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by jfengel 9mo ago
If the agency has become corrupt, tweaking immunity isn't going to fix it. Only voters can solve that by saying clearly "no, this is not the agency we want." If that is what the voters want, then the victim minority can only
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by jfengel 9mo ago
It comes at the cost of locality, but that's far less important today than it had been in the past. Nobody knows their congressman anyway. I'd really like to give PR systems a try, if for no other reason than to do a reset on the
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That's how parties work, of necessity. They are all uneasy alliances of people who can barely tolerate each other. People find the one that supports their most important issues and hopefully few things they really detest. Then they hav
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Inventing categories is what the court does. The Constitution is incredibly brief, and gives zero guidance on how to clarify conflicts. It has always been full of "common sense" exceptions, like criminalizing threats (despite the
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by jfengel 9mo ago
The ill that it's supposed to address is people hassling government officials who are just doing their jobs. Their jobs require them to do things that people don't want them to do, like making you pay taxes or go to jail for commi
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by jfengel 9mo ago
In a world with a low vaccination rate, infection with measles is practically 100%. It spreads more easily than COVID. You can take your risk with herd immunity if you want. That works well now, with a near universal vaccination rate. But i
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Students have never understood the value of school work. It's a hard thing to understand. None of the assignments are asked because the teacher wants to know the answer. They already know. So it all closely resembles busy work. AI is p
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I think that if people observed what a 1 in 1,000 chance of a dead child looked like, they'd have a much easier time making the decision.
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I admire your optimism. I genuinely wish I could share it. I hope that you are right.
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The converse need not hold. Cognition implies existence; it is sufficient but not necessary. Plenty of things exist without thinking. (And that's not what the Cogito means in the first place. It's a statement about knowledge: I th
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And it comes at a time when a disease we were working on eliminating, measles, has come back and the US is about to lose its measles-free status. It sounds as if his legacy is to be unique, a feat never to be accomplished again.
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Social media has given me a rather dim view of the quality of people's thinking, long before AI. Outsourcing it could well be an improvement.
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At least AI produces something. Maybe not what everyone hopes for, but there is some output that people are worth paying for. Cryptocurrency lived entirely in the hopes that people wanted to replace regular money, and it turns out not to be
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by jfengel 9mo ago
There's nothing left in the files, so there's no need to overwhelm it. If there were anything incriminating, it would outlast the weekend news cycle and displace anything short of an attack on American soil. But anything incrimina
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I have more than once bought stuff specifically from the ads. I'm wearing some MeUndies socks, right now, and they're good. I really liked the hot sauce subscription I heard about on the ad. And because I use the code they know wh
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by jfengel 9mo ago
It helped that books were all we had. I probably would have preferred little snippets of dopamine, too. I'm kinda glad I walked across campus glued to a book. But it was the same low tolerance for boredom that people show today.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic. A lot of the people currently running the world seem to have poor attention spans as well. Others have great attention spans, and I wish they'd pay attention to something different. I'm not
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You don't just skip over ads? My app lets me set a skip for the pre-roll ads automatically. I actually feel a tiny bit guilty about that. The ads are why the podcasts exist. Too many might drive away listeners, but too few drives away
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by jfengel 9mo ago
George Will's Men At Work is a good introduction to the numerous minute subtitles of baseball. It came as quite a surprise to hear why, say, shortstop and second base are such wildly different skill sets. I'm still not a fan of th
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I actually like the stop-and-go of American football. Each play is a few seconds of intense, simultaneous activity. You then have a minute to dissect all of that action, which can tell a different story for each of the 22 players. Even two
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And for a lot of cases, that's ok. The world is a connected place, and it's more economically efficient for that. You work best when you trust your friends. You balance self reliance, according to your best judgment. It's sur
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Why is it more like a currency than any other object? It's not negotiable currency or legal tender. People buy it and sell it. I don't see any difference between bullion, iron ore, frozen concentrated orange juice, and Pokemon car
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by jfengel 9mo ago
What a terrible argument. Without quibbling over all of the faults in the analogy, he's missing something important: if Wilt Chamberlain were a million times better than the next best player, the NBA would collapse. Nobody wants to wat
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by jfengel 9mo ago
I don't believe that it erodes the public trust any more than it already has. For those who oppose the administration, this is just one lie added to the top of the pile. They don't have any trust to erode. For his supporters, it&#
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80 million Americans thought it.
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There are 340 million Americans, but 80 million of them voted for this administration, and another 80 million were not interested either way. Only about 20% of the population voted to oppose it. If you're imagining a large scale revolt
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Because the people doing the investigating are on the side of the people who committed the crimes. And the people who voted for them seem predisposed to vote for them again, even if this gets swept under the rug. News cycles go fast. Outra
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by jfengel 9mo ago
What kind of cyber warfare? Just knowing what kidz today are into? Or is it an actual malware? Is it targeting certain people? I'm sure it leaks privacy like crazy, just like any other social app. I'm just still unclear on just ho
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Why are they rare? There used to be suicide bombings in the news all the time. Hijackings were the reason they instituted the metal detectors at airports. Improved security seems unlikely as a reason, given how many tests they fail. Was it
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by jfengel 9mo ago
Hypothetically, however, if your adversary is indeed without morality, then failing to acknowledge that means working with invalid assumptions. Laboring under a falsehood will not help you. Truth gives you clear eyed access to all of your o

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