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by mrow84 5y ago
I’m certainly no expert but isn’t the evolutionary timescale for parasites considerably longer than for bacteria? That would presumably lead to quite different consequences (though of course the evolutionary pressure, and thus the risk, is
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by mrow84 5y ago
For digital underlying assets, what is the social value of imposing scarcity? For non-digital underlying assets, what is it that ensures the link between the NFT and the asset?
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by mrow84 5y ago
I’ve unfortunately forgotten who it was I saw making this argument, but: why would you want that? We, as a society, finally figured out how to eliminate scarcity of (most forms of) media. New works are being produced at unprecedented rates.
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by mrow84 5y ago
I think the point is that there is a structural issue with renting housing, in that most people who rent do not do so for the convenience of renting, but because they cannot afford to purchase. This creates a naturally exploitative relation
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by mrow84 5y ago
I’m no expert but my understanding is that the drive to industry in Britain, aided by the enclosures, significantly increased working hours, and worsened working conditions.
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by mrow84 5y ago
> Is it crucial and it's a crime against humanity for being suppressed? Maybe, and I'm inclined to say probably because the same people who lie about everything are mighty certain that Ivermectin is something that doesn't
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by mrow84 5y ago
Literature reviews are common in all fields, and help to synthesise current understanding, and identify areas of conflict. This one found that there is near unanimity regarding humans being a major component of climate change. It is not “ga
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by mrow84 5y ago
How could you falsify this claim? How could you identify, in the context of your definition of merit, whether the richest are really the most meritorious? It seems entirely circular to me.
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by mrow84 5y ago
How do you know she abused him? Seems like you’re jumping to conclusions; (almost) none of us know anything about the situation so perhaps it is better to avoid speculating?
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by mrow84 5y ago
One way of considering the things you describe in terms of probability is to frame them as bets, and then set the probabilities based on what bets you might make (e.g. what odds would you want in a bet on whether the sun would rise tomorrow
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by mrow84 5y ago
Popularity isn’t a reliable measure of reason. Which of their positions do you think can be easily dismissed?
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by mrow84 5y ago
I don't think that quoting you as below substantially changes the meaning of what you wrote, and seems to very directly say that "the left" is "about power". As I said, this is tautological, but you present it as th
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by mrow84 5y ago
Saying that political thinking, of any stripe, is about power is pretty much a tautology. Similarly, equality and justice are about power relations, so there isn’t the contradiction you seem to believe there either. Politics is the process
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by mrow84 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01059-y For reference, I simply typed “Nature Human Behavior” into google.
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by mrow84 5y ago
Your confusion is caused by conflating two effects: the reduction in impacts from extreme weather driven by improved technology and scientific knowledge, and the increase in impacts driven by an increase in the frequency and severity of ext
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by mrow84 5y ago
Do you think that having more extreme weather events will reduce the number of weather related deaths, or increase them?
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by mrow84 5y ago
Feels a bit “no true Scotsman” - have you considered the possibility that the process you describe is actually a structural consequence of capitalism? Seems to me that capital accumulation and inheritance is a pretty obvious mechanism to dr
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by mrow84 5y ago
It would have been the AMOC, which is the most significant component of the overturning circulation system in the global ocean, and the one whose weakening would have a clearest and most immediate impact. Unfortunately, predicting its behav
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by mrow84 5y ago
Identifying which problems can be most readily addressed with limited funding certainly seems like valuable work, and definitely worth supporting. I imagine the major constraint is funders' (i.e. rich nations') willingness to actu
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by mrow84 5y ago
Consider two scenarios: a) Undeveloped land is freely available, and anyone who wants to can go and cultivate it independently from anyone else, making a life entirely for themselves. b) All land is already owned, and making a living must b
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by mrow84 5y ago
You mentioned that Bjørn Lomborg's work has "likely helped guide governments to make decisions which have done immeasurable good for the poor and sick" - I am interested to know, because it isn't something I am familiar
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by mrow84 5y ago
My reading of the article’s core argument is the following: longtermism assumes that it is possible to perform an accounting of future outcomes, and from this expected value calculations, even if just in sketch, that can be used to allocate
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by mrow84 5y ago
This Wikipedia article claims “ there are "around" 5,000 bases total, with "around" 600 of them overseas”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military...
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by mrow84 5y ago
It is deflationary, in terms of your chosen unit of exchange/account, when combined with an increase in demand, hypothetical or otherwise, that is above the rate of emission.
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by mrow84 5y ago
From the perspective of a child who believes something happened, mightn’t a parent “not acknowledging the harm they caused or are still causing” seems very much like “intentionally sowing doubt about a true fact”? Characterising that point
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by mrow84 5y ago
“Fighting oppression is more just than committing oppression” is a norm that has an incredibly long history. What also has an incredibly long history is trying to elevate the importance of the marginal consequences of those fights, over wha
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by mrow84 5y ago
What do you think that reason is?
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by mrow84 5y ago
> Again with the troll patterns Such as?
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by mrow84 5y ago
> "you've engaged in this discussion, ergo that invalidates your engagement in this discussion" I can’t figure out which part of my comment could be misinterpreted as having said this - please point it out to me so I can c
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by mrow84 5y ago
Firstly, I can’t even begin to fathom how you could characterise people trying to determine what happened to their relatives, and where their remains might be, as a “culture of, effectively, horseshit”. Secondly, as far as I can tell you ha

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