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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   I wish articles like this would provide more detail (such as a link to the study itself). At the moment I don't know how to act on this information. It was a survey, so what exactly were the questions? How were "those who keep a check on th
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   Though PG specifically mentioned politics, I took away the message that any person or group with $30 million could do it, if they wanted. Is it likely that someone cares enough about a specific place to to altruistically transform it into S
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   Thanks, I signed up and sent feedback. That Youtube video is marked as private so I can't view it; I thought I'd let you know in case it's something you often send to people as a demo.
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   Yes! When I was on Windows, I wrote a program that starts music, pausing every few minutes to read out (using Windows's text-to-speech) the time, the weather (scraped from BBC's site; I was in England), which of my favorite blogs had update
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   There is good-quality information on this kind of thing. I like the work of Dr John Gottman. From this interview, you can see his intelligence and honest approach (e.g. changing his mind about the usefulness of teaching active listening):
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   I think this is a good topic for HN (maintaining relationships is an important skill). But this article, lacking evidence and rigor, is not HN-quality. From what I've read on the topic, conflict resolution is a factor of happy relationships
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   I also have performance problems on Ubuntu 8.10 in Firefox 3. The clouds moved jerkily and the buttons were somewhat unresponsive.
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   I'm reading On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, which is about how the human brain thinks (with the angle of replicating this as artificial intelligence). In brief, the neocortex has layers. Inputs from senses arrive at the lowest layer, and t
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   by michaelkeenan 18y ago

   They've been bio-engineered, not evolved. The bio-engineers presumably cared more about maintaining human morality than about fitness-maximizing. So they kept the "human morality applies beyond humans" value.
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    There are historical examples of unethical behavior that was noticed and consequences occurred. But the amount of unethical behavior that wasn't noticed, and wasn't recorded in history, is unknowable. We don't know what percentage of unethi
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    > I thought people used "tl;dr" mostly because dismissing things is so much fun, not because they'd be willing to read a shortened version. You might well be right! But I like to give the benefit of the doubt.
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    I agree that Franklin's advice might lead to explicit dominance behavior being replaced by the subtler status-seeking antics of convoluted text. That would still be an improvement in my opinion. Fortunately, the internet has an existing idi
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    alexandros might be referring to the argument was made by Roderick Long in Cato's lead essay in November: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/10/roderick-long/corpora... He points out that government funding of highways acts as a de facto
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    I would like to see a social news aggregation site, such as Reddit and Hacker News, focused on quality debate. Users would tag each submission with its label in Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    Criticism can be motivated by a desire to communicate useful information and/or motivated by status-seeking/dominance. Criticism that repels even secure people is the kind that appears to have that self-promoting agenda. I like the way Ben
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    I have sympathy for your point of view. But I worry that attempting to remove the profit motive from healthcare could result in potential doctors choosing different professions. A problem with society having "certain expectations" of doctor
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    In case you want to find your source, I'm guessing it was economist Robin Hanson: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-medi...
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    That's right! I was vulnerable from reading about Bryan Caplan's book about rationally ignorant voters ( http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/11/06/bryan-caplan/the-myth... ), and then I discovered Moldbug and he tipped me over the edge. Thanks
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    I used to believe that democracy was the best system. I believed in it as fervently and as automatically as a 16th century Spaniard might believe in Catholicism. Can you blame me? No-one in my society opposes democracy. No-one sane anyway.
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    If noncompetes are such a bad idea, why are they so common? It could be a Prisoner's Dilemma where everyone's defecting (a similar situation to hockey players voting for a rule mandating helmet usage, but not using them without the rule:
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    by michaelkeenan 18y ago

    It might have the opposite effect. At the beginning of PG's essay, The Power Of The Marginal ( http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html ), he suggests that pleasant climates make work in spaces like garages possible. This encourages tinkerin