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by cerealbad 7y ago
it's a shortcut to human thinking: sharpshooter fallacy, cherry picking, biased pattern matching, etc. backdating and forging online content is an interesting concept in itself. you see it accidentally crop up with the way google searc
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by cerealbad 7y ago
whether china does this because they cannot transition into services quickly enough and they need to manufacture a new capital stream to purchase their own products or because of some benevolent world connection plan is largely inconsequent
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by cerealbad 7y ago
a lot of the golden age sci fi authors were good guessers. they were prolific (and their misses fell out of favor), scientifically literate (the foundation sciences have not progressed much since the 60s, biology/genetics being the maj
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by cerealbad 7y ago
explanations for success are post-hoc and wrong. otherwise we would build it into machines and scale.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
global interest rates have dropped so low that for the past 10+ years the baby boomer generation was speculating on property as investment, self-managing/leveraging their nest egg and avoiding the stock market or industry funds. this i
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by cerealbad 7y ago
at the rate this is progressing there won't be a permanent moon habitat until the 22nd century. probably a good thing since space humans will need to be genetically modified and quarantined for life.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
training sets, big data, network effects, a larger education pool to draw from (genetic outlier-geniuses), the rapid development in asia of world class urban city hubs over the past century, the construction cost of developing a small area
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by cerealbad 7y ago
australia is a continent nation that has been out of ecological equilibrium for at least 200 years. for the previous 100,000 years the human population was wide spread and used aggressive mass burning of the land to hunt and gather resource
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by cerealbad 7y ago
any link between the melted art visual neural networks produce and the visuals that are reported during various psychedelic sessions? how plausible is the theory that what is occurring is just various networks in the brain deteriorating whi
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by cerealbad 7y ago
trust has become implicit with mass surveillance. the only thing left to do is to read minds, but that's almost an afterthought for distraction and hysteria. what does it matter what you think or believe when everything you do is close
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by cerealbad 7y ago
perhaps wolfram is parodying his main idea in his work output. from a basic origin he's creating monstrous bloat and complexity, as a type of demonstrative self-referential proof. there are people who write code until it works, and peo
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by cerealbad 7y ago
if voting was mandatory in america for all adults you would get more competent people running and third parties carrying elections until the major parties shifted away from extreme positions. you don't need to feed into madness, americ
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by cerealbad 7y ago
it's a historical plateau. if you were born in 1899 you may have lived as: baby (vaccinated), child (student), farmer (subject), citizen (worker), ally (soldier), employee (consumer), retiree (investor). if you were born in 1999 i am h
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Outside Board Director, Former Executive Officer at US/Japan Multinationals, Retired Int'l Business Attorney. you can find him on linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/eneiheisel
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by cerealbad 7y ago
The general solar maximum occurred during sunspot cycles in the 50s and it tentatively appears we are in a decline since the early 00s. Anyone lucky enough to have family with anecdotal evidence of auroras over the past 70-80 years?
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by cerealbad 7y ago
successful fighters are typically intelligent, defensive minded and gifted physically. power is ephemeral, speed is youth, endurance is training and experience is efficient repetition. what typically links these things together is a deep de
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by cerealbad 7y ago
The diffusion of responsibility here is pretty galling. It's not Facebook it's employees at Facebook. Facebook is people not a person. If nobody steps up then the leaders need to take responsibility.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Specifically in the power to kill at a distance. From cannonball to bullet to firebombing and nuclear airburst. The advancement made seems unreasonable and curiously asymmetric. Communicating instantly across the globe sure, even travelling
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Tribal cultures tend to have long and complex, even tedious oral histories and initiations into them. With a knowledge keeper, shaman, druid, healer etc. Could be that the old druid power structure was in decline and so the typical transmis
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by cerealbad 7y ago
I would love to see a reasonable explanation for the rapid development of Western Europe. The henge circles all across the world (including the new world) show an advanced mathematics and astronomy for thousands of years before the rise of
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Do men in poor countries still shave with a cutthroat razor? Reusable and repairable products take time but give certainty. I hope a happy medium will be reached between Chinese room products and simple skill based ones.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Power diffusion leads to asymmetric instability (and inverse). It is dangerous to assume non relativistic ethics in a pluralist world. Conflict will happen in a persons head when holding oppositions simultaneously or inevitably between pers
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by cerealbad 7y ago
The Anglo-American establishment is a power consensus after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, two world wars and decolonisation. It refers to the hand off of power from Great Britain to the US. It has nothing to do with "Anglo-Americ
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Religious and wealthy people will continue above replacement forever. Probably why these two strategies persist. Who is the poorest person you know? Are they religious and do they have many children? Who is the wealthiest and how many child
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by cerealbad 8y ago
Statistics has become politicized through questionable interpretations of polling and crime data specifically with respect to various demographic markers. Increasing skepticism towards the field is a product of ideological division. No sci
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by cerealbad 8y ago
A basic internet where people are taught and then tested on logic and bias. Take nations as an example. Nations survive economic hardships by inducing in the population a sense of insular self-defense and struggle for existence (of the nati
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by cerealbad 8y ago
isolationism and nationalism IS america.... selecting for highly intelligent immigrants is eugenicism, one step above racism - since racism at least allows for prejudicial morality, biological determinism doesn't have space for free wi
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by cerealbad 8y ago
can a democratic society vote itself into a dictatorship? what if some citizens want to subvert democracy and liberal social norms, but do so democratically? democracy is a discussion of ideas. it is your job to convince people that freedom
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by cerealbad 8y ago
Is Japan a benevolent dictatorship (psuedo-imperial corporate fascism and guaranteed political monopolies) in exchange for social cohesion. Is there an equivalent concept to a zaibatsu in a republic or democracy? Monopolies here are hidden
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by cerealbad 8y ago
smartphones are in their smoking is cool so do it everywhere phase. the novelty will wear off. i enjoy patiently waiting in silence. if i am travelling on public transport, or sitting in waiting room, or standing in a long queue, i find my

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