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by trevyn 7y ago
They could start protesting for regime change in Beijing. Being part of China goes both ways. :-)
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by trevyn 7y ago
The value of everything approaching zero is a signal of a post-scarcity world, which seems like a good thing, even if it requires some adjustment.
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by trevyn 7y ago
There appear to be several components of the methodology that are not adjusted for country size.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I’ve heard that cutting out nearly all carbohydrates from the diet basically causes permanent remission of type 2 diabetes. Is this true?
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by trevyn 7y ago
I’ve been enjoying Karl Widerquist’s “Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No”, which notes that access to natural resources is an important input as well. That is, one form of freedom is
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by trevyn 7y ago
The bigger question might be, what price are you willing to pay? The Communist Party of China is now deeply entwined in the global economy.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> Why should we persist the idea that wanting to win is a boy thing Because the same processes that make male and female bodies have different structure and work differently make male and female brains have different structure and work
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by trevyn 7y ago
Just as there are already “enough” physical cars, there is also already enough physical restaurant infrastructure, so today it’s more a question of efficient utilization. What Uber Eats is doing in this space is really smart: Keeping track
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by trevyn 7y ago
One can also live with minimal personal government interference in high-government jurisdictions. Most of our chains are in our mind, of our own creation.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I wonder if the previous poster is actually referring to a perceptual issue around latency — because the video latency is perceptibly greater than a face-to-face conversation, we may perceive unpleasantness in the audio as well, even though
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by trevyn 7y ago
(2013)
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by trevyn 7y ago
My understanding is that the “super” in superdeterminism is just making clear that we are considering the experimenter completely determined as well, but yes, they are essentially the same thing. Last paragraph I mean what you interpret — o
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by trevyn 7y ago
Bell: There is a way to escape the inference of superluminal speeds and spooky action at a distance. But it involves absolute determinism in the universe, the complete absence of free will. Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with no
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by trevyn 7y ago
The formalisms of quantum mechanics are widely accepted, but as you know, there is considerable disagreement about what may actually be happening underneath: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_m.
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by trevyn 7y ago
It’s a process of transition between two distinct states. Say a bit flips from 0 to 1; there is a short time period during which that bit is physically “in transition”, but it would be incorrect to say that the bit has a value of, say, 0.5
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by trevyn 7y ago
I think certain things feel pre-ordained for some, and like an unfolding of human destiny for others, because they are a tangible expression of common, shared human desires. You’re right that economic and other concerns influence the specif
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by trevyn 7y ago
Oh that’s weird, because it totally worked for me with “butts” as a euphemism for “people”, as in “butt-in-seat time” — relying on a third-party service is essentially relying on third party butts (i.e. people), and your data is only access
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by trevyn 7y ago
http://sci-hub.tw/downloads/2019-05-14/30/10.3758@s13423-019...
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by trevyn 7y ago
Another thanks for this. Powerful stuff. I looked up transcendentalism, and found this definition: “an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism.” I found this origin
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by trevyn 7y ago
Human needs are quite easy to satisfy with shelter, food, some basic medicine, and a certain mindset. The costs of all these are asymptotically approaching zero with technology. Why would you want a job or any employment protections if they
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by trevyn 7y ago
This feels kind of like saying “future generations won’t have access to horses, slaves, whale oil, or pocket watches”. Jobs as we know them today are going to be obsolete in a few generations.
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by trevyn 7y ago
“disaster to the world”, “fight to the end”, “at all costs” (“at all costs” solemnly repeated twice in the actual speech); there is some very concerning signaling in this speech by China’s Defense Minister. Full speech here: https:/&#
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China says war with U.S. would be a disaster as tensions mount(reuters.com)
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by trevyn 7y ago
“I want to make more money.” Yes, but what do you really want?
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by trevyn 7y ago
I’ve also noticed the perspective that a majority people seem to “have an angle”, whether that’s an outright financial scam, emotional manipulation, some sort of hustle, wanting to monetize your brain by employing you, or whatever. Interest
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by trevyn 7y ago
A good way to immunize yourself against something is to have weaponized it yourself in the past. Then you can recognize it when it appears, and you know its strengths and weaknesses. The human vulnerabilities that advertising leverages are
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by trevyn 7y ago
Along the lines of “everyone is breaking some law”, there could be a shift from “technically illegal but generally harmless and tolerated” to “illegal and mindlessly enforced by automated technology”. An example being China’s automated ja
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by trevyn 7y ago
You might want to check out the Unitarian Universalists, they provide many of the social benefits of organized religion without a specific belief system attached.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I think beyond it being a taboo, it simply doesn’t enter consciousness in many non-western (or non-US?) countries — maybe kind of like how Asperger’s was discussed before it even had a name — it wasn’t, or that person was just a bit “differ
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by trevyn 7y ago
“Whole Paycheck”, but yeah.

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