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by dabbledash 5y ago
I think people are wrong to be unconcerned, and that governments and corporations will use this data to dominate and manipulate people. But I think you’re absolutely right about what’s going on emotionally. People care about things like inc
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional–managerial_clas...
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by dabbledash 5y ago
It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as the things confirm their priors. I’d cut them some slack, because we’re all bad at that, but their literal job is to check things out.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
The left i remember from the 90’s and early 2000’s would have been skeptical of huge corporations suppressing political dissent and providing political training at work, for example. They aren’t skeptical now because the corporations are “
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I think if you looked over the last 50 years, you’d actually see a collapse in trust in large institutions. I think what we’re seeing, in the US at least, is an authoritarian response from these institutions (government / media /
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by dabbledash 5y ago
What is going on with Australia? Are they just generally giving up on liberal democracy and the idea of individual rights?
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by dabbledash 5y ago
As you can see from some previous replies, it’s because people are less concerned with what’s true than with how (they believe) information will influence the behavior of others. The apparent prevalence of this attitude in media and public
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I wonder low likely it is that over the course of a lifetime the vaccinated will end up with both forms of immunity. I assume we’ll be exposed to the virus regularly. Would the natural immunity be weaker if it comes from a second, very mild
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by dabbledash 5y ago
Yes, because an action against a minority by a majority can be coercive. I think American history demonstrates this pretty clearly.
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Congratulations!
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>> Isn't this also a statement against gun control or generally anything that increases the power of the state with respect to the citizens? Yes.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I think when the person you’re responding to says “they are not racist” he is referring to the texts being analyzed, not the model. I.e, “your model can take texts about or against racism as inputs and from these texts form an association
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by dabbledash 5y ago
There’s nothing stopping governments from banning E2EE, but in the absence of such bans, no one is under any obligation to build systems that empower them to spy on their users.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
There is no way to scan people’s content while “respecting their privacy.” The goal should be to create a system where you couldn’t do so even of you wanted to (or the state demanded it).
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by dabbledash 5y ago
$local_area_code-867-5309 is almost always registered. No reason to sign up for your own card.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
Laws allowing this might be constitutional. They would still be Orwellian nightmares. (We probably need a constitutional amendment addressing the issue - but regardless the fact is a proposed law can be both authoritarian and constitutional
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by dabbledash 5y ago
Then read the odometer. You don’t need to subject everyone to constant surveillance to pay for roads.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
Trusting the people in power now wouldn’t make me any more ok with this. To find constant tracking of everyone acceptable, you would have to be naive enough to believe not only that your current masters are benevolent but that all the futur
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by dabbledash 5y ago
E2E encryption isn’t meaningful if third parties get to look at the decrypted content.
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The point of encrypted data is not to be “reached.”
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by dabbledash 5y ago
No, I’m not discounting it. That’s what I’m talking about when i refer to people resistant to things “pushed from above.” I’m saying that’s part of the issue, and it’s only going to be solved (if it can be), by depoliticizing the issue and
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by dabbledash 5y ago
Well 70% of people adults are already on board, so we don’t need to worry about besting that number. The question is how do reduce resistance. My totally made up theory is that some people are just generally resistant to things being “pushe
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I hope you understand that we will not be “wiping out COVID” any time soon. We need long term management strategies that are actually sustainable and protect the most vulnerable. And we probably need to worry less about persuading the die h
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by dabbledash 5y ago
When I listen to German the words seem more distinct from one another than Spanish or Italian. I wonder if it’s a reflection of how many words in the language end in consonants vs vowels.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I was with you until the nazi thing. I doubt GP would condone actual violence.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I always wonder if people who make comments like this are old enough to remember when gay people were considered deviants by most of society.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
“Ask women what they experience if they show up to work without makeup.” My experience of not wearing makeup in lots of places, over many years: Nothing happens. It’s fine.
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Which suggests maybe we aren’t doing a good job teaching history.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
That’s true. I remember being so surprised when I found out how few calories I burned running a mile! There are other reasons to exercise obviously, but it’s easy to overestimate how important it will be to weight loss for sure.
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by dabbledash 5y ago
I think weight loss is an area where giving advice is a bad idea unless it’s specifically asked for. It’s not like it’s hard to figure out what to do, it’s just incredibly difficult to do it. If I were asked, i’d say that all diets that pro

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