squeefers

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by squeefers 9mo ago
i think intelligent design is bunk.... was this a reflexive contrarian reply without even fully reading what youre arguing against?
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by squeefers 9mo ago
i dont think youve understood it correctly
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by squeefers 9mo ago
youve missed the point entirely
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by squeefers 9mo ago
> Science helps figure out “how" im not asking the why, im asking the how
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by squeefers 9mo ago
> but at least we can recognize this as a vice which may feel good in the short term but do us harm in the long run. harm??? so only happy thoughts from now on?
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by squeefers 10mo ago
great, but we still cannot say anything beyond "what survives, survives". fitness is a central concept to natural selection and ultimately evolution, but it seems to bother nobody that its an empty concept, a tautology. its a nice
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> but don't sell it as gospel truth. i dont think he did
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by squeefers 10mo ago
try telling that to quantum physicists... theyll just give you the wave function and say "well it works doesnt it"?
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> Assuming a scientific testing gloss, each new genetic code variation X can be considered as a hypothesis, that "variant X is fit", and then natural selection events that act on copies of X (for or against) serve as experiment
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> By the time our numbers were enough to provide evolutionary pressure, we started farming what we wanted, which kinda breaks the process a lot of assumption in this sentence. proof needed
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> unambiguously such certain
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by squeefers 10mo ago
im similarly dubious about this.... only works by blue light hitting your retina, which meant your eye was open, which meant you were awake ie not even trying to sleep. also, circadian rhythms were proven to be unaffected even when living i
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> If you're in a suburb what else is there to do? i mean, i agree with you, theres nothing to do anymore. but surely there was less to do in the 50s? if youre poor, theres never much to do really.
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by squeefers 10mo ago
what absolute cretins downvoted that?
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> so basically for 4 years the majority of my free time was spent playing WoW and posting on 4chan. because the sidewalk was next to a busy road? sounds like a bit of a reach
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> and came from a rural place with a lot of poverty > We'd be outside all day long > most of my peers have middle-class jobs. >Their kids are barely outside. wonder what the link is there then?
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by squeefers 10mo ago
1. but social skills and genius are 2. im still staggered at how elementary it was 3. ok?
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> I blocked twitter for a while in my hosts file and a dozen times over those first few days I instinctively opened a new tab and typed twitter in? youd go through that effort when you could have just stopped though.
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> It's entirely possible that this is the smartest place on the internet, i cant find the link, but there was a post about how to "be nice" and it was a revelation to a worrying amount of "geniuses" on here. bare
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by squeefers 10mo ago
so youve got the willpower to do something about it but not enough to just stop doing it?
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by squeefers 10mo ago
sounds very much like an evil social media dopamine feedback loop. ironic given everyone on HN is so anti social media.... its clearly only bad for kids though i should add, silly of me to exclude such a detail
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by squeefers 10mo ago
i used to say stuff like this until i was given a team, I then never wanted to be in charge of people again.
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by squeefers 10mo ago
when the guy is making sentences like "affirmation is often compiled through negation" you know hes just trying to sound clever. the entire premise of the article is bunk, we DO use these patterns in English. He also treats (in th
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by squeefers 10mo ago
id love to see these people lead a team whilst sticking to their own advice
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by squeefers 10mo ago
> For the same reason you wouldn't allow a child to go play in an open sewer, you cannot allow them access to the unrestricted Internet. fair enough, but legislate this? why cant you just stop your own kid going on the internet? Id
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by squeefers 10mo ago
Search Molly Russell in the Uk.... that case sums up online child safety, parents letting emotion take the lead over intellect. That girl was suicidal, you cant blame a fuckin search engine if she was the one looking for suicide content. Bu