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by jnicholasp 10y ago
It does when the question is, "Does first person evidence exist?"
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I agree with your basic sentiment, that it's wrong that we so often assume that housework is women's work, and that it would be better if that gender expectation were not taken as a fundamental given. I disagree with the view that
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
You seem to be using a very broad definition of 'science'. What do you mean by the term? Do we know mathematical truths via science, or is that a different realm of knowledge? Are philosophical arguments categorizable as science?
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I'm in the same familial boat. Have you looked into lithium supplementation yet?
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> So it doesn't really matter what you intend it to say, as long as the grader can and does interpret something consistent from it. Which, for any sufficiently complex and ambiguous sentence, any motivated reader will always be abl
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
The 'deadweight' administrative cost is itself an economic benefit - it's money paid to some administrator, who will thus have extra money and will be able to return it to the market in turn. It just means that the $500 of be
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Exactly. Does it take ten times as much work for a real estate agent to sell a $1m house versus a $100k house? Obviously not. So what are we paying ten times as much for in the one case, and if there's no connection between effort and
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Why is it that we believe employers have a duty to employees to provide benefits like health coverage?
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
If you have a viable model by which the entire human race can plausibly work together to fund and implement this, the rest of us would love to hear it. There's plenty that's flawed about capitalism, but the thing is that it works
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I read your article and all of your comments, and my consequentialist argument is this: you will be a lot happier, and other people will like you more, if you learn to use rationalist thinking modes and lists of fallacies less as weapons to
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
It's pretty clear that you are confused about what Wikipedia is (not your personal cloud server) vs what you think it ought to be (your personal cloud server). Getting angry about your clearly-against-the-rules behavior being stopped a
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Mate, this isn't about abstract philosophical disagreements over what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is a private platform entitled to make and enforce its own rules about what it is and how it should be used, that you've been using for
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Marijuana is good for both nausea and the sense of wonder.
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I didn't read the statement where they discuss this, but Prineville, OR does not get a lot of rain. It is in the eastern Oregon high desert, very near Bend, and it gets more than 200 days per year that are sunny or mostly sunny, the hi
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I'm interested in at least the elevator pitch. What's your basic idea?
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I assume you're referencing Grady Towers' essays about high IQ people feeling like 'Outsiders'. His argument, I think, was that high IQ does not inherently doom people to be outsiders/fail to get appropriate educati
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
How much steady, difficult progress is currently being made? This seems like a thing that is being under-funded and under-researched, and more money, and particularly attention, being given to it is a good thing even if you don't think
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
That is, unless you get yourself a time-traveling space ship and dedicate yourself to the engrossing project of personally insulting every single being in the universe, in alphabetical order. http://www.hhgproject.org/entrie
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
All of the meaning and wisdom derived from their lives was because they were alive. Now they aren't, and we don't get any more of their particular genius, and that is a damned shame. It's also a damned shame that my grandfa
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
That's roughly correct, but it means that because it is saying that if you really believe something you should be willing to back up that belief with something that will cost you if you're wrong - i.e., a genuine belief that you h
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
The original argument was about business success, and that's what my original comment was mostly about. But the reply to my original comment that I was replying to here, seemed to be taking the argument toward the general success of ou
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> Ideas are the only thing of fundamental value to us as an intelligent species . In my usage, 'information' describes patterns that exist in the universe, and 'ideas', at least loosely, describes the apprehension of
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> Ideas are the only thing of fundamental value to us as an intelligent species. I'm not arguing that execution has no value. Obviously ideas, particularly business/startup ideas, must be acted on effectively in order to be
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
The idea that ideas have no value is prima facie ridiculous. The reason we aren't just a slightly odd species of chimpanzees is that we developed the ability to produce ideas. Ideas are the only thing of fundamental value to us as an
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
There is no reasonable argument for preferring that more people should die as long as the agents of their deaths are the kinds of biological organisms we're used to. What we happen to be already accustomed to has no relevance in determ
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. I understand that you may need to hold your cards a little close to your chest, but it's cool to get an idea of what you're working on. What you're proposing sounds really useful. I'm excited about
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> So where are they? There are two questions here, I think: are there a proportionately greater number of people in the world today with Shakespeare-level talent for language; and do those who exist now have the same chance of being reco
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Can you elaborate on the platform you're building? What is it, how does it work, what problems do you think it solves, etc.?
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I didn't down vote you, and I have no special insight into why others have, but my guess would be that at least some of those votes were meant to indicate disagreement with your interpretation: I think more people see the equal sign as
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
You wouldn't beam energy directly from near-solar orbit to the surface of the Earth; you would relay it to orbiting receivers around the planet, which would in turn beam it to the surface, and reaching the night-side as well as day-sid

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