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by wikitopian 4y ago
My point still stands that beginning a conversation about science, technology, or policy with your finger squarely aimed at people you don't like will only serve to start an argument with the people you don't like.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The growing failure to speak about science, technology, and policy without politically coding the speech has caused irreparable damage to public science, technology, and policy discussion. Perhaps the most egregious example was the liberal
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by wikitopian 4y ago
What if I tried to have a conversation about violent crime that opened that we need to talk about how registered democrats commit dramatically more violent crime than registered republicans? We would end up arguing about everything but the
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by wikitopian 4y ago
No. We need to divorce the public policy conversation about climate change and carbon emissions from all of this inflammatory and polarizing rhetoric. Promote policies that target the worst sources of environmental pollution without coding
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Ankylosing Spondylitis is one example, though I believe the area is critically under-researched.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Self-driving cars are the least obvious scam on the list, for sure. The reason we appear so close is that well over 90% of driving is incredibly easy and can be performed without a sentient human being. This creates the impression that we&#
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Not even NFTs, where people were aggressively bidding against one another for a database entry confirming their ownership of a cartoon monkey on drugs? Not even quantum computing, where wall street is investing billions in quirky (quorky?)
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I'm surprised that "combating UFOs" hasn't joined quantum computing, the metaverse, machine learning, self-driving cars, and crypto among the bullshit investment bubbles. I bet there's a market in consulting with co
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Sending humans into space is an expensive boondoggle that distracts and detracts from legitimate scientific research. Whether or not outer space scrambles your genes, we know for sure that we've scrambled several astronauts and nearly
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by wikitopian 4y ago
This is a technology website. I'm commenting on tech trends. One should not be leading the elderly to believe that self driving cars are going to be dramatically enhancing their mobility any day now.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Not only will your elderly mom not live to see self driving cars become commonplace, you won't either.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Hopefully we INTJs will soon be able to apply for disability on account of being too arrogant and boorish to work with other people.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
This mindset exists in every occupation. And it's always superficially true. Everything would grind to a halt if it weren't for people who do X. Everybody else exists because X people are doing X.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Engineers that have to do management and paperwork stuff cry that they're so busy with paperwork that they can't engineer. So management hires a guy for them and they cry about how that guy doesn't do anything.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Ultimately, culture will be defined by a strange sort of radical authenticity defined by ever more subtle and specific signals of genuine humanity. Sophisticated cants will emerge that are structurally challenging for computers to emulate.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
And for those of you working from home, quit ignoring and disrespecting your cat.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Shit, I can't even tell you what I was trying to do with software I wrote a week ago. I imagine the person who wrote it knows about as much about the code as the person calling them.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Just switch to vaping. It's easier to step down with it, and if you fail to step down, you're still getting fewer carcinogens.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Thank you, fellow nineties emo kid.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The public key cryptographic algorithm is in the public domain so the question is really just how humanity will grapple with the fact that humans can communicate privately. I agree it presents a lot of problems, crypto has harmed millions o
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Claiming that pedophiles also wish to communicate privately as an argument against private communication is beneath my comprehension. To even think that way gives me a sort of ice cream headache of the soul. Knowing that a large and growing
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by wikitopian 4y ago
It's entirely okay to bully people who've made billions atop open and open source software into contributing back to the community. Especially when you can make the case that doing so will help their bottom line and legal footing.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I'm talking about an elegant technical solution to cloudflare's very real business problem. If they deliver a solid open source solution to the dark web name resolution problem, there's less pressure on them to host all sorts
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The tor dark web already exists and everybody knows what goes on there. There are already decentralized crypto-driven naming services. Merely improving the tor network's name resolution has nothing to do with your grand philosophical a
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by wikitopian 4y ago
This is the future, but they're doing it backwards. Start at the top with sqlite compiled to webassembly as a virtual machine and prove that the tabular paradigm is superior to the scalar, vector, and object paradigms. It'll be mo
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Everybody in America who doesn't have the state department's line on the war is subject to censorship and retribution. They're just less honest about it here.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
In the case of the Daily Stormer, it was free speech and you very clearly and directly made the incorrect call. I'm a big fan of your thoughtful speeches while you grapple with these sticky situations. But why not just invest some pock
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I feel like ethnic cleansing of minority populations through systemic erasure of their heritage and identity is a fine pretext for war.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Fair point.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The infants, children, and frail who are most imperiled by this plan to freeze them to death on purpose don't have equal access to the internet debate over whether it's worth it to do that.

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