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by slibhb 2y ago
> "The longer we treat our field as sterilized objective truth, we lose more students to the alt-right" Shockingly bad article. Objectivity is an ideal. It's impossible to reach, but the point is to try. As soon as histori
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by slibhb 2y ago
Oh no the social medias are killing the Burmese! Quick, someone arrest Marc Z! To The Hague with him!
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by slibhb 2y ago
The theory is that African megafauna evolved alongside humans, learned to fear them, and developed strategies to avoid them. Whereas other megafauna didn't, so when humans left Africa, they were defenseless.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Your link is word salad as far as I can tell. It certainly doesn't say "Facebook was foundational in ethnic cleansing in Myanmar". Social media companies are often scapegoats when things go wrong in the world. From teen menta
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by slibhb 2y ago
The whole "social media is dangerous" is a moral panic. There's just no good evidence for it.
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> What I am more interested in is the constant pressure on "safety risks" without anything that feels tangible to me so far. Exactly. I think it's the classic "I'm so smart I can reason about the world without an
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by slibhb 2y ago
> You don't need evidence when logic will do. No one has the ability to make logical deductions about the world in the manner you've done in this thread. Cancer is just a tough nut to crack. While a blanket cure remains a pipe
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by slibhb 2y ago
Interesting, I missed that. I wonder if there is a version of that service that isn't managed by Microsoft.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Regulations are why Microsoft is banning users who call Gaza. The real solution here is to use Signal (or something like it). And I don't mean to criticize Microsoft or regulations. Microsoft is faced with an impossible task here, I as
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by slibhb 2y ago
We have those rules about how homeopathic "medicine" can be labeled. At the end of the day, people are allowed to buy dumb shit. 50% of my local CVS is make-up, which is way more egregious than echinacea root extract.
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by slibhb 2y ago
People want to buy them and we live in a free country.
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by slibhb 2y ago
How many homeless people you see on the way to work is a worse measurement of the economy than the stock market.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> The theater is the political culture war. Millions of human lives will die in the chase for politically charged click bait. "The culture war will result in millions of human deaths" is one hell of a prediction. It's the
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by slibhb 2y ago
I've never really felt like Kafka seems to have and I read a lot, mostly novels. For what it's worth, I don't love Kafka's novels: I think he wanted them burned for a reason -- they're meandering failures. Very clev
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by slibhb 2y ago
Young squirrels also play tag.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> Presidents do not need protection from the people, the people need protection from presidents. I know this sounds good but is it true? I've never needed protection from the president but presidents are occasionally shot at and som
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by slibhb 2y ago
Yeah! Embrace serendipity! Flip a coin to decide whether to take your antipyschotic today! On a more serious note, I've found that routines are necessary for me to be happy. Once I've established a routine, I can break it, but if
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by slibhb 2y ago
> Caffeine is a very interesting drug that makes capitalism and just daily work bearable. It's interesting that this went all the way to 1800s for the US. Michael Pollan's thesis is absurdly exaggerated. I've been on and o
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by slibhb 2y ago
Isn't it ironic that Foucault died of AIDS? He denied the existence of HIV and famously argued something like "before medicine, there was no disease".
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by slibhb 2y ago
The author is a social conservative. He's by no means defending Foucault's "assault against sexual normalization". My sense is that, by "recognizing Foucault's bleak genius," the subtext is "we need G
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by slibhb 2y ago
I continue to find Mark impressive. I think there's something quite true about the "trying to create God" remark.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Many people predict that AI is going to explode, and afterward nothing will be the same. If that happens, Telsa is in a better position than anyone else to simply update their software and deliver self driving cars. Whether that happens rem
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by slibhb 2y ago
Whenever I see results like this, I wonder if these scientists can diagnose depression with an MRI. It would be pretty easy to do that experiment, and my sense is that we just aren't there yet. And so I wonder if experiments like this
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by slibhb 2y ago
Sure but in Hinduism and Buddhism, humans are higher than animals. In general, only humans are capable of escaping samsara.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> The only reason why animal consciousness has been controversial historically is a religious one—the Bible has typically been read as placing humanity in a category of its own. And yet we see countless secular scientists clinging to tha
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by slibhb 2y ago
The article focuses on over-parenting as a source of anxiety. I think it's interesting how much this view has in common with Freud. According to Freud, people repress thoughts, memories, and desires. This repression is necessary for pe
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by slibhb 2y ago
Probably the best political movie of all time is Z. It's 2 hours and not very nuanced.
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by slibhb 2y ago
The prequels are truly awful. Some people (not me) say there's no accounting for taste but liking the prequels is as close as you can get to an objectively wrong opinion about art. The best thing you can say about the prequels is that
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by slibhb 2y ago
Fury Road is my idea of a blockbuster. But it was the 21st highest grossing movie of 2015! Financially, it was a mild success. Terminator Genisys made more money.
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The reason is clearly "George Miller wanted to make it". In other words: not a cash grab.

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