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by csee 5y ago
> while others worry about the costs, including privacy concerns. Costs aren't the main worry. People are worried about how this can be used as a tool to curtail freedom, via surveillance and blocking access either to particular go
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Treatment reduces drinking in monkeys by 50%(news.sky.com)
1 points by csee 5y ago|0 comments
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Top 0.05 is really not good. You're talking diamond league. There's a huge amount of mistakes and errors that a serious observer can spot. But not everyone can reach 0.05, that's where he's mistaken. He thinks that becau
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by csee 5y ago
I don't think it was right or wrong. That is the wrong lens. I just think we need to arrest them after a certain threshold of harm. Here's a reductio ad absurdum of the position that all economic harm should be tolerated: Should w
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by csee 5y ago
Philosophers have been trying for decades to define it rigorously and have failed decisively. It really looks intractable at the moment. Given we are in this quagmire, I think it is ok to explore/discuss a bit further despite the shaky
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I was attempting to give an example of what a 'slightly conscious' state is to show that it isn't completely incoherent. Admittedly it was far from rigorous.
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There isn't, but the response to this lack of definition shouldn't be to simply terminate the discussion. We know it's probably a real thing because we experience it, and it's an extremely important open question whether
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by csee 5y ago
I am slightly conscious when I am extremely drunk and can barely think and feel, but yet still have some modicum of conscious experience. That's what it means. If you don't agree that consciousness exists on a spectrum, and instea
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by csee 5y ago
The people who say it might be slightly conscious are just appealing to a functional, substrate-independent requirement for consciousness. I happen to agree with them that it's feasible and plausible. Let me ask you. If we invented an
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That's the theory of shareholder capitalism, but in practice there are modern cultural pressures that dislocate profit motive from behavior. Primarily agency conflict of interest between employees who believe strongly in social justice
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When I said "other types of harm" I basically meant violence which is why I said that that constitutes terrorism. Regarding economic harm, I agree that this isn't terrorism. But there is clearly a limit beyond which the prote
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by csee 5y ago
I am not upset about the arrest of any protester if their protest escalates into significant economic damage or other types of harm. That's when it graduates from protest to terrorism. But they should be swiftly tried with a specific c
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They usually do not stretch. So lots of white space on both sides.
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Propose a solution. If decentralized, how will you stop incitement to genocide? If government run, how will you stop political censorship and risk of authoritarian takeover? If privately run, what changes are you suggested to the current ap
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by csee 5y ago
You disagreed with the statement "One man being rich doesn’t make another man poor." I was explaining why that statement is actually often correct. When I buy a phone, wealth inequality gets worse but yet it is still a positive su
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by csee 5y ago
You're conflating fiat, which is always zero sum when it changes hands in a transaction, with utility and value, which usually is positive sum. When I buy a phone, I am losing $500 to get something that cost $400 to make, and the phone
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by csee 5y ago
If invading Mexico would cripple the US economy and present an existential threat to the leader, then the leader will probably decide not to do that out of simple self-preservation. If you have a different view on how hard the sanctions wou
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by csee 5y ago
(1) explains the difference between us. My model of Putin was that of a shrewd, smart, somewhat cynical person without sincere ideological convictions who is happy to enjoy his billions without much desire to rock the boat too much - perhap
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They do.
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They controlled for exercise and the effect size decreased by 40 percent but was still significant. My biggest criticism is, as usual in epidemiology, there's a bunch of confounders that weren't controlled for and are very difficu
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by csee 5y ago
Can someone explain why Putin would actually go ahead with it? It'd destroy Russia's economy and would be personally bad for Putin and his associates as they have to deal with the fallout from that. Given that Putin is neither stu
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by csee 5y ago
Is FB really much worse than Twitter in Ethiopia and Myanmar, and if so how much worse?
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by csee 5y ago
Ethical is not the right question here, we simply want it to crash less and kill less people
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by csee 5y ago
The word "need" is misplaced. It's not about need. It's about whether the upside of the additional energy is bigger than the downside of having to build the thing out. You're making an assumption that that upside is
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by csee 5y ago
Profit isn't the main distorting thing here, the root is social pressure and ideological belief.
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That probably depends on how realistic the simulator is. Your trade off is more bias (due to simulation inaccuracy) in exchange for unlimited data (and hence less variance).
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by csee 5y ago
Well at least it was a court. Are there reports of non-judicial entities doing freezing without a court order?
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1.5M-year-old fossil rewrites 'Out of Africa' theory(livescience.com)
23 points by csee 5y ago|8 comments
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You lost me when you said education isn't required and isn't effective for poverty reduction. If you have a society that isn't educated then you have no wealth to take in order to give.
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by csee 5y ago
I see it as a rather biased and unhelpful article. The author makes the strong claim that "mindsets are not free-floating" because they are shaped too strongly by a person's external social environment and circumstances. Whil

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