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by mindgam3 8y ago
It’s kind of like that, except the reason he’s asking for the locks is so you don’t discover the kegs of Jagermeister hidden in the closet.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
My bad. I didn’t realize we should be thanking him for making billions off of evil products while teaching us a lesson about psychological harm on the internet. Lesson learned! /s Edit: Sorry for the snark. The idea that Zuckerberg i
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by mindgam3 8y ago
The guy who broke every single rule in his ruthless conquest of the internet is now asking for new rules. You have to admire the sheer audacity of this play. It does make sense though. He can finally see the tide of public opinion turning a
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by mindgam3 8y ago
It’s almost like the YouTube guy is taking his talking points directly from Zuckerberg’s script. ----------- 1. “of course we take this seriously” - Mohan: "Having said that, we do take this notion of dissemination of harmful misinform
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by mindgam3 8y ago
FYI, there is a neat trick for deep linking directly to timestamps on youtube, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4&t=9m45s
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Good analysis from TechCrunch: “Unfortunately for Facebook, it’s yet another lose-lose situation of its own making. During its intense, extended growth spurt, Facebook allowed all kinds of potentially controversial and dangerous content to
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Facebook’s handling of Alex Jones is a microcosm of its content policy problem(techcrunch.com)
7 points by mindgam3 8y ago|3 comments
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I’ve always thought that proponents of “embodied cognition” are onto something. Like the whole field of so-called machine learning is missing something fundamental about how humans learn. This article provides a cogent explanation for what
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“And by age 16 was well established in the community” Are you arguing that it’s totally cool to leave a kid on his own, as long as he’s “well established” in some community? That seems like a rather odd position on parenting. Not that I hav
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by mindgam3 8y ago
What sucks is that this amazing story is being exploited by all kinds of people to get attention and further their own agenda, including some who should really know better. Two days ago we had Garry Kasparov adding his two cents in the Wash
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by mindgam3 8y ago
> but they all say only positive things about their childhood > his mother just helps and encourages him without any pressure (that's from her own words, so could be wrong) For the record, almost everyone says only positive thing
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"I am just adding to the point that op made that plenty of chess grandmasters have issues" OP here. The point wasn't about the issues, it's that the issues often result from trauma, therefore we should speak and act with
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by mindgam3 8y ago
> From the same page, “the logic that childhood trauma causes insanity has a serious flaw: If the claim was true, the abuse of millions of children over the years should have caused higher prevalence rates of mental disorders than the li
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“in the papers Facebook is seeking to keep secret... a Washington D.C.-based Facebook employee warned others in the company about Cambridge Analytica’s data-scraping practices as early as September 2015. Under questioning in Congress last A
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Facebook may have ‘consistently mislead’ lawmakers about Cambridge Analytica(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mindgam3 8y ago|1 comments
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Fixed.
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“lets not forget that the whole school of psychoanalysis grew out of psychiatry. It's simply wrong to say the whole field is focused on biological issues.” That’s why I explicitly referred to “mainstream psychiatry”, rather than the “w
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I don’t think anyone is claiming that. I certainly am not. I would however argue that if you have depression there is a high probability of environmental factors which might be contributing (ie bad relationship, work stress, etc)
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"At last count, more than 12 percent of Americans ages 12 and older were taking antidepressants. The chemical-imbalance theory, like the revamped DSM, may fail as science, but as rhetoric it has turned out to be a wild success." T
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"> The chemical-imbalance theory, like the revamped DSM, may fail as science, but as rhetoric it has turned out to be a wild success. This has always been my issue with psychology. It is inherently unscientific." To be clear, t
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Yeah, I was trying to get at something, but "joy and success" didn't really capture it. The fact that his gofundme raised enough for him to move into a new home - that's what I'm talking about. https://ww
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Although I can appreciate self deprecating humor, it seems that you are simply using my comment to make fun of people who have already dealt with tremendous adversity. Does it make you feel better about yourself to tell stories and jokes ab
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I'm not all that familiar with Waitzkin's story. Pretty sure I met him back him in the day, but we certainly didn't talk about this stuff back then. And I haven't read that book. If you can give me some specific events,
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"I've always suspected it generalizes much further." I think it does. At one point a light bulb went off when I realized that all of these scholastic talent competitions were basically the intellectual version of childhood be
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by mindgam3 8y ago
As someone who had the unfortunate label of “prodigy” applied to me in my youth (chess master at age 10), I’d like to offer a perspective. It almost goes without saying, but huge respect to the kid for being able to persevere through massiv
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Stanford Human-Centered AI Symposium Live Stream(youtube.com)
3 points by mindgam3 8y ago|0 comments
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Fair point. To clarify, I’m not saying that Facebook can’t be used for good things. It’s a tool. The “knives can be used to chop vegetables or to kill people” analogy is a cliche at this point, but it’s still true. What I am calling out as
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Brian Acton and Palmer Luckey are not even close to the level of "high profile departure" as Chris Cox. Acton and Luckey both joined Facebook in 2014 as part of multibillion dollar acquisitions. They are like hired mercenaries and
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I agree. It is possible that his ability to effect real change was severely limited if it contradicted Zuck's vision.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I 100% view his quote as a mild-mannered 'fuck you' as you suggest. I also do see him as complicit to a certain degree. That said, there has been a very strong reality distortion field involved in being a Facebook executive since

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