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by wisty 4y ago
Moral philosophy, in practice, is not about finding the right answer but justifying the gut reaction of the practitioner. The utility of moral education wasn't to come up with better decisions, but to explain to young boys (or maybe gi
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by wisty 4y ago
Notice how quantity is the main thing that matters with explosives. You can make the nastiest thing imaginable but there's pretty hard limits on how much chemical energy can blow up in your face per milligram of reactants. On the other
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by wisty 4y ago
I've used them. They're pretty comparable to the average textbook. Maybe a few more typos than some 31st edition (which fixes a few typos and swaps the order of a few common homework questions so you can't buy the last editio
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by wisty 4y ago
There's a grain of truth to it. Being too hard on yourself to the point where you're avoiding hard work because of the guilt is counter-productive. It's productive to forgive yourself for messing up, then make realistic imp
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by wisty 4y ago
Maybe society doesn't have high enough expectations of women.
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by wisty 4y ago
Individual decision makers (i.e. doctors) have way more information than the metric makers, so they can run rings around them. If the spreadsheet is going to be ungameable, it basically needs to be an AI that can do the job of the employees
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by wisty 4y ago
Maybe just giving the system a kick can be a bit effective (especially in conjunction with a patient trying to change).
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by wisty 4y ago
An adult is less constrained by their home environment, and more constrained by a combination of their genetics and the planet they live on.
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by wisty 4y ago
These 3-wheeled "legally a motorbike" car things are always an unpopular niche. Fantastic efficiency and a low price, but most people would rather shell out for a full-sized car. They're legally motorbikes, so they are often
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by wisty 4y ago
~10% of people are dishonest to a fault and are lucky to stay out of prison, they're the kind who will have a judge tell them they'll do hard time the next time they are caught and just nod and think "yeah maybe he's blu
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by wisty 4y ago
It's being clever for the sake of being clever. They're saying imposter syndrome is itself a bit of an imposter, because it's often more a meme than a serious disease (whatever that means, it's not in DSM I think, maybe
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by wisty 4y ago
You could kind of say a similar thing about some of Maxwell's and Einstein's work - restating Faraday or Lorentz in a more elegant way is not great achievement, but if it leads to a clue where a new rule can be found then it might
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by wisty 4y ago
It's a bit like how the Spartans (IIRC) taught their kids to lie, cheat, and steal as long as they didn't get caught, because that's how the world works. Unfortunately, this kind of society seems doomed to collapse.
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by wisty 5y ago
I don't know if he had a chip on his shoulder. He just talks like a troll on slashdot or an old BBS board, dropping in with a few paragraphs with a fairly strident position, and says anyone who disagrees with him is stupid. I think peo
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by wisty 5y ago
There could be teachers who are fanatics about some political issue, and if you even hint you might disagree with them they'll try to lash out. I also recall some university level class (I didn't take it but a friend did) where re
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by wisty 5y ago
I disagree, but at least you didn't use the word "regurgitate". I always find it funny when people say that tests are just about "regurgitating" information. It's such a cliché that just gets regurgitated in ev
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by wisty 5y ago
Maybe look for the type of company you'd invest a lot of money in, where your skillset is considered to be "core business".
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by wisty 5y ago
Google's problem is they've virtually nothing (given their resources) to "commoditizing their complement". https://www.gwern.net/Complement Google's compliment is web sites. What have they done to m
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by wisty 5y ago
So we should discriminate against the people who don't know to say "lawyer"? Why not just give every suspect a lawyer immediately. And since any sane suspect will listen to their lawyer (who will advise them to plead the 5th)
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by wisty 5y ago
Hmm, you might be right. I still think the US system tends to be very heavily driven by the opposing forces of the constitution and the government though, and has a lot of hard rules that don't seem particularly realistic (if a defenda
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by wisty 5y ago
The link is dead for me, were you able to read it? But this seems this is more of the ruling, note that the judge points out 'prefacing that statement with "if y' all, this is how I feel, if y' all think I did it' &
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by wisty 5y ago
The police "screwed" him by following the exact letter of the law as they questioned him, and didn't give him the "get out of jail free" card that he almost managed to get. And while it's not totally relevant,
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by wisty 5y ago
Why is it unfortunate? Is it unfortunate that some people will get away with crimes, because they know to ask for a lawyer (unambiguously)? The "lawyer dog" suspect was found guilty of a serious crime (based on his interview with
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by wisty 5y ago
What does "persuading in bad faith" mean? Is this bad faith in the techniques of the persuasion, or that the persuasion is being used in a malicious way? For example, if I say something misleading (or omit a few facts) to encourag
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by wisty 5y ago
This is kind of a myth. That was only part of the reasoning. The suspect actually said: "If y’all, this is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it so why don’t you just give me a lawyer (dog) cause this is not w
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by wisty 5y ago
There seems to be 2 seperate issues: 1. The author seems to be arguing that the class was not well taught, given its goals. 2. The author disagrees with the goals of the class. The goal of a math for non-majors class isn't to give them
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by wisty 5y ago
Psychosomatic illness is a real problem. I understand that they don't want to mock people with it (as it's not really helpful), and post viral syndromes do exist, but the mass hysteria people are raising is even less helpful.
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by wisty 5y ago
Long Covid is quite a worry, especially as it seems to even happen quite a lot to people who appear to have never even caught it - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40121-021-00484-w
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by wisty 5y ago
Prisoners are more likely than the elderly to riot if their food is bad.
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by wisty 5y ago
What's a word? (A quick test - how many words were in the previous sentence, maybe 3 or 4 depending on whether the 's is part of a word; so can we talk about Jóhannesson's foreign policy?). It's hard enough to know what

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