auctoritas

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   by auctoritas 4y ago

   Not only that, truly advancing into the depths of a subject, becoming a scholar and serious intellectual in the process, is a path reserved for but a few. The moment you force the masses into higher education as the default path that earlie
2. 32.▲
   by auctoritas 4y ago

   Hands are a very underappreciated part of human (individual & collective) intelligence. Evolution can't select for creative intelligence if there is no outlet for that creativity in the first place. Dolphins are probably much close
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   by auctoritas 4y ago

   I'm not really making a claim that the average voter is "as good" as an expert when voting. Rather I'm saying it's often not possible to optimize anything in the context of voting, so the degree of someone's ex
4. 34.▲
   by auctoritas 4y ago

   The idea that decision making in a democracy is some definable optimization problem that "experts" can solve better than the average voter, or that the very purpose of democratic decision making is to optimize anything in the firs
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   Ian McKellen Answers Fan Questions About LOTR in April 2000(mckellen.com)

   2 points by auctoritas 4y ago|0 comments
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   Anyone use Git for writing projects?

   1 points by auctoritas 4y ago|5 comments