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by poszlem 4y ago
I am not diagnosing anybody with anything, I am merely commenting what I am seeing.
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by poszlem 4y ago
Yeah, that part of the blog post is probably the best example of: “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by poszlem 4y ago
Different people have different priorities when it comes to choosing a place to work. For some, a stable and secure company like Google might be the best option, while others might prefer a more dynamic and fast-growing company like Waze. I
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* https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sydney-covid-19-l... * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-19/london-pu... * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news&#x2F
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by poszlem 4y ago
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in the West took for granted the freedom and mobility that we enjoy in our societies. We assumed that the government would never impose drastic measures such as curfews or lockdowns, because these m
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by poszlem 4y ago
I find it baffling that this comment is downvoted so heavily. To me it seems quite spot on, and I wonder what is it that people downvoting it think is incorrect?
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by poszlem 4y ago
I agree that there is no such a thing as no bias, but the fact of the matter is that the chatbot appears to be biased against what "an average" person thinks and leans towards the direction of mainstream progressive elites (as the
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by poszlem 4y ago
This is quite interesting, as it might actually encourage the right leaning people to consider bias in AI training data as something worth addressing.
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by poszlem 4y ago
While the current speed of the AI research makes me quite uneasy, I cannot really dismiss what we are seeing as: >What we are witnessing is thus not "artificial creativity" but a simple "statistical mean of everything uplo
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by poszlem 4y ago
Nah, you appear to be misreading what I wrote. When a person with anorexia goes to the doctor and say: "Doctor, when I look in the mirror I can't stand my body, I feel too fat", the doctor doesn't say: "Here, take t
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by poszlem 4y ago
The confusion most likely stems from the fact that anorectic people have existed throughout history too, yet we still treat them by addressing "the feeling" and not by liposuction.
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I can assure you that any discussion that involves other people's children is on another level of heat when compared to even the most heated debate about bathrooms.
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by poszlem 4y ago
You can both say that people should be able to self-govern themselves and at the same time have a cut-off age before which they should not. The trans debate would be much less heated if it did not involve other people's children.
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by poszlem 4y ago
This is a very disingenuous take. "If You Disagree With Me, You Want People To Die" is also not the best way to signal your openness to an honest debate. > The truth is, hormone therapy saves lives. Some of those lives will be
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by poszlem 4y ago
I use it as a catch all term for people who "are into" Critical Social Justice ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynical_Theories ).
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They did, and then they went away. For a long time it looked like postmodernism is dead. The reason we talk about it right now is because of the rise of the online culture, where suddenly a philosophy of fluidity and lack of physical bounda
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by poszlem 4y ago
I think part of the reason why this is so much more visible online is the fact that the whole online world is the world of words. For example, the idea that you can "be violent" toward someone by not affirming them is a profoundly
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by poszlem 4y ago
The "truth era" wasn't the era when everything was true, but when we actually believed that there is such a thing as "the truth". I would argue that up until the time when "Applied Postmodernism" took hold
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by poszlem 4y ago
To offer a contrary perspective - some of the staunchest woke people I know are former (or "born again") atheists and the "new atheism" community was among the first to become captured by that movement.
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by poszlem 4y ago
The lottery part is the fact that you have no way to influence what you got, not that it is uniformly random.
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by poszlem 4y ago
We are living in the post-truth, post-modernist era, and I am very happy that more and more people are realising where it is taking us. I feel genuine relief reading again things like: <<<We cannot have differing rules based on the
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by poszlem 4y ago
One thing that people miss is the fact that in the event of any type of a "big" war between superpowers satellites are going to be heavily affected and probably one of the first targets. Having something like this, having that ki
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by poszlem 4y ago
Just to add a data point, I recently went back to Linux after spending years in the MacOS world. Installed Ubuntu out of habit, got the exact same thing happen to me (removed snap, installed firefox through apt, got snap back) and went to
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by poszlem 4y ago
As a person from an ex-communist country, whose family was killed by the communist government for being farmers I would disagree with that. So my question would be - why jail nazis but not communists?
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by poszlem 4y ago
Would you find it equally as acceptable for anybody "being a literal" communist to land in jail? Just trying to gauge how consistent that belief are.
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by poszlem 4y ago
Is that goofy? Sounds like a pretty mainstream opinion, not something that should be seen as controversial?
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by poszlem 4y ago
The problem, as usual is that "bigot" is just another word in the long list of words used to silence people. To quote Paul Graham: <<In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements t
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by poszlem 4y ago
The difference between thinking before speaking and self-censorship is that in one case you don't say something because you think it isn't true, and in another you don't say it because you are afraid of people finding out tha
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by poszlem 4y ago
What goofy opinions? The only one I was able to find seemed pretty reasonable: "Trans women are trans women" and is still the opinion of majority of people. Did she say anything else?

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