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by rbecker 6y ago
Imagine how much more perfect and flavorless tomatoes could be with genetic engineering! Or the opposite - they could be filled with salt and fat, like other highly processed foods, to encourage increased consumption. If that's what co
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Why should she self-examine? To adhere to your standards for behavior? I believe "lack of self-examination" is code for "she expresses views I find distasteful, that I believe she would change if she self-examined. I als
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by rbecker 6y ago
It's worrying how government spies are getting legal cover to impersonate legitimate entities. Like spoofing a phone number and faking the voice of a loved one. You don't need to be able to compel speech, when you can employ doppe
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Yeah, it takes a careful, charitable reading to not interpret it as "don't bother with understanding or finding new methods, just throw more FLOPS at it".
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Un-paywalled: https://archive.is/tNht3
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It sure sounds silly when you remove all context, doesn't it?
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So, what was the app?
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> Our position as beneficiaries of the open society requires us to serve as guardians of it. The failure to live up to that ideal reminds me of this prescient Dune quote: When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I know it's hard to believe now, but these findings in the 70s really were shocking, many psychologists and philosophers thought the results were impossible. I completely forgot to consider that/am only vaguely familiar with
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by rbecker 6y ago
True, it's hard to get an unbiased picture, especially from abroad - is "White silence = violence" such an outlier? But in either case, I wouldn't write BLM off - just because I think they're wrong about some of t
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by rbecker 6y ago
Fantastic, as long as you ignore how whites are being cast as villains in a country where they are becoming a minority, and anyone who brings up statistics refuting this is denounced. Historically, such a situation always worked out great
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Presumably you think you have rational, logical evidence based reasons for many of your opinions right? So how come so many people with opposing views are completely intractable to your arguments? You must have noticed this. I have not
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> Watching a video of a black man being choked to death by a police officer, on camera, certainly makes me feel that we haven't completely eliminated Jim Crow. The USA is a big country, and you can have your pick of instances of pol
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by rbecker 6y ago
The 12 million is for both North and South America, while 130 thousand Covid deaths are in the USA alone.
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The 'often' is missing not just from the title, but the entire article. It fails to draw any attention to the weaknesses or limited applicability of the experiments, and implies they're more universal, overstating their resul
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Nobody has suggested humans are not capable of rationality, that's an absurd exaggeration. It's the title of the article.
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> To mirror simonh's comment, it's rather ironic that you're responding to a claim of fact, with an opinion. Are they? "But we are approaching the truth. Everything in history, and everything in our daily experience t
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by rbecker 6y ago
"Why some facts, on some topics, don't change our minds as much as they maybe should" would better reflect the article content.
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A game is a no less legitimate form of expression than a book.
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Strongest in terms of persuasive power, but rarely (if ever) in terms of any kind of reasoned or scientific approach.
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> How close the book universe is to the real universe is a different story. The real life Lord of the Flies illustrates this well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123609 TLDR: After being shipwrecked, everyone got
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Do you disagree with that? Not at all. But it doesn't matter if I agree or not - I was just making an observation.
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by rbecker 6y ago
That description of "leading a people" sounds a lot like nativism.
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I won't claim Russia is remotely peaceful, but the Cuban missile crisis is an extremely bad example. The US had missiles in Turkey that could destroy the USSR [1], but when the USSR responded in kind by placing missiles in Cuba, sudden
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by rbecker 6y ago
> International trade when done with effective reciprocity and managing the trade deficit This is exactly what protectionism can help achieve. Without it, you get banana republics, wholly owned by foreign multinationals. It's tellin
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by rbecker 6y ago
Relevant section of the rule: "While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such at
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Reddit's new rules explicitly allow promoting hate against “majority” groups(reddithelp.com)
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Excellent examples showing total monopoly is not necessary for anti-competitive behavior.
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Here I am. What they are doing is less harmful than when a larger network does it, due to their smaller market share, but still harmful to the spirit of free speech (even if legal), and more than that, it's hypocritical. Any users of t
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by rbecker 6y ago
> In contexts other than the modern USA, there are other dominant elites which no doubt would exhibit the same effects when challenged; there's nothing innately White about White fragility, it's only circumstantially White. How

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