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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
Are you insane? If there was any credible science to contradict the climate change hypothesis, it would absolutely be funded. There are trillion dollar industries with massive vested interests in climate change not being a real thing. I can
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
What you're doing is baselessly asserting things.
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
If you consider "global cooling" and "global warming" to be similar phenomenon within the scientific community, then you really are very badly misinformed. This is ironic since you accuse others of "accepting everyt
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
That's a pretty strange assertion to make. This is a scientific issue. It will be resolved one way or another by observations of reality. Most people care about it. It's not really a religious argument at all.
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I think here 'improbable' means 'unlikely' and 'disbelieve' means 'not believe true' rather than 'strongly believe false'.
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
"We have as much proof that his memories are false as he might that they are true." This isn't really how evaluating evidence works is it? Suppose I told you that I have a magic flying carpet but I am unable to let you see ev
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
tedks didn't talk about definitive truths. The word used was "likely". Very few adults have memories from before the age of 2 and a half, and most who report memories cannot distinguish between personal memories and knowledge
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
"uses math of all stages" - I don't think so! Source - post-doctorial mathematical researcher.
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
It's pretty important to experiment with these ideas and see what is possible. Look at how far automation has come in fifty years, and think about what we'll see in our lifetimes. Not everyone has the ability to do complex, abstra
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
While you are correct, please bear in mind that we are already being manipulated by politicians. The public discourse on drone strikes is dominated by those who seek to downplay the horrors of war associated with these attacks. It has worke
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
Did you really come away from that article thinking that the author expected the world to fall into her lap? She's an artist who has worked hard for her success but is humble about it. She uses her own experiences as an example to talk
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I think you missed the point. Rich powerful people live in a bubble and poor people get treated like crap, but have no power to do anything about it. The bubble itself isn't what the author criticises, it's the strong sense of ent
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
This must be corruption at work. It's unrealistic to demand that Master's level students have two good quality published papers. There's no research benefit in publishing poor quality papers. So the reason must be fake presti
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
You may have a strong attachment to mortality, but I personally don't. I strongly believe I would be able to cope with immortality, and I think it would very much be worth it for a chance to see more of the universe and the future of h
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I think Adam Curtis understands that the people he's talking about want (in principle) privacy for individuals and transparency for government agencies. I think he's misusing the word "paradox" just as an easy way to des
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
You know, people talk about sociopaths a lot, and I get why, but I have a problem with the definition. The idea is that a sociopath is someone who lacks empathy (or, so I've read, is able to switch off their empathy) and prioritises th
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I guess you're getting down voted because it's an emotional issue. But you're right, so far, the number of people targeted by the NSA/CIA with extreme methods (i.e. drone strikes, imprisonment without trial, rendition, w
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I think the big problem with designing human systems is that as systems evolve there is a parallel unpredictable cultural evolution. I guess the only reasonable way to design human systems is through a slow process of evolution and iterati
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I think you're being unfair to netcan here. Netcan is talking about system problems, not individual moral deficiencies. It doesn't really matter whether netcan assumes that these systems are good and individuals should operate a c
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I think the real merit in pointing out widespread problematic individual behaviours is that they point to systemic problems. I agree that many systems are bad even when full of "good" people. However, I think some systems are bad
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
Are you one of those people who thinks he knows an obvious truth that everyone else ignores for some reason?
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I'm in my early thirties and pretty successful (because I worked hard and am clever). Yet, even I can see this generation is being squeezed, between high unemployment, low wages and student debts. Not to mention high housing prices (an
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
Counter espionage, SIGINT and secret weapons were all discussed in the article.
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
That's an interesting point. If piece of information X is easy to verify, then so is piece of information Y where Y is some blackmail material on an individual who knows X. That does make sense.
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
I don't think the author cares about the difference between SIGINT, HUMINT and covert action. He's just looking at sources of information in the abstract. (Likewise, the author isn't concerned with how the information is used
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
It makes sense for the article to not distinguish between SIGINT and HUMINT. It's just about the effectiveness of misinformation. I guess the idea is that intelligence gathering is only useful in cases where counter-intelligence is dif
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
No it's not. The correct analogy would be "it's useless to have a sword because my enemy has a magic shield that is easy to use, impossible to detect and will hurt me if I hit it". If such shields existed, then certainly
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
Well it's still pretty complicated, because there's no option to go out and hunt for a living. You can't earn food without participating in society, which is a very complicated system of rules that few of us have any influenc
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
What you're describing here is a problem of culture and a problem of incentives. You're defaulting to a pretty extreme solution - isolate from their culture and threaten with starvation. It seems likely that there could be more hu
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by onetwofiveten 13y ago
Your obvious answer follows from a specious argument. You assert the notion of "property" as if it were a clear and well understood absolute. However, that is far from the truth. For example, almost all land has been taken by forc

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