exists on a continuum, even if 99% of the time it seems binary. I was with you until this statement. Sex is a millions-of-years-old discrete variable; it depends on whether you could produce the bigger gamete
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> There are many disadvantages/advantages that various groups face/possess. It is ideological which ones we choose to elevate. Is basketball a conspiracy against short people? Weightlifting for tall people? Are combat sports fu

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