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by evv555 11y ago
For some context do a search for "infant surgery without anesthesia". Allegedly infant surgeries were routinely done without anesthesia into the 70's. It was believed babies do not really feel pain and we are just anthropom
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The problem isn't just building affordable houses but building affordable houses in locations people want to live. But how essential would location be if an autonomous vehicle could take your child to a quality charter school beyond y
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>To do that you need to prove that you are there to govern, that means deploying troops/police in massive numbers and a court system that works. Thomas Barnett did a TED talk on this issue that I found very thought provoking.[1] Th
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Good to know, thanks.
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Maybe because it's so close to China.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_universals
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>That is: while ideally we would critically and deeply analyze every aspect of our life, we have limited time and energy. The reason we've been able to accomplish so much as a civilization is because we delegate thinking to others.
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The issue I have with these kinds of narratives is they conflate structural and social/power hierarchies. People have spent alot of time rallying against the former thinking it's the latter. The two often correlate in the case o
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>I should point out that it is by no means clear that critical thinking is a coherent skill that is readily taught.[1] Critical thinking is domain dependent. Just because someone is good at breaking down CS problems doesn't mean th