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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Sure, I’d agree with “reasonably wealthy”, just not “vast” wealth.
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Care to elaborate?
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
That’s like 2 pretty good houses in the bay area. Hardly “vast wealth”, and these sorts of things are rarely inflation adjusted over time.
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
People believe it because they learn to believe it in childhood. People who don’t believe it are bad. If you even question it, people get angry and say you’re bad. People support wars against other people solely on the basis of their disagr
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
The modern west is still very religious, they just switched to a new religion without a mascot. If you don’t believe me, explain to me how human rights, universal equality, democracy etc are based in science. You can’t, because they aren’t.
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
It would be a great scapegoat for further monetary expansion related inflation. Step 1) Instigate price increases for temporary reasons, leading to noticeable price increases. Step 2) As temporary reasons go away, increase money supply. Pri
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
That’s fair. I have read that also, but I have some skepticism that what we’ve seen in extant hunter gatherers there represents a universal instinctive practice in hunter gatherer humans. As the mating pool grows and includes more genetic v
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
It feels sad because it goes against human instinct. In hunter gatherer groups people generally didn’t leave, and when they did leave (because the band got too big) I think they generally fractured voluntarily along bilateral sentiment line
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
> Iran and Afghanistan were green when the Hittites and Babylonians were in charge I thought this was due to natural climate change?
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
So my assessment of the current mania is that it’s basically a management variant of Pascal’s wager. If you as a “leader” refuse to go along with the crowd and you’re right, then after the dust settles you look like someone who guessed righ
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Even the ones who manage to understand and avoid the predatory lending are still subject to competing with everyone else's speculated future earnings. Mortgages in their modern form should absolutely be made illegal as they bid up land
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
> There's a reason why the average tenure is <2 years. Companies that hire a lot or hired a lot recently always have this. The 3 month people drag down the average. It isn’t necessarily due to turnover. Not disagreeing with the
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Just want to point out that relational nepotism is human nature. It basically needs to be brainwashed out of people in childhood to avoid having it happen, regardless of where they are from. There is nothing wrong with relational nepotism
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Could it be Hollywood accounting?
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
I believe it was “Eternal September”.
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
I think a coherent framing is to imagine that the soul is a perceptual construct built into the hardware layer of human perception. Sort of like how the collection of particles you see as a tree doesn’t look like that without being passed t
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
> if he’s still healing from birth… swelling reduces Babies swell up from being born? Is this common??
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
> Winding Down > To our Guests: all flights have been cancelled, and customer service is no longer available That seems quite a bit stronger than “winding down”!
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
This is a deflection.
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Crime rates?
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Well what’s the difference for you between a foreigner and a non-foreigner in this situation? I presume the difference is that the foreigner has different incentives than the non-foreigner. Let me know if you had something else in mind. For
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Curious if you feel the same way about dual citizens?
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
That and the whole refugee problem in Europe. If we could fix the problems driving refugees out, then great. If we are creating more future refugees (a pattern which could easily be weaponized by destabilizing countries and then propagandiz
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Well the thing with that is that it’s a limited operation. You save the person, and then, if they have kids, their kids won’t be any more likely to be similarly afflicted than anyone else’s kids. A more apt comparison would be helping someo
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
I believe the sentiment is that it’s a ride because it consists of synthetic stimulus, not because it is enjoyable.
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Depends how involved they were. A lot of very successful people end up focusing on work and outsourcing the kid stuff.
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Is anyone else starting to wonder whether somebody is intentionally raising an army for some future purpose in Africa? Like the thing preventing “development” in Africa isn’t that too many of their children die early. Or, if it is, can some
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
> pediatricians and gynecologists Those are physical differences. Which isn’t to say that you’re wrong, but we could easily have different things for physical differences and not for mental differences. Should we have different prisons f
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Could this be from adults not being honest to children when they don’t know something? I’ve personally seen this happen a lot. Many adults try to save face about not knowing things with other adults, let alone with children. So it might be
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by pfannkuchen 6mo ago
Okay, I am focusing on the one assertion you made which I quoted, and I think you are arguing the top level point back at me. Features can change at a population level in the amount of time that different human groups have been separated fr

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