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by lukifer 7y ago
No dispute. Obviously decades of anti-Soviet propaganda (which does encapsulate many legitimate critiques) have muddled the conceptual landscape, both in terms of oversimplification, and in emotional charge. And, we have significant status
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Not only does socialism suffer from a "No True Scotsman" problem (there is a wide disparity, from within and without, regarding what the term means), I dare say that's true of just about every -ism under the sun. (TODO: inv
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I'd be interested in a non-gamified CLI-builder GUI in this style; it'd be especially cool to surface flags from man pages. Many CLIs follow conventions or are easy to remember for basic use cases, but as soon as one is juggling a
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by lukifer 7y ago
#5 may be unlikely to benefit us, given Jevons’ Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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One thing that surprised me when water fasting was that while the hunger went away on the second day (starting in ketosis helps), I found myself still craving the reward and ritual of meals. Lunchtime arrived, and I missed the excuse to tak
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by lukifer 7y ago
Perhaps a good rule of thumb: any time a significant number of worldwide religions independently converge on a single practice/idea, there may be something of value there worth porting to the secular world (see also: the sabbath, and t
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Simler & Hanson provide a pretty solid explanatory framework: http://elephantinthebrain.com/
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CGP Grey's "Should all locks have keys?" says it better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBH1eW28mo (4m)
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That is a significant quality of life factor. It does vary by biology and (I assume) lifestyle factors as well, though. I generally feel about as rested on 7 hours as 8; 6h and less starts to degrade exponentially, especially after more tha
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I struggle with this problem, and am currently striving to make 6-7 hours/night non-negotiable, both for higher day-to-day functioning, and longer lifespan. One thing I'm curious about: if one views lifespan as a function of total
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> The author is casting aside decades of economic growth, peace, and innovation. I think Steven Pinker's case for capitalism is strong; still, it may be that a significant portion of that progress derives from "cooking the book
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I support the idea in principle, but it's inevitably going to serve as a flame to bad-actor moths. Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread... I think Haidt's Heterodox
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It's a good question. The very concept of social contract theory doesn't really jibe with a purely voluntarist ethic. If somehow, every single member of a polity wants to secede, it's hard to find anything wrong with that; wh
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I don't disagree, but that somewhat kicks the ball down the road: why didn't a similar disparate group of elites do something similar in France, or any of the other myriad instances of failed revolution? (As an ignorant layperson,
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I've been trying to figure what makes America the outlier. One could say egalitarian Enlightenment values, but that didn't prevent the French Revolution from turning into a bloodbath and eventual authoritarianism. Do you know of a
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There's no singular state of humankind, any more than there is a specific "goal" to evolution. But I think Haidt is right about human nature when he calls us "groupish" (or, "part ape, part beehive"). I&#x
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As someone who feels similarly, I'd say the difference is a tool under the control of the user, as opposed to "outsourcing" to a mix of closed-source software, opaque algorithms, and quasi-feudal corporations. Eyeglasses, hea
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by lukifer 7y ago
1. Are you referring to something specific that I'm not aware of? 2. Is this really the primary concern, in the grand scheme of things? In a utilitarian sense, a problematic or offensive choice of words is peanuts compared to (for inst
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Anecdotally, I find it fascinating that many people find cannabis induces anxiety, while many others use cannabis as a treatment or coping mechanism for anxiety. I'm sure the strain, strength, and exact blend of cannabinoids are releva
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This was the podcast that took me from opposing software patents, to opposing the very concept of patents altogether: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/67 See also: "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set
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Bryan Caplan makes a compelling case for education being primarily a signal for grit and conformity: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11225.html
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Teaching Math Has a Guessing Crisis(medium.com)
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It's an interesting thought experiment: set aside the complex details of our real-world weaponry, and imagine instead of guns we had low-power phasers when the Bill of Rights was conceived. Now, imagine those phasers get 1% more powerf
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IP legalities notwithstanding, the moral defense in my mind is when creators don't have any mechanism for a direct revenue stream. It's one thing to not pay and skip ads; but if ads are the only way to support the creator, I hat
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Good to know.
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This is just about the greatest thing ever, thanks for sharing.
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If you live in a dry climate (I'm in Colorado), consider a swamp cooler. It's an amazingly simple and efficient machine: just a water pump and a fan, and peanuts in electrical costs compared to a full air conditioner. As long as y
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Sex is power, power is political. Freedom is power, power is political. The unfortunate reality is that there are no closed systems in nature. Nothing can be completely firewalled off from politics, power, game theory, status, memetics, soc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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Much is made of the "self-driving" part of autonomous vehicles, but I think "self-parking" could end up being just as significant. Imagine if there was no longer any reason to mandate parking capacity for planning and zo

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