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by manjushri 9y ago
Many chinese citizens feel the same way about the "social credit system".
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by manjushri 9y ago
Seems like you're arguing whataboutism. Yes, the old media are being hypocrites and are seemingly dragging their big rivals down with them. For the standpoint of the average person with no financial investments in these companies, why
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Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by manjushri 9y ago
The success rate of anti-depressants is closely comparable to sugar pills. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/
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by manjushri 9y ago
>But privacy and security are not "cool", and never will be. Ever heard of James Bond? He was kind of cool, private, and secure.
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by manjushri 9y ago
>They should have behaved ethically, something which is sure to have been mentioned - even if only in passing - at the Ivy League schools they attended FB was founded on ethics violations.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Before we start talking about solutions we should defind the problem. How would you define the problem at a high level?
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by manjushri 9y ago
>Also "how do I know the words I hear sound the same to you?" I have a theory that this simple problem is the root of the majority of social conflicts. Terrence Mckenna once described this problem: "As primates we have an
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by manjushri 9y ago
Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in
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by manjushri 9y ago
Have you read the works of Carl Jung? Your experience reminds me of his theories. "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man
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by manjushri 9y ago
I was not aware of CA before recently. Wasn't the undercover videos of the executives admitting illegal doings only just recently released?
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by manjushri 9y ago
GroupMe is good for event planning and group chats.
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by manjushri 9y ago
What do you mean "our" god? You do know there are many other understandings of god that are different from the mainstream stereotypical Abrahamic definition of god, right? "God, therefore, is the one most simple essence of
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by manjushri 9y ago
Excellent question. >If you can't explain what you mean by "show you a mind", then I'm not sure how this question is different than "can you show me a gefadfij" This is basically my point, the mind is an und
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by manjushri 9y ago
Then how is that relevant? Were talking about the philosophy of mind, not just brains.
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What are the "necessary properties of god"?
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>I would be surprised if brains were able to maintain quantum coherence Are you hypothesizing the mind is entirely self contained within the brain and independent from the rest of the body and it's environment?
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by manjushri 9y ago
> a philosophical stance, that everything in the world is physical. It's not something that is likely to be solved empirically and it's not clear how you would even prove it one way or another. Anything as-yet unexplained might
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by manjushri 9y ago
>Just because we don't know the laws yet, that doesn't mean that it's magic. This is a strawman often thrown up when the blind spots of science are pointed out. Magic is a fancy word for something that we have no provable
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by manjushri 9y ago
Could you point to the difference?
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by manjushri 9y ago
>they're still physical interactions that can be interrogated approximately the same way we interrogate how muscle fiber works or whatever Newtonian physics fail to explain quantum phenomenon.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program
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by manjushri 9y ago
>Science has been the most successful method of inquiry and testing in human history, and yet so many want to take only sips from its cup because they don’t like what it has to say about our lives, our significance, and place in the univ
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by manjushri 9y ago
What question? It seems pretty clear what they are saying: the concept of mind is a social contruct, metaphorical, a figure of speech rather than a figure of physical reality.
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by manjushri 9y ago
>there's nothing "special" happening that can't, in principle, be explained by the same physical laws that govern everything else. How about dark matter and social dynamics?
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by manjushri 9y ago
>That's like asking, can you show me an immaterial soul? Precisely my point. Saying "the mind is material" is like saying "the soul is ether"
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by manjushri 9y ago
I can show you a brick. Can you show me a mind?
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by manjushri 9y ago
"The mind is material" seems like a funny hypothesis to me, given the massive unknowns in quantum theory --- we don't even know what "material" is fundamentally.
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by manjushri 9y ago
How about the getting rid of patent law? That would get rid of patent trolls, overzealous regulations and spur decentralizatiom.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Reminds me of the spaghetti legal code in the US

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