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by retsibsi 7y ago
This kind of activism is definitely counterproductive -- but a 'sensible moderate' worthy of the adjective would be aware that there is nastiness and idiocy to be found among the advocates of every position on every issue, and so
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by retsibsi 7y ago
I think it depends what you mean by 'offended'. If people are just annoyed or outraged, yeah, no problem if you want to ignore that. But if my words are really hurting people, of course that matters to me. It doesn't guarante
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> No subjectivity here, folks. What do you mean?
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by retsibsi 7y ago
And then the delightful followup: > Instead of asking your Indian friends to perform more emotional labor for you and assuage your white women’s tears, maybe do some reflection on how your equation of India with an alien world reinforces
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> Denmark has kind of an UBI: a single mom + one kid, no work for past 20 years, gets more than $2300 per month. Such a person has enough money for food, good apartment, etc. All what UBI wants to provide. > But many of these people e
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Thanks!
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> I read that a can of green beans sold by WM will turn over 6 times before they have to pay the vendor for the first can. I can't parse this but am curious what it means; can someone explain?
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Also, the null hypothesis is just a starting point from which you gather and analyse the data that may disprove it. There's no reason that 'X has no effect on Y' should have a privileged position in messy real-world epistemol
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> The fact that Yang's campaign is struggling should throw cold water on the notion that this kind of thing poisons the political process. This is not logical. "This kind of thing poisons the political process" does not co
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by retsibsi 7y ago
It's also possible (and plausible to me) that negative messages tend to be more effective than positive ones, and that sowing doubt is easier than positively convincing people. In which case it would be very hard to elevate a random ca
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Needlessly endangering other people's lives. (And hopefully breaking the law, depending on where you live.) Seriously, which parts of adulthood and 'the real world' make this seem necessary and okay to you? It really is super
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Fair enough -- and I think I had my own similar doubts when reading, but ultimately deferred to Hodges' authority and assumed he was quite likely to be correct. I'm interested to look at the Copeland biography now (see my edit, wh
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> there's at least as strong an argument it was simply an accident I don't mean this in a passive-aggressive way, but can you link me to any good sources on this? The most authoritative-seeming ones I've read lean pretty h
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Why are you confident about any of these things? Unless you're simply stipulating a definition, and not worrying too much about whether it corresponds to 'consciousness' in the sense most of us care about.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
But some of us are using the word 'consciousness' to refer to the existence of subjective experience. It may be impossible even in principle to get very far on most of the deepest questions about consciousness in this sense. But i
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by retsibsi 7y ago
All good points, but additionally: sometimes it's good to wait and see where a glitch takes a game, rather than banning it straight away because it 'breaks' the version of the game that everyone has been playing so far. A cla
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Walking is a great time to listen. Also when doing (mostly) mindless work, like washing up or cooking familiar meals or watering the garden. As for speed, that's controllable -- I find that I sometimes like to listen at real speed, oth
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by retsibsi 7y ago
The answer is sort of ambiguous; see this Andrew Gelman post for details: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/26/whassup-wi...
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by retsibsi 7y ago
I said it can come across as disingenuous, largely because the original statement didn't seem ambiguous to me, nor I suspect to the people who downvoted you. And sometimes people pretend not to have understood something, as a way to
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by retsibsi 7y ago
FWIW, I would be interested in hearing why you disagree. I think some of the downvotes probably came because the reasons behind the original statement seem very obvious (there is and has been a lot of social pressure on women to look thin;
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Would it have been illegal to buy and resell stock from the supermarkets?
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Yes, GP's argument seems to rest on the assumption that people who reach the right conclusion do so for the right reasons. But opposing discrimination against gay people didn't become more obviously right over the course of a few
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but the problem with that test (aside from the likelihood of self-deception) is that there are people on every side of every issue who would fail it. edit: I actually think this is a serious point, because it
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by retsibsi 7y ago
It also looks uncomfortably like a certain iconic shock image...
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by retsibsi 7y ago
And not just in America. It's common in Australia too, and apparently it dates back a long way in England. Jack has become a lot more common as an actual given name over the past few decades, though.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
It almost gives me an uncanny valley feeling. There's a certain pattern to every comments thread that makes me feel like I'm watching a 'conversation' between lazy teenagers, vote-manipulation bots and a handful of (paid
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by retsibsi 7y ago
I wouldn't necessarily mind it being partisan, if not for the extremely low quality commenting standard. I'm sure there's a causal link: most of us are less likely to call out bullshit from our own team, and when there's
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Could be more the other way around: in a really Xist field, there are fewer complaints because a) there are probably fewer [minority group] to complain, b) complaining feels riskier and less likely to achieve anything, c) complaints that do
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Probably it depends at least as much on context (the sum of all your interactions) as on how you present any single critique -- I know that I can take a piece of criticism very differently depending on who is giving it, and that's not
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Can you give some examples of people being (widely) labeled climate change deniers for 'questioning anything about the politics or economics' of climate change? In its standard use the phrase refers to people holding or spreading

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