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by enord 9y ago
Hahaha, I remember claiming that expensive phones with crappy cameras was a stupid fad that would blow over. If you dont't make a bold claims you don't get the benefits of hindsight i guess! I would like to add that I was trying t
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by enord 9y ago
Social media is yet another aspect of the atomization of the individual. We are engaged in a great un-meaningfying of human interaction driven by a philosophication of empirically established human propensities. We are what we do, and the v
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by enord 9y ago
Is it alluring? Does it fit within some nice narrative? Can it be explained inside a one-page newspaper article? Then it has enough going for it that it doesn't necessairly need to be true in order to propagate.
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by enord 9y ago
I never mentioned limits, and the reasoning is purely inductive, based on previous events. We are far away from understanding intelligence in all directions. Top down, bottom up, neurologically, psychologically, logically, mathematically an
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by enord 9y ago
Winter is coming.
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by enord 9y ago
This is the high water mark, the summer solstice if you will, of the current wave. Buckle up, Serious People are going to rediscover the fundamental Hard Problems and relocate the current Hot Topics into their appropriate ontologies.
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by enord 9y ago
Also known colloqually as the "stuck-up-prude fallacy", "bloody-internet-atheists fallacy" and most famously the "you're-not-wrong-walter-you're-just-an-asshole fallacy".
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by enord 9y ago
Indeed, we have to be confident that the mechanism of intervention will have the desired effect, and in time before we run out of antibiotic alternatives. I say that anything less than that is worse than useless, because we're spending
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by enord 9y ago
I dispute that encouraging people to eat less meat will make enough of a difference in this case to, well, make a difference. It's not wrong , it's just too much self-congratulatory blame-shifting with a moral message as the end
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by enord 9y ago
Or paying more taxes to fund epa, fda and unilateral trade agreements to adress challenges so numerous that no mortal man can be expected to grok half of it in two lifetimes. In order to do that though, you have to vote vith your er... vote
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by enord 9y ago
The salmon that you eat is not harmful to you (probably less so with antibiotics). The multiresistent bacteria are harmful to everyone. Antibiotics are the shared resource, and the incentives are misaligned precisely because more antibiotic
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by enord 9y ago
I'm afraid GP literally stated his proposal as related to the general situation (thread topic), and if not then his post would be a non-sequitur making my reply a non-non-sequitur or just a regular old sequitur. And yes, I used his pro
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by enord 9y ago
I don't know how you define "scale", but if you do define it to encompass externalities then I agree with you. My point is that some types of problems are more amenable to personal activism (participation in wars come to mind
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by enord 9y ago
I'm not disputing that, but sometimes when we weigh our actions, significant (but limited) alternatives will not cut it, and if the effect is limited enough (and the problem severe enough), even deliberating on them will waste precious
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by enord 9y ago
Hmm, I think you're giving me short shrift here. I'm not taking the piss on purpose at least, and (since you seem to hold personal responsibility dearly) I really feel it's important to raise the point of whether we are const
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by enord 9y ago
I did interpret it as a solution proposal in order to address a specific issue: The effectiveness of voluntary activism to address shared-resource problems(specifically). Of course people should do good things, but in some cases this can le
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by enord 9y ago
Yes, but farmed salmon is making a killing. How many documentaries before you quit sushi? Can you be a conscious consumer on all aspects of your consumption, can anyone?
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by enord 9y ago
Fair enough, if you fear karmic retribution that makes sense. I don't, so for me the shoe remains on the same foot. Other people are more valuable to me than animals, and also more dangerous. The stakes are higher and therefore the mor
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by enord 9y ago
I believe you're reading something else out of my analogy than what I tried to say; I was making a point about the effectiveness of the method, not the message as such. Everybody agrees we should drive carefully, and everybody agrees w
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by enord 9y ago
They're not people. Concentration camps are for people. At least we don't eat them alive, like their other natural predators.
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by enord 9y ago
We do that, but with laws and signs and police and stuff. Not with stern admonition.
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by enord 9y ago
Or otherwise "inconvenience yourself at will, to a degree you can afford or find comfortable, to address some issue you have heard about and believe you understand, on your own time." 10 points for griffindor.
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by enord 9y ago
When has this attitude _ever_ been the solution to a shared-resource problem? I'm not being snarky, I want to know. It feels like solving traffic mortality by pasting a "drive carefully"-sticker inside the windshield, doing n
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by enord 9y ago
In an age of increasing nationalistic sentiments and military escalation, it's become a common trope that there's almost no one left to remember the tragedies of WWII. Coincidentally there's certainly nobody alive who remembe
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by enord 9y ago
Sound (as we perceive it) is 2d by the time it reaches the brain. The cochlea works as a "discrete" fourier transformer, with little hairs that resonate around certain frequencies. It is the fact that sound could be encoded in 1d
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by enord 9y ago
We perceive sound two-dimensionally by spectral decomposition in the cochlea, so theres that...
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by enord 9y ago
You're making a moral judgement here, which is both unproductive and hinges on a convenient separation between "ability to concentrate" and "proper discipline and priorities" as if they were orthogonal. A premise fo
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by enord 9y ago
"Fair" does not mean "increases entropy" in this context. We can split hairs about what exactly "fair" is supposed to be, it's probably central to this whole nebulous disagreement, but a lowest common deno
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by enord 9y ago
This does not follow. Please elaborate. Theory allows a brute force attack on aes-256, no?
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by enord 9y ago
Hindsight will tell how much cynicism was warranted, but given the historic exponential volatility anybody who invested and liquidated at opportune moments were probably just lucky. Nothing wrong with taking risk, but dont pretend you'

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