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by cryoshon 11y ago
Relevantly, the data presented in this article indicate that the USA is more unequal than South Africa.
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The richer the 1% get, the more miserable you get(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|2 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Au contraire. It's perfectly normal for folks who are motivated and driven to succeed to be getting medicinal assistance with being the former. Bearing the stress and strains are often dealt with in a similar fashion. The pill may not
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Runaway Inequality's Stranglehold on Our Future(factor-tech.com)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Militarism has intellectual consequences. The tacit admission that US military members sign up to fight pointless wars is not allowed: loud patriotism drowns all dissent so that they will not be demoralized by the grim reality that they are
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by cryoshon 11y ago
This is probably the unstated purpose of the software rather than providing stratagems for officers responding to incidents-- the repertoire of possible moves contains only "violence" or "ultraviolence", so information
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by cryoshon 11y ago
As the author notes, we've tread this ground before when J. Edgar Hoover essentially ran the country via intimidation/blackmail for decades. It always shocks me that Hoover's reign is mentioned so lightly. Democracy wasn&#x27
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yep, a major worldwide internet power has vested interest in mining data from its billions of users via its product, which is broadly detrimental to those users. To be honest, it seems a lot like the oil companies: major worldwide energy po
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Slaves isn't the right word because they enter into that contract by will, though perhaps sometimes by necessity. I'd say that the results for them are poor on the a large scale, but not necessarily noticeable on an individual sca
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Why the Sharing Economy Is Awful(cryoshon.co)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|2 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
What if the other side is actually rejecting factual reality, though? Are they still "not dumb"? What if facts have no hold on them whatsoever? Can we even have a productive conversation? See: vaccine deniers/vaccine scheduli
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by cryoshon 11y ago
We have the surplus the philosophers theorized, but not the humanism to make beneficial use of it. When was the last time you went to the store to buy a shirt and they were out of shirts? The same applies for microchips and cars-- there is
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yes, exactly. Work is detrimental to mental health, and not-work leads to shared mental health improving activities like socializing with family.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
"The intuitive finding was that people’s feelings of well-being closely tracked the workweek. As measured by things such as anxiety, stress, laughter and enjoyment, our well-being is lowest Monday through Thursday. The workweek is a sl
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How Camouflage Became Chic in Beltwayland(billmoyers.com)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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FOIA'd Email Shows French Motives for Overthrowing Libya [pdf](foia.state.gov)
40 points by cryoshon 11y ago|20 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
This merely supports my hypothesis that neuron systems are what is needed... you will notice nobody is claiming that there are conscious people with 0% brain matter remaining.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
We know people can have only 50% of a full brain and yet be conscious, and we also know that destruction of a few tiny pieces of the brain can result in a loss of consciousness in the sense we mean it here. The commonality is that neuron sy
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by cryoshon 11y ago
The violent reaction to the Chinese Room argument always startles me. There are a lot of people who deeply, really hate Searle for coming up with it. The field has been advanced a lot by responding to the Chinese Room problem!
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Will machines be able to have a conscious experience that is similar to ours, probably not, as they're working with different starting materials which are handled in entirely different ways. Still conscious in some ways, probably yes.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Fortifying myself against propaganda is one of my perpetual personal development projects... the internet is probably the most difficult information media for this task.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Friedman, Piketty, Stiglitz, Krugman. I see what you are saying, though-- the exact prescription may not be something any of these four have said, though they certainly detail the consequences of inequality.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Meh. I didn't write a follow up to PG's follow up because I assumed he wouldn't be receptive to my arguments and didn't want to start a war of words over a topic that has been rehashed a bajillion times. Even the economi
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Are you talking about the Met-158 mutation? If not, which? I agree that the real culprit is stress-- biological differences to processing and coping with stress are likely the actual mechanism at play rather than generalized "coercion&
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I also feel compelled to write about race issues. I don't write about them, though-- the issue is too poisoned to even approach if you aren't the correct race. I churn quietly instead.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
FTA: "Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours, and while these societies have had far less consumer goods and what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far less mental illness. This reali
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Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness (2013)(brucelevine.net)
196 points by cryoshon 11y ago|107 comments
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Why It’s Scary That the Mall of America Can Crush Dissent(theintercept.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Pretty abhorrent situation we are in. I think it's going to be pretty hard for these (majority of) people to do much with their lives other than struggle as hard as they can to hang on to what little they have. I doubt they have so muc
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Government Named Top U.S. Problem for Second Straight Year(gallup.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments

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