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by asdflkj 16y ago
I think PG has some valuable things to say about that: http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html
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by asdflkj 16y ago
To me, the standard is obvious: our lives are only so long, and there's only so much art we can enjoy in them. It doesn't matter where in the low end you draw the line between "art" and "not art". It's the high end that matters. Do you worr
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Neither of us offered any "reasonable arguments". I didn't because you can't prove that a piece of alleged art is trite. You can only see it if you know what great art feels like to your senses. I can't teach you to develop a feeling for ar
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Do a thought experiment: imagine somebody who knows a lot about some legitimate form of art. Say, classical music, or painting. Would he be impressed with great works of art in other legitimate art forms, given enough time to appreciate the
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Correct but unhelpful answer: only through inordinate amount of practice with solving problems. A possibly helpful answer to the question "Why is it probably a good idea for most people to give up on this?": A dimension R^n is only a collec
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Whom is he arguing against? Does anyone say any of those things that he impersonated?
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by asdflkj 16y ago
You make risk assessment on behalf of other people anytime you choose to drive. If you see anything wrong with this particular risk assessment on behalf of others, say what it is so I don't have to guess.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
I'd spend a little more time in my car on an empty road than less time in a typical downtown, and this is hardly radical. Obviously there are situations where I'd rather spend more time in my car. My issue is not with any particular interse
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by asdflkj 16y ago
This "forced to figure out" stuff is all good if you assume safety is the only important thing when it comes to driving. I have enough things to figure out in life, and there is only so much figuring out that a person can do in a day. I'd r
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by asdflkj 16y ago
That's not unusual. Running is very different from lifting weights or similar. This discussion is worthless until "exercise" is more precisely specified.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
I didn't make the connection when I saw it, that plastic is made of oil.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Presumably they have automatic safeguards against it, and these emergencies occur when somebody outsmarts them. I wonder if this can be generalized to an interesting theory--how do you prevent all-consuming self-replicating behavior in a sy
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Fascinating link. The nuclear bomb was a needlessly confusing example--I could have just mentioned explosives in general. Evolution is all about weapons, and explosives make for damn good ones, and it's not hard to imagine a realistic organ
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by asdflkj 16y ago
What's wrong with that assumption? There are some efficient mechanisms that evolution hasn't invented because they could not be reached by a series of gradual refinements. The wheel has long been said to be one of them, but I guess now we
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Fair enough, but in that sense, it's not clear that anyone was being coerced. I grew up in former USSR, and people in that part of the world are much more efficient utility-maximizing agents, and unfortunately things like social responsibil
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by asdflkj 16y ago
"Coerced psychologically" means precisely nothing. Everyone does everything because they are coerced psychologically to do it. If you object to this particular form of psychological coercion, explain why.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
There is something to be said for books that are so hard, they engage your "eye of the tiger" response. Often I quit something because I'm frustrated and I think, "if this supposedly gentle thing frustrates me, the real stuff later on is go
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by asdflkj 16y ago
W.R.T. humans, the predominant evolutionary theory does have an explanation, and it's exactly what jwegan said. Your scenario is only relevant to organisms who live in niches very far from our own. Humans have always lived in ecosystems l
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by asdflkj 16y ago
You should first consider ethical implications of being able to cure aging-caused diseases, and choosing not to do so.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Not in proportion to body mass.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
More importantly, where were really smart non-psychopathic people in charge? Psychopaths crave power, and intelligence allows them to get it. Smart people in general (and especially the smartest of the smart) tend to dislike any authority i
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by asdflkj 16y ago
I don't understand your question. Edit: I see that you've edited your post. _delirium's post had two things in it that are incorrect. It was highly rated, so many other people are presumably wrong in the same way. I pointed out why they're
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by asdflkj 16y ago
To answer your question (the one without a question mark), much cheaper, since people in poorer countries are willing to do same jobs for much less. IIRC that's the master plan behind Anybots.
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Actually, The Economist is particularly bad for foreign reporting, because it is here that their fairly intelligent readers are most willing to trust them. Almost all other Anglophone news outlets don't even make a pretense of providing ser
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Not to take any sides, but you're wrong on two counts. First, Talmud itself may well be anti-Semitic in this sense, only this is irrelevant. For example, the Bible says, quite clearly and redundantly, many things that Christians reject. Bib
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by asdflkj 16y ago
It would be interesting to see if in the companies that have a "culture of quitting", money is an additional motivator. $20k worth of crap isn't that exciting, but a year's runway is. This might shed light on whether this is about a mistake
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Obama didn't even use the word "technology". How do you go from "gadgets" to "technology"? Actually, if you're The Economist, the same way you write most articles about things whose ideology and political affiliations don't agree with yours
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Link to research? I'd like to see how it was done, being that in so many developing countries mental illness carries a huge stigma. Patients may do better according to their family members, for whom the inconvenience of hiding the patient i
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Thanks!
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by asdflkj 16y ago
Thanks--it's been a while. IIRC, Futaba and 2ch are run by the same people, and moot copied both, though only the imageboard took off. Is that correct?

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