lopmotr

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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes, if you don't understand it and won't study it, then the best bet is to side with the scientists. The trouble is, that's almost everyone. It just seems to be one of those areas that's impenetrable to laymen.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
> There's a very good reason we don't run experiments to test, e.g., the hypothesis that a certain chemical might cause birth defects: the consequences of the hypothesis being accurate are morally abhorrent. Just because we do
903.
by lopmotr 8y ago
I'd love to have an answer to this too! Unfortunately, it seems to be a field that's too difficult for non-specialists to make any conclusions in at all. I'd say almost everyone who believes it was caused by humans does so be
904.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Sounds like you agree it's not certain but you're exaggerating the risk to scare people who don't understand risks. It might be appropriate to yell during a Greenpeace march but I would rather have intelligent discussions tha
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What's your evidence or reasoning for the claim that unchecked destruction of the environment will destroy us? I understand that it _might_ and that that would be a pretty bad thing. So there is a risk, but why do you think it's s
906.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Humans did reach equilibrium before the industrial revolution which allowed for exponential population growth that's only now starting to slow. It just looks like we never have it because we're in a growth phase right now. In futu
907.
by lopmotr 8y ago
I'm thinking of the advice you sometimes hear about meditating so that you'll be better at your job. Maybe it makes you better at your life but not at work.
908.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Surprising! But now it sounds like rich people are regrowing the forests that the poor people of earlier centuries destroyed. Evidence that rich people help the environment and poor people harm it. Still no sign of the harm that the grandpa
909.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Anytime some proposes a simple solution to a complex problem that nobody's been able to solve and calls it "simple", they're wrong. Who's going to give them money? Bill Gates? No, he's spending it curing malari
910.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Are they doing this to increase the number of non-spam domains so the overall .tk domain use looks more legitimate?
911.
by lopmotr 8y ago
No doubt they are successful pursuing their intrinsic goals. But the disconnect I saw was between monks who don't work and workers meditating to become more productive. Maybe the meditation is actually the cause of their not working an
912.
by lopmotr 8y ago
You mean rich people are to blame for poor people destroying their environment because the rich people set an example for poor people to aspire to? Have you got a suggestion for a way to solve that problem other than what the Khmer Rouge di
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Wasn't every nation? Europe and China have lost almost all their forests. Pre-European New Zealand natives exterminated the giant flightless moa. There was a powerful ancient African civilization that died out because they used up all
914.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Most of them didn't go to America but it looks like the order of magnitude was about the same for both ~10's of millions. The Arabs castrated their male slaves so they didn't leave a black population for us to notice like Ame
915.
by lopmotr 8y ago
Can you explain the causal link between those rich people's greed and this fishing technique? Is it because rich people enabled dynamite to be produced cheaply enough for them?
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by lopmotr 8y ago
The Arab slave trade took more slaves from Africa than the American slave trade. Maybe it's really the Muslims that are the cause of Philippine overfishing? Still doesn't make much sense!
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I used to wonder why Buddhist monks seemed to do so little productive work despite all the productivity their meditation was supposed to bring. Why aren't they generating awesome works of science or philosophy or literature or somethin
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Oh, well yes OK. I wasn't thinking of the creators of the content as human beings available to be blamed because they're so anonymous and unreachable. While morally, they might be the right target of blame, blaming them seems to b
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Isis was an extreme example, I agree. There are more common ones though. Would you prefer to leave your kid unattended on Youtube or supervised online by a random adult chosen from anywhere in the world? Most of those random adults will inc
920.
by lopmotr 8y ago
You might be applying your well developed adult sense of how horrifying various images are supposed to be to kids who haven't learnt that yet. Here are examples showing that it's not as bad as it sounds. Discovery channels shows a
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by lopmotr 8y ago
The original post was saying parents should work out what's OK in advance. I realize that's very hard but that if you get it wrong, you'll adapt your behavior so it won't be an ongoing problem. Just like if your kid gets
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I had similar experiences. Though I did find out later that one of the people I met on BBSs had some history of child porn or sex abuse and met lots of teenage boys that way. He later went to prison for molesting another one. It might be mo
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I think he means the parent should recognize that it's pirated. But regardless, there's a simple feedback loop that surely works to solve this problem. If you personally find your kids watching something you don't want them t
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by lopmotr 8y ago
No, humans don't do better. What you probably mean is you're personally good at applying your own judgement that's arbitrarily based on your own culture and experiences regardless of whether that's good or bad. But would
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I thought one of America's principles was having a free market. Net neutrality goes against that, no matter how many years of building support it's gained. What if a better solution would be something like New Zealand has where th
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Somebody has to do the legwork to dig up problems. That's what journalists are for, so it's not surprising a journalist found it. There are "obvious" problems everywhere that nobody has found because nobody has looked. S
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Why are people jumping through hoops trying to imagine possible reasons for differences in academic performance when the best predictor is IQ and that can be measured from just a few years of age - before they would have to spend time study
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I wish people would stop wanting to micromanage their governments. Some things, like negotiation, military planning, or crime investigation don't work when all their details are made public as they happen. Trade deals are never secret
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by lopmotr 8y ago
People usually don't want to voluntarily censor things from themselves. They want to impose their personal moral or political ideology on everyone else.
930.
by lopmotr 8y ago
This might not appeal to you but there are a lot of reasonable non-nutty right wing news commentators on Youtube. It's not really news but they inform you of news stories and put their opinion on them. They seem more sensible than Fox

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