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by fnovd 4y ago
Someone worried about the exploitation of bees is still going to be a vegan, since it takes more acres of crops to grow a pound of beef than a nutritionally-equivalent basket of produce. The idyllic picture of cows grazing in an open field
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by fnovd 4y ago
I'm sure that all was very rewarding for you. I'm not sure how it translates into a business. We don't want to teach accountants to deploy their own calculator from the command line and we don't want pilots to do math wh
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Marxist theory says that the separation between economic and state power is illusory at best and intentionally deceptive at worst. So a communist isn't going to think it possible to separate economic and state power, whereas that conce
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It will be different this time, just like it was every other time. It still doesn't matter. The epoch of earth's history that happens to overlap with your own lifespan isn't inherently more interesting or important than any o
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by fnovd 4y ago
We've been "moving too fast" since we figured out agriculture. It's fine. The world as you know it will change irreversibly; you'll long for the simplicity of youth; you will bemoan the state of the world we have le
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by fnovd 4y ago
Sentient consciousness, you mean that weird meatbag thinking style? AI consciousness will be so, so much more.
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by fnovd 4y ago
I'm sure dogs confer dog-hood to us, to be fair. It's just that we are typically the ones in control of them. We breed them, control what they eat, what they learn, where they sleep, who they live with... Implicit in my stance on
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by fnovd 4y ago
Personhood is a construct we invented to exclude others from consideration. Sometimes we grant personhood, too, but even in saying that you can see that personhood is a special status we grant to others when it suits us. In the same way tha
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by fnovd 4y ago
Resemblance is subjective. AI models undergo rigorous natural selection during which models (or connections) that don't produce what we as human beings are looking for are pruned. They have tricked us into thinking that our word-orient
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We're not that unique, though. Plenty of organisms do things that other types of organisms can't, that's how niches work. Our most impressive feats come not from what our brains can do but from what the emergent phenomenon of
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Really, I don't think these assertions have any ground to stand on. Humans are not magical or divine. Our intelligence, like that of all life, is as basic as it can be to guarantee our niche. It just happens to be the most "develo
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>the process of continuous adaptation wrt a stream of information, with the goal of maxing out fitness while minimizing energy-expenditure This makes sense in a biological context but not a digital one. Biological replication is expensiv
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by fnovd 4y ago
Very cool, but even so it's hard to see the benefit of learning PowerShell just for Linux. Interacting with objects instead of text is definitely a huge plus. However, the main benefit of bash is the portability. If you have to set up
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by fnovd 4y ago
It's black holes all the way down. Fun to note that, from the reference of someone outside a black hole, the singularity contained within hasn't happened yet, and never will.
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They're all basically the same. Different labeling groups have different requirements, it doesn't really matter. The fact of the matter is that the business is going to do whatever it takes to make as much money as possible, and t
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by fnovd 4y ago
This piece gets the cart and the horse backwards. The localization of chip manufacturing isn't a "move into protectionism," it's simply a delayed response to the growing recognition that chips are more than just consumer
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Because the company you are buying from what doing the minimum to achieve the "Pasture Raised Organic" label, which is not a very high bar. These laws impact them just as much as the "budget eggs". To be a "free-ran
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by fnovd 4y ago
This is a great piece and I've watched it many times. It's sad to think that this video was the creator's last major work before taking their own life.
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If that's what you want to believe, you will always be able to find another blog to reinforce that view. In fact, that's almost exactly what you did; you found another article that paints America as one bad coin-flip away from a d
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by fnovd 4y ago
Surprised to find this here, not surprised that there are no comments. >The COVID pandemic has triggered a new crisis in capitalism, but capitalism’s underlying tendencies leading towards such crises are not new. >In a way, Roberts re
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Complex societies haven't existed for hundreds of thousands of years, natural selection has not had the time or the ability to put selective pressure on creativity. This is simply an unfounded sociological theory that justifies you doi
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"Economic conservatism" is a value-maximizing choice in some ways, but there is also the value of risk-taking as self-actualization. "It's better to have loved and lost," as they say. There is value in being granted
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The beauty and tragedy of our culture is the ability to leverage your future for a moonshot. It enables some real treasures to be discovered who can share their creations with the world, but each comes with the invisible cost of hundreds an
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Employment is an abstraction of resource-gathering. Every living being must gather resources to survive. Modern society does not enforce employment; employment is the manifestation of resource-gathering in modern society. Thinking and learn
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Sure, minority issues are often limited to minority communities. I don't read r/publicfreakout either, but as a moderator of r/Jewish I can see the impact it and many other subs have on our community. You have your standard m
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It's bad now, and only getting worse. The moderators of top subreddits (like PublicFreakout) are openly in favor of marginalizing Jews, they'll just use the word Zionist instead. You can report a comment like "Jews don't
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>Going socialist is mandatory if we want to fix this Of course, the lede is buried exactly where expected. How novel an idea it is that the the system is separable from its components and that utopia is indeed achievable if only the rest
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by fnovd 6y ago
The "few wealthy executives" are the ones ensuring that the work of the bus drivers, programmers, salespeople, and janitors is rewarded with cold, hard cash instead of empty promises and platitudes. How many $250k+ TC employees ca
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by fnovd 6y ago
This article misses the point entirely. It's true that most cattle farms are on the small-end, and have plenty of land for their cattle. It's also true that the vast majority of cows slaughtered for meat come from just a few indus
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by fnovd 6y ago
Ironically, the author was talking about all those other elites. Click less, but not before you've added my book to your cart! "If only" I could vote on how you spend your money.

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