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by garden_hermit 5y ago
I wonder how this scales to a level of a city. Large cities tend to have larger innovation, which is partially attributed to the ease at which ideas can move between companies through job changes, serendipitious encounters, and a build-up o
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
"encourage"
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
I think the idea is that a 4-day workweek would come along with a broader cultural shift. Imagine a world where Saturday was a workday, it shouldn't be hard as this was the case for many only a few generations ago. We could say that it
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
Andy Warhol and a million graphic designers might disagree :) I maintain that art affects society. Scorsese makes Taxi Driver, some crazy guy watches it, decides to shoot Ronald Reagan to impress Jody Foster. Would crazy guy have done the s
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
Doesn't the historic sucess of political propaganda, and the marketing successes of companies like Coca-Cola, illustrate the power of art to influence society, to some extent? And it doesn't have to be an either or. They can both
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
I like to imagine that if aliens have visited us, its for a kind of tourism or safari. Us seeing them is the pilot (some underpaid, overworked tour guide) making a mistake.
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
Ideally, robots doing all of our work should be utopian, leaving humans free to pursue other interests. Unfortunately, the current structure of society instead makes this dystopian.
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
I think the problem is that doing it right requires "putting in the effort". Unless there is a 100% idiot-proof reactor is made, mistakes and crises will still happen, maybe less often, but still sometimes, and it will kill the PR
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
What the OP is talking about mostly is factory farming, where cows will likely not eat very much grass, and where animals will not be free to graze. I think most people would agree that traditional livestock farming is a much better system,
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Is there any evidence that these paths are being cut? Mod communities for video games seem like they are thriving. Look at the sheer array of Minecraft mods, or mods for nearly any popular game on Steam. Combine this with popular and easy g
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I was still under the assumption of Curiosity's 7 minutes! Thanks for letting me know
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Watching these is always a stressful experience, I can't imagine what it would be like sitting in that room, praying that the object you spend years of work on is able to land by itself 7 light-minutes away. I'm looking forward to
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I see no evidence that China has organized around long-term discovery or technical brilliance. They have many scientists, and relative advantages in certain fields, but their system of science still has major structure issues. For example,
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
the article also says that one student was asked to turn their back to the camera, which would further confound cheating via teleprompter
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
"Tacit knowledge" I think captures what you are talking about. Its the knowledge embedded in our bodies and automatic responses. Most commonly this can refer to mechanical tasks, like when you go on autopilot while driving. It can
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I mean, the "is it real or not" is the point of the show :) The second season is...different. I loved the first season, but had more difficulty with the second. Its not bad, and offers -a few- answers, but if you don't like t
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I think its a different kind of representation. "The Expanse" book series, for instance, also features this sort of "UN" representation of many people form many kinds of ethnic background, and this is really great! Howev
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
> People will praise the Arab Spring organizing on Twitter without considering the implications for the events at the Capital on Jan 6th. The reason why someone might hold these competing beliefs is simple: they strongly value democratic
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Ideally, the definition of hate will result from a complex negotiation between stakeholders in society, just as we draw a line on who counts as an "adult", what counts as "self defense", and what counts as "libel&qu
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I mean, if ever there were an exception to free speech absolutism, now is the time—the more we learn about the capitol insurrection, the more we realize just how close we came (literally seconds) to a massacre on the senate floor, egged on
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
These kinds of things exist, though the rate that they are adopted varies widely. In Psychology, for instance, there was discussion back in 2015 about per-registration in the field [1]. Since then, tools and repositories have been created t
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
My doctoral degree has required training in both Computer Science and Social Science, and regularly interact with both communities. Drawing on this, I feel that this comment is unnecessarily partisan and divisive. > 2) Mentioning the rep
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Many novel funding approaches have been proposed in an attempt to free scientists from the endless grant-> public-> grant cycle. One is to accept only mini grant proposals, say 10 pages at most, and screen these to meet some minimum t
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
There is a lot of caution in research funding. Some research is considered "safe", whereas others risky. IN a properly balanced portfolio, perhaps 80% of funding should go to safe work and the remaining 20% to more risky, but pote
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
This is whats done in science evaluation—the H-index for instance is built from a combination of publication and citation counts. Similarly, journal prestige is quantified using the Journal Impact Factor, which aggregates the average number
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Very true. "Egalitarian" here is highly relative. Schools now are certainly more egalitarian than they were a few centuries ago (when barely anyone could even attend!) but they are still a long way off. I'm optimistic that we
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
There is also a different between "explicit" and "implicit" safe spaces for different groups. Its just that they are only ever "marked" with a demographic identifier if they are for a non-dominant group. I.e.,
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
It could very well be that women have had the potential to outperform men in academic tasks since Socrates, but never had the chance until widespread and egalitarian schooling.
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
> There was no inherent "supremacy", just one created by a bunch of companies being together. That is why they have supremacy, though. Agglomeration effects are a big deal. Its why New York has remained a center of trade and fi
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Building on this advice, I highy recommend the essay titled "How to Read a Book" by Paul Edwards: https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf Edwards is an academic historian of science who write incred

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