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by smhost 8y ago
They're talking specifically about Jordan Peterson, and he sees himself as a high priest who is a literal embodiment of Jesus Christ, rising to the top of the universal dominance hierarchy. He is signaling to his low status followers t
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by smhost 8y ago
One side effect ironically being that you don't buy into this whole cultural fixation on mindfulness.
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by smhost 8y ago
Oh, I'm with you there, but I'm skeptical that the lessons of the Enlightenment mean very much in a context where powerful business interests have actual control of public psychology to such an extent that they can convince people
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by smhost 8y ago
> Very few citizens of those countries would choose to live in Xi's China instead. But that's not the relevant question. The relevant question is whether the businesses of those countries would choose to do business from within
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by smhost 8y ago
It won't, because America has a habit of doing American things whenever it has too much economic anxiety.
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by smhost 9y ago
> we build a model of what we are based off of data we gather from introspection and from people who are close to us. But this model is constantly in flux, and can never be said to actually reach the true self (if there is a true self--
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by smhost 9y ago
No, that's not what happened here.
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by smhost 9y ago
How can you not understand black pride? The story of the Negro that survived the racist horrors of white oppression, the voice of the enslaved person that became La Marseillaise sung at the Haitian revolution, that became jazz, that became
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by smhost 9y ago
And of course, it's not the white guilt that's in fashion. It's the black pride that's in fashion, as it always has been.
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by smhost 9y ago
Tolkien's prose isn't biblical so much as it's imitation-Nordic, maybe. If you want biblical, read Blood Meridian. It's in fact so biblical that scholars use it as a reference when they translate the original text into c
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by smhost 9y ago
Do you offer an option (presented equitably and not hidden under layers of UI) to quit using an app altogether? Otherwise you're just selling the illusion of control in order to keep real control away from the user, and you're hel
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by smhost 9y ago
I agree that biodiversity is a source of joy and education for me, and I'd add that it's also because we know something about ourselves--we know of the insatiability, the psychopathy, and the destructive nature that comes hand-in-
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by smhost 9y ago
So basically take a couple days to understand the material rather than going all in all at once?
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by smhost 9y ago
I choose now to live as a corporation.
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by smhost 9y ago
You're missing the static vs dynamic distinction. Facebook can guess with eerie accuracy whether you're about to start a relationship with someone, whether you recently got pregnant, whether you're going through a depressive&
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by smhost 9y ago
I would have been more willing to agree on a common ground before the Trump era. But now it seems as if all of the racists are seeping out of the woodwork, and I'm hearing all of the old racist arguments reinvigorated and amplified, ar
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by smhost 9y ago
> That is how our system of government works, and there is nothing wrong with that. The system you described naturally consolidates power, and most of society finds it acceptable only if it coexists with a mechanism to redistribute some
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by smhost 9y ago
More relevant podcast episode, imho. This one is about inmates and Shakespeare: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/218/...
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by smhost 9y ago
I like to watch informative videos with subtitles at 2x speed because the subtitles make it easy to follow and the increased speed smooths out the verbal tics and idiosyncrasies (less distracting).
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by smhost 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDQcBQUDpw For some ideas about how to cut waste. A different approach, with emphasis on recycling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eym10GGidQU As much as the internet likes
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by smhost 9y ago
He was arrested on the orders of someone who has a lot to gain politically, and in a country that regularly arrests people for what we consider to be basic human rights, so this doesn't convince me of anything about his character.
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by smhost 9y ago
Wait, I'm confused. Right about what? Trump was saying that Talal was trying to buy American politicians. Talal wasn't arrested for that. Or are you saying that Trump is somehow responsible for the king's actions, because tha
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by smhost 9y ago
That's a very bizarre definition of love. Few people are happy about their addiction to an unhealthy habit. Don't you think it's disingenuous to talk about user preference without talking about reward hacking? I think the int
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by smhost 9y ago
What's the smallest sample size anyone has used to get > 90% on the MNIST set?
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by smhost 9y ago
Do you really hold your own amusement to be the highest value?
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by smhost 9y ago
Pretty sure you're talking about George Lakoff[0] and the "strict father : U.S. :: nurturant parent : China" is something you made up in your head. 0: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases&#x2
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by smhost 9y ago
Appreciated.
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by smhost 9y ago
I couldn't find anything besides Russian propaganda outlets. Do you have links to any reputable sources?
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by smhost 9y ago
Do you also use something like bde instead of diw, and ?(ld/)<CR> instead of dib? And if the answer is no, how is dip not in your vocabulary after 10 years?
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by smhost 9y ago
In theory, yes. But who among us is truly satisfied? I think not the kind of people who would be reading a self-help blog.

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