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by new2628 7y ago
There was a long back and forth between Pinker and NN Taleb. To me it seemed that Pinker didn't properly address any of Taleb's concrete critical points.
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by new2628 7y ago
> Tell that to the Bretons, Alsatians, Occitans, Corses, Catalans; not to speak of the outre-mer colonies. They were told that, that's why they mostly assimilated. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons&
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by new2628 7y ago
The work of Pinker you refer to has been thoroughly debunked as pseudoscience -- the concrete point about nomadic tribes may or may not stand, regardless, of course.
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by new2628 7y ago
Whether morality is learnable is something the ancient Greeks were already unsure of.
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by new2628 7y ago
I guess they mean it accurately captures the "mathematical culture" surrounding this problem, which I can confirm.
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by new2628 7y ago
For what it's worth, an archaeologist friend told me once that "ritualistic" is basically a synonym for "we have no idea what it was used for".
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by new2628 7y ago
Chernobyl's exclusion area has turned into a natural paradise in 30 years. It turns out that humans are more harmful to wildlife than radiation.
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by new2628 7y ago
Anything that works at the scale of up a few hundred people, or low thousands at most.
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by new2628 7y ago
What do you mean "further decouple"? It has never been decoupled in any real sense.
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by new2628 7y ago
> Inflation is already almost zero in much of the West. pet theory: Inflation is way way more than zero almost everywhere (prices of services and rents reflect this), but high inflation is masked by increased supply chain efficiencies, c
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by new2628 7y ago
Surprisingly, at the same time they often outlaw channeling rainwater (coming down from the roof) into the wastewater system, although that seems to be a solution to several problems at once.
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by new2628 7y ago
Can someone explain what the author meant with the following passage? "... Navier-Stokes equations, which govern the flow of fluids, including air currents. In this case, let us hope that it does not have a real-world application.&quot
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by new2628 7y ago
They wrote it with small capital, which means it was used as a generic term which is completely fine.
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by new2628 7y ago
My experience is that evidence-based commitments are overrated and are usually a post-hoc rationalization for faith- (or gut-feeling)-based ones.
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by new2628 7y ago
What do you mean? It's one of the most used algorithm in the history of mankind.
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by new2628 7y ago
I think the point people were making/implying is that there is hardly any public support, or interest in this initiative by those who live in the city. It is more a kind of insider baseball between the politicians and the readers of su
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by new2628 7y ago
Another observation: back in the day every streetlight was surrounded by clouds of insects and butterflies swarming around them. Nowadays I see hardly any insects in the evening. It may have to do with the change in lightbulb technology and
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by new2628 7y ago
The guy is a writer, I think his goal was to entertain more than to inform.
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by new2628 7y ago
To be honest, "sleepy Finnish town" sounds much more appealing than "internet wonderland".
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by new2628 7y ago
What people _believe_ is largely irrelevant in almost all situations, whether you mean the voters or the elected officials. Only actions matter. This is not just semantics, some who believe in global warming fly every month or week, some wh
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by new2628 7y ago
He did and he wrote some nice things in it for western consumption and he also wrote a lot in Gujarati, some of it less nice.
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by new2628 7y ago
It is a nice illustration, but they really missed an opportunity to include a fourth quadrant for "fruit brandy Europe". It would cover most of the Balkans and SE Europe, on the current dividing line between vodka and wine. It als
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by new2628 7y ago
True. If Obama got it, anyone can.
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by new2628 7y ago
I don't think the climate cares much about our technologies and cohorts. A ton of CO2 is a ton of CO2. Since you claimed I was arguing dishonestly, I withdraw from the discussion.
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by new2628 7y ago
That could certainly happen (although the island states I have heard mentioned in this context have populations more in the 10s of thousands), but in terms of culture/language loss this would be a small event compared to the loss in th
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by new2628 7y ago
Well, if by modern way you mean modern healthcare, ease of communication and travel, varied food throughout the year, etc. then I'm certainly for its continued existence. If by modern way you mean the degradation of nature, the plaster
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by new2628 7y ago
Yes, on my list the latter is a more serious problem than the first, it is more certain to be happening, and its effects are more permanent.
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by new2628 7y ago
Blaming the elderly here seems misguided to me. I suspect the lifestyle of an average 20-year-old today puts much more burden on the environment/climate than the lifestyle of their parents in their twenties. ADD: The amount of time eac
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If by whiskey... :)
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by new2628 7y ago
Not sure what you are trying to say here.

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