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by rajin444 4y ago
Because laws don’t do you much good when there is nobody around to enforce them. Relying on others to ensure your own life is fine, but being able to defend oneself has obvious advantages.
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by rajin444 4y ago
> The crux of the issues is that it shouldn't be considered better. It's a totally inconsequential trait. They physical advantages of height are very apparent and simple to understand. Even animals recognize the larger you are
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by rajin444 4y ago
Do those loans have interest on them? Many major religions banned usury because it’s primarily a way for the haves to keep from the have nots. The alternative where the rich are sitting on piles of money because they can’t profit off loanin
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by rajin444 4y ago
It reads a bit like promotional material. A bit of a letdown to find it was done by MSFT researchers.
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by rajin444 4y ago
Thank goodness they’re forced to be a little less reckless with our money so they can still make disproportionate profits off our savings. I am more than happy to help. What kind of government allows their citizens to bear the brunt of the
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by rajin444 4y ago
> consider which business wouldn't be at risk of closing down when half of their customers run away _at nearly the same time_. Almost all businesses that fail do not take their customers life savings with them when they fail. That s
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by rajin444 4y ago
The civil war was the first instance of this federal overreach. Things haven’t really gotten better since then.
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by rajin444 4y ago
I never claimed one race was superior to the other - just different (and these differences make cultural cohesion difficult). > However the magic of the plasticity of the human brain is that it can, with effort, overcome virtually any im
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by rajin444 4y ago
I guess it’s safe to assume you think genetics has no impact on life outcomes and/or there aren’t significant genetic differences between geographically (by ancestor) populations? > What makes a person better than another is how the
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by rajin444 4y ago
> Cultural erosion is IMO nativism and bias Are you implying that non natives are inherently better than natives? One of the hallmarks of declining empires is importing people - not to say those people are better or worse, but mixing div
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by rajin444 4y ago
> Great empires all eventually fall because its citizens started to see each other as enemies more than allies. This has proved true countless times along with the age of an empire spanning roughly 250 years. Other signs also include glo
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by rajin444 4y ago
It's not about the actual impact of the words or anything like that. It's mostly tribal signaling - the current victors of the culture war desecrate their enemies cultural milieu. Rewording books, tearing down statues, demonizing
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by rajin444 4y ago
Does anyone actually buy data driven? Seems like a great methodology to adopt if you need to absolve yourself of responsibility for your failures. Most questions people try to apply “data driven” to are so ridiculously complex I’d need to s
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by rajin444 4y ago
This argument always comes up too and you end up with certain people trying to force others to bake cakes a certain way. The whole idea of “protected classes” spits in the face of free speech. I think free speech is a noble goal but can onl
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by rajin444 4y ago
I used to be really big on trust the experts, seek authorities for advice, etc etc. Especially for areas involving mental / general health. Specifics like fixing a broken arm I’m still on the experts side :) Decades later I’ve had many
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by rajin444 4y ago
> Hiring _targets_, on the other hand, should be attained How do you determine what those targets should be? This implies the we can determine the correct % of X race/gender/etc.
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by rajin444 4y ago
Nor should we forget to beware the man of one study.
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by rajin444 4y ago
Engineers create value - making them more efficient at their work generally creates more opportunity for work. Lawyers are an unfortunate necessity that extract value from society. Making them more efficient at their work (hopefully) create
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by rajin444 4y ago
This drug is a net good for society, but we have to fix the root problem. Much of the food we eat is filled with addictive ingredients (sugar, excess fats/oils, etc) that provide little nutritional value but are highly addictive. We’re
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by rajin444 4y ago
> inspired by seemingly superficial things This seems similar to adding an addictive drug to food. It will certainly appeal to a lot of people, but does it add value? Getting more consumers of your product should not be the end goal if w
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by rajin444 4y ago
> 2. Representation matters. Strange, I had the opposite encounter. I realized the only thing keeping me from doing things was myself. There are definitely real barriers (hiring quotas, affirmative action, etc.) but without artificial co
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by rajin444 4y ago
Trust is a necessity, not authority. Those with authority are often not trustworthy.
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by rajin444 4y ago
You’re hired for your problem solving ability which includes being able to learn and apply specific algorithms if needed. Asking questions that chat GPT can easily answer gives 0 insight into problem solving ability.
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by rajin444 4y ago
Western society has made a huge push for more women in specific industries. The impetus being discrimination against women has resulted in them being under represented. The only way the above is logical is if there are no inherent differenc
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by rajin444 4y ago
Your above exercise is silly because it doesn’t control for genetics. How can you run a robust experiment without accounting for major confounds? Even more we don’t even remotely understand how those confounds work - much less be able to co
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by rajin444 4y ago
> The first casualty when war comes is truth Most wars would not be fought if governments were trustworthy. And those that remain could be fought with full transparency. Trust is everything in society. When you start making exceptions ev
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by rajin444 4y ago
> This is a worrisome development. Governments are working with private corporations to promote misinformation and silence real information and you’re worried about…anti vaxxers? I can maybe steel man a utilitarian stance for this positi
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by rajin444 4y ago
The marketplace of ideas is a nobel and ideal state. However, its weakness shows in a low trust culture - those like Kendi will exploit it to initially be heard then discard it once they’re in power. Without strict controls over who is and
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by rajin444 4y ago
I took it as a jab at modern Britain having a lot more people (% of population) who’s ancestors didn’t preserve much history, which implies a risk of the same pattern occurring.
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by rajin444 4y ago
Who’s going to write new code to train the model? Who’s going to figure out why the code generated by the model is slightly off? The performance gains from chatgpt are going to be amazing from a quality of life perspective but overall not a

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