lo_zamoyski

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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> You really think if they didn't work there, someone else wouldn't? Putting Meta aside as I do not have a sufficiently deep view of the total scope of work at Meta and its relation to its misdeeds, I never understood how anyon
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> To be honest, I don't believe it is a any more crazy believe than all of the other religions. The only way anyone can make a blanket statement like that and put "all religions" on equal epistemic footing is through ignor
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
Except Zionism is not religious. It is a modern secular nationalist ideology rooted in ethnicity, shared ancestry, history, culture, and language. Indeed, socialism dominated Zionism for a long time. Many if not most Israelis are not religi
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
Education today is broken in general. Few people have a clue about what education is actually for . How can you possibly educate students well if you don't know the destination? And how can you know the destination if you don't
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> if a dev's only real skill was "write code" that they were severely limited compared to people who had strong domain knowledge and had "write code". Indeed. If we peel back the rationalizations, it is patentl
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> slows down innovation A return to the classical understanding of the person, society, and the common good is indispensable.
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
I doubt it was intentional, but in general, I am not impressed by that and don't find any value in that. Same with Hollywood's depiction of women knocking out guys twice their size. Unrealistic, ridiculous, and harmful.
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
You joke, but it's not remotely Catholic in principle. A confession is by definition invalid if premeditated. A presupposition of confession is that you have contrition and the resolve not to sin and wish to receive absolution (which d
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> We're quickly getting to a point where all parenting is delegated to people and institutions that have nothing to do with raising children. This is just the logical conclusion of consumerism. Consumerism produces careerism. Career
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
As the saying goes, experience keeps an expensive school, but humanity will learn in no other. The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk. It is indeed interesting to observe how attitudes in tech seem to be changing, especially with the
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
Except it's not really conservative. What often gets called "conservatism" is very much just a variation of some form of liberalism. (Republicans in the US aren't conservative either, not in any meaningful sense.) Conser
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
This is where I would note that tastes can be deformed. It is possible, for various reasons, to acquire bad tastes (here, childhood nostalgia).
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> It's astrology for professionals A lot of corporate "metrics" are pseudoscientific. They have a superficial veneer of being "scientific", because there's, like, math and numbers and stuff, man. The world c
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
> How is a whole demographic group not qualified for jobs on wide spectrum? If a demographic groups has, for example, a culture that encourages overconfidence in relation to actual qualifications, then it is reasonable to expect that tha
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by lo_zamoyski 4mo ago
In other news, water is wet. This has virtually always been the case and it is only "social media" is an Orwellian sense. It is an antisocial consumerist machine. In consumerism, everything is for sale.
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> I don’t have the same thing for the ebooks I’ve read, and it gives me a weird feeling of amnesia. This agrees with studies that show that memory retention is better among students when using physical books rather than ebooks. That&#x27
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
The main problem is the culture of consumerism . I wouldn't say we're hedonistic creatures by nature. It isn't good for us to be hedonists. I would say that hedonism is simply the nature and logic of consumerism, and consu
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
I think educational reform has often been motivated by several different reasons. 1. The desire for a "royal road" to understanding. This is a bad motivation, because while there are more or less effective ways to learn, there is
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> When the consciousness itself not understood and well defined in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if something is or isn't conscious. But we know what consciousness is , even if you don't know how to expla
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
You might find Gleam[0] a better fit. [0] https://gleam.run/
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
I think nuance gets lost in these conversations. Your distinction between the practical and the theoretical is important. Practicality is important - everything we do is a matter of practicality of means or method , even how we pursue
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
I.e., imperialism. Imperialism gets a bad rap—and it can be bad—but it wasn't black and white as the rash and motivated slogans in the street would have you believe. Empires can have a beneficial and civilizing effect on peoples who ar
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
The conversion of hearts, ultimately. A culture is sustained by people. Missionaries are powerful in this regard, but they must be prepared for martyrdom as they will be contradicting established evil practices. Film and media are very powe
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Perhaps you should learn to read, because your response (even putting aside the juvenile bits woven into it) doesn't actually respond to it, and certainly not with any real substance. > pretend everything's a zero sum game This
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Not much meat to this article, but I do wonder how much lower prices were then in Bermuda. Almost everything needs to be imported and shipped over. Today, it is incredibly expensive. You can easily pay $30 for an incredibly mediocre breakfa
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
I am all for helping the worse off. However, one of the most repulsive ideas is that you can cripple everyone else, because some people have less. This is slave morality and the logic of ressentiment and envy. It is also profoundly immora
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> Those born in countries like Poland One famous example is Jacek Karpiński [0]. Soviet pressure, opposition to the use of Western parts, and intense jealousy of the commie state bureaucracy which sought to hold a monopoly over computer
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Labor saving tech doesn't lead to more free time, and certainly not in a way that's proportional to the gains of automation. Instead, companies will expect still more productivity. Why give you more time off if they can keep workd
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Somewhat tangential, but I am reminded of a quote about an adjacent problem with analogous flavor from the pen of the venerable G. K. Chesterton... 'It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich aski
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Enter...Aristotle's Peripatetic school[0]. And now for the peripatetic programmer... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school

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