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by jablongo 5y ago
It's worth pointing out that there is an explanation for this set of responses from tinder that makes complete sense and is relatively non-dystopian: Someone submitted a complaint about the author from his past usage of tinder, maybe e
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by jablongo 5y ago
Yea true that’s a bit more hands on. I was thinking that they had used CGMs.
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by jablongo 5y ago
This makes sense. To be clear, perceived time is not directly affecting blood glucose, it is affecting speeds of digestive breakdown and/or insulin secretion rates (most type-2s still secrete insulin). Interesting that this study was
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by jablongo 5y ago
> In particular, there appears to be gerrymandering, voter suppression, and worse on the Republican side [1]. I'm not aware of Democratic attempts to undermine the democratic system to any similar degree, but perhaps you can point m
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by jablongo 5y ago
If you want to try angel investing in something meaningful, I'm happy to pitch you my nascent Biotech project...
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by jablongo 5y ago
This project is similar to what you are describing, but data is lacking at the local level https://www.followthemoney.org/
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by jablongo 5y ago
I think it is so essential that people see the movie in a proper theater with surround sound rather than on a computer screen via HBO max. The soundtrack (which is some of Hans Zimmer's most ambitious work) and visuals won't be ap
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by jablongo 5y ago
Conservatives say that about college not necessarily because they have a disdain for education and learning, but because they think colleges have become a breeding ground for a dangerous type of bourgeois identity politics. I'm not tak
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by jablongo 5y ago
I guess I thought that it was implied by the OP
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by jablongo 5y ago
How is China "truly multicultural"?!? Society is dominated by Han-Chinese and cultural elements who are sufficiently different are sent to re-education camps.
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by jablongo 5y ago
*After learning more, Graeber definitely was very pro-technology, so I’m really arguing w/ no one here. I’ll have to read the book...
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by jablongo 5y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying not knowing what bacteria is is directly a function of individual intelligence. But it is an important measure of a society, along with things like - how often their young die, how often women die in childbirt
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by jablongo 5y ago
It’s just part of respecting the lifestyles and choices that our ancestors made - recognizing that there are different, equally valid systems for measuring the “goodness” of an individual or a social group.
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by jablongo 5y ago
Ok that may be true, but I personally think infant mortality is an undesirable attribute of any society.
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by jablongo 5y ago
Yea, totally agree. But I think my point still refutes the one about long term hunter gatherer Luddite lifestyles being the result of conscious philosophical choices, at least in the context of health, since most people would choose a longe
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by jablongo 5y ago
I too, am all for recognizing that goodness is subjective, and that various indigenous communities made conscious philosophical choices that defined their path of rejecting technology as pursued by the empires of the time. However, I cannot
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by jablongo 5y ago
I can't find it either and I'm on a desktop. Does anyone know what the Vessel Project is?
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by jablongo 5y ago
Thanks for this. Definitely wasn’t saying they were sanctioned by Kosovo or Macedonian gvt. This gives me a better perspective either way though. I still think at the very least Putin (and Serbian hard liners) sees this favorably and would
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by jablongo 5y ago
Oh man. I was just there, so true :) - Albanians are industrious af.
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by jablongo 5y ago
True, that theory seems plausible too. Though there are obviously many other places w/ high Albanian populations, such as Albania.
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by jablongo 5y ago
I’m not blaming those places. I’m suggesting they are being chosen deliberately by the actual perpetrators, (which is really just speculation I admit).
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by jablongo 5y ago
Sorry, did not mean to be insensitive but just pointing out that Kosovo’s existence in it’s current form has a lot to do with the actions of the US in the 90s, hence the statues and streets named after Bill Clinton. Not trying to minimize a
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by jablongo 5y ago
It’s interesting that the accounts would be originating from Kosovo and (north) Macedonia. I assume these are just Russians routing thru Kosovar IPs for more deniability, or alternatively this could be tacitly sanctioned by Serbian govt. An
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by jablongo 5y ago
No just that cherrypicking quotes like that (by the author, not by you) does not really show that longtermism and climate change efforts are mutually exclusive, _even if_ it shows one influential and potentially mistaken person believes the
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by jablongo 5y ago
That quote in isolation is also evidence-free (and sort of appalling imo), I’ll have to look into all that Ord has to say about this. But I’d like to point out that choosing whether to improve lives in rich vs poor countries is not equival
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by jablongo 5y ago
I agree - the focus on climate change en lieu of more tangible (and easily modeled) issues like pollution and loss of habitat was a societal misstep since both problems have similar solutions: clean energy and and preservation of forests.
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by jablongo 5y ago
I don’t understand where AI-safety research is ever meaningfully competing with renewable energy for resources. The article is making the case that these two types of progress are mutually exclusive, without any evidence. What’s a plausibl
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by jablongo 5y ago
Wait why is this downvoted? It’s a fair point...
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by jablongo 5y ago
GYM is not exclusively for robotics - it’s for reinforcement learning in simulated environments, which I’m sure they will keep doing. Also it looks like it is still being maintained, so not really sure what you mean.
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by jablongo 5y ago
https://twitter.com/lmanul/status/924351827604160512

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