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by adasdasdas 3y ago
What kind of sesame oil are you getting...
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Why do we want old growth forests over harvestable forests? Is there an ecological advantage
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Cross field contamination a fantastic product of our interconnected world, but it's more fun to shit on people when they fail. I'm sure some folks here would've loved to tell davinci to stay in his lane.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
This is how Lyft and Uber works too, they build their incentives to buy the marginal driver/user. So if you are a reliable Uber-only or Lyft-only driver, you get screwed out of incentives. However, if you switch around, Uber/Lyft
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
> It’s just that the supposed sustainability of any single product doesn’t necessarily tell us how much progress the company is making overall toward its climate goals. This is literally a non-article
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Looks close enough to the design, ship it.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
The real response to the guy is, "so what". Who cares if we used to be wrong, that's how empiricism works, we posit falsifiable claims until they're proven wrong.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Man can't get adderall in jail? Abolish prisons
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Can we stop rehashing arguments for planned economies; they are terrible because they ignore the million micro signals that drive the economic engine. Instead they over and under produce just about everything because the central planners ha
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Unless you expand on why, it just sounds like a definitional game
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
They're not special if they affect everyone
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Here, I had chatgpt generate the article so you don't have to read this one linked. # AI: The Overhyped Phenomenon Missing Immediate Results In recent years, there's been no shortage of hyperbolic rhetoric when it comes to Artific
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Pay less medicaid, pay more social security
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
> I think because acknowledging the pointlessness of something does not immediately or unequivocally make something else reasonable or justifiable How can something be moral or not in the face of meaninglessness. Just to use a ridiculous
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Why doesn't the borrower assume responsibility for taking risky loans?
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
To get out of the morbid tone of the thread, I do want to say that, I think we probably mostly agree. I just want to reframe the conversation from, "despite the lack of (objective) meaning, build your own meaning" to "meaning
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
You're right in that I might be callous in the way I write, but meaning/purpose is very relevant to life and death, and I really dislike when people spread a message of meaninglessness in the form of nihilism. Now there might be l
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
That's fine if you want use your definition, but most existentialists consider nihilism the common enemy in a society without object meaning.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
> Yes, to me rejecting objective meaning is nihilism, what do you call it? The word closest to rejecting objective meaning is just non-religious because objective meaning is mostly a religious phenomenon. What matters is that the alterna
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
I'm not equivocating anything, my test for nihilism is very simple, "do you have anything meaningful in your life". What I mentioned earlier are symptoms or forms of nihilism. What I hate is when people describe nihilism as &
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
> Let's suppose for a moment you're mistaken. How would you recognize evidence to the contrary, were you to receive it? If you met a nihilist, you'd dismiss them, right? It's an approximately unfalsifiable constructio
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
When I think of nihilism, I think of depressed people who can't pick themselves up to do anything because of a feeling of hopelessness, or a man experiencing a mid life crisis wondering what he's worked so hard for. These people o
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Why are you only talking about the lender's fault when it comes to bad loans.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Well that's why I believe most nihilists aren't actually nihilists. Also, I don't think believing in meaning has anything to do with nihilism. In fact, the sentence kind of implies you are speaking of objective meaning which
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
100% agree, meaning in this context can usually be used interchangeably with, purpose, reason to live, value, etc.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
It goes back to the answer to the question of, "what is the meaning of life", or its darker brother of a question "why bother living when you can kill yourself and end the suffering". A Christian might respond with, &quo
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
Can "nihilists" stop conflating rejecting objective meaning with having no meaning (nihilism).
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
If we are going to play this game, the driver-ful cars have been killing pedestrians at much higher rates.
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
It's called currying and it's awesome
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by adasdasdas 3y ago
It works for cigarettes. [0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~jhain/Paper/JASA2010.pdf

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