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by ravitation 5y ago
This is an important idea in game design, even for games that aren't explicitly competitive. What players enjoy doing (i.e. playing to play) should (mostly) converge with what players do to optimize for some goal (i.e. playing to win).
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by ravitation 5y ago
I think Sirlin's definition of a "scrub" is interesting, and certainly useful (in that it describes a type of player that exists), but I wouldn't read too much culturally into that definition. It might have something res
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by ravitation 5y ago
> I want to learn things, but code reviewing bad code doesn't teach me anything - I want to work with people who can teach me things when they review my code just as often as the reverse. I mean maybe you're working on extremel
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by ravitation 5y ago
My comment answered that "countries with public health systems" actually do "pay" for the "latest generation insulin" (i.e. the price for the "latest generation insulin" is still a tiny fraction the c
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by ravitation 5y ago
Not actually the question since countries with modern healthcare systems provide all types of insulin at an average cost per unit that is roughly 1/10th to 1/20th the cost in the United States (cheap vs. expensive is an over simpl
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by ravitation 6y ago
And you very conveniently don't address anything I actually said, because after "yourself" you also wrote "and the world." This isn't some "gotcha." I addressed the parts of your comment that I disagr
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by ravitation 6y ago
What I think is somewhat interesting, is that there are numerous pieces of his/her comment, like the piece you quoted, that essentially imply the need for articles like the one posted here. The idea that you can "learn just as muc
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by ravitation 6y ago
I mean... No, it won't... Being 75+ doesn't kill someone in weeks like COVID-19 does...
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by ravitation 6y ago
It certainly seems very likely that what you're doing with said screen matters quite a bit, but this is also an extremely complex thing to try to study. Not only can the net result (i.e. a hypothetical positive or negative result) of a
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by ravitation 6y ago
> Many people have chosen to promote the lie that the vast majority of COVID deaths can be dismissed using this reasoning, rather than a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction. This is comically illustrated by the examples being used... Hit by a bus?
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by ravitation 6y ago
This study is only interesting as a prerequisite for reading this... https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/05/29/hooker-and-miller... And, as mentioned here (among other places), https://twitter.com
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by ravitation 6y ago
To be honest, this reads as quite the Luddite article. Not to mention the focus on Simulmatics is akin to using the 19th century use of bleeding as the basis for a criticism of modern medicine. Also, the modern example of Cambridge Analytic
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by ravitation 6y ago
I wonder how different these comments would be if the author had used the term "antisocial personality disorder" instead of "sociopath."
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by ravitation 6y ago
I'd also argue that a failure to teach (i.e. "telling people the knowledge they supposedly lack") is also not in and of itself a failure of intelligence. The failure of intelligence is not necessarily thinking that the earth
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by ravitation 6y ago
I'd argue, at least in part, that the discussion about "lack of knowledge" in these comments is at least partially a result of the author's own failure to define, or even maintain a consistent implied definition througho
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by ravitation 6y ago
I think this is undoubtedly a relatively large contributor to the perception of modern stupidity. Additionally, I read it as part of some of the written hypotheses, but, upon rereading, I don't know that the exact conditions are captur
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by ravitation 6y ago
I doubt this considerably. Aside from the fact that it is almost assuredly a combination of multiple of the hypotheses, from my in-person experience (i.e. not on the internet), age does not directly correspond to intelligence (specifically
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by ravitation 6y ago
This is essentially the theory of multiple discovery ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery ), as opposed to the heroic theory of discovery ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_theory_of
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by ravitation 6y ago
Honestly, I find the argument that some specifically destructive event (or even a collection of events) would be pervasive enough among all intelligent species to serve as a "Great Filter" to be completely absurd. The chances that
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by ravitation 6y ago
This blog post (and most of the blog itself) is completely absurd (and largely enormously uninteresting). I found the ending of this specific post particularly meritless. The Norton Sound Regional Hospital and Quyanna Care Center was built
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by ravitation 6y ago
This is a bit of a weird take, the weird part is primarily... > My point is this: if we expect everybody who is a little bit different to think of themselves as an impostor, we’ve totally lost the plot on this whole inclusion thing. I&#x
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by ravitation 6y ago
Once again your ability to absurdly oversimplify things is truly astounding. The reason why one's economic situation is relevant (and it's relevant to essentially everything), is because it becomes a source of many other biologica
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by ravitation 6y ago
You comically underestimate how hard those things are for many men, especially those that are economically disadvantaged. I don't agree with many of the takes in these comments, but your simplification to "just work harder" i
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by ravitation 6y ago
Historically police department reorganizations have actually often involved increases in "policing," in addition to structural changes in what "policing" looks like...
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by ravitation 6y ago
Could not agree more with this. I'd sooner buy an "ancient" secondhand MacBook Air than use Windows or attempt to use Linux on a laptop. I find the the touch bar obviously annoying, but that annoyance is so minor compared wit
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by ravitation 6y ago
My point wasn't that I necessarily have a different view on what scientific discourse is; my point was that someone who is less discerning might see a discussion of one of the views you listed and see valid scientific discourse. The is
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by ravitation 6y ago
The WHO's stance on a subject is not equivalent to scientific consensus... This is actually a very common criticism of it.
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by ravitation 6y ago
Well, some may find posting said preprint particularly questionable simply because it had Ioannidis' name on it, and he's primarily known for his emphasis on standards of evidence.
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by ravitation 6y ago
I want to add one other piece of information to this discussion, because Ioannidis is somewhat central to the point the original article is trying to make, and it is ignored by the article (because it significantly weakens some of their arg
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by ravitation 6y ago
Others are not so discerning in what they think is scientific discourse.

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