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811.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
If they find out, definitely. And if they don't find out, I would think yes, as they subconsciously probably notice some things are off with the intention of the "psychic".
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"But at the same time, if you observed that very very few people wanted to clean sewers for whatever reason" The reason might be, most people do not like to be in the literal shit of others? It comes with actual health hazards btw
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hutzlibu
3y ago
If both believe in it and fulfil their bargain, it is not fraud. Fraud requires intention of missleading. Also, what most customers want, is emotional comfort. And whatever we think of it, it seems to work for them. Even though personally,
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hutzlibu
3y ago
There seems to be dispute about it: "As such, it remains unknown whether Washington personally used any teeth purchased from slaves or others" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth So th
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hutzlibu
3y ago
""Suffering" is a nonsense word. It can't be measured or detected." Hypothetically, if someone would put you into a small box, too small to get up and you may sleep where you shit, do you think, you would suffer a l
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"why we need muscles, how we move them to protect the joints" Then this changed, I learned 0 about it in school, except maybe a side note in biology much later on.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Most of school sports is pretty horrible and they barely teach you anything useful (in germany). But rather way too many dangerous exercises, like rolling over the head or standing on the head with little guidance, etc. All the important bi
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"intentionally starved and subjected to freezing cold weather." "intentionally" implies intention somehow.
819.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Can you name one farmed species, that is getting treated in ethical ways?
820.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Are you sure about that? It seems to be rather a cultural taboo. Cannibalistic tribes did disagree.
821.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
If you share such a weird story, maybe also provide a link so others can judge whether there is some substance?
822.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
That we don't have hire and fire, meaning when you take a new job it comes with all kinds of regulations for the company - making them not wanting to change people so often. Otherwise we surely can do this in europe as well, just with
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"The American economy is awash with opportunities to work for small businesses, with employees free to move around and chart their own destiny. " If they all are all happy and free to chart their own destiny - why are those contra
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"I wish Firefox could get their priorities straight." I guess the target for complaining would be rather Mozilla, who rather drastically cut down their engineers. I think those who remain, do all they can, with their limited manpo
825.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Well, unlike a book, psychedelics are altering your way of thinking directly through chemical means. That's a big difference I think.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"The time of birth can also correlate loosely with personality. " I mean it does have an effect, if you spend the first months of your life outside in the sun, or hidden inside. And the parents also behave different in summer than
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Well, probaboy not, depending how you count and what you believe. But yes, there are other metrics for role models, except long life.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Don't you think, it is also possible that psychedelics can make your focus shift on something weird and not beneficial? Or are psychedelics guaranteed to give always correct and sacred answers? That would be news to me.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
I believe there are some people around, who did get older than 32 because of their life choices.
830.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Yes, but you also have the extra weight of the second engine - and you have to transform that mechanical energy to electricity before the electric engine transforms it back to mechanical energy again, which is lossy. So all in all I think i
831.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Well, you have to be into the topic, or not. Mythology has the trait of unclear plots and dealing with mysterious forces quite often .. (Some stories don't even have a reveal at the ending at all)
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hutzlibu
3y ago
And season 3 was better and season 4 will never come ... I do recommend the book.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Acording to this series, it is a mixed experience. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"The bar for new discoveries is simply higher than the past." Likely, but there is this point of reconfirming findings. There are so many bogus papers - if at least some of them can be exposed by "amateurs", that would b
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hutzlibu
3y ago
I don't get your point, do you claim Orwell is authorian and anti free speach?
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"No Communist or Socialist author has ever entertained a freedom of speech concept " Maybe you have heard of Animal Farm or 1984, written by George Orwell? Or do you think, he wrote those books to endorse the concept?
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hutzlibu
3y ago
That's right, no serious work should be done with it. But programming is fine. https://xkcd.com/2030/
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"Ironically, the AI is a lot better at high-level thinking than correct calculation." That would be actually a human like feature .. except I do not consider what LLMs are doing as thinking.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"It'll set up a proper algorithm, step through it and trip over digits." Or it is just pretending to do so. And since it pretends, of course it trips over all small things as it does not understand them.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
I don't know, the world is full of crazy people. In the end this will be used so much, that it will be heavily optimized, so people will compile their normal languages towards it. I mean, I am obviously joking, but in a crazy world any
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