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by walleeee 6y ago
Since finance itself is a socially convenient system of alignment fabrication, you might as well start subsistence farming. It's turtles all the way down. You could say trust emerges when people agree to believe in a shared lie.
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by walleeee 6y ago
You can draw that line of reasoning all the way back to the dawn of agriculture. Note that I'm not necessarily disagreeing.
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Markets are a value ascribing heuristic machine. There is nothing about them that can deterministically point to objective value. However, the idea is that over a longer period of time, an approximation of true value emerges though wis
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by walleeee 6y ago
As the other commenter mentioned, cognitive psychology is well-developed (working memory, the relationship between action impulses and our subjective awareness thereof, etc). And there is very good social psychological research on a number
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by walleeee 6y ago
The field is over-crowded, for one. Two, its participant pool is almost exclusively undergraduate students on university campuses in WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) nations. Three, experimental designs may re
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by walleeee 6y ago
That's fair, although to me that suggests we need to create easier self-hostable blog/newsletter tools, not all migrate to Twitter's next big fishtank
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by walleeee 6y ago
Oh, then I agree, but I would suggest it's a worthwhile inconvenience. The more people quit these services, the less incentive other users will have to remain. It's surprising sometimes how even one person's decision can gene
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by walleeee 6y ago
Why is the Revue model preferable to a blog with a tip jar and RSS? I understand why Twitter wants in on a lucrative game, but I don't understand the value proposition for writers or readers. I struggle to see how, as a regular person
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by walleeee 6y ago
> if all the government does is increase social welfare that it already struggles to afford or satisfy the luxury of a dictator Or prioritizes surveillance of its citizens and invasion of foreign countries on flimsy pretext over human he
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by walleeee 6y ago
Not at all, I would very much like to protect personal privacy rights. I'm saying a small number of businesses have convinced the general public to invest a massive amount of time, money, and attention in virtual spaces. These organiza
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by walleeee 6y ago
Just don't use them. And try to convince people you know not to. A ban isn't even necessary if enough people decide a platform works against their interests and cease to pay attention to it.
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by walleeee 6y ago
Tangential to music, but how do y'all train yourselves to ignore your bodies? I sit for 5 minutes and my back hurts. It's my biggest focus killer. I'm constantly aware of how physically uncomfortable I am when I have to work
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by walleeee 6y ago
Sure, I don't think there's necessarily a single filter, or that this is it. Just that it's a candidate. Your examples would presumably be much more common.
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Maybe we have the great filter in front of us in plain view and we can't recognize it. One candidate, if we take ourselves as the primary example, is biogeochemical crisis following rapid discovery and exploitation of environmenta
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by walleeee 6y ago
Just spitballing, but if we're going to play with things like nuclear reactors, why not keep them and their waste relatively close to human settlements specifically in order to promote a culture of responsible management? This is found
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by walleeee 6y ago
Alternatively, we all could pay a bit less attention to Twitter and avoid the issue
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by walleeee 6y ago
Nearly any field of computational science likely needs skilled data engineers. You could search for topics that interest you online and contact people accordingly. I cold-emailed my current lab's P.I. and just asked for work. Search fo
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by walleeee 6y ago
One forest few seem to want to take seriously is: why do we pay so much attention to social media that all this is happening in the first place?
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by walleeee 6y ago
I stand corrected; on this view text has more entropy due to limitations of our visual system and working memory (i.e., the encoding), no? We're pretty good at hashing short symbol strings to referents. If we could decode a grayscale i
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Text is much more informationally dense than audiovisual multimedia. This has it backwards. Audiovisual multimedia have far higher raw bandwidth than text. I agree with your (implied) point, though, that text remains the preferred medi
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Farmers aren't dumb, they are incentivized to manage their soil as best they can. Farmers are definitely not dumb. But many are not currently incentivized to manage soil and (more broadly) agricultural ecosystems with long-term vi
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by walleeee 6y ago
> That's funny, because I do see vertical farming scaling to replace 100% of two-dimensional (read: "traditional") agriculture, and feeding billions. If you can point me to any resources you've found to support this,
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by walleeee 6y ago
I'm not convinced agriculture can be "perfected", or that automation is necessarily the way to go. In some situations (e.g., dense urban environments) it seems to make sense, but I think there will remain an important role fo
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by walleeee 6y ago
I think they may make sense in some locations. I don't see them scaling to replace traditional ag, barring some unforeseen advance yielding extremely cheap and plentiful clean energy. Besides significant power requirements, large const
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by walleeee 6y ago
Sustainable agriculture. Ag is the material basis of human society. We have to stop destroying soil. We have to stop poisoning ecosystems. We have to minimize artificial fertilizer inputs. We have to stop emitting and start sequestering atm
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by walleeee 6y ago
Agreed!
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by walleeee 6y ago
Definitely. Just pointing out that LSD is not guaranteed to be a psychologically liberating experience.
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by walleeee 6y ago
Not necessarily. LSD reduces the influence of implicit priors. What gets reintegrated depends on context ("set and setting").
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by walleeee 6y ago
> It is nothing new, nor is it catastrophic. Predator-prey cycles are of course neither new nor catastrophic, but the planetary extinction event we're in the midst of is definitely a catastrophe. Maybe not yet to the same degree as
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Humans thrive with technology and the earth ceases to be our parent, providing for us. What leads you to believe this? I often see similar sentiments on this website. I don't understand it. Maybe I'm missing something. High t

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