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by elmomle 2y ago
One idea I've read in the works of Ivan Illich (among others) is that the best thing we could do for developing countries that struggle with corruption is to leave them the hell alone when it comes to financial matters (aside, perhaps,
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by elmomle 2y ago
I used to think like you do. But the real place where we could make tons of progress is in relationships. Many stories of great thinkers involve one or a few crucial mentoring/pedagogical relationships. Without those, a person could
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We consume what is around this. To fault or ask for change in the consumer is to fault or ask for change human nature, which is a futile endeavor. It seems that a well-functioning society would be structured with the awareness of this fac
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by elmomle 2y ago
I'm not sure if there's another name for this, but it seems like an variant of alarm fatigue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
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by elmomle 2y ago
> There was an understanding of natural selection even back to antiquity. How could there not be? Did people not tame the animals and plants? These are experiments, and they saw the results. Isn't this OP's point, thoug
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This is true to some extent, but his debtors had a strong interest in Julius Caesar's continued success--which means that even if his later actions were ones that the debtors would not have supported originally, their wagons had been h
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by elmomle 2y ago
Could you clarify what you said about women's complicity at the end? Every other part of your comment seemed to attribute very little agency to women (they are essentially prizes for whoever wins a fight, with seemingly no other choice
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by elmomle 2y ago
Plenty has already been written about how young people are caught in a Catch-22: being on social media sucks, but being off of social media has major social penalties. Given that this is already well known, this study seems intentionally,
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by elmomle 2y ago
The suggestion of using metaphors for existential framing is nonsensical when one thinks of the ends of the activities, but it makes plenty of sense when one applies it to the process instead. In a negotiation, as long as I know my boundari
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As an aside, learning the precise terms for concepts in fields in which I'm a layperson (or simply have some cobwebs to shake loose)--and then exploring those terms more--is something that I've found LLMs extraordinarily useful fo
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by elmomle 2y ago
When the author says "objective" they are referring to a prior that gives equal weight to values within the null hypothesis and to those without (along with a few other things: symmetric and non-increasing away from the mean). I
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by elmomle 2y ago
The whole hinting at compassion thing is a bit of a leap. What we know is that a child with Down's syndrome was sustained by this Neanderthal society until the age of six. The rest, so far, seems like speculation.
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by elmomle 2y ago
This makes a lot of sense. People are fundamentally changed by their experiences in combat zones. I'd imagine that going somewhere new afterwards allows you to be whoever you now are on your own terms, whereas going home means contin
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But it's already well-known, in fact an official part of CCP doctrine, that the intention of economic cooperation was always to build strength while downplaying any notion of China as a threat until the conditions were propitious for C
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by elmomle 2y ago
> Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home That isn't how human beings work, though, and it never has been. I tend to suspect that a person saying something like this has few if any deep relationships with peopl
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by elmomle 2y ago
This isn't meant as a judgment against China, but China openly wishes to lead an anti-US/anti-West economic and political coalition, has spun up its tech industry largely through espionage conducted against the West, and is increa
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by elmomle 2y ago
> The paper suggests that these adaptations might be a sign that the bird was already struggling before the arrival of humans. Changing climate patterns meant that wet areas like Lake Callabonna started getting drier around 60,000 years
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by elmomle 2y ago
I'd bet it's because the parents are feeling a lot of stress. Especially without a robust community support network/string external role models, children tend to inherit their parents' emotional states.
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by elmomle 2y ago
I think "starvation deferment" is a more accurate phrase. To prevent starvation we need to address the tendency of humanity to reproduce, and to consume resources, past the limits of what we can safely and reliably sustain. Taki
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by elmomle 3y ago
My impression has been that they were experimenting sonically, looking for new sounds. Sometimes the result seems flat and dull to our ears 37 years later, and sometimes absolute brilliance emerged (viz: The Ballad of Dorothy Parker). But
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by elmomle 3y ago
It is worthwhile to distinguish between capitalism and a free market. A free market engenders capitalism, which (with sufficient accumulation of wealth and creeping market and regulatory capture) creates forces that oppose the free market.
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by elmomle 3y ago
"War of attrition" is the phrase I hear used most frequently in such contexts.
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by elmomle 3y ago
It is not the medicine by itself but the whole experience around it. Practitioners feel deeply that the medicine is an essential part of the experience. This raises the question, which I think is a very good one, of what a valid control w
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by elmomle 3y ago
Speaking as a person who is healing their own intense childhood traumas, I'd try everything safer first, but I'd absolutely accept a 1/150 chance of death if there was even a 1/10 chance of being truly free of the hellis
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by elmomle 3y ago
To rephrase: "We humans have already messed things up badly, why stop now? That would be arbitrary."
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by elmomle 3y ago
But when Google image search produces a result, the question of whether it is copyrighted is something I can generally figure out in a matter of seconds or minutes. This is not so for image generators.
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*In 65-85 year olds
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by elmomle 3y ago
This is a good critique and I think the class focus of this article is its big weakness, but nevertheless I think the are many valuable observations that make it a worthwhile read.
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (1998)(theamericanscholar.org)
2 points by elmomle 3y ago|3 comments
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by elmomle 3y ago
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite... A university professor's personal observations about how a typical city college student faces myriad obstacles to success with little support, whereas a t

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