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by mindgam3 8y ago
So, there are two ways of looking at Zuckerberg's idealistic positioning of Facebook as a force for good, which is how he pitched to me when I was recruited as a PM there in 2007 (and offered a job which I ultimately declined due to a
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“if he felt like Facebook was bending things the wrong way he'd say so” I wish that were true, but this is a rather naive perspective. Facebook has a well documented history of requiring outgoing employees to sign non-disparagement cla
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I've known Chris Cox since freshman year of college and he was an informal advisor to my first startup. The NYT article referenced in hashberry's earlier comment includes a key quote: “For over a decade, I’ve been sharing the same
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by mindgam3 8y ago
'For a police department claiming not to be targeting Orta for his filming of Garner’s death, they sure brought it up a lot. New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch released a statement saying: “the
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NYPD punished man who filmed Eric Garner killing with targeted harassment(theverge.com)
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Former CEO Zain Jaffer files wrongful termination lawsuit against Vungle(techcrunch.com)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
This is especially true if you tend to have an insecure attachment style due to adverse childhood experiences (unstable home, toxic parenting, etc). Better to be securely attached to one person than weakly attached to 10, or even 100.
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It's like setting a physical injury, but significantly harder because usually you're not dealing with it at the time of injury, only much later. You find the original source, some event or series of events that caused the psyche t
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Every single time I have experienced episodes of depression, I have been able to trace the depression to environmental causes/stressors. In most cases I had at least an inkling of the cause at the time I was suffering, but there were r
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by mindgam3 8y ago
This article introduces a geometric structure known as an "amplituhedron" as a way to understand reality. "Some researchers are attempting to wean physics off of space-time in order to pave the way toward this deeper theory.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I completely agree with your overall analysis, as well as the main point of the original article. The one thing I would add or clarify is that even the phrase "mental disorder" may not be the best way to refer to this class of sym
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by mindgam3 8y ago
You provide absolutely no evidence of this theory being widely discredited. The reality is it seems to be very difficult to test empirically. The most comprehensive survey I have found to date is here: http://www.goertzel.org&#x2
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Anyone interested in a theory of schizophrenia that actually explains the logic behind these behavior patterns would do well to learn about Bateson's "double bind" formulation. Dr. Stanislav Grof's essay "Mind, Natu
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Does Technology Favor Tyranny?(foreignaffairs.com)
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Trump to Sign Executive Order Promoting Artificial Intelligence(nytimes.com)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Watching chess, like watching baseball, is only boring if you don’t understand what is going on.
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Sackler Family Pushed for High-Dose OxyContin, Lawsuit Claims(nytimes.com)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I had a similar thought about that “geometry TA” line, even though it made me laugh at first. I do think bringing up Zuck’s personality can be valid. But the issue isn’t that he has a “lack of charisma”, which I agree sounds petty. Like the
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Sure, nobody has to do anything. In this case I think doing some of his own inner work would make his current stance of moral outrage more credible. People in glass houses, etc. Otherwise it’s way too easy to dismiss his (valid) concerns
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“McNamee [early FB investor] also profited from this mentorship [of Zuckerberg]. Along with his venture capital firm, Elevation Partners, the author made a fortune off an early investment in Zuckerberg’s company, a subject about which he is
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An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor(nytimes.com)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
What you are describing is getting high, not spiritual practice. Nothing wrong with getting high per se, but it can be extremely dangerous if you confuse those states with "Enlightenment". The experience of transcending one's
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Interesting to learn about the DDoS group posting it. Distributed Denial of Secrets. It’s like they’re positioning themselves as some sort of WikiLeaks competitor.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Be Your Ghost Writer(nytimes.com)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
The issue is Facebook denying refund requests after children were suckered in to make large in-game payments using their parents' stored credit cards. It's not just that this whole scenario is slimy. It's that Facebook was fu
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Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards(gizmodo.com)
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Unfortunately, this is actual news, not an Onion article. “The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, which is supported by an initial funding grant from Facebook of $7.5 million over five years, will help advance the growing fiel
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Facebook funds institute “to advance ethical research on new technology”(techcrunch.com)
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I give credit to Meta for having made so much progress as an “indie” player in AR hardware. They shipped a device comparable to Hololens or Magic Leap with a fraction of the budget. That said, the main narrative around their shutting down (
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Rise and Fall of Meta – Founder of AR Pioneer Reveals Inside Story(next.reality.news)
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