naming_the_user

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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It is probably a self-perpetuating meme, I just think it sucks. Feels like a catch-22.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
All of the examples you give are unique in their own ways, I don't have the wherewithal to go through them all, but if I choose one: A person describing themselves as being Christian is only signaling that they are a follower of the Ch
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Being proud of your identity and culture is not a problem at all! The thing that I feel that this silly AI bot draws into sharp contrast is the idea that there can simultaneously be "asian/white/black culture" - as a gen
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Yes, races are clearly total bollocks. I don't know why you've gotten any other conclusion from what I've written here which is why I'm confused, you seem to be agreeing with me angrily.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
DWB exists because people (police in this case) think skin colour has predictive power. It's the same thing. (I'm not saying that it's a good thing, responders seem to be assuming that). Meh, whatever, one day maybe we'l
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I don't know what you're talking about at all.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
What I'm saying is that it the AI to me illustrates how much of a self-own drawing these cultural battle lines is. If you choose to describe yourself by the colour of your skin first and foremost then you're telling everyone that
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that th
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Nonsense, you’re engaging in first order thinking as I stated. China is a great counterexample of this, or just the life story of anyone who goes from rags to riches. You may as well say that a broken down car has no emissions so let’s fix
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The barriers/boundaries thing I think is interesting. I've never really been able to identify with this sort of "make money and then fix the world" stuff because I feel that everyone hugely simplifies every issue and loo
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Step 1: Simply create your own Starlink.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I think the issue here is that with retirement levels of money existing friendships can become strained. If your high school friend earns 50k a year and you earn 100 then I mean sure, you have different toys, bigger house, whatever, but you
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's also the case that having enough money not to work makes it very simple to engage in self destructive behaviour. If you have a 9 to 5 then you're waking up at sunrise and going to bed some time after sunset. You're proba
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Sure, you can do that. That's what I mean by being unable to relate. It's not like it's a one off "I took a couple of days off to build a table" or "I used my X weeks holiday to go to Thailand", all of you
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Thank you! I try! You too!
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Do you also look at charts? I look at charts. Charts fun charts not fun. Line go up down.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
As a young(ish) man with retirement level wealth personally I don't understand this primarily I suppose because my main passions in life are not profitable. Great, so now I don't have to profitmax every single thing and can rely o
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Well, as an example, in the UK we had fairly tight control of pornographic material. Soft porn magazines were top shelf only. Movies had age ratings. I'm not that old and I remember the controversy when someone found a sex game in GTA:
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Trying to “hack” exercise is like trying to find that one neat trick to live on $10k a year, even if you win you lose, you’ve missed the point.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
If whole milk, chicken, beef etc aren’t on the list then their definition of healthy is nonsense. For some reason people seem obsessed with overcomplicating their diets. You don’t need to subsist on a diet of rabbit food to be healthy, you
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
A lot of people are just financially illiterate. I grew up poor and the other comments here are super foreign to me. I agree that a couple of grand would be useful but not for buying toys, mostly for fixing stuff. Especially the idea that m
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It’s always confused me that (some) Americans, despite being so pro-freedom in general, are rabidly against the idea of betting. We’ve had it in the UK forever. The sky hasn’t fallen in. Yes, we have addicts, just as we have alcoholics, mos
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Does anyone else feel as if most of these studies are kind of just navel gazing? Like someone just needs to fill their time with busy work and so here's an easy academic job they can do that doesn't really give any new information
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Shrug. My experience of school was the opposite - society at large is actually set up fairly well but pockets of it and the people in it are absolute dumpster fires.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It’s not clear to me that this is ugly at all? You don’t need childcare if you have free time due to not being at work..?
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I definitely agree with the idea that social media has created a bunch of "odd" groups and a ton of division, but sometimes I wonder what the alternative is. It seems like prior to social media we had mass media and that served as
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I agree with this but I think that the FAA comes with pretty heavy caveats which limit the wider applicability of the model. An airliner is something that is essentially impossible for a garage crew to produce, even less so if they want to
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The problem I think is that if you take the two extremes/limits - e.g. the "do as little as possible until we absolutely have to" and the "do everything that could feasibly make sense" sides, in the absence of an ex
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I completely agree with everything that you're saying here - my use of the term "basically everyone" was lazy in that I'm implying that at the 110 IQ level the majority (approx 70%) of people are economically obsolete ou
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Well said. In as much as I enjoy the discussions on this website (hence still visiting often...), I find there to be a few weirdly almost anti-factual positions. Elon hatred being one. The launch of the Model S as a mass market vehicle was

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