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by slibhb 3y ago
People are just making a friend-enemy distinction. If they judge Elon positively (friend), they minimize his flaws; if they judge him negatively (enemy), they minimize his contributions.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Criticizing modern medicine makes a lot of sense if you're a devout Catholic because the afterlife tempers the sadness of death. For non-believers, though, earthly life is all there is, so reducing suffering, disease, and poverty are m
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by slibhb 3y ago
If throwing space rocks is trivial (which I'm not sure I buy), surely knocking them off course will also be trivial.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Companies are already testing self-driving cars in SF, Phoenix, and LA. So much for this theory.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Same, but I like Kim Gordon's voice
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by slibhb 3y ago
> No, they have to better than both random and "everyone is, on average, and over an extended period of time contributing roughly the same". That's quite a challenge. This is something virtually all functional companies do
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by slibhb 3y ago
Life is full of handwaving. In almost any workplace, it's very simple to know who's doing the work (and it's usually a shockingly small number of people). It's the idea that we can reduce this to a mathematical formula (
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by slibhb 3y ago
Saying that people should be paid according to experience, ability, and effort is absolutely not the labor theory of value. The idea that contribution "can't really be measured" is a cop-out. Contribution can't be measur
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by slibhb 3y ago
> This is one of the reasons that I think Kant's ideas on Deontology (also Confucian philosophy around relationships) is the correct one for a functioning society. There is a framework of "Right" and "Wrong" that
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by slibhb 3y ago
For years, companies and doctors downplayed the side effects but I'm not sure that's true anymore. Also, most people who use SSRIs do not experience permanent side effects once they get off them (though some do). The thing about S
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by slibhb 3y ago
This is a non-problem. If there's a shortage of people working at X level of abstraction (where X is possibly very low) then salaries for those with that knowledge will go up and more people will seek it out. Free markets don't so
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by slibhb 3y ago
What's wrong with that? The AI tool did a bad job and they should try to make it better. But I don't understand the relevance of the comparison to a human translator. The alternative to translating this stuff via AI is not hiring
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by slibhb 3y ago
This dude spent his career trying to create AI and then, after not creating AI, has now decided that AI is bad and that we need some kind of far-fetched global treaty to prevent other people from creating AI. It's incredibly silly. Eve
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by slibhb 3y ago
Yeah, it's hard to test psychological theories. But all we really have to do is watch out for people who make dire predictions about the environment without substantial evidence. Sure, that's not perfect but it'll catch most
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by slibhb 3y ago
Okay -- so how do you respond to environmentalists who were completely and utterly wrong (e.g. Paul Erlich, The Club of Rome)? What I'm offering is a theory of why they were wrong: they have an unconscious hostility torward humanity wh
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by slibhb 3y ago
What I mean is that a substantial amount of environmentalism is just sublimated hatred of humanity. This leads to irrational beliefs and faulty predictions a la The Population Bomb or The Limits of Growth.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not a great article but it's raising a real point. Andreessen's manifesto is bordering on the same error as free market fundamentalism (and other flavors of social darwinism) that views free markets as infallible. Market
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by slibhb 3y ago
You're right -- it's not known for a fact that the allegation came from her.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Feynman clearly did not lead an exemplary personal life but his second wife also accused him of being a communist so I'd take her testimony with a grain of salt.
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by slibhb 3y ago
What if technology has worked out as well as it has because of techno-pessimism? I.e. what if it's because we're suspicious of change that most change has been positive? Maybe filter out the bad ideas through a slow but necessary
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by slibhb 3y ago
Man, what is with HN and weirdly detailed posts explaining how awesome the Soviet economy was? For my money, the Soviet economy failed while the NATO countries succeeded for reasons described by Hayek, summarized reasonably well in Marc And
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by slibhb 3y ago
I've been sharpening knives for the past few years with https://chefschoice.com/products/chefschoice-prontopro-diamo... As far as I can tell it works great and requires virtually no skill or knowledge.
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by slibhb 3y ago
The mugger cuts off his own fingers when a different utilitarian doesn't pay him. Given that, and given that he's right back at it after surgery, I don't think it's so clear that he'll "respond to incentives&qu
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by slibhb 3y ago
> practitioners of other moralities curiously form epicycles defending why the status quo is fine anyway This is exactly what the Bentham in the story is doing!
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by slibhb 3y ago
To be fair, Gelman is pretty clear throughout that, in 2000, everyone was doing this.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I agree; there's no grounds for saying that reefs will be fine.
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Climate experts talk a lot about “cathedral thinking.” It’s the idea of working towards long term goals — like a medieval cathedral. These goals require vision, shared commitment, and decades, even centuries, of planning. The planners
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by slibhb 3y ago
Legality aside, I'm not sure that Amazon is winning in the long run with this strategy. I mostly buy products direct from the manufacturer these days and virtually all manufacturers have high quality websites with solid ordering experi
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by slibhb 3y ago
Fully remote was a signal to parents and children that school isn't important. Both groups seem to have taken it to heart. Additionally, the dominant school of thought is that truancy is a systemic problem which in practice means that
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Or... we can do both ? I'm fit, eat clean, live frugally, yet I still see how these organisations are absolutely fucking the system by making people overeat, overspend, &c. That's good but have you considered that this is

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