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by ajkjk 2y ago
What confuses me is how many people are evidently in the job of "ruthless exec" and then they do it amorally. I can't think of any time in my life that I've seen an exec say: no, we could do that, but we shouldn't b
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Er.. I used it and that's what I thought? Search goes out of its way to hide why I want and show me bullshit shopping ads and influencer videos. The overview at least tries to help. For now. But I will emphasize: it's still not th
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Google search had gotten so bad the AI overview is passable in comparison. They don't deserve credit for that! Search was better at getting useful information fifteen years ago than it does now. (And yes, the internet is way more full
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Aware that this is not how everyone feels but, IMO: you'd really have to mis-design your life to have a 90-120 minute commute. It's almost always possible to live near where you work, and it's a lot more important than most o
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Because it's pointless? The validity of everything they said has nothing to do with what you were calling out. "You are being a hypocrite" is both (a) not a criticism of what they said, at all, and (b) probably false, as it&#
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by ajkjk 2y ago
That is pointlessly conspiratorial and bitter. And the author is not the sole owner of the site, anyway, and likely has little control over the site's overall aesthetic or monetization.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
If we're all stuck together in a glass labyrinth, maybe some stone-throwing is warranted anyway
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Oh thanks, I didn't know that (I studied physics and only know the chemistry part superficially). But I did know, and wondered about, the fact that the spherical harmonics have an e^imϕ factor yet there's nothing about the explana
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Just for fun... They are relatively easy to understand if you already understand Fourier transforms. In a Fourier transform you can write some (suitably well-behaved) function f(x) as a sum of a bunch of sinusoids of different frequencies:
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I imagine that the comment thread you've generated here is a net negative for the popularity of your worldview.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I mean, fine, believe whatever you want, but if you don't about engaging with what anyone else says why bother posting?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
What? Subjective claims still support an argument, just more loosely than objective ones do. Instead of saying my observations are wrong or that you disagree with them, your stance is that "opinions aren't real"? That's
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I'll add: I guess the way this usually manifests is not that a person gives reasons at all , but rather that they seem to give too many reasons. Like offhandedly saying "I feel like doing this" is normal. But going on about
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by ajkjk 2y ago
> If someone truly loves their partner, wouldn't they be happy that their partner is getting more of what they need? Even if that is more sex? I feel like this kind of weird idea is due to a fallacy of replacing the actual human exp
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I'm not saying that I am or am not autonomous at a chemical level. I'm saying that the fact that someone is programmed to do something has no bearing on whether they ought to do it at a moral level. The only reason a person ought
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by ajkjk 2y ago
And they can also do real studies with plenty of scientific legitimacy. Without evaluating the studies you have no way of knowing if they're biased or not and you're just spreading conspiracy theories.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
How is that clear? Perhaps they are a group that exists to do studies like that.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
How could they be meaningless? They have clear meanings. Maybe you mean that you are choosing to disbelieve them? Then that's your problem. They're self-evidently true if you live in these places.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I wasn't super happy with that example, it's vaguely based on something that happened to me recently but I can't quite remember what happened well enough to make it sound compelling. But I do notice this phenomenon of "j
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I feel like the daily experience of relationships in 2024 America is wildly incompatible with the idea that relationships are for reproduction. Our genes may at some level be programmed to conspire to get us to reproduce, but we are (for
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by ajkjk 2y ago
You ... might be the out-of-touch one here. This culture is pretty common all over the country these days (although definitely most prevalent in the big metro areas).
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I truly believe that it is possible to be in a relationship where both people's "best I can get" is "me and my partner are both getting what we want", like you can love someone in a way in which your own preferences
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I liked this, but I feel like it glosses over a significant dynamic that discolors both sides of the mono/poly split, which is "people not living the life they want". Not that it's literally "coercive" -- they&
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by ajkjk 2y ago
It's talking about a different place and culture than you're in and you're calling it out of touch because it's not familiar to you? Isn't that the point?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
The author of the post was quoting a book as saying that, and criticizing the book at the same time, so it sounds like you're more or less agreeing with them.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well the fact that they're often written as fractions might be one reason...
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by ajkjk 2y ago
It is a very standard term in physics at the undergraduate level.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Of course it's vibes. How would you even get data on that? But just going through life, most of the people you meet now, or met then, are not silicon-valley idealists. Maybe they were if you lived in Silicon Valley? Living elsewhere, e
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Most of us felt exactly the same way about it then that we do now. The only difference is that fewer people take that cringy utopianism seriously now.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
IMO: the idea that "this kind of argument exposes deeper asymmetries..." is itself fallacious for the same reason: it presupposes that a person's morality answers to logic. Were morality a logical system, then yes, finding a

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