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by throw4847285 3y ago
I love critiques of consequentialism, but I found this piece to be fundamentally free of meaning. Then I looked up the author's bio. "I am a Professor of Economics." Well that explains it. The only thing worse than an economi
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I think we agree more than we disagree. I believe we need to seriously study the effect of microplastics on the human body. I believe the federal government should follow California's example (at a minimum) and take a heavier hand in r
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I don't deny that there is more and more research every day about the negative impacts of microplastics on the human body. From my place of relative ignorance, it still seems that more sweeping claims like "Microplastics are respo
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I don't go a day where I don't drink at least two glasses.
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I'm gonna need some more hard evidence before I believe that microplastics in the human body play a strong causative role in both infertility and changing IQ scores (and first you have to convince me of the import of IQ scores). It&#x2
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I recommend reading this Reddit post. https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...
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by throw4847285 3y ago
The current Edison mythbusting is actually very similar to the Mother Teresa mythbusting, in that it's a vast overcorrection to the veneration, and relies on a lot of myths itself. Like you said, somebody can be a brilliant inventor an
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I was hoping this would be about Franz.
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Exactly. Those e-bike delivery drivers are directly incentivized by Grubhub and Doordash to put themselves at risk. The ever increasing demand for instantly delivered meals and the unscrupulousness of those companies has created the present
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Thanks for engaging seriously even though I was being snarky. More than I deserve. For starters, is the kind of problem solving that goes into coding trivially applicable to other problem spaces? That's why I used the crossword metapho
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by throw4847285 3y ago
We are disagreeing. In my experience computer scientists are the dumbest "tech people" of all. I'm being facetious here, because I'm on a forum dominated by coders and it's a cheap thrill to troll a little bit. So t
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I think they would fare far worse. Because of the way that our economy is structured, tech people are overpaid and overvalued, and thus have an inflated sense of their own importance which causes them to overestimate their intelligence.
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by throw4847285 3y ago
As somebody who is mentally ill and has tried lots of different drugs in a very unscientific way, with mixed results, you'd think I would agree with you. But actually, I don't. Take lithium for example. We have now over 100 years
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Oh for sure. But I wanted to challenge your binary analogy that Wealth is to Men as Physical Beauty is to Women. We live in an across the board vain society, and women bear the brunt of that, but not all of it.
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Being young and slender confers social status to men, they just don't like to admit it. Look at how much money and effort wealthy men put into keeping up appearances (plastic surgery, hair transplants, exercise regimens, etc). Women fa
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by throw4847285 3y ago
This piece smelled fishy, but then I noticed the footnote that states this is adapted from a Peterson Academy course. That explains the cherry picked citations from impressive sounding social scientists which leads to "evo psych says&q
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Cool guy, but I was hoping the link was going to take me here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcJ8AYJYgQ
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by throw4847285 3y ago
There's a difference between a work of fiction having compelling themes and a political message and the way that some sci-fi fans seem to treat their favorite novels. There's almost a sense that the work is predictive rather than
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Nah. Compare it with fantasy authors. Nobody thinks that Tolkien or Robert Jordan was putting forward some kind of aspirational project for better living through whatever. But people read Asimov and take psychohistory way too seriously, or
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Inspired by a Heinlein novella? No thank you. Why is it that sci-fi authors trick otherwise smart people into thinking they have the key to some kind of universal truth as opposed to just being skilled prose stylists with a sense of drama?
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Why would you want an AI that refuses to be there for you while passive aggressively demanding that you meet its every emotional need which it cannot even begin to express because it lacks the fundamental language?
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by throw4847285 3y ago
In my opinion, one of the key blindspots is that most of the people in this community are living right within the center of power of the world's current largest and most powerful empire, and that tends to give you a certain set of prio
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Can't tell if you're being facetious, but I believe you're about 50% right.
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by throw4847285 3y ago
I don't really know. I only know that all post-historical "end of history" type narratives are complete BS and whenever I see one I can't take an argument seriously anymore. And both the rationalists and the post-rationa
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Cool, so they're moving from sci-fi to fantasy, just like the broader culture. My biggest beef with rationalists/post-rationalists/whatever is I have never seen them acknowledge the possibility that they're totally bound
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by throw4847285 3y ago
Sounds like he didn't take his own advice. It only confirms my suspicion that a lot of pop psychology is written by people who are desperately trying to solve their own psychological issues and instead externalize them onto the rest of