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> humans can make acceptable quality inferences from far fewer examples than an A.I. Perhaps the fact that we think we can do this isn't the greatest strength. While a lot can be said about the flaws of "Thinking Fast and Slow
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Everyone here is talking about their skillset, and I'm going to take another direction: appearance and interpersonal skills. There is ageism, yes, but I think a deeper problem is reaction to peoples appearance. If you are late twentie
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There are a number of options, and not all of them are splitting the company into a bunch of fully co-equal units, which is a process that works better when things cover an area. In telecom, it was typical, due to regulation, that you'
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Like eating beef. Quit eating beef, people. If we're going to fight climate change we're all going to be forced to give up most meat anyhow, so might as well start.
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Local level bribery might not take the same forms that it takes in other countries, but the top level bribery is easy to see. We have massively expensive elections that are used to direct money towards a massively expensive system of &#x27
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There are multitudinous ways to show people kindness that go beyond the interrogation room. Also, the police force plays tough with people all the time. Then, our prison system is brutal. Then when you leave prison trying to reenter socie
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As we blunder our way into the Anthropocene, discussions like this will be looked upon in terror by people living in far more cramped and efficient conditions. Why didn't you live in more efficient housing, they might ask. Oh, because
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> But your perspective is dangerously shallow and juvenile There was a line in one of the Expanse books that really got me, where a woman was talking to her son, and paraphrasing, she explained that "We have lost again". When
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I think that there is a dark model here in regards to sharing that people don't think about very often: you share with everyone in your friends list rather than specific people really often. An argumentatively older model for the same
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Perhaps we could just stop making weapons software? I mean, someone needs to go first. When I look at wars throughout the world, a huge number of them are fought with US weapons, and we don't actually have a good track record of suppo
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That's because the public sector doesn't build hardly anything anymore. They pay the private sector to build it. There are tons of examples of the public sector doing major works throughout the history of the United States. Only
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Yuck.
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> all the busy works laws and regulations that quadruple the cost of any project I want proof of that. I would argue that a larger problem is that politics is too involved in the actual approval process, which is corruption. A great ex
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Different impulses for different people. Basically, both are actively happening (1984: 'The Party', realities built on lies and tightly controlled information, etc.), and on Brave New World, which is something that we see in cont
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I imagine that, at some point, any specialized management of a 'social feed' will be considered human experimentation that generally leaves the people consuming it to be worse off mentally and emotionally. We already know that Fa
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Are you sure it works this way? This seems like a very solvable problem.
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With FB, propaganda campaigns are cheap, and the advertising, while small scale, doesn't really deal with the entire issue. Modern social tooling allows for broad propaganda with minimal interruption, and companies are happy to allow
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Web advertising shouldn't just be considered advertising, but also data collection. Data collection should not be cheap.
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A US company took money from a foreign government and used it to spread foreign propaganda, while calling it advertising. Money is pooled into massive organizations called 'PACs' that are used to fund campaigns that get folks into
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We already have crypto. Now we await utopia, apparently.
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That would be great if it weren't a prisoner's dilemma at that point. There is no getting away from the fees, so I must get a credit card, but that means that all of my purchases are tracked. If you don't think this is import
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I made a terrible mistake and I put a lot of pressure on my daughter to do well in school, do well in extracurriculars, etc. I made the measurement the goal. Now I'm trying to undo that damage and put it in her mind that at any point y
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While it might not seem so, stoicism, in the sense that is discussed in this paper, is not really synonymous with fortitude, calmness, and patience. It is more along the lines that there is a natural order that is good that a person must co
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I desperately want Europe to replace most services I'm using, because I prefer their regulatory environment. Primary examples would be gmail and google (I'm using qwant and it doesn't compare, but I use it before I switch to
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It is my hope that facebook is crushed and is never effectively replaced by anything. In fact, with a few changes to privacy law, it almost becomes impossible to run a facebook anyways, because it will eliminate many forms of revenue gener
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For most intents and purposes, that's who started it. anti-communistic fervor was, and is, a massive boondoggle.
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Nothing that Obama or Clinton did even came close to comparing to the wars started by Bush II. In order to find a comparable mishap on the part of Democratic governance and war you have to go back to Truman, and you won't find me defe
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I feel strongly that any economic system where automation is bad for laborers is fundamentally broken. Each automation should lead to shorter work hours for someone, without loss in pay, because it's not like the productivity has gone
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I'll make that comparison. http://www.wbtv.com/2018/11/27/desert-detention-camp-migrant... And if you think this policy isn't racist, then you haven't heard of the "Mexican Repatriation&qu
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This is whataboutism. Both are horrid: Corporations in the United States that build and sell weapons with the permission of the US government, other western governments and corporations that do the same as well. Yeah, horrid. It doesn&#x2

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