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by musage 9y ago
We know how the human brain will react. We already know how the human brain reacts to lack of good parenting and social environment, and how beyond a certain degree it reacts to it like it does to more active abuse. It's not like this
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These videos are not that. Some quotes from https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ which fit what I saw so far: > Adult themes repeat themselves throughout these videos. They're subtle, and require interpreta
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Oh yeah. Cyriak, and Blu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_lcVVoDIY I remember re-reading / looking at things more often than I would do today. That is, a few books I liked a lot. Other than that, new and wild was al
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> A single man cannot undo decades of societal decay. Rosa Parks didn't put the powder in the keg, and she didn't want to light no fuse. She was just sick and tired of something she considered wrong and demeaning for herself. S
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> Beadie: All the guys at the bar, Jimmy, all the girls; they don't show up at your wake. Not because they don't like you. But because, they never knew your last name. Then a month later, someone tells them, "Oh, Jimmy d
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Thanks for that! > some sites experience levels of failure demand, that is to say calls generated due to a prior failure to serve, over 50% of the total inbound calls. Yeah, that sounds familiar. And the worst part is, as call centers
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> the young woman's confidence has improved, destructive behaviour stopped, bullying stopped What makes you think that wouldn't have happened over time by itself? What's the message here, bullying someone for having lost h
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> the CEO predicts the exponential growth of his business and others like it, as à la carte human interaction becomes the new norm That's neither human nor interaction.
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> what that's potentially worth in terms of wasted effort, lost orders and customer hostility. I agree with all of the above but wanted to underline this. Because it snowballs so much. First call they explain the problem. Second cal
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Safety of what? Of pure physical life? Wouldn't prospering life imply some kind of vitality? Then how come we all just sit there and "hope" something will be done about climate change or nuclear proliferation? How come rising
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> How do we properly incentivize progress and innovation? There is no progress or innovation without qualifiers. > safest, most prosperous And most depressed, most suicidal, most alienated, most amok running, most hysterical, most sop
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Quote him. Don't interact with your own straw man, face the man.
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> As far as I can tell, your essential complaint is that Google is sometimes providing results that are too relevant. My takeaway is that the whole thread of the first comment should be collapsed, which is usual for HN. Important topics
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Objects are amoral. When humans create structures in which they align themselves with immoral incentives, they're being immoral. The failure to be good is being evil in my books; there is no neutrality and there is no mediocrity, there
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I love all you write. I'm this close to pretending to disagree just to make you argue more :) > If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be m
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Yeah. Mark Twain's story (warprayer.org) comes to mind. People love to argue for the abuser. Any argument you can make for "having" to, say, become an SS officer to feed your family, is outweighed by the much more justifiable
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a comment I made earlier, with Hannah Arendt quoting Heisenberg on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15634222 In the prologue of "Vita Activa" she wrote this: > This future man, whom the scientis
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How is that Orwell "on the matter" of humanities vs. hard science? > People lived for a very long time without a proper appreciation of controlled, repeatable experiments, and progress was very slow. And now that we strive to
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Here's another bit about Star Wars, but the whole playlist is wonderful. To put it mildly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97moKnDZYlM&index=19&list=PL... I need to have this on DVD. I may have "heard&quot
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> But increasingly, I realize that my time is better spent building something myself. > Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
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I don't need to detail all your premises I didn't even buy in to to have made my choice. I'm just stating it. It doesn't require your permission or understanding, it already is.
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> Pretty much the same reason everybody voted for Trump. "Everybody"? Sanders also said a bunch of things like they are, and he said them politely. Especially factoring in grass roots support, he was more popular than Hillary a
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How about stopping to try to throw wrenches into what he's doing? It's not a hard concept, don't break user space under no circumstances ever, if you do it's a bug. If you cannot understand and know this by heart, don&#x
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> Company based on 29th floor of Tokyo office block Similarly, I help people dropping the unhealthy habit of Tokyo high rise office blocks by not working there. Why mess about with symptoms when you can have the root cause?
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> ML is just going to end up automating the doctrine of FSD. That's it in a nutshell. The ultimate black box to bow down to. We already do this with in so many ways, just following orders, just repeating what we hear, and so on.. an
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And the fact that people can assert otherwise without blushing kind of goes to show it's all right on track, including the psy ops aspect. If control of the hemisphere requires control of the planet, if modern communications mean contr
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They're not being ignored as much as being fueled. Just for starters, how many weapons used in Africa by dictators and terrorists are not made in Africa?
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When someone like Stephen Hawking says automation will, given current trends, lead to more inequality, that rightfully doesn't get disputed. When I ask questions on HN that would lead to similar conclusions, I don't even get answe
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> without taking away from the continuity of the speech Of course it takes away from the continuity. Whether that's good or bad is another question, but not that. If words are to mean anything, that is. And you can learn about the c
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> We will arrive at a moment of sufficent self-alienation where we can contemplate our own destruction [as a species] as in a static spectacle. -- Walter Benjamin

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