hitarpetar

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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
maybe life is about more than comfort
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
I think that's usually what people mean when they talk about economic inequality. not that we need absolute equality, but that we have extreme inequality that is clearly causing a lot of suffering
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
definitely. you're right that "free time" is a luxury
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
typical technological determinism. comparing AI to the motorcoach assumes something we cannot know yet, namely that the impact of AI on the next century will be comparable to the invention of the automobile. there's also a long list of
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
you're describing people who work MORE than 40 hours a week
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
fully agree with you but this language > basically it's a third world country is imprecise and misleading. torturing your own citizens to death is a first world specialty, see for example the troubles in northern Ireland
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
I had a terrible time in Canadian jr high and great time in American high school. I think it really just depends on the school
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
it's always been marketing
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
> There's ton of information that is conveyed by the inflection of voice, demeanor, body language, etc. information which mostly gets scrambled by a phone or video call
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
sorry you're struggling with the way the community responded
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
not converse, orthogonal
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
there is direct evidence that disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar tend to manifest in the early 20s. generalizing that to everyone's experience of their 20s is obviously a bit tenuous
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
great, now who are you paying to sort the right output from the wrong output?
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
yOu'Re HoLdInG iT wRoNg
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
maybe you haven't paid attention, speak for yourself
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
what are you suggesting? left politicians need to do more to explain to voters how stupid they are? it's a bold strategy cotton...
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
spending more than locals on rent is actually one huge problem with digital nomads
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
ok. can you share your methods for the statistical analysis you performed on American culture then?
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
so, the wikipedia articles you shared show that pax romana and pax mongolica fostered trade. is increased trade worth genocide and mass slavery? I would lean to no but actually, you're comparing apples and oranges. why are you doing th
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
id probably go with 50% actually
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
very simplistic to characterize the decision as a trolley problem. lots of factors went into it, not least of which wanting to scare the USSR into the cold war
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
> Khan and Caesar brought peace to millions They make a desolation, and call it peace
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
> but it still fits nicely within your request for something that no one ever came up with YOU came up with it dawg
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
how do you definitely know that?
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
> We also just brute force "autocompletion" with our learned knowledge and combine it to new parts, which we then add to our learned knowledge to deepen the process you know this because you're a cognitive scientist right?
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
> The world is full of bizarre wonders and this is just one more to add to the list. https://youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?si=Xiyf0InqtjND9BnF
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
just so you know this means you are pro-Cheney. the untold human suffering caused by those wars was in service of the system you are glad he didn't "blow up"
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
there are no "general habits" in a culturally heterogenous population of 340 million people
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
yeah, a fun fact about most locations in the world is that you can find a civilization that used to exist there and doesn't anymore
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by hitarpetar 11mo ago
that's why I always identify the central position of any argument and take it. that way noone can accuse me of hubris

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