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by dventimi 3y ago
> It's not expensive. There are evidently ~10k philosophy professors in the US and the average salary is ~100k. That's ~$1 billion. I think college is already an expensive waste but if it has to exist and if those professors ar
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by dventimi 3y ago
Not by people who copy and share information, it hasn't. People who stand to gain from the spreading of an idea WILL tend to spread it, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to accept it.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Well, low wage mechanical turk costs have not yet turned out to be cheaper and there's no reason to expect that to happen, so this is one channel for exploitation that I'm not going to worry about.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Fair use
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by dventimi 3y ago
Cruise is a subscription model.
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by dventimi 3y ago
I don't drive Cruise cars.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Wut
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by dventimi 3y ago
> it [does not scale] in terms of people owning the vehicles Can you clarify what you mean here?
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by dventimi 3y ago
Why don't YOU get on that market if you think it's so worthwhile?
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by dventimi 3y ago
Oh, please. Grow up. This is not "piracy."
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by dventimi 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2023.11.04-050448/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by dventimi 3y ago
Where is the article does it even support the title? I'll reread it but I didn't see anything about human operators.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Personally, I found this comment to be helpful. Personally, I don't appreciate it when speakers "get cute" with what I regard as misleading titles like this one has.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Doesn't the scalar product have the distributive property?
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by dventimi 3y ago
"...if there's political will." Well, there isn't political will. If you feel like trying to develop that political will, have at it.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Which would you rather have, a hundred million cars occupying a hundred million human drivers, or a hundred million cars with those hundred million people now free to do something else with their time?
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by dventimi 3y ago
And what game would that be now?
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by dventimi 3y ago
From the article: "For starters, families have access to housing and health care through the military, and at least one parent has a job." "Prudence Carter, a Brown University sociologist who studies educational inequality, s
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by dventimi 3y ago
Bingo
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by dventimi 3y ago
Non-sequitur
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by dventimi 3y ago
Mental health declining over time for people experiencing extreme economic hardship sounds morally wrong to me, but unfortunately, it also sounds very plausible.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Which comically was criticized by its own author here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations It's not lost on me that Tractatus was warmly received by philosophers, but Investigations got a fr
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by dventimi 3y ago
"Wittgenstein claims that there are no realms of phenomena whose study is the special business of a philosopher, and about which he or she should devise profound a priori theories and sophisticated supporting arguments. There are no st
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Was Wittgenstein Right?(archive.nytimes.com)
2 points by dventimi 3y ago|1 comments
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by dventimi 3y ago
No, you do need to make your case--i.e. mount an argument based on evidence and reason--if you want me to believe "scientism" is real. That it has a "standard definition" is not enough. After all, you can look up in any
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by dventimi 3y ago
What distinguishes a scientist from a philosopher?
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by dventimi 3y ago
Suit yourself. I'm not going to make your case for you.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Haha yep. Like a bar pilot.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Can you be more specific?
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by dventimi 3y ago
You made it sound like there's only one choice when you wrote above: > Eventually, you simply have to go to work for a roof over your head, food and healthcare. I'm glad we finally agree that there are at least three choices, t

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