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by adamsea 6y ago
> because the best people at playing the etiquette game are the ones you shouldn't trust. Evidence? This assumes that “the etiquette game” is fundamentally untrustworthy, unimportant, or trivial.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Once you accept human nature for what it is, etiquette makes sense. Truthfully, to not accept the scientific findings on the human animal (social, not always rationally, powerfully influenced by appearances, emotion, etc, you know — human)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yes! : ). I came here to remind everyone about chopping water and carrying wood as well ; ). I'd add that, imho, the aphorism means, enlightenment isn't an answer to the struggles of your material existence, or even your own unhap
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree. Or to take it further, if the US had even made a serious effort to help the country / people of Afghanistan live a better life, and build up some sort of institution, instead of invading Iraq. Or, after even the terrible decis
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by adamsea 6y ago
The particular missiles discussed in the article are killing high-value leaders, etc. So not so much about stopping radicalization as wearing an existing organization. But yeah, I’m sympathetic to your overall point, for sure.
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by adamsea 6y ago
We’ve also had centuries to improve the technology of books and I think that makes a difference. Although the weaknesses you cite seem like problems in search of a solution. No one ever expected books to have variable font size ... why woul
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah artists have been doing “hackathons” since day one :/. Sorry to be that guy, I just hate seeing jargon migrate. The proper term is simply “working on stuff”, or “collaborating” if you prefer :). Or Jamming, whatever, what have you
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by adamsea 6y ago
To be fair let’s point out that Kanye West probably has bipolar disorder, which is a serious medical condition that really does require medication, and, it’s not really clear if he is taking medication for it consistently. To exacerbate tha
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by adamsea 6y ago
> After living in several developed and developing countries, I think both sides will suffer. I do agree, and, apologize if I painted with overly broad brushstrokes. I do think food supply issues will be a bigger issues in poorer countri
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by adamsea 6y ago
Well Facebooks content is human. Also, what about books? Ideas? Film. IMHO people are too complicated, and situations too situation specific to be able to generalize about how someone is influenced. Sometimes people ignore the advice of t
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by adamsea 6y ago
"Influence" is a big word. Context and details matter. As does intent. Saying that all discussion is really "influencing", isn't useful, imho. In the context of our discussion about Facebook, IMHO these are the defi
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by adamsea 6y ago
For anyone unsure like me, GPT-3 is a deep-learning based model which can be trained to produce human like written language (text). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 Unsettling indeed.
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by adamsea 6y ago
True. As a side point, IMHO, therapy and counseling are not products. They’re services, and, even more so, should be a service bound by a medical code of ethics, which, since the healing professions go way back, imho makes therapy and coun
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by adamsea 6y ago
What if someone lives abroad and is very close with a large extended family (plus immediate family), all of whom regularly communicate on WhatsApp? Probably not uncommon as Whatsapp was at first widely used outside the US or for folks livin
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by adamsea 6y ago
You would reduce it all to atoms.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Don’t give them ideas! ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good point about this sounding similar to AI fears. The whole AI fear thing seems weird to me. Not impossible, but, just the level of hype around it combined with who is doing the hyping and now is strange. Kind of like the modern version o
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by adamsea 6y ago
Unfortunately many of the countries which will be hurt the most by climate are in the Global South, which is generally poorer. Also IIRC the US produces a lot of food so I’m not sure how on-point your breakdown of poor / rich economies
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by adamsea 6y ago
Actually I do call it a political decision, but one that is not so controversial in many places in the US - the political decision to value freedom of speech! In China, for example, while I don’t know for sure I would bet you could not we
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by adamsea 6y ago
[EDIT: actually what’s probably quite relevant is all the stories about high schools sending young women home because they don’t approve of their outfits even if said outfit doesn’t violate a dress code.] Imagine someone walks into a grocer
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by adamsea 6y ago
This is an extreme example. But. Imagine someone knocks on your door and says “please help, the secret police are after me.” You don’t help, but you don’t report them to the secret police either. That is a choice.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed. It’s all pretty new stuff in a lot of ways and we are just starting to figure out what it actually is.
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO we as a society and species are still figuring out mass communication. Propaganda, misinformation and deception have always been human issue - mass media magnified them as it does everything else. And I think we all have the right to c
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by adamsea 6y ago
1. This sounds like a somewhat naive take on filtering algorithms. 2. Does it matter if it’s Facebooks “fault” or not? The issue is their power . Imho ideally they would acknowledge and accept responsibility for their power and in the US a
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by adamsea 6y ago
And is everything you are saying just sort of, your own take on things? Or do you have some sort of special expertise? Because sure, what you're saying sounds good, but it's far from a piece of ironclad logic, so, color me un-co
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by adamsea 6y ago
And you think AI researchers will be better ? So. This seems like the perfect question for folks with deep knowledge in history, politics/current events (on a global scale), and philosophy. Luckily, that's kind of what a lot of p
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by adamsea 6y ago
I'm going to quote from this article, "Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude’s Death Quiet" at length: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/rochester-police... "The
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by adamsea 6y ago
Depends if we measure use by number of people moving, amount of currency moved, or something else.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Interesting. If you have time could you share some articles / sources / examples / something to lend some solidity to what you're arguing, and also so that I can follow up and learn more? TBH I'd make an argument fo
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by adamsea 6y ago
Does anyone know if these folks got help from various experts in each of these fields in order to assemble the list?

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