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by golemotron 3y ago
I miss the days when Congress passed laws rather than delegating decision making to agencies that get to change rules on whim.
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by golemotron 3y ago
They shouldn't be surprised if corporations leave their market. I'm philosophical about this. The world is moving toward smaller more fragmented economies. On the negative side, supply chains will have to adjust and the world econ
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by golemotron 3y ago
Propaganda is just advocacy that we don't like. Same as "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
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by golemotron 3y ago
> While it is a serious mistake, as has been said, to overvalue propaganda, it is an equally serious mistake to assume, as some people do, that everything in the newspapers and on the radio, in the movies and magazines, is “propaganda’’—
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by golemotron 3y ago
It's just culture war by other means. The opinions are formed sociologically, not rationally.
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by golemotron 3y ago
The US is so polarized that all it takes is for an opinion to form on either the Left or the Right. The other side will form the opposite opinion to signal that it is different.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Paging Dr. Heisenberg
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by golemotron 3y ago
The US is strong on the doctrine that the law applies equally to people (legal entities) regardless of size / market cap. I don't think we'll ever see something like the EU's law that targets only large internet companie
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by golemotron 3y ago
We shouldn't be so arrogant as to think that it is under our control. There are many countries with many different cultures and many people making individual decisions about whether to have kids. Thinking we can affect global macro tre
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by golemotron 3y ago
Crummy streaming. Why isn't this on YouTube?
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by golemotron 3y ago
> The inquiry into human uniqueness is probably just another case of human curiosity, enabled by our (seemingly) boundless capacity for understanding across domains, no? I think it is like the Ptolemaic model of the universe. We want to
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by golemotron 3y ago
Have we really taken over the planet or is it just that it looks like that from our perspective? https://www.science.org/content/article/how-many-ants-live-e... (answer: 20 quadrillion)
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by golemotron 3y ago
We should just wonder why these distinctions are so important to us.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Gotta love the never ending hunt for things that are uniquely human. For a while, we thought it was language and then discovered that it wasn't. Same for tool use. Maybe the search for uniquely human things is the uniquely human thing?
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by golemotron 3y ago
I think the timeless bit is that there is always an out-group. It's worthwhile to be aware of yours and whatever subconscious position you've taken regarding them.
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by golemotron 3y ago
This essay is timeless.
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by golemotron 3y ago
At a certain point, cost of customization could become prohibitive.
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by golemotron 3y ago
I often wonder when it it would cease to be in the interest of US tech firms to serve the EU market. Meta choosing not launch Threads in the EU seems like a bellwether. Everyone seems to assume that it won't happen.. that public compan
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by golemotron 3y ago
Girard's Mimetic Rivalry.
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by golemotron 3y ago
The big question is whether there any interventions that can be taken early.
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by golemotron 3y ago
> If inflammation does indeed increase social affiliative motivation, it should also lead people to turn to social media, under such circumstances, as a means to fulfill social needs. It would be interesting to see if introverts have low
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by golemotron 3y ago
In via negativa you achieve risk reduction even if you stop before arriving at the absurd.
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by golemotron 3y ago
That's more than a little silly. Someone being tracked has no idea whether or not they are being actively monitored. It's naive to assume that one won't be.
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by golemotron 3y ago
> Amazon has tracked the attendance of US-based workers and targeted those who appeared to fail to comply with its hybrid working policy, sparking concerns about privacy. Concerns about privacy? Really? They expect that entering and leav
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by golemotron 3y ago
The Supreme Court didn't rule against Epic on the merits, they just declined a stay. It's very likely that they will take up the case later.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Nope. I was referring the likelihood of perpendicular collisions out of the set of all possible collisions. No time dimension.
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by golemotron 3y ago
I wonder how often perpendicular to the ground impacts occur? I seems that they could only occur if an asteroid approached in a head on collision with our orbit or perpendicular from a higher or lower orbit as it passes or is passed by the
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by golemotron 3y ago
> I’m with the artists on this one. Our obsession with converting everything into input for an algorithm that spits out an ill-defined number (what the hell is “vividness”?) needs to stop. Anyone who is with the artists should pass a law
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by golemotron 3y ago
Are there any AI tools that give an assurance that they do not persist data (or its derivatives) from a session beyond the session?
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by golemotron 3y ago
> At what point do we say, “Ok, we’re revoking your corporate charter. Please wind down your operations and liquidate your holdings.” I think we do that at the moment that the government decides to make the shareholders whole. And, that&

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