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by suoduandao3 2y ago
My understanding is they've demonstrated a correlation. I don't think they've made any claims about causation.
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
A factor I think gets left out of this conversation is that the 50's housewife was an aberration, a home-based adult in an age of washing machines, electric ovens and small gardens at most. There used to be so much housework you basica
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
Far from all Incels are antisocial. An incel is just a (typically young and male) nonbreeding human of breeding age. Most species have them. Human societies in the past got around the problem a little by discouraging polygamy and shifting e
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
I thought this was more of a 'designer babies' suggestion than a 'mess with the source code after it's finished compiling' one.
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
I rather enjoy talking to smart 15 year olds. They're curious about the world and more likely to have fresh takes. What's not to like?
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
isn't it? I think it might be. It's definitely artificial so it depends on your definition of intelligence. And that's a rather confused subject. I favor a model of intelligence where one measures problem-solving capability a
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
Maybe it's a function of my work, but that sounds like a lot of Pa.
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
The line in the sand is generally when someone's recent enough to have living people object, the more loudly they'd object the deeper the line. Funnily enough, a lot of contemporary spiritual groups do claim some memetic ancestry
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
fun coincidence - I've been playing with the ideas from pattern language as ai art prompts for a while now - the project's the primary focus of my twitter feed for anyone who'd like to have a look. https://twitter.
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
I recently encountered the term 'Tempoflavanoids' - the flavour of a particular moment in time. I love the concept, it speaks to the artist in me. Though I thought David Hasslehoff's 'True Survivor' music video for
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
I believe this is the origin of the '90s kids' meme. Not too long ago there was one culture . Then the internet came along and there was a gathering place for fans of every obscure anime and political system. I don't miss th
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
Yeah, I recently got a response to a cold email to Dr. Karl Friston. Definitely a fanboy moment! Regarding the risk of a minor doing this kind of outreach, 90% of all child abuse happens with someone known to the child and/or their gua
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
Well... whether he's responding to a market need versus creating a market need versus responding to a moral obligation is very hard to untangle. That's part of why nobody's found a better system than capitalism yet - the most
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by suoduandao3 2y ago
Since we're criticizing reading comprehension, you seem to be shoehorning whiggist interpretations of history into every story that needs a villain, so do be careful not to stare into that abyss too long. My question was about a surf
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
It will keep growing until it doesn't - why people don't factor in that the sun will shine a lot longer than the wells will pump when discussing these plans I don't understand. Is technology so turbulent that no one wants to
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I visited China over the Christmas Holidays last year. Reliable and cheap sums up what I saw from electric vehicles at the time. The taxi I took also did a battery swap in the middle of our trip, which took maybe five minutes and was hearte
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
with the gigafactories out and market pressure to build EVs, I feel like Elon has achieved what he set out to do. If he borrows too much and builds too many factories, those factories will still be producing cars after Tesla is liquidated.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
>They all present societies which have solved social and material problems through progress, or which are still solving them, critiquing an image of the Western world in the 20th century. None of them nab at any kind of biting truth rele
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I think it makes a fair amount of sense - the Ferengi have elevated capitalism to a functional religion, and although the only thing that's scarce is latinum (which is useless and unexceptional except for the fact that it can't be
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Question: are you drawing on oral accounts of the 'meme magic wars' of 2016? I find it a fascinating piece of history and very relevant to the subject you're writing about.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
right, but I'm wondering specifically about the part that is propaganda.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I'd ask what you disagree with, but you're calling an open-ended question an argument so I doubt it would be a productive discussion. I doubt you'd have had the same initial response if I'd said 'decision makers in
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
By that line of analysis, we'd expect a Whiggist regime to have optimistic propaganda with contemporary scifi being pessimistic because the Whiggist faction is ineffectual?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
If American propaganda owes so much to Scifi, I wonder why optimistic visions of the future have gone out of vogue to such a great degree. Endemic conservatism in the military arm of the deep state?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I guess you missed it when everyone was leaving joke reviews on this product? https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/product-reviews...
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
That's very anti-enlightenment values of you. Do you think everything is better handled by committee or just capital allocation?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Why?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Anathem has a great example of that idea. It's absolutely hilarious that the mystical wizard priest's day job is repairing the thatch rooves for the building the nuclear waste is actually in.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
interesting. Brings to mind this study: https://sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/An-experimental-test... Memory and DNA are both weird. As an appreciator of weirdness it's fun to see that there's som
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I've been working on a project where I take DNA sequences and convert them into sound - the result is always a kind of jazzy melody, but I don't have any of the rest of what makes a piece of music. Would it be possible to feed the

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