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by folksinger 9y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response! Empiricism as applied to theories of gravity is one thing. Empiricism through statistical inference is entirely different. I can actually reproduce the expected results of the theories of gravity by me
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by folksinger 9y ago
If you have some spare time I'd be happy to have a video chat conversation about the epistomological consequences of academic studies in soft sciences like psychology, sociology and economics and how the experiences of the target audie
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by folksinger 9y ago
Instead of testing a null hypothesis through statistical inference, a dubious approach to the scientific method for either a frequentist or Bayesian, how about an appeal to common sense experience? Out of the scope of the study in question,
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by folksinger 9y ago
You make a good point about Walkmans and newspapers... As McLuhan would point out, the Narcissus trance is present in all media technologies! That doesn't meet we should give in to the alluring trance of the Siren. It is true that news
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by folksinger 9y ago
The reason I asked is because it seems like you might have a lot of your identity and self-worth dependent on a moral acceptance of social media. It seems like you might be subconsciously denying the negative impact that these technologies
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by folksinger 9y ago
It is not what we have. We have many other options beyond even the other technologies you've listed. Businesses and products are not prerequisite for interacting with friends and family. What about simply having a conversation in perso
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by folksinger 9y ago
Do you work for Facebook? It's OK if you do. It's OK if you don't accept what they do. It's OK if you don't love your job. We need to go out into the world and destroy parts of it just to survive. From 'The Way
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by folksinger 9y ago
Where as we have F=m•a in physical reality, in hyperreality it seems as though the rule is inverted, F=m÷a. It seems the less "mass" a message contains the more "force" it seems to exert. A long response is ignored and c
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by folksinger 9y ago
Is an ad-subsidized and for-profit business deeply and fundamentally required to talk to your friends and family? If interacting with friends and family is what is important, is Facebook the best way to do so?
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by folksinger 9y ago
Do you think the average public library contains a better or worse ratio of good to bad knowledge than Google? How about a library at a world-class university? How about the magazines on display at the grocery store checkout line?
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by folksinger 9y ago
Lesson to be learned: Wisdom and knowledge do not come from technology. They come from wise and experienced educators working one-on-one with their students, not to tell them the truth, but to help them experience the truth. Nullius in verb
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by folksinger 9y ago
First, it may be better for you and I. It may be much worse than a library for most other people. It also may be worse than a library at a world-class university for even you or I. It may only be more convenient than going to a library or w
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by folksinger 9y ago
The reason why those of us on this forum can tell the difference between good and bad information is because we received a good education and learned critical analysis skills. Facebook, Google and the internet in general are an objectively
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by folksinger 9y ago
I read this as, "Do you hate freedom? Buy yourself an Apple Watch and always, literally always, be shackled to someone else's priorities!" I realize this is not a charitable interpretation but I feel like it deserves a counte
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by folksinger 9y ago
I've been telling anyone who will listen that we need a public social media platform funded by just such a mechanism, akin to similar institutions like copyright registration and the postal service. Innovation could occur on top of wha
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by folksinger 9y ago
The article mentions nothing of the most important problem we have yet to solve. Who is liable for protecting private data? The way it works right now is that everyone is basically agreeing to publish any information when they use these pla
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by folksinger 9y ago
He doesn't actually believe this. The reason why Facebook only allows people to have a single identity tied to their real name is that is what advertisers would prefer. Zuckerberg doesn't believe in anything other than money and p
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by folksinger 9y ago
See: Kant on a priori notions of space-time.
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by folksinger 9y ago
I'm not surprised that a forum full of people who work in the information technology industry cannot see the epistomological failure of mass media, but these problems are not new, and the idea that nothing communicated through a screen
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by folksinger 9y ago
You can still trick the best image classification techniques with objects that to the human mind are clearly not what the machine says they are. Machines do not reason in the way that humans do. They don't have a concept of a self that
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by folksinger 10y ago
Prove it.
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by folksinger 10y ago
No, I'm saying that he has to provide a better refutation of my point. I do not agree that the graphs look identical. What point am I trying to make, BTW?
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by folksinger 10y ago
Well I already did the work I'm willing to do on my end. Further research would obviously have to take in to consideration deviations from general population density, but just looking at the map, there's a lot of voter intimidatio
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by folksinger 10y ago
Yeah but the maps I'm showing don't follow general population density so the point being made by this comic doesn't apply in this instance.
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by folksinger 10y ago
The reports of "voter intimidation" on the electionlandstrends map matches the boundary of this racial demographic map. http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhwhite.gif Here's those two maps combined: http
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by folksinger 10y ago
As someone who happened to be a young adult before the advent of iPhones and AirBnB I can promise you that it was indeed possible for people to do things without technologies available since 2010. I successfully moved to a number of differe