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by mrxd 5y ago
In non-western countries the norm is filial piety, which means showing respect, devotion and obedience to one’s parents. The West is really the only region that has shifted to the values you describe. I believe there are advantages to the W
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by mrxd 5y ago
This mostly comes down to parents who have more traditional cultural values than their children. It’s like watching two sports teams argue about who broke the rules, but they can’t agree because fundamentally one team is playing soccer and
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by mrxd 5y ago
See also Diotima’s ladder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diotima's_Ladder_of_Love
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by mrxd 5y ago
I’d love to know what those obvious reasons are, and whether they don’t ultimately boil down to paternalistic conservative bromides that people can’t be trusted to govern themselves.
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by mrxd 5y ago
> So what, in your mind, is a more “democratic” news media? Assuming the problems of voter participation are solved, I would like to see publicly funded journalism and the position of editor-in-chief as an elected position. My criticism
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by mrxd 5y ago
Nielsen TV and radio ratings are the functional equivalent of "an algorithm that rewards CTR", and that system rewards polarization and outrage in exactly the same way. "If it bleeds, it leads" is the longstanding mantra
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by mrxd 5y ago
I think misinformation and conspiracy theories on these platforms are a huge problem. A few years ago, some bad actors were successful in convincing Congress of a crazy conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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by mrxd 5y ago
That may be true, but the WSJ headline was Facebook ignored its own research that Instagram is harmful. This blog post is intended to contest what the research said. Whether the research was good or not is a different issue.
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by mrxd 5y ago
> Citation needed. https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-59-americans-have-favorable-v...
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by mrxd 5y ago
The original paper refers to specifically to economic elites, but this article quite strangely redefines this group as a credentialist/cultural elite that is motivated by status and influence within bureaucracies and favors socialism.
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by mrxd 5y ago
> there is a depressing number of hardcore anti-vaxxers According to polls, one-third of the unvaccinated say they would get the shot if they were given time off work to deal with the symptoms. That suggests their "vaccine refusal&q
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by mrxd 5y ago
This is going to be a real headache for localization.
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by mrxd 5y ago
I think you are right that many therapists expect their clients to adopt a position of helplessness and submission, and label them as uncooperative if they don't. We constantly hear about the stigma among men against going to therapy,
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by mrxd 5y ago
It's actually not hard. Rationality is a form of communication. Its purpose to persuade other people and coordinate group activity, e.g. hunters deciding where they should hunt and making arguments about where the prey might be. In tha
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by mrxd 5y ago
There was a meme going around where a doctor took a high school biology quiz. Q: What are mitochondria? A: [Long complex scientific answer about ATP synthesis] Grader: Wrong. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.
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by mrxd 6y ago
Yes, that’s what it’s about. Turnabout is fair play. You should think through the long term consequences of that. I wish you weren’t getting downvoted because I think your comment reveals so much.
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by mrxd 6y ago
Most major tech companies have a 1:8 ratio of designers to developers.
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by mrxd 6y ago
I agree, my point is that psychoanalysis was developed by medical doctors trained in scientific methods and scientific understanding of human biology. So they were certainly aware that psychoanalysis wasn't scientific and never pretend
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by mrxd 6y ago
> Freud came as a kind of a doctor for mind, calling his clients 'patients' and mimicking "real" doctors in any way he could. This is a popular misconception. In fact, Freud was a "real" doctor who studied n
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by mrxd 6y ago
Word of mouth is person-to-person, not online or media. Brand marketing is also different from product marketing.
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by mrxd 6y ago
100% agree. I’d also add that people love to trash brands that produce substandard producers. Negative word of mouth spreads easier for more recognizable brands, and the company’s need to protect their reputation provides a level of assuran
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by mrxd 6y ago
> We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless, so we could educate people as to what it means. That is an incredible statement. I would think you’d want a symbol that represents danger to be intuitive.
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by mrxd 6y ago
> Not a new point either, but you'd be surprised how many people don't know their own feelings. My psych professor told countless anecdotes of patients who didn't know that the disquieting feelings they experienced when e.
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by mrxd 6y ago
Not a great article. Cobranded cards have proliferated because of lower interchange fees. Customer loyalty isn’t the main benefit to the company.
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by mrxd 6y ago
I wouldn't say that morality is classist per se. The idea of writers influencing the minds of their readers seems paternalistic, because the reading public are treated as impressionable children who need protection and guidance from th
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by mrxd 6y ago
The weird thing is that this article is in itself elitist. Cultural moralizing comes from a place of superiority and trying to morally improve the public. Inequality exists because the elite class holds political power, not because there is
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by mrxd 6y ago
That would probably be illegal for a public university. Elite private universities frequently defend themselves against the criticism that they reinforce social hierarchy and class privilege. They would incur significant reputational damage
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by mrxd 6y ago
> If I can do that, on a Sunday morning, from my home... why isn't Amazon? Because there's no real way of measuring the cost of a fake review to Amazon. Yes, Amazon could do a lot more. What's the right amount to do? How m
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by mrxd 6y ago
But what if the students assigned to the less desirable building really were less happy, but they had made other changes to their life to make up for it? Maybe they spent less time in the building, or improved the aesthetics of their room,
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by mrxd 6y ago
There's no question that Facebook attempts to shape the media narrative. But there's no need for any careful journalistic exposés to show that. The fact that there's a corporate PR department is enough. But Facebook is not ju

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