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by rilezg 5y ago
Agreed. I was just imagining people posting publicly on social media, but good to say that situational context/audience also matters a ton when understanding a given statement. There is often much unspoken nuance/implications.
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by rilezg 5y ago
Great points. I would also highlight the following: > The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true whe
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by rilezg 5y ago
If you believe you will be unremarkable and do nothing interesting, you will be right. 99.9% of people may be unremarkable to you, but I would say that 99.9% of people are remarkable to someone. Purpose does not mean fame and fortune. And f
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by rilezg 5y ago
Thanks, that makes more sense. The whole 'true passions, true desires, true opinions, true self' is a bit wishy-washy for me, but I appreciate the idea of thinking twice about whether you actually want something, or if you are jus
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by rilezg 5y ago
That's fair. I would say a person is defined by what they do next. I think what you're saying is that you should be careful telling someone that they 'are a baby' or 'are dumb', because they might believe you.
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by rilezg 5y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)
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by rilezg 5y ago
I might be misunderstanding. Are you saying that the secret to true freedom/happiness is to feel no emotion and care about nothing? Is this just another way of saying, "accept the world as it is and as it happens and be content fo
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by rilezg 5y ago
I certainly agree that it's important to leave people room to change who they are, but if a person isn't defined by their actions, then what are they? I guess it is polite discourse these days to distance a person's actions f
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by rilezg 5y ago
This reminds me a lot of Black Mirror season 2 episode 1. Always good to treasure the time we are given.
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by rilezg 5y ago
I think with any tech demo (or other corporate PR piece), it is good to assume the worst, because companies spin things to be as ducky as possible. This is a self-reinforcing cycle, because if two companies have identical products, then the
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by rilezg 5y ago
The blogger does say the norms they propose are for 'the genteel corridors of long-form internet writing', which, as you say, make up a tiny portion of all 'internet debates'. This sort of writing is always 'with au
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by rilezg 5y ago
Do we need more time and space in our society for measured discussion about current events? Absolutely, but such discussion is anathema to engagement-algorithm-driven social/traditional media. If you take the time to think things throu
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by rilezg 5y ago
Interesting. Why do you think the corp-gov-media monolith has adopted climate change as an official narrative? Was there a preponderance of scientific evidence preceding this adoption, or some other motive? From my perspective, the dominant
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by rilezg 5y ago
I am no seer to say what will happen in the next decades, but many of the cited examples, especially those from 50 years ago, are not to do with climate change, but rather with other pollution issues that, had we not acted strongly 50 years
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by rilezg 5y ago
I think the 'golden goose award' page from 2015 (linked in the article) gives a better overview of the original research than the article: https://www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/marshmallowtest A small q
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by rilezg 5y ago
Regarding the linked article, I feel it is important to clarify that the field under duress is 'Behavioral Genetics', not 'Evolutionary Biology' (the former may be considered a sub-field of the latter, but I think it is
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by rilezg 5y ago
I would disagree with the implied dichotomy of 'criminal minds' and 'non-criminal minds', especially given the somewhat arbitrary nature of what we as a society decide is a crime worthy of prosecution. Possessing a bit o
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by rilezg 5y ago
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