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by seadan83 2y ago
> Where do you see the group of people who are libertarian on the issue? The libertarian party platform states: "we favor the repeal of all laws creating “crimes” without victims, such as gambling, the use of drugs for medicinal or
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Indeed. That speculation is where we get into trouble as human beings (we like to see rabbits in clouds, we're evolved to see patterns where often there are none). And of course - in sociology, and all the variability of human behavior
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by seadan83 2y ago
Cool deal dude. Confirmation bias and false extrapolation are common tools of the human mind to avoid the fact that very little is known for certain. Which is to say, humans are often uncomfortable acknowledging profound ignorance, and for
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by seadan83 2y ago
Do you have any supporting citations on the crime/murder rate in China?
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Could people be spending more time single due to spending more time inside on the internet rather than a stronger causative effect of porn consumption. Out of cohorts that consume no porn, to what degree are those variables you cited differ
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by seadan83 2y ago
I really appreciate the dialog! I find your observations interesting. Though, I do think you might be overemphasizing the number of checkout lanes. To torture the analogy, let's consider the variables at play: - how often a person goes
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Can you provide citations/links and references? Though, I'm afraid this will be hard to quantify for you. You will also need to satisfy the burden of proof that those links/citations are prevalent ideas and constitute a repre
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by seadan83 2y ago
Other studies disagree as well too. These excerpts from [1] sum it up kinda well (I recommend reading the full article, it makes a few additional points not listed here): "“My biggest concern regarding the scientific study of porn is t
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Porn can be addicting. The statement "is an addiction" is too absolutist, it's incorrect. As an example, not everyone that drinks is an alcoholic.
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"can" - I'm personally very disappointed with YouTube music. The playlist/recommendations are even worse than what Youtube alone will give you AND you have to pay $15/month for it.
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by seadan83 2y ago
I think you might be drawing a false equivalence. Left wing solutions to things like porn, gambling, drugs, sex work, abortion - is to regulate them so that they are "safe" (harm-reduced) & then find ways to reduce those activ
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by seadan83 2y ago
I think the arrow of causality is perhaps the other way. Recall the "moral majority", Jerry Fallwell, etc. It was a big right-leaning effort to ban porn starting in perhaps the 70s. Probably earlier. The republican party used to h
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Straight line of travel means you do not turn left or right. Different from heading continuously east. In the former, walking straight on the curved surface creates a curved path. In the latter, the compass needle will shift a bit as you tr
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by seadan83 2y ago
> They do this in large part because we've intentionally bred them this way. Domesticated cats exist primarily for pest My understanding is different. That cats haven't really changed that much (in terms of behavior) while dogs
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by seadan83 2y ago
Indeed, not only is total demand a function of cost, but so is frequency of that demand. If my analogy were an actual hypothesis, it could be tested by checking that those who live closer to a grocery store will have on average a lower groc
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by seadan83 2y ago
I would define it as simply number of items per distance traveled. How much you get from a location X is a function of how often you are willing to travel to location X. As the cost of travel goes down, your willingness to increase frequenc
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by seadan83 2y ago
> Inducing demand can often be good. I would quibble here, it depends. Another example I am thinking of is toilet paper during the pandemic when it was in short supply. At that time, when we were counting squares of toilet paper and pred
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by seadan83 2y ago
Good points. Yeah, as the cost of travel goes up, people make various decisions: bite-the-bullet, find alternatives, delay, consolidate, and/or go without. As the cost decreases, the incentives to find alternatives, delay or consolidat
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by seadan83 2y ago
I kinda hate that this topic almost always devolves into similar arguments about what exactly is induced demand. Despite that, these conversation threads did give me a new perspective on induced demand that I feel is worth sharing. That ne
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Ah, I think i just realized how to fix the analogy! The issue is with how many books are checked out a time. If the line is absurdly long, at some point you will make fewer trips to the library to avoid paying the cost of waiting in line. Y
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Roads are widened all the time with the goal to increase average speeds. I can think of counter-example where it's more clear that travel time is not an independent variable to road width: - lanes on highways are extra wide so you driv
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It's not that adding capacity is bad, that it can be ineffective. Given that personal transport is such a large percentage of the nations' carbon footprint, adding more cars detracts from that goal. From that perpsective, or a loc
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Every time you decide to delay a trip during rush-hour, because of rush-hour - that is an example of what you are describing. As an example, in Bellevue, Washington - the evening rush hour starts (and is really bad) at 3pm - there are that
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The Colorado example is about no longer giving out carrots rather than using any type of stick. Tolls and higher taxes would be examples of sticks. > clogging the roads The roads already be clogged and adding more lanes is not likely to
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IIRC, pollution from the tail pipe of a car falls off as a cubic function as you get further away from it. Similar for other sources of pollution. Pollution is very akin to smoke, hard to predict, and very localized. It can depend on wind,
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If it means way fewer people took alternative means, then perhaps it is not good. Particularly when OP mentioned the original goal was to reduce travel times - which the widening did not. "it's not that there's no benefit to
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I believe there is way too much value judgement placed here. If you have two checkouts, people will use whichever one is faster (assuming everything else is equal). Make one faster, and people will shift from one line to the other. Though,
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by seadan83 2y ago
Perhaps a library vs a commercial book store might have worked as a better analogy. The queue theory part of it I think breaks down a lot. Induced demand is not only about queue theory, but also choosing between options. In short though, in
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by seadan83 2y ago
CS gas is 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile [1], not capsacin. "Although [CS gas is] described as a non-lethal weapon for crowd control, studies have raised doubts about this classification. CS can cause severe pulmonary damage and can also
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Indeed, null pointer exception, or a segfault in C. In essence an unhandled state error, sometimes largely from inexperience.

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