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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think broad goals like "eliminating suffering" or "fighting poverty" tend to be in a hard to tackle middle ground. We're better off approaching them either more broadly or more narrowly. IE, we can dedicate resour
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Yep, it's an artistic tradition. A lot of traditional/medieval depictions of biblical stuff draw on greco-roman art. Angels/Cherubim are depicted as winged babies in art, kind of like Cupid. The way they're described in
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False dichotomies are knee jerk response to certain flavours of progressive ideas. It's like " we should not go to mars until we've cured poverty/loneliness/inequality/evil on earth. " You'll usually
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by dalbasal 5y ago
In a lot of ways, good faith, "fix people" institutions are the worst. Belief in a system, religious, psychiatric, social or whatnot can allow good people to override their common sense interpretations. Early modern prisons were d
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stereotype-much? Individuals' life experience isn't the average of a regions, or defined by headlines. For the most part, it's family and immediate community that define childhoods. A lot of good childhoods is otherwise dysf
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think some of he "consent" norms we are building up are a double edged sword. Ooh, its good to reinforce the idea that users need freedom. OTOH, "consent" isn't really an informed consent. It's pages of TCs,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Dunno about Amazon, but in SEO this message is quite common. Has been from the start.
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That's a lot of pressure on whoever's propogating them. Better to spread the compost somewhere they already grow (like Oregon) and collect seasonally.
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I'm from Dublin. We didn't pay the Danegeld, and in retaliation they built a city.
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Often being for and against things creates a logic of its own, especially when things are contentious and doubly so when they're political. Military spending is popular. Civil aid aimed at similar causes is extremely unpopular, even wh
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True. Private funding rounds this big just weren't available, so these were IPOs instead of round FS.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Similar story, just older and diagnosed. I'll add: - name it. Some writers call it "resistance." You can call it Philip, Satan or whatever. It helps with recognition. - don't be afraid to be quirky. Have 3 desks. Do jump
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corrected
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A related way of thinking of these might be legible Vs illegible. Legible risks are mostly "heuristic 1." They can be measured, quantified, discussed in discrete terms. You can be yelled at over legible things, like ignoring stran
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"Transparently" is the operative word. The guns aren't for consumers, in any case. They're for competitors.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is quite a good article, the journalist clearly did work. A lot in here, and I don't have clear opinions on most. I do find it disturbing though, that "the company's 10,000-word terms of service agreement" plays suc
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> Your whole framing can be flipped on its head be pointing out that Google, unlike Amazon has been willing to make such huge investments in the one public platform we've got. True, as are some of the counterpoints. I don'
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There's a difference between empty and symbolic.
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The Queens Birthday (a public holiday) is on a different date in different commonwealth countries... so maybe not that wild a suggestion.
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IMO, it's a mistake to approach these kinds of questions from first principles perspective, at least exclusively. We have a history, and a lot of where we are is a response to past problems. That doesn't mean where we are is optim
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> We can't just expect systems designed to be slow and cautious to instantly flip to aggressive explorers without defining what we expect and when to do it. This is precisely the problem. Who is "we," and how are they
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An indictment, or just an admission that we're not generally willing to make? What would happen, for example, if we handed the entire education budget to teachers directly. No controls, reporting requirements... just a stack of cash? T
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I don't even blame them, really. Depth isn't all that compelling. A well researched article doesn't get more views. The incentives to do a quick write up are strong. Spend 100 hrs researching a topic, for no gain... or spend
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Calling it bureaucracy, whatever the implications, is perfectly fair... assuming we're talking about the subject of this article. This is about 27 separate national governments to apply separate regulatory procedures, rather than just
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's not bias that bothers me. Attempts at neutrality can create their own bias-ish issues. Variety and independence is the best help here, IMO. Independence of outlets from one another. Independence of journalistic voices within out
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think the social, rather than economic aspect is the most ardent. Whether it's ubi or some other policy, a lot of people's immediate concern is that it'll engage poor people's laziness. Reminds me of all those "ho
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And the interaction between these two is coming into play as we sleep.
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It takes a big company to do this at scale and the network effect makes useful social networks scarce. Counterexample: email
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The point of departure is market cap vs other measures. US companies have gained a lot of value, relative to their GDP contributions... hence the discrepancy.
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Especially viewed through a market cap lens, this could be rephrased from "corporate" to "software/tech." Interesting how different the article and comments go, If rephrased this way. The way these discussions go d

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