thinkfurther

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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Pfff. It's the strike breakers that make it hard. Keep that up for a while longer, and it will become a physical impossibility, as any gesture of resistance leads to automatic extermination. Until then? Thanks for nothing.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
I doubt that. Early humans had to cooperate and share. They couldn't afford this parasitism. We still can't afford it, but for most individuals it's easier to just let it go rather than to follow them to their nest and smoke
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> are all systems and mechanisms and processes etc that are prescriptive for how to produce a positive, healthy functioning adult in [insert] society. These processes do not produce babies, they come way after the sperm fertilizing the e
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Honestly, I'd like to hear from them. Just look at this thread, the ratio of anti-Damore to pro-Damore people is like 1-to-10, and the other threads are even worse. How is not smearing the guy who said there is a problem equal to
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
His opponents have egg on their faces, and they just keep spreading it around more. Like that cartoon dog reading sitting in a burning house saying "this is fine". That's what I see. They painted themselves into a corner they
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Do you know the depths of not taking that advice and what lurks in them? Do you know that if everybody simply took it to heart, there'd be nothing unrealistic about it at all? How many months of abstinence and solidarity would be requi
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> commonly it's implied that "if you walk away from the debate therefore you are wrong", which is fallacious. Nobody owes you a debate. You might be wrong, you might be right, either way that does mean forfeiting the debat
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
I was just thinking about height. Of course biology affects career choice, and a lot of other things. Doesn't mean men are engineers and women are nurses, but to pretend biology doesn't affect anything is more than hilarious. Whic
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> We raise our children to be more evolved and better than we are as their parents, are we worshiping our children? You don't build them on a drawing board, do you? edit: also, I think a lot of people would take issue with this. I&#
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Amazon attracts talented staff Yet you don't know if they would have even more talented staff being more decent. They're by definition stuck with what they can get.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Google took the decision to fire him based on what was likely to create a conducive atmosphere for its workers. They did the opposite, someone said it's not okay to shame people into silence, and then they did just that. > made
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> because there isn't evidence that biological differences cause people to choose different careers. Oh? What about basketball players or jockeys?
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> That seems an odd approach tbh. If that's odd, then what is firing just to prove him right?
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Nothing that makes sense in what he says I haven't heard put better by better people, who don't apply it in such a limited way. Oh, and then there's people dismissing something just because Einstein said it, too. That's
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> I think your hostility towards the military is getting in the way of discussing these ideas No, your unwillingness to address something like this does: > Except the second they're unfit, they have nothing to say anymore. Becaus
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Still not sure what idols you're claiming are being worshiped. You literally are intending to build something that you then consider "higher" or "better". A bunch of circuits and algorithms humans made. Or even
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Oh yeah, objectivism. Ayn Rand being against welfare for other and the collecting it herself. > Do you value the individual or the society? .. or the dollar, which is entirely different from valuing people? Just one of a trillion example
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> to publicly say what they want, when they want, using company systems That just makes you another person distorting what happened. I know I'm correct, I don't need further proof, but thanks.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Don't they have something about "organizing the world's information and making accessible"? Here's a guy saying it's not that great to suppress view points or hard scientific facts based on dogma, that this dam
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
That's the best case, I'm talking about the worst case. It's a bit like you don't have unprotected sex with strangers because "they might not have HIV". You don't play around with this stuff. I'm furt
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
No, I'm dismissing it based on content. And the war didn't "happen", it was all actions of people. One element of it was Colin Powell sweating as he made his bullshit WMD presentation in front of the UN. Anyone with half
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> A good leader sets an example that others want to follow So does any random decent person, no leadership or subordination required. > one of the traits mentioned in the article is that an effective leader tells their people why they
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
You cannot "take" responsibility. You can face the responsibility you have, or don't. You cannot shed one iota of it, or take one additional iota. And "subordinates" or also responsible for the orders they follow. T
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Did you yourself ever try to actually discuss with actual Nazis, yes or no? That's what I thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXszx68uhsY&t=3m50s
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
The fact of doing it in the shadows makes that interpretation impossible though.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> what about people who command from the field? What about the massive ability of a General's ability to affect the outcome of a war from the planning rooms? What about it? > Even your final phrase, "lead, follow, or get out
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> he co-authored a letter to FDR with Leo Szilard recommending that the US research atomic weapons. That should clue you in about how this has nothing to do with "pacifism". It would be more pacifistic to not express disgust th
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
It's like sneaking up on someone from behind with a knife to slit their throat while talking about how they just "should" accept that, but since they won't, you have to force it on them. And of course people who say diff
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Oh, I'm just taking "crazy" literally, rather than how it's meant in the article which is more like "unfeasible" etc. That's also an elephant in the room in a way. But I agree that China so far seems to ha
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Of course it's crazy. Just like the guy on HN who told me they have to build AGI in the shadows because people just wouldn't understand, and with the other corner of their mouth talked about how "we" should go into &quot

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