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by notabee 8y ago
When people talk about AI taking over, they really need to consider this route. Social engineering most of the world simultaneously. It doesn't have to build armies of robots when we'll tear everything down for it.
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That's why I mentioned a specific form that is needed. Education is treated like a commodity currently (speaking about the U.S.) even if that doesn't make a lot of sense. Teachers are paid to pour facts into kids' heads, whic
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by notabee 8y ago
Do you want links to studies? I don't mind digging those up if you're actually interested. There is tons of woo surrounding the microbiome, leaky gut, and just about every other hot topic these days. There is also solid science be
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Please also add that antibiotics are not risk free. A lot of the post-Lyme stuff people mention sounds a lot like what happens when you obliterate your microbiome, thrash your gut integrity, and your body mounts a big inflammatory response
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The more educated the populace in general, the more they can recognize being hoodwinked into supporting things that are detrimental to their interests instead of being lead around by emotional pandering. Education is not a monolith, though.
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What you're left with is social inefficiencies instead of material or process inefficiencies. It's like trying to fix bad management at a company through engineering fixes: it just doesn't work. You have to solve the human pr
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He wasn't the only one, but he was the one that managed to avoid being quashed by the party he was running under. And yes, the numbers bear out that assumption about the rust belt. It was Democratic voters in key states staying home th
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by notabee 8y ago
I think it's safe to assume power play in most such instances, though the perpetrators may have little more self-awareness than a dog does when it pee-claims things. People who grow up in authoritarian households tend to just repeat th
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Insurance companies are also incentivized to make every claim a battle of attrition with healthcare providers and patients through denying, delaying, and traps make of fine print.
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Current U.S. healthcare: NIH syndrome writ large.
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This is the link you're referencing, right? I also found it a useful model of how social and economic ranks can substantially but not completely overlap. https://web.archive.org/web/20151006183427/https:/
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Diamond Age included a remote human tutor who acted as various characters in the imaginary world of the YLIP.
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by notabee 9y ago
This is just humans being humans. Some people have more capacity for openness and receiving criticism than others. Wisdom comes from taking time and understanding why organizations fail as they often do, and not trying to just fight your w
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Another concept that complements this is the fundamental attribution error. It's called that for a reason. Instead of first assuming that everyone who came before was a terrible coder/worker/person, you have to look at the co
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The really scary part is that any form of democracy itself rests on a similar assumption. Time, human attention, and learning capacity are all finite and no longer map well at all to an abstract, unbound ideal of civic responsibility or awa
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by notabee 9y ago
This is much like the illusory rational economic actor, or the imaginary private property rights that libertarians insist must exist without a government with laws (and weapons) or [insert alternative that possesses weapons and you hope is
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The medium likely doesn't matter nearly as much as all the irrational human tribal boundaries. Trying to fix those with technological solutions is kind of the fundamental error.
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That's right, it doesn't sound right because you're making the assumption that the energy to do this would come from non-renewable energy sources. The value of this technology is to sequester carbon or convert energy output t
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No, the worry is that without negative emissions, there's no realistic way to head off worst case climate change. The IPCC scenarios that have us averting disaster already assume that we're going to develop carbon sequestration te
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by notabee 9y ago
Unfortunately what makes many people very good at CS often makes them very good at rationalizing. People who spend their time wrapped up in clean, logical paradigms have a hard time recognizing that even for themselves, those logical paradi
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Preferably in tweet length, as anything longer can't hold his attention apparently.
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A household with a single income? Laughs in Millennial
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That's true for major health effects, but research is showing that lower than previously assumed CO2 levels may affect cognition and health, especially in poorly ventilated indoor environments. https://www.researchgate.net
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And then after saying no, you can watch the executives hire or promote up someone who says what they want to hear regardless of its feasibility, usually while using the latest buzzwords. Lacking domain knowledge or the interest to acquire i
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by notabee 9y ago
Not even that. Nothing is stopping a small fleet of autonomous miniature vehicles from breaking off from the rail line, carrying people home, and returning. Lower speeds, lower mass, fewer deaths. We're only bound to the legacy car siz
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I agree. We're a collection of stories that we tell about ourselves, and if something happens to cause cognitive dissonance with our desired self image we become distraught and often rationalize our way back into a comfort zone.
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Each recollection of a memory changes and affects further recollections. You likely have a need to feel that you have a consistent self-schema more than one actually exists. https://theconversation.com/the-instability-of-mem
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Cambridge Analytica already did this for the past U.S. election. It had an app that told canvassers which doors were worth knocking on and what sort of dialogue to use depending on things like the person's estimated neuroticism and oth
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The increase in homeless encampments as detailed in this report are also a stark indication of how false the recovery is. Unfortunately most of the homeless get shipped to California, often with one way bus tickets from municipalities that
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If possible, you may want to add in alternative views with the carbon budget. There's a lot of chicanery with the IPCC scenarios and negative emissions technologies that don't exist yet. It gives context to what the ppm means in t

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