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by slibhb 6mo ago
It's reductio ad absurdum. Obesity is really bad for you and strains public health services. Should the government enforce a cap on caloric intake?
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I'm aware that depressed people think everything is worse for no objective reason. And they're quick to jump to conspiracy theories to explain why the data seems to confirm that everything is not, in fact, worse.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
It's sad that the UK, which invented liberal philosophy, is increasingly accepting of paternalism. It's important that people have an inviolable personal sphere inside which they can live their lives as they see fit. That includes
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by slibhb 6mo ago
You could use this logic to ban unhealthy foods, or restrict people from eating too much.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I looked it up on FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/MEHOINUSA672N
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by slibhb 6mo ago
In Marx, escalating tensions between the classes is good .
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Marx pretty clearly sees capitalist control of technology as a necessary stage in societal development. The capitalists are the ones who are incentivized to invent the technology, in order to bring down the cost of labor and outcompete each
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Yeah, it's you. Real purchasing power is up over the past 20 years.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
AI is a tool to increase productivity. Productivity has increased greatly over the past century, yet it's easier to feed ourselves than ever, and we have far more leisure time.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Fighting a war against China (presumably over Taiwan) doesn't seem like it would have much to do with national security. That aside, people are simply not able to model how the next peer conflict will be fought ahead of time. All sides
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Marx pretty clearly envisions a future society where necessary labor is reduced to a minimum due to technology. The fact that modern leftists are (often) anti-technology is puzzling.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
It was according to Marx.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
The "Everybody Loves Raymond" bit isn't "misinformation," it's a Norm Macdonald joke. I find it kind of sad that people are spending time and energy on this. It seems like something depressed people would do. B
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by slibhb 6mo ago
He keeps citing China but the US isn't at war with China. For the wars that the US is fighting, i.e. against Iran and similarly equipped adversaries, the f-35 seems to be performing well.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
His conclusion is based on his own experience first and foremost. But your use of "anecdote" in a derogatory way is misplaced. There's no "rule" in empiricism that says "anecdotes are off limits" -- anecdo
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by slibhb 6mo ago
An empiricist could write that with no contradiction if he experienced it, which Ayer did. I think his conclusion is very reasonable. It's highly likely that NDEs are minds sputtering to a stop. But if you experience one (while your he
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Talkin' Like You is incredible
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by slibhb 6mo ago
> Mid term, little will change, long term the cultural hegemony of the US will be replaced by multipolar influences. Everyone's been saying this for like 20 years. It just hasn't happened. At some point you realize that the peo
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Yes. OpenAI does the exact same thing.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
The best way to think of Anthropic's communication about Mythos is as advertisement. It's basically "our model is too smart to release" which suggests they're ahead of OpenAI (without proof)
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I see one person having a tantrum in this thread (and it's not me).
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by slibhb 6mo ago
It's mostly performative, and posts like this prove the point.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
France deciding, in principle, to come up with a plan for not using Microsoft is performative. It stops being performative when they actually do it. At any rate, is there a good reason for France to stop using Microsoft? I'm doubtful.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
It's unclear if the shuttle was actually safer or if NASA is just more honest about the odds of catastrophic failure. There are reasons to think Artemis is safer. It has a launch abort system that the shuttle lacked. Reentry should als
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Performative anti-Americanism has become one of the major features of European culture (and especially French culture).
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Nazi salutes are protected speech and not "beyond politics". Yes it's disgraceful, and it's reasonable to leave his platform. But it qualifies as "dumb shit".
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by slibhb 7mo ago
> I find it deeply dismaying that people consider that "just politics" or that opposing it is "ideological". We can argue all day about the proper rate of corporate taxation or debate the best way to implement environ
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by slibhb 7mo ago
> Why would a writer put an article online if ChatGPT will slurp it up and regurgitate it back to users without anyone ever even finding the original article? In the brave new world we're creating, people will write specifically fo
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by slibhb 7mo ago
Purchasing power is up modestly over the past 25 years. This idea that everyone is struggling/poor just isn't true (though some people certainly are).
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by slibhb 7mo ago
The poverty rate in the US is ~10% and the percentage of workers who live paycheck-to-paycheck is ~35%. So it is true for the majority of people living paycheck-to-paycheck.

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