emgoldstein

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The fall of the meritocracy(quadrant.org.au)
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Eleanor Roosevelt defends feeding Germans 1500 cal/day (1946)(gwu.edu)
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
I guess I wouldn't define a silent perspective, whether majority or minority, as present in the conversation. It is one phenomenon when everyone agrees. Probably everyone is right. When everyone who speaks agrees, and everyone who do
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
That said, I owe you an apology. I don't think my style in the thread above is good. If I were moderating a site like HN, I think I'd have explicit guidelines for anyone wanting to present a perspective which is a minority view o
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
From within, a monoculture is easily mistaken for an absence of ideology. From outside, this thread looks like a set of mocking, contemptuous dismissals of anyone who doesn't agree with that ideological monoculture. Even without any d
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
> There's no evidence that people with a mental illness pose a risk of harm to other people or to children. Of course not. The cause of helicopter parenting is irrational parents who perceive, obviously due to media stereotypes, th
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
According to free-range child advocate Lenore Skenazy, there are a little over 100 stranger abductions per year in the US. [1]. Therefore, abductions are a not a big deal. According to Wikipedia, 100 years ago, there were about 100 lynchin
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
Until the 20th century, most people believed that human varieties were like animal and plant varieties, which can reasonably be expected to display heritable, variety-specific physical and psychological traits. This expectation is a prior,
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
Consider your objective of "restoring faith" and the means you (and many in society who seem to agree with you) adopt to bring it about: propagating the idea that miscarriages of justice frequently occur. Even if this isn't
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
The other billionaire is Trump, of course. My point is that if your concern (or pg's) is strictly of the form "minimize the number of innocent people being killed unjustly," there are much more effective reforms available tha
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
I've served on two juries. In both cases, a drunk driver was acquitted. In both cases, the defendant's guilt was obvious, and the cause was a single juror who hated cops. (Or, more indirectly, the cause was an arrogant young DA
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by emgoldstein 11y ago
I have to wonder: before writing this essay, did pg read anything written by anyone on the opposite side of this case? For instance, this? https://www.readfrontier.com/investigation/two-truths-and-a-... If not, it seem