mabub24

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by mabub24 9y ago
I think one distinction we should try to make is that a "public intellectual" is someone who actively seeks to relate academic/scholarly research and methods to the public in accessible, but not simplified, terms and is open
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I was recently at a conference run by a progressive political think tank. I was surprised and confused by the way some of the speakers discussed AI, "innovation", entrepreneurship, and technology. They basically all repeated a num
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> They come out of this with more obligations: to globally filter some silly thing that somebody somewhere considered illegal, and possibly in the future to globally filter every silly thing that anybody considers illegal anywhere. That&
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Google will comply because it is an intermediary and does not lose power from this decision. It comes out of this decision with more power: the ability to pick and choose which laws it wishes to follow. See this part: > “Google’s argumen
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by mabub24 9y ago
I imagine, if you're implying the "special" perks are anything sexual, you'd be disappointed. It's a workplace like any other from what I've read. A job is a job. A number of Reddit AMA's have supported yo
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One thing to improve the situation: use an extension or hotkey setup to switch JavaScript on and off very quickly. I use Toggle JavaScript in Chrome. It helps. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggle-javas
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A previous post on the HN front page on human behaviour lead me to recommend this book, and I think you'd be interested in it as well. (I swear I'm not a shill.) It's called "Human Nature: The Categorical Framework"
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I would highly recommend [P.M.S. Hacker's "Human Nature: The Categorical Framework]( https://www.amazon.com/Human-Nature-Categorial-Framework-Hac... ). Hacker is an excellent philosopher and a very clear writer. He