monkeycantype

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by monkeycantype 1y ago
A few years ago, I remember hearing reactionary podcasters panicking about trans identity propagating by "social contagion" {their phrase}. The word "contagion" sets up an awful frame around this. I think instead you cou
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I had this same experience, but I have not continued to take the medication after a short experiment. I found I could get a similar outcome (subjective experience) through my food selection Today I’ve eaten around 2kg of vegetables today (z
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I'm reminded of the comment by a republican adviser, during the second bush presidency, critiquing an interviewer by saying ~ "you're too reality based, we're making reality". The odd thing about this claim that aut
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
Because wit is good proxy for intelligence and an ability to take alternate perspectives. (Not all commedians are actually using wit, some lean on other kinds of humor, practised learned jokes and rebuttals, rousing a crowd against scapegoa
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
HK, what do you mean when you say 'can't derive an is from an ought after all.' I can read a meaning in that but I'm not sure if I'm understanding it the way you intend or not.
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I can’t say this is true, but it seems to me that Peter Theil views René Girard’s ideas on scapegoats and mimetic theory as correct, but views them not as an identification of the flaws we must outgrow as a species, but as a feature to be u
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I really like that approach
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Ok, I was confused by this, I had vastly overcomplicated what I thought you had to do, confused by the word 'loop' the only thing you can do in the puzzle is hide or reveal squares from the edges in. your goal is to make sure the
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
An interesting thing about this comment is I have no idea which side of politics you are criticising.
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I want to see more discussion from the perspective that the economy and government is not just a process, an institution, but a contest, an arena. Outcomes which are presented as a failure, are not merely a failure, but like a punch in a bo
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
He can do anything people let him do, fear and influence are reaching places beyond legal authority. I’m in Australia, a multi year plan on corporate diversity standards fell over last week. It was already at an impasse about how to measure
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I'm sure this is a really great article, but I was really excited that this was going to be scientific, philosophical take on different conceptions of possible mechanics that might underly our observations of quantum behaviour and the
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
It's not about distaste. The motivation for buying an electric car is in part about believing your individual choices contribute to larger outcomes. The same logic links your Tesla purchase to Elon's growing wealth and power, whic
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I was at some of those meetings, though unlikely to be the exact same ones :) At the meetings I attended the furious debate was whether we allowed a volunteer group cook food in our kitchen to feed homeless people. The interesting thing abo
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
My grandma had a brain tumour removed through her eye socket about 40 years ago, although a lot of damage was done to her eye in the process
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
What I believe has broken in the US, UK and is well on the way to breaking in Australia, is the confidence that principles will win over greed. If you believe there is a critical mass of good principled people who will stand against selfish
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Nah, I moved from a big city where people are feeling squashed by the pressure, to a small town, where people feel a bit more relaxed, and I am constantly surprised by how much of a shit people give. I’m not advocating for small towns here,
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I’ve used an llm to help my niece, who is a performer, and has a flair for story, but no rpg experience dm as a human - llm team up. It was very successful
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I’m going to add a caveat here : people reciprocating respect is my personal, subjective experience, I don’t believe everybody gets this same treatment. I think people who look like me, who are used to at least a tiny bit of status - the po
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I'm the white cis male with grey hair, but in my n of one experience I have encountered very few situations in which not taking the bait on the first provocation, showing a bit of empathy and respect didn't quickly get the same em
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I see the problem you identify with people's behaviour and agree with the noisiness of people you refer to as group two - people who aren’t thinking deeply about what they are saying have a lot of freedom to shoot their mouth off. To
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I think this paradox makes sense to me when combined with the comments above. The best way to maximize return on real estate is to influence gov to restrict supply
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
but don't forget that even after the fall of civilisation, there will still be hope in the form of the probe bearing a vial of Elon Musk's semen to Alpha Centari
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Tall poppy syndrome isn’t real, Australians don’t have a problem with people being successful but object to greed and lack of humility. Have a look at people who have claimed they were harmed by tall poppy attitudes and see what you think.
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
In Australia, and I expect most western countries, it’s pointless discussing immigration without acknowledging it is being used as a lever by business to suppress wages and working conditions in the destination country, and that to do so im
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Thank you for posting this PaulPauls, can I please ask a wacky question that I have about mech.interp. ? we know that when we use a metric to measure humans, we game the metric, I wonder about future ai, gaming mech.interp. for simplicity l
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Perhaps because ice forms outside cells, freezing ions in place. Even if there was a very small area around ion channels that was liquid that equalized all ion concentrations with the cell, when the extra cellular fluid thaws the original c
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Hi Zachd, I like this, but I'd like to be able to do it for custom date ranges, and add custom constraints. for example, my company has mandatory shutdown days, I have x additional days leave, and z study days leave that I expected to
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I just want to show my support for this statement by a fellow monkey
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
The genetics of hunger are fascinating, people literally feel very different levels of hunger. My family are mostly all quite fit and healthy, but this is because exercise and dieting are a cultural obsession in my family to an un-mentally

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