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811.
by slibhb 3y ago
No, the idea that almost everyone born before 1980 was an evil bigot is stupid
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by slibhb 3y ago
People can praise or criticize FDR for whatever they like. I'm objecting to the name-calling, not the idea that the internment of Japanese Americans was wrong.
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by slibhb 3y ago
FDR was the president who had the Japanese Americans removed to concentration camps. He's a hero of the left and one of the presidents who would least likely be described as a "reactionary bigot" in any other situation. More
814.
by slibhb 3y ago
You clearly didn't read the article. At first they were unaware of the events but when the pilot explained to the Japanese-speakers that he had just come from bombing Pearl Harbor, they took his side.
815.
by slibhb 3y ago
Ah yes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a well-known "reactionary bigot".
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by slibhb 3y ago
All I did was point out that the greening earth as a result of more CO2 is a negative feedback loop, i.e. as the carbon content of the atmosphere increases, plants grow more and will sequester more CO2. Per the article I linked, over the pa
817.
by slibhb 3y ago
Google says that about 25% of global CO2 emissions are captured by plants. That's not trivial.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not meaningless if there's consistently more plant biomass (which there is, see https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer... ). Leaving aside its magnitude, it seems clear tha
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by slibhb 3y ago
The idea that any posts in this thread "invalidate's this man's suffering" is hyperbole. Anyway, what's wrong with judgement? Despite some people's insistence on it being taboo, there's nothing wrong with
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by slibhb 3y ago
The idea that the genetic component of intelligence is "a number of independent, additive alleles" is surprising to me. I would have assumed that genetic intelligence is the result of many alleles interacting in complex ways (i.e.
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Just like you can only trust someone else that they are telling you the truth about their own experience. I don't trust them. I think they have inner experience because they're the same kind of thing I am and I have inner exp
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by slibhb 4y ago
Didn't work so well in The Irishman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGV0IuodWE Something uncanny about his face. Takes me out of the scene.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> It's telling that the controversy only surrounds Franklin's contributions, not Wilkins' Wilkins also shared the Nobel. Franklin was dead at that point (though I don't think 4 people can share a Nobel).
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by slibhb 4y ago
The article explains explains that, at one point, she didn't think DNA was helical.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Lore has it that the decisive insight for the double helix came when Watson was shown an X-ray image of DNA taken by Franklin — without her permission or knowledge. Known as Photograph 51, this image is treated as the philosopher’s sto
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by slibhb 4y ago
I'm not so sure. Natural languages are not very much like programming languages. When you speak a language fluently you're able to speak and understand without thinking about it. Children can be fluent with no formal training in g
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by slibhb 4y ago
I've noticed this pattern where "anecdote" is deployed when someone disagrees with some point another person is making. But would you be chiming in here about "anecdotes" if this was a post by someone claiming acid
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by slibhb 4y ago
The idealistic view of scientists as unbiased arbiters is just not true. Science advances because: 1. Some of the time, scientists behave in an objective manner 2. Theories that are correct have predictive power and are therefore useful (i.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Well for one thing it's a waste of time to work on research that won't advance your career. Also, I'm not saying "heterodox scientists have secret, bulletproof analyses to disprove climate change," I'm saying t
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by slibhb 4y ago
I know scientists who are climate change skeptics. However, what gets published ("the consensus") isn't the same as "what scientists think". This isn't only true in science, it's true in virtually all part
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by slibhb 4y ago
> However the problem with that is that the overwhelming majority of observations and models, many of which are far from simple and use large amounts of data, point to climate change being real, unusually rapid and anthropogenic I think
832.
by slibhb 4y ago
There's something comical about a Jewish publication promoting something like this. It reminds me of the feminists promoting "Shakespeare was a woman" theories. Whether or not the claims in question are true, the whole thing
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Unions can ensure that the employees get a fair share of the revenue in proportion to the upper mgmt What is a fair share of revenue? Is a google SE earning 300K an exploited worker because Pichai earns many times that? > They also
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by slibhb 4y ago
The idea that the US has lots of mass shooting because of the death penalty (or the reverse for Norway) seems unlikely.
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by slibhb 4y ago
I understand that some people are troubled by retributive justice (I am not). But the idea that criminality in the US stems from retributive justice isn't true. Japan has low crime and executes people regularly. Russia has a high crime
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by slibhb 4y ago
Leaving aside the important fact there's no broad agreement about which "underlying societal factors" cause mental illness, individuals taking pills is much more realistic than overhauling society.
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by slibhb 4y ago
You have a theory that certain speech causes violence. Well there's no evidence of the alleged "tweets -> violence pipeline". If anything it goes the other way: as the amount of speech increases, there seems to be less and
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by slibhb 4y ago
Reminds me of Ikiru when the doctor won't tell the protagonist that he has cancer.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Human ethical norms are highly complex, and are the result of a long evolutionary history that will not be shared by any AI. The chances of any arbitrary set of ethical values being compatible with human life is very low. If AI is trai
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by slibhb 4y ago
I see nothing wrong with the previous poster's use of "females". Males/females is sometimes used instead of men/women in a forensic context (e.g. a police report or an objective description: "female athlete,&qu

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