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by empathy_m 4y ago
Weird thing is, I think it's very reasonable to adopt a "if the forum moderator and their friends just personally don't like you, you will be banned" approach. This works fine in many smaller internet communities and it&
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by empathy_m 4y ago
It's possible that we will hear from individual investors at trial or sentencing. Even though the Theranos trial was about defrauding investors, there was still testimony from an actual customer. ("The first patient to take the st
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by empathy_m 4y ago
The phrase I've heard is "audience capture": people who spend a lot of time in the public sphere end up tailoring their statements and behavior to whatever gets them the most engagement from their most responsive audience. I
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Um - if you are retired, can you take an Amazon job for a couple of months every year or two with the express goal of collecting the paychecks until you contribute to the manager's unregretted attrition rate?
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by empathy_m 4y ago
There's a rumored experiment called the "precognitive carousel", supposedly run by Grey Walter, where: (1) Subjects are told to push a button to advance a slide projector carousel, but not told that the button is inert (2) Th
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Historically, the immortals on MUDs used to optimize for thing like "fun" and "clout" - how much do you enjoy interacting with the players and being seen as the person in charge of their game? How much do you enjoy telli
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Are you looking for a diagram like this one? https://www.science.org/cms/10.1126/science.abm4454/asset/75... ( https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454 )
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by empathy_m 4y ago
This is an interesting perspective. I was just thinking about the SA community's relationship with lowtax -- did they know what he was like for longer than the public? If I wanted to understand this world further I'd probably call
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Bottom line is that somebody (foreign governments, weev) will always take whatever a site's ToS are and repeatedly ram up right against the edges of the policy until they have extracted as many lulz as possible. This is tough to deal w
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Yes that's how I read it, too - they regret having taken those sites down and wouldn't do it again. This feels like it's going in the opposite direction of Yishan's "Every Man Is Responsible For His Own Soul" (
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by empathy_m 4y ago
I invested money with Stablegains rather than in UST/Anchor more directly because of the YCombinator branding. I figured that if the system collapsed, I would be able to notice it early and withdraw, and that YC-affiliated investor mon
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Looking forward to seeing what's next for YC-backed Stablegains. (Glad I invested with them instead of buying UST myself as I got out early in the de-peg at 1:1. Thanks to investors for funding that and for the 15% APY while the good t
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by empathy_m 4y ago
OK, so granted the boxes-and-arrows descriptions of these software systems are identical if you squint to things we built decades ago. But the social way that human reason about these systems -- that is different this time. Gentle readers,
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Is "you can have a two parent household with two full time jobs" also a luxury belief?
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by empathy_m 4y ago
/r/femaledatingstrategy has an interesting option that may have similar levels of insularity and cultural integrity.
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by empathy_m 8y ago
I was trying to understand what the Chinese perspective is on this. What do people who live in China or who were born there think about whether or not people in China have harvested organs from political prisoners and/or continue to do