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by anon291 2y ago
People talk about how hard it is to have kids these days without realizing that this sort of chaos was normal for the vast majority of humans throughout history and they still achieved great things. Part of it is the expectation of others.
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by anon291 2y ago
Interesting
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by anon291 2y ago
I have observed this and this is what I would expect to have happened thinking from first principles.
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by anon291 2y ago
> People are making smart, individual decisions to head overseas for work. Places like China are rewarding them. Wait what? I know that many Chinese students are staying in China, but this is the first I've heard of a substantial de
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by anon291 2y ago
Right, that's of course totally fair and valid. However, what the USA is doing is hardly odd. Most countries do this. In general, constitutional rights obviously don't apply at the border. Whether you like it or not, there has nev
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by anon291 2y ago
Americans really like to criticize America and have no idea how things are in other countries
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by anon291 2y ago
Yeah this is why I don't travel in most of Europe
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by anon291 2y ago
Here's the most practical advice... The border agent isn't going to care unless you're actually planning some kind of terror attack.
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by anon291 2y ago
Hmmm. And yet this is normal for entering just about every other country. The people being deported are those calling for genocide. Good riddance. You do not have a right to come to this country to organize a foreign country's wars.
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by anon291 2y ago
It is actually incredibly silly to expect full explain ability as a goal because any system sufficiently intelligent to do basic arithmetic will have behavior that is inexplicable.
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by anon291 2y ago
Well we now know which countries are willing to work with the United States.
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by anon291 2y ago
> even striving for explainable/understandable systems It's been almost 6-8000 years since the advent of writing and we still cannot explain or understand human intelligence and yet we expect to be able to understand a machine
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by anon291 2y ago
And what is the solution?
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by anon291 2y ago
In any governance system, there's going to be extremely bad outcomes. In and of themselves, they are not reasons to abandon the systems altogether.
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by anon291 2y ago
Fair enough. I don't see it on BBC or any of the british sources I read, and you'd think it'd be a pretty neutral topic, since the data is published by the central govt.
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by anon291 2y ago
> But all of this wealth is cloistered. No one’s investing in the public-facing world. There’s a broad cultural resignation—from the elites to the average person: “Why bother fixing the outside world? Just survive the workday and retreat
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by anon291 2y ago
Ding ding ding. Western governments have spent years on housing and energy policy driven by ideoogical concerns, when a technocratic approach would have been much more productive. Yes, this includes things people may not like, especially en
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by anon291 2y ago
For some reason Britain's migrant population is disproportionately reliant on government services. This is a common talking point in American politics, but doesn't seem a common one in English politics, but in England the data is
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by anon291 2y ago
Litigiousness is actually fine. We just need to prioritize building more courts, making smaller districts, etc . The law doesn't have to be slow.
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by anon291 2y ago
> Roman Catholic church has a strong history of opposition to communism India is so far removed from Europe that things work a bit differently. The keralites were not communist the way European countries were
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by anon291 2y ago
There is really nothing written about Christianity until fairly late. At the time certain Christian writing originates in Europe, Christianity is well established in India. The various other stories attributed to the apostles are variously
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by anon291 2y ago
Meh. That's most stories attributed to the apostles. The story of st Thomas is ancient and even before colonization, the prevailing attitude in Europe was that st Thomas and st Bartholomew both proselytized India. You'll find refe
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by anon291 2y ago
I am ethnically Indian but not an Indian citizen. I honestly don't really care about Indian politics or religious factionalism. For me, I find the history of my own family interesting, and don't like how 'india' is prese
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by anon291 2y ago
Christianity in India is often framed against the prevailing religion Hinduism, for better or worse. The Indian church emphasizes things like social equality, income equality, etc. Some of the earliest labor activists and trade unionists in
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by anon291 2y ago
That's because America is fundamentally a Christian country. I know no one wants to hear this. But this zeitgeist is unmistakenly Christian. Interestingly enough the same forces are at work in kerala, which is one of the most Christian
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by anon291 2y ago
> The valuables have been accumulated in the temple over several thousand years, having been donated to the Deity, and subsequently stored in the Temple, by various Dynasties, such as the Cheras, the Pandyas, the Travancore royal family,
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by anon291 2y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple_treasur... : > The valuables have been accumulated in the temple over several thousand years, having been donated to the Deity, and subsequently stored in the
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Judgement is what we call a system trained on good data.
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I pay for chatgpt and would pay more.
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by anon291 2y ago
Actually it fails exactly like I would expect something trained purely in knowledge and not in morals.

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