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by ex3xu 8y ago
I agree with the comments about his essays, like the tennis essay and the Consider the Lobster recommendation, and I'll add another piece of short fiction, Incarnations of Burned Children: https://www.esquire.com/entert
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I'll point you in the direction of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/26/viktor-frankl-mans-... Or, if the memoirs of a holocaust survivor's se
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You're right. Maybe epistemic closure is a better term. And maybe I need to take some time to evaluate the evidence in context of my own biases before I make baseless accusations. You have to understand that I've internalized arti
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You're right, I apologize for implying the presence confirmation bias and I don't mean it as a personal attack. I just wanted to express that when you immediately discredit the anecdotal experience of others in favor of your own a
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You can try this guy for proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67Lh4LE5LY Though if you already have confirmation bias that anyone who complains of a large company of shady behavior is a crazy nut, maybe this conversation
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No, this is not some conspiracy theory by a few anecdotal players. This is a quite well-documented phenomenon well-known to small business owners across a wide variety of industries. I understand that the instinct is "There's no w
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I'm not sure that's a smart statement to make without having seen what 2038 and 2058 look like. If articles like this one about the sixth extinction aren't enough to sway your thinking, have you seen the pentagon report on th
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Here's an earlier HN post on carbon removal technologies, some of which seem quite cost effective and promising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18285606 Perhaps you can volunteer your time or other resources towa
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I've heard good things about the dhamma.org 10-day Vipassana retreats. The sessions seem to require registering months in advance for new students, though.
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While I'm just hearing about this Edsu project and am not in any position to vouch for it re: future betrayal, I think the specific concern you raised is solved by Edsu by using local storage rather than a centralized repository. A few
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I don't know if those two statements you used are isomorphisms. I haven't read the book that the title is making reference to, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, but I'd guess that they are not trying to anthro
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(2011). But more relevant than ever, seeing as "too many assholes" now includes small asshole entities with bot armies. I think Anil's declaration that it's a "solved problem" is a bit optimistic as well. Youtu
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Looks like there was an archival footage documentary that aired on PBS back in 2008: http://writwritermovie.com/trailer.html But my reaction is the same as yours -- maybe it was just the spectacular pacing by the article wr
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> To you it's random stuff, firing - an act of outrage, to many it has meaning, firing - the right thing to do. The case I'm trying to make is one in favor of restorative justice -- this means identifying the harms caused by an
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I am reminded of restorative justice advocate Bryan Stevenson's quote from his memoir describing his life's work of defending death row inmates: "Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done." Certainly t
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Thanks, I appreciate the recommendation.
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I added an email in my profile if there's something you wanted to discuss further.
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Well, I'm not trying to make the case that recommendation algorithms are strictly unhelpful. It would be absurd to imply that there aren't many cases where they have provided a benefit to the end user. I just think that in many ca
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I get annoyed even by the purported advantages of data collection, like Youtube or Amazon recommendations. Just because I curiously clicked on a stream of data points six weeks ago does not mean I suddenly want to be inundated with more of
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You can click into the links to see the full case-study length explanation.
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Thoughtmaybe has a 2013 documentary called Web Junkie that shows how the Chinese handle it for their teenagers: https://thoughtmaybe.com/web-junkie/
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This was 2008, only a few years after Facebook had come out and well before the "People are the product" conversation that would come to dominate the discourse around monetization. Free services like Gmail and Livejournal had set
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Probably the most unique thing about Urbis was their system for generating reviews which I thought was pretty interesting -- reviews on your work were locked by default. In order to unlock a review, you had to write a review of equal word c
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Another even more egregious example -- around 10 or so years ago, I was a big proponent of the writing website Urbis. It was a site where you could submit a piece of writing and get feedback from other users. You can still see its activity
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I agree whole-heartedly. My intuition is that there's a huge opportunity here ready to be replicated by a few creative people with experience in the right spaces.
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Well sure, the reduction of inequality is not a smart bet to take in the morally impoverished social climate that we live in. The original Pareto principle itself was born out of observations of the natural distribution of wealth among popu
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I agree with this point, as I have a strong distaste for the premise the above poster used: "This is the way things have always been". Implying, why try to change them? Women regularly died in childbirth for thousands of years, bu
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No, it wouldn't, under the United States Constitution and the American justice system with its roots in common law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation But it does seem the modern American eth
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I disagree, I do not feel it is disrespectful considering the heroic story of the passengers Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, and others on United Flight 93 who were able to successfully take steps to actively resist the hijacking. They were full
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment#Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes

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