sanderjd

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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yep. Might be worth doing once. But not twice.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
This is perfect being the enemy of good.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
One facet of the strength of our presidency is the degree of consensus required for Congress to exert itself in opposition to the president. Both impeachment and veto overrides are high hurdles.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yep, you put my thoughts much better than I could have. And great quote! Hadn't ever come across that.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
A presidential system is a design that has a strong executive. I agree that the presidency has grown stronger then intended, but it was always strong relative to other kinds of systems.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Agreed
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I think this is my take as well. Like, the web and smart phones and social media have transformed everything ... and also life goes on.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I'll echo the other reply: This seems like a bubble. I come across the AI-skeptical perspective in my real life frequently. I only really run into the "god AI" perspective here / among other people working in software.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
That's a totally different point than the thing I was criticizing.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
That is not at all the primary point of this article. This article focuses nearly entirely on the damage done by TikTok as a social media application, very much in keeping with the exact same criticisms the author makes of other social me
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by sanderjd 2y ago
That's fine, but if you're going to post "now do X" in response to a criticism of Y, it behooves you to understand whether the author might have already opined on X.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
You're totally right. I wouldn't have written what I wrote, if I had seen this comment before seeing the ten thousand other comments on this page that just say "whatabout {other social media app}". Not fair to the author
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Enough with this nonsense already.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I don't know anything about Fentanyl, but something about this description seems off to me. If it's as easy to make as you describe, why wouldn't people just make it here already? Why are they taking the risk of smuggling it
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by sanderjd 2y ago
It does matter. Both things are a problem. Just for different reasons.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Exactly. I think the more thoughtful responses are starting to bubble up to the top now, but when I first got here, essentially all the comments were of this form.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
The author of this blog wrote a whole freaking book about exactly this! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How is this like 95% of the comments here, as if Haidt didn't write an incredibly well known book about how all of this is
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by sanderjd 2y ago
The author of this blog is one of the leading proponents of this idea! I'm really starting to think all these whataboutism posts are bots. It just seems too hard to believe that so many people would come here to make this same idiotic
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by sanderjd 2y ago
If you have read anything Haidt has written, you'll probably note that this implied criticism of him being only anti TikTok is quite far off the mark.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
No, but I'm also not a die hard libertarian, so I'm open to arguments that 1. This is bad, and 2. There may be net positive policy interventions available. On prostitution, I'm a bit skeptical that the policy interventions ov
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I think actually lots of people do care about all these problems. It's weird how so many of these threads are "whatabout other social media", when there is no contradiction in just saying "that too", and essentially
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by sanderjd 2y ago
The author of this piece, Jonathan Haidt, wrote the book The Anxious Generation, which is very much about how all of social media is bad for kids (and adults, actually, but the book is more focused on kids).
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by sanderjd 2y ago
The Nazi / Hitler comparison was always a poor fit, in my view. But what most people were actually saying was just "this person does not care about the laws and values that keep our government from being a tyranny". And what
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by sanderjd 2y ago
You're probably right about that, but I don't think that's the criterion? I think "considered to be non technical" is quite a bit different than "has at least once been dismissed as insufficiently technical&quo
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by sanderjd 2y ago
They were saying that they know of counterexamples to this statement.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
The sycophancy - within the administration itself, and in Congress - is pretty much universal now, which it was not in the last administration.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Is there a mea culpa here? This was all clear for a decade during which you were "somewhat neutral on Trump" and everyone was telling those of us warning people about it that we were hysterical and deranged. But now I see posts li
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by sanderjd 2y ago
That's not who this person was talking about. They were talking about the boring institutionalists on both sides of the aisle that edgy people have been scoffing at as "The Blob" or "The Village".
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I'm sympathetic to your perspective that it's a broad cultural thing. But from my point of view, it's more of a demonstration of the problem with governments that are designed to have a very strong executive. Eventually you g
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Well, so far, they have just waffled on whether or not to drastically defund the military.

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