esotericn

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by esotericn 6y ago
Well, sure. At the moment someone with a gun might stop me from going to have a cup of tea with my mother. I learned long ago to ignore such things in order to maintain my sanity.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Ah yeah, you're right, all of those legally sounding words invalidate actual use. Yes, I buy things with bitcoin, and no, you can't find it on the blockchain. (Or do I? :))
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by esotericn 6y ago
You can send me money across the globe without a middleman or anyone being able to block that transfer. That's it. If you don't want that, you don't want that. Some of us do.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Hi, I do, and that's why I use it. You don't need to :)
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by esotericn 6y ago
In the UK, it is legal to exercise with one other person. So one is able to go for a walk. Despite this, virtually no companies I know of are encouraging this real, physical, safe interaction that has a huge potential for building team bond
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by esotericn 6y ago
> One (unproven) hypothesis I have is that it's possible that people who went to college and had their first decade's worth of jobs in a comfortable economic climate are more comfortable making these kind of jokes than others w
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by esotericn 6y ago
The reverse situation is interesting. "I mean, you could just sack me if it goes wrong" is a personal go-to. Built an emergency fund at age 20 and stopped giving a fuck, it's just business. Obligatory "I'm not Ameri
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by esotericn 6y ago
Useful article, but I tend to think that the split between external/internal factors is misguided. It's seeking to explain away decisions based on personality as if a personality based decision is any less prone to being temporary
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by esotericn 6y ago
This is totally ad hominem but I'm just going to go for it, because I think you've missed the point of what 'social isolation' is - "Also as a newish (1 year old) father I found talks by Gabor Maté resonated a lot w
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by esotericn 6y ago
I believe my comment about halving mortality addresses this. They're already likely to arbitrarily die - if in 2017 I could reduce that probability by half (coronavirus roughly doubles mortality across all age groups) by having everyon
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by esotericn 6y ago
This is a really good description. It also puts into context the fact that other individuals have _different_ extents.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Er, yeah, I've been saying this for months. We are social animals. Literally just existing is stressful at the moment for most of us, because there's a constant urge that is not being satisfied. Not only for socialisation but simp
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by esotericn 6y ago
It already has if you're looking in the right places. It's a bit like 'reduce, reuse, recycle'. Not having a car (possibly renting one occasionally, the inconvenience meaning that you use it less) is the best option. Aft
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by esotericn 6y ago
Have you ever, individually, faced a crisis? Reached a point at which - something you've been slowly working on for years - the progress just isn't quick enough, it feels hopeless, and then you lash out? Via anger, sadness, depres
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by esotericn 6y ago
"Good for you" I think sounds ridiculously sarcastic in British English, fwiw.
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by esotericn 6y ago
> Societies don't have the right to decide for others what their choices should be. If an AGI starts inventing new and wonderful ways in which we can destroy ourselves, and we are taken in by it, we will have to restrict that, it&#x
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by esotericn 6y ago
> And they don't as far as we can tell. That's wishful thinking which you have no evidence for. But let's assume that you're correct - eventually they will have a way to analyse it en masse. There are, then, two thing
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by esotericn 6y ago
Precisely. This is about mass surveillance vs targeted surveillance, not obtaining evidence on known criminals.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Does it need to be acknowledged? I consider it to be a priori knowledge. The distinction is between targeted and untargeted surveillance. Digital communication is so easy to monitor, particularly by a state-level actor, that if it's un
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by esotericn 6y ago
> though the technology worked relatively well, people did not respond well to being told to isolate by an app. I would have thought that this depends a lot on the nature of said "message". It needs to be a personal decision ba
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by esotericn 6y ago
A thought: Sometimes the distinction between physical and digital security is brought up in these discussions, the idea that physical security is imperfect (you can always break a lock) but that digital security may truly be impenetrable. T
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by esotericn 6y ago
The optics on this are truly awful. They want to "work more with law enforcement" - at this time? Now? As the police are moving in to cities across the US military-style?
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by esotericn 6y ago
I can only speak for past/present me. Probably all three - travel, self study, read, etc. That's what I'd do. Then again, I'm thinking UK. The lockdowns here aren't such that you literally can't go outside, and
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by esotericn 6y ago
Thinking back to my university experience - if you told me that I was going to be doing it in front of a screen, I'd have taken a gap year. If I'd already paid and you refused to refund me, I'd use that gap year to travel to
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by esotericn 6y ago
Yeah, I feel you. To be honest I figure it's going to just be obvious as time goes on. When the pubs re-open in the UK I'm just going to assume that anyone there doesn't care about this nonsense, otherwise they'd barrica
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by esotericn 6y ago
> I don't want to spend the rest of my life 6 feet away from everyone afraid that they might infect me. Well, this is within your choice. The real problem is dealing with the weird consent issue people are having. I'm happy to
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by esotericn 6y ago
You're invited to my funeral.. wait, no you're not, sorry, you can watch it on Zoom.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Yes, it's madness. The whole thing is pointless even if it did work, which it won't, because as I posted above people will ignore the rules almost instantaneously, especially once they're a few pints in. I'll just end th
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by esotericn 6y ago
My leading theory at the moment is that we're going to see some sort of huge societal fissure. It already seems to be happening - there's a massive ideological split between the group that wants to minimise risk at all cost, and t
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by esotericn 6y ago
I might suggest that the issue is that you're attacking this from an angle of giving people minor manipulations on a state of full lockdown - "oh, you know, there will be changes for years, but not full lockdown", "X mig

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