doubleshame

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by doubleshame 9y ago
I agree, so take action against that specific man, and take action because he was responsible for an act of violence. If ten people standing in a row have an idea, you cannot destroy the idea by shooting all of them in the head. If one of t
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Thanks for these choice quotes. I completely agree for the need for boundaries, but I think we've done a most excellent job of setting them! The current boundary is speech that immediately incites violence, I believe the supreme court
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by doubleshame 9y ago
This is where the analogy breaks down though. If we reach a place where the internet itself is fragmented, then I will no longer be able to access trash like the Daily Stormer, and the child of a radical will no longer be able to access the
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by doubleshame 9y ago
> engaging, at all, legitimizes the notion that this type of idea is up for debate. It's not. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." All ideas are up for debate. > s
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by doubleshame 9y ago
I made a list of interesting introductory articles here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14982781 The best one is: Bayes theorem: http://arbital.com/p/bayes_rule_guide
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Let's say you're right. I'd think that isolating this group is a poor strategy. Look at terrorist camps in Pakistan where children are indoctrinated from a young age with radical ideas. Is the solution here to build a wall or
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by doubleshame 9y ago
We are NOT fighting the people here, we're fighting the ideas. I don't think we should ever forget this.
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Sure, fire is good when you're dealing with them roaches, but kill them as you will, does nothing for the ideas, which sunlight is good for. Yes, the US actually does have excellent lines on what's acceptable speech. In my not-pro
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by doubleshame 9y ago
It is very important to distinguish something like Facebook blocking an account / Medium taking down a blog from a domain registrar refusing to cooperate. You are free to create a room where only some ideologies are allowed, but it&#x2
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Here's some relevant reading On the topic of monkeys: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvxgwa/from-dragons-to-fo... A transexual speaking of genders as a rainbow: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Is this a reliable source?
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by doubleshame 9y ago
It is very important to distinguish something like Facebook blocking an account / Medium taking down a blog from a domain registrar refusing to cooperate. You are free to create a room where only some ideologies are allowed, but it&#x2
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Not only is there a question of where to draw the line, but also of who draws it.
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by doubleshame 9y ago
This is my favourite addiction talk. Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
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by doubleshame 9y ago
What about the MANUFACTURERS of cigarettes? And while we're at it, what about junk food? Take cigarettes. Even if you argue that people ought to be able to make and buy and smoke cigarettes, which I can agree with, I believe certain ki
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Hmm.... I understand that you reference the overlap, and distinction between biology and psycology. Let's say you have a new born child. Since there is so much overlap between men and women, how can we EVER attribute gender to the chil
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by doubleshame 9y ago
My apologies. Comment was low effort and not clear enough on the point it was making. To substantiate that comment: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/ What powers should define truth? Sensory / p
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by doubleshame 9y ago
I mean, 90% is bigger than 90% of the other numbers. Like 40% for instance. What is truth when you have a gun to your head.
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by doubleshame 9y ago
If you're doing pure math, it's FAR more objective who's good at it and who isn't. Also, people do it for interest, and not for status or the money, so it's less political.
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Thanks for your reply. I rarely get a chance to learn from someone who feels so passionately about these issues. These range of conditions are interesting, we are truly a varied species. Let us do a thought experiment. We have 10 humans and
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by doubleshame 9y ago
This is the worst damaging consequence of this whole charade. The words themselves no longer have any meaning. - "Man" is to no longer define any category except for people who self identify as men. - And at the same time, it is s
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by doubleshame 9y ago
> So what? Which is to say, what are we to do with not just the conclusions of the memo but also its implications? Two things: 1. You can detect asymmetries in the nurturing part of the equation and correct for them by changing the upbri
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Nah, I just posted that here to encourage the discussion. I don't have much trouble believing that the article is derived from some sort of similar reality though. Here's some more disturbing relatively credible content: http:&#x
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by doubleshame 9y ago
employees in Google's ad sales department are "openly encouraging Adwords customers to pull their ads from Breitbart and Rebel Media." "efforts to demote anything non-PC, anti-Communist, and anti-Islamic terror from sear
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Here are some docs http://images.apple.com/server/docs/Command_Line.pdf https://www.apple.com/jp/server/pdfs/Mac_OS_X_Server_v10.2.p...
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by doubleshame 9y ago
You can be fined for not calling people ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ if that’s the pronoun they demand that you use https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtm...
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Appreciate that this notion exists: Confidence intervals https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/confidence-interval.html Let's say I give you a biased coin, but don't tell you what the bias is. You make 10 flips and
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by doubleshame 9y ago
(Advanced) Bayes nets. How to understand the relation between different assertions i.e. if you have some degree of confidence in some assertions, what can you say about the others? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian
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by doubleshame 9y ago
"Magic is fueled by belief and willpower" "Magic that works whether or not you believe in it" What is belief and what is reality. An existential notion of truth that I subscribe to. http://yudkowsky.net/r
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by doubleshame 9y ago
Another Bayes theorem. This is IMO the most important idea so I am including this alternate text as well. http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes/

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