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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
What would be today's equivalent preparation for logistics? It's hard to imagine fuel pipelines working again. Or would it? Are batteries or solar power part of this, or is that inconsequential? It seems like everything can be dua
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Easily opened incognito. How do you expect articles like this to be written without ads, which this community often derides, or subscriptions?
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Why is this a link to archive.org? If you like articles like this and want them to continue, link the source.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Ok, what about moderation? You won't find viral videos about Xinjiang or China's organ "donor" program on TikTok and that seems more problematic.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Just do it based on merit. Doing it based on country makes no sense.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Yeah, keeping political content off the service must require a company-connected person to review every piece of content that reaches a certain level of exposure. I don't think they are successful at keeping off political content thoug
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Thousands? How about millions. Facebook employed 15,000 content reviewers in 2020, plus probably ten times that volunteering to mod their own FB pages. I'd expect China's state owned western-facing social media site to have far mo
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
That explains the viewer's side, but what about the publisher/influencer side? How does TikTok decide one video is more suitable than another? My guess is every single video is marked by a human for how much exposure it should get
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Does TikTok just have reams of content selectors deciding if certain posts are good or not? Otherwise I can't see how they could auto-decide to push out content to large audiences without something they don't like getting out. Lik
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
I suspect there are still consequences here, but GP commenter does not regard them as punishment. I can't imagine parenting without any consequences. Like, I'm going to grab your arm if you run into the road, obviously. Where you
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Along with setting expectations, you can set consequences. "If you do X, I will do Y." With that understanding, you've left your child a choice, and you are not being an authoritarian parent, provided your consequences are wi
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
It's certainly up to you how to feel about being faced with that. I can't say I fear China taking over. Some may perceive power as a position of relaxation, but it's really about responsibility, and I don't think the Chi
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> Fear is a healthy emotion, properly tempered. And it's an entirely rational response to a threat Yes, and, expressing emotions helps us move beyond them. Holding onto them indefinitely is not necessary for them to be part of our e
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
The means create the ends, and the ends do not justify means, in my opinion. I disagree that the means, or intent as you say, is unimportant. Your emotional reaction is a choice. You can choose to both not be afraid and still walk through f
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> why you AREN'T afraid of this? I think the trick is to understand it, and once you realize what your choices are, then it's an easy decision not dictated by fear. That is, you either work towards a future where choice remains
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> I think this is true in the US (from the stories I've heard/read about at least), I grew up in Southeast Asia though, there isn't much of a culture for over-prescribing (or prescribing anything really :p) people medicati
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
You're right, total false equivalence. Plain clothes thugs hired or forced to show up in person, and you can assume plain clothes users are hired or forced to comment online too. It's how they stay in power, a living army ready to
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Two issues may be at play here. Both tech and Medication Madness, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2492547.Medication_Madne... I agree it seems more prevalent in your generation. We are quicker to diagnose with
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
TameAntelope's comment did have substance. Give it another read, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32218408
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> science: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. [1] Given the definition, why wouldn't you con
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> past time to reform a large chunk of academia >> And you're taking exception to it TameAntelope was addressing premises to that conclusionary comment. If the premises do not hold, then TameAntelope does not need to address t
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> To be called “science” it should be like physics in terms of providing truth value, not psychology. It's possible to form a truth about human behavior, for example, I did X because Y. If someone points my behavior out to me, then
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> It can and often does get stuck for decades at a time, I think this is just more data. If we're all wrong for a longer time, then the impact will be more clear. I agree that modern additions like preregistration are helpful. I onl
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
I found the hard/soft science discussion here [1] to be informative. It seems unlikely that all of social science will one day be declared as "not science". Aristotle's methods, for example, did not require a certain sam
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
That is a much more reasonable question that I think would be up to the journal, and you as a reader.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> maybe people just want to shine light on the fact that social science is harder than other science The comment to which I was replying lacked the nuance in yours. Context is everything.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
I think podcasts would be a better source. Audio only is great because you can be doing something else while listening.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
The quibble here is whether social science is a science. Here's a good overview, including a video of Feynman which the HN crowd may appreciate: https://www.quora.com/Is-social-science-a-real-science/answe... Huma
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> It brings “science” into disrepute to let social science associate with the other sciences. So you just want it renamed to "social studies" or what? What is your proposal, that nobody research this topic, or that they be sepa
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> They don't preregister their trials. First of all, preregistration is not a requirement for the scientific method, which has functioned well for centuries. That is a recent trend in response to the overflowing amount of haphazardl

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