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by slibhb 1y ago
> This is all built on an assumption that arts/media can all be strictly ranked “best” to “worst.” No it isn't. It's just based on the objectively true assumption that contemporary fiction is competing with all fiction eve
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> a million plus people die from malaria and AIDS combined each year These are political problems not technological problems.
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The idea that "science tells us race as defined in western countries is not backed by actual biological differences" is a hotly debated subject. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/s
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> It’s more a spiritual / moral decline of culture in the west. It's not a question of decline. There's no reason to think that humans today have less self control than in the past. We're dealing with obesity now beca
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But maybe death is necessary for change. It's cerainly necessary for evolution. It's not so much that I buy this argument...it's that I don't see a simple way to rebut it. To me, it's an empirical question that we c
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I'm in favor of research into life extension. But I don't think this response really deals with the fundamental objection of: "Change is necessary Death creates change Therefore, death is necessary" Perhaps humans are no
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> Second, why not just put on the street so that other people can come and collect items? This is very common for example here in Switzerland - you put unwanted things ranging from old kid toys to books to furniture on the sidewalk with
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The idea that crime is caused by "society being unjust" is a very common delusion. It's much simpler. People notice they can just take things with no consequences...so they do.
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What I posted there was a bit muddled. Economics is attempting to be a science. To the greatest extent possible, it should not be value-based. Politics is value-based, and it has priority over economics when it comes to making decisions.
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> Mainstream economists also widely agree corporate taxes and capital gains taxes are bad: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six- .... Should we eliminate those taxes an
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Yeah, let's ban machines in factories while we're at it. Then Americans will have the honor of stitching clothing and standing at conveyer belts. On a less sarcastic note, pretty much zero mainstream economists believe that tariff
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You jump from bizarre accusation to bizarre accusation. Here's my go at diagnosing you (and this goes for many people in this thread): the centerpeice of your worldview has been "liberals good, conservatives bad" for your ent
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by slibhb 1y ago
They (CA) are dumbing down what we teach children (delaying Algebra I, or replacing it with "data science or statistics") because there are racial disparities in test scores. That's the result of wokeness, and it's bad.
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I don't dispute that these are "efforts to do good stuff in the real world". It's just very obvious that they are having the opposite effect. I don't kow what that has to do with an "echo chamber". > Pe
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> Pronouns and flopsy straws never hurt nobody That's not all wokeness is. There's also the anti-merit stuff, which seeks to e.g. get rid of standardized tests or even remove algebra from school curricula. Then there's rac
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Wokeness isn't hard to define. If you don't know what it is at this point, there's really no helping you. One of the lessons of the second Trump admin is that "smashing wokeness" may feel good (to people like me for
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Ah you're right next time I'll do a study before posting my opinion on the internet.
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None of the very left people I know would describe themselves as anti-woke...but they all make it very clear that they find wokeness (or whatever you want to call it) ridiculous.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> Even driving my own vehicles around the world I spend less than $20k a year 20k is higher than 90% of the global population.
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I did not in any way "trivialise AI". LLMS are amazing and a massive accomplishment. I just wanted to contrast them to Asimov's conception of AI. > I'm not entirely sure why invoking statistics feels like a rebuttal t
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You're probably right that it was a fuck-up. But given that she was carrying frog embryos and not something illegal I don't understand why the government would revoke her visa. Just give her a warning and move on.
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> Also, human brains are arguably statistical models trained on human-generated/collected data as well... I'd say no, human brains are "trained" on billions of years of sensory data. A very small amount of that is hum
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LLMs are statistical models trained on human-generated text. They aren't the perfectly logical "machine brains" that Asimov and others imagined. The upshot of this is that LLMs are quite good at the stuff that he thinks only
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> Bottom line: If you're Vit D deficient then it may be a good idea to supplement a little Vit D which is cheap, easy and extremely low risk (Note: nothing is ever zero risk across a large enough population but supplementing a small
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> there is a consensus that we need a harmonious, stable and positive society It's not clear to me that there's any link between China's authoritarian government and its harmony/stability. Taiwan is richer per-capita
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> Freedom of speech is just the easiest way to have plausible deniability when directly or indirectly defending otherwise indefensible positions. The idea that it's somehow suspicious to be in favor of free speech has got to be one
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How has the debate been solved by the rest of the world? My understanding is that many countries in Europe don't fluoridate the water supply. I'm skeptical of results showing IQ loss but I also think fluoridation should be phased
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> If you think there are going to be elections in 2028, you are gravely mistaken. Care to make it interesting?
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I probably shouldn't have chosen 100. But, say, the top 1%, 5%, or 10% -- I think would go for a moderate liberal over someone like Trump. Of course, Harris outspent Trump considerably which is another piece of evidence against the who
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The chunk of the economy you own should be proportionate to the amount you contributed to growing the economy. In modern, functioning economies, this is more or less the case. The idea that inequality will lead to lopsided political power h

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