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by savingsPossible 5y ago
It is also trivially the case that "due process is good, but not the highest good". Or, to take a less charged example, freedom of contracts I don't mean to be snarky, but to try to draw a line. There are goods and rights tha
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
To clarify: What do you think the highest and lowest standards of evidence should be for "social opprobium"? And what is the maximum damage to ones life that "social opprobium" should ideally entail?
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
Did you mean to say "social opprobium" (aka, lets get this guy fired and kicked out of places) should have a lower standard of proof than "beyond a reasonable doubt"? Because reading your post I understood that it should
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
1) Lower than preponderance of evidence? I believe you about it having such a standard (we can call it presence of evidence or presence of suspicion), but not on it being right. 2) Preponderance of evidence makes sense on civil suits becaus
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
Apparently not? The cost can come from the margin for the gas station, not the consumer
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
He/She may 1) Think Sugihara was right 2) Believe that taking refugees into europe is worse on average/bad All it takes is a different reason for Sugihara to be right
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
Correct. There is no such thing as "secular ideology". There are many. Just as there are many religions. There is materialism+work ethic, there is materialism without work ethic, there is "wokeism" (to pin a definition,
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
This was interesting, but also somewhat paradoxical. A belief that does not affect your actions, but implies or causes a belief that does affect your actions. Well, that does affect your actions. :) But serioulsly, joke aside, that was an i
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
You are equating morality with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism . With "optimizing the integral of happiness" You can be a perfectly moral denteologian (that is, a person that believes in moral rul
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
Surprised by how low that is! What is EROI for hidro/thermo/nuclear?
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by savingsPossible 5y ago
> I think the halting problem only tells you that you cannot, in general, opinionate on what the program does, without expending an amount of computational effort equivalent to running that program. A better counterpoint is that you can&
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
No, but you get a pass because he was not yet convicted. that is what a conviction means -- we should not punish people before it, nor should we punish people that associate with them
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
Does that matter? If op is lying, he or she is lying. But are some groups ok to threaten? Are some people ok to threaten?
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
If you are watching on a browser, ublock origin fixes that If on android, you can download newpipe (first download and install f-droid, a "google play for free/open source", and then download newpipe from there)
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
This is an interesting perspective, that I sometimes have as well. But you did miss the important nuance of the externalities as another post also comments. And you did list subsidies, but some subsidies are hard to notice. Cars, for exampl
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
thanks! really cool
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
Do we need to consider only intent, or can we extrapolate probable futures? Because then I worry about deepfakes making actors obsolete (as we have made obsolete so many other professions)
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
And then we fix this next problem, right? That is no argument to avoid a policy. That is an argument to prepare for the next steps.
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
Your reply makes sense, but you are buying into the notion that there is 'hate' and 'racism' involved. This is a spurious comparison. Every time someone accuses someone else of racism in this thread, there should be the
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
> Or you hate the Chinese fifth of the World population? This is a spurious comparison. Every time someone accuses someone else of racism in this thread, there should be the same answer: The US (after a looong while!) is doing to Chinese
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
Not in the USA, no
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by savingsPossible 6y ago
Only a partial control. Some bad effect @50 can cause both the divorce and the problems at @80