estearum

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811.
by estearum 4mo ago
Incoherence is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarians (not necessarily implying it's conscious strategy, authoritarians tend to be actual incoherent dumbasses)
812.
by estearum 4mo ago
Yes, I suppose by that same definition 9/11 or World War 2 were the distractions of their time. Makes sense. (Hint: that's not a useful nor typical definition of distraction)
813.
by estearum 4mo ago
Hey it's a perfectly pro-business environment as long as your business kisses the ring vigorously and continuously with perpetually escalating intensity.
814.
by estearum 4mo ago
Birthright citizenship is not a distraction
815.
by estearum 4mo ago
I think that is one of many dimensions of ambiguity and therefore of confusion on this topic, yes.
816.
by estearum 4mo ago
Yeah this was my experience too as a near-complete aphantasic. Doing the apple test around the dinner table was enlightening, and it also made a whole lot of other things make sense through my life as well: I have virtually no concrete memo
817.
by estearum 4mo ago
I still think it's far more likely that people aren't describing the same thing. People are very, very bad at interpreting and experiencing their mind's inner workings. Then getting them to describe and compare those inner
818.
by estearum 4mo ago
Yeah this is another test they use: imagine something frightening and "normal people" will get clammy hands and elevated heart rates while aphantasics will not
819.
by estearum 4mo ago
IMO it's far more likely that people don't agree on what it means to "have an internal monologue" than that people actually bifurcate that dramatically on cognition. Surely there are some people with an actual differ
820.
by estearum 4mo ago
Who has the goal of "convincing everyone" of anything? Maybe you misunderstand how policy gets set...
821.
by estearum 4mo ago
But we're not having a conversation about the full scope of reasons a person could want A or B. I'm saying the null hypothesis is Dark Nighttime. You are insisting it's not. GP above said one argument against Dark Nighttime i
822.
by estearum 4mo ago
No, not really. There is a null state of the world on this dimension and many others. Next up in Zamadatix's Magic Mirror Funhouse: "It's purely a matter of opinion whether or not you want your city:... 1. Constantly blaring
823.
by estearum 4mo ago
Your argument is that someone stating "night time should be night time" has the same standing as someone stating "night time should be day time," just because neither person owns night time? No, they don't actually.
824.
by estearum 4mo ago
Sure but that's not QA Engineers Performing Job
825.
by estearum 4mo ago
Eye-witness evidence: so unreliable it's an active insult that people gesture towards it as one of the pinnacle forms of evidence.
826.
by estearum 4mo ago
Feature not a bug Simply existing in a city should not compel you or other creatures to stay awake If a person wants to stay awake at night then they can take that upon themselves
827.
by estearum 4mo ago
Yes, of course they will. Is this a serious question? It will take at most twenty years due to patent expiration.
828.
by estearum 4mo ago
Why can't the commitment to a lifestyle change just be a commitment to take a daily or weekly drug?
829.
by estearum 4mo ago
Pharma companies don't control the availability of calories And anyway, demonstrably not true given that pharma companies are working on a number of drugs that are one-and-done treatments for things like Lp(a). We should figure out a w
830.
by estearum 4mo ago
> Because it's pretty likely some of these have negative long term effects. And some of those long-term effects are probably pretty serious. No, it's really not "pretty likely." These drugs are extremely well studied,
831.
by estearum 4mo ago
Lifelong insomniac (racing thoughts, probably ADHD-related) and this podcast cured me. To anyone who tries it, it's important to know upfront: there's nothing to "get." It's nonsense. It exhausts the brain without b
832.
by estearum 4mo ago
... is this a serious comment? > explanations should be backed by data, it's lazy otherwise > I personally haven't noticed an increase The relationship between temperature, wetness/humidity, and tick range is extremely
833.
by estearum 4mo ago
I think temperature is the relevant variable
834.
by estearum 4mo ago
The vast majority of them actually.
835.
by estearum 4mo ago
Ah yes I remember just masses of normal Americans chanting: "nationalize AI! Government should decide what private companies get to sell their products! Ideally they do it based on who is paying them! Tax me more for imports! Go to war
836.
by estearum 4mo ago
The same Chinese companies to which the same administration okayed sales of H200 chips so long as they paid a 25% export duty? Uh... no, that is not actually a good explanation. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/
837.
by estearum 4mo ago
No, not really. They'll lose in court if anyone pushes back.
838.
by estearum 4mo ago
No, not really. The biggest concern is the US government claiming it can decide who gets to use a product and brazenly kneecapping competitive companies who do such things as "write contracts and comply with them."
839.
by estearum 4mo ago
Uhhh no. The White House (and other government agencies) have a well-established right to communicate with private entities. They do not have a right to coerce them. There's a blurry line between these, but not in Facebook's cas
840.
by estearum 4mo ago
Just like seatbelts are categorically stupid and can be ignored because 99% of the time they lock, you're not actually in a collision.

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