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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
So then if we will always fall short of omniscience, why should we always seek it in everything we do?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>the only way of evaluating a noneducational experience is via opportunity costs. What about human feelings (e.g. mental/physical health)? Are those important in evaluating experiences? >(The adjective "monetary" is red
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Do you think humans can gain omniscience using the scientific method?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>the beauty of a sunset, the warmth of a lover's embrace, the blissful confusion of waking from a nap on a summer afternoon? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point, but it seems like your only way of appreciating the value of
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What kind of "better results" are we looking for? Simply producing more STEM graduates does not necessarily lead to better results when so many of them sell out to companies with business models that are adversarial to humanity at
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What is the scope of the vulnerability?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why is it better?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The senate represents the people of their state. >The Senate is composed of senators, each of whom represents a single state in its entirety, with each state being equally represented by two senators https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's funny you're being downvoted. How is it not in everyone's (except those currently exploiting the system) best interest to increase their share of representation?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Hypercentralization is bad when it leads to data hoarding because it creates a "jackpot" of information for hackers
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I am reminded of an old zen saying: "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and grass grows by itself."
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>people are overwhelmingly on Facebook Is hypercentralization not a major problem of tech at the momemt, both in terms of security and freedom of thought?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
By not idolizing/worshipping arbitrary measures of success (money, popularity) in the first place
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This is a much better argument than the former, however this risk is inconsistent with the much more imminent risks we face every day which have been deemed acceptable to society. Should people not be able to fly airplanes for pleasure?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If I was a passerby I'd say hell yeah I want to watch. And I definitely don't want to live in a smelly polluted city.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It could pop the curb and hit you
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
So what? Whenever anyone dies someone has to deal with the body. Someone has to clean up the garbage we create every day, and they usually get paid for it.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The terrorist's defining weapon is the propagation of irrational fear. When you broadcast their propaganda you become their weapon.
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What antibiotic did you use? Doxycycline?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It seems like it would be a good thing for mainstream media outlets to not give their spotlight to terrorists
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Tether has yet to verify that it holds $2.3 billion in reserve This will be interesting to see. I wonder how long until we'll know. I saw an interesting data analysis here on HN a while back showing a correlation, and hypothesizing
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>In failed rule of law states, it has often happened that former politicians were/are criminalized. If they were "criminalized" and no one had the power to lock them up, there was no rule of law in the first place. There w
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This is still a weak excuse for allowing politicians to break the law. It's like saying we shouldn't go after child molesters because they might kill the police so they can keep molesting children. >By prosecuting (former) poli
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It appears your argument against prosecuting criminal politicians boils down to being afraid of their power and what would happen if you did? Seems like a weak argument from authority.
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Power and control over enemies.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
No, it doesn't seem very possible to accurately audit trillions of dollars of transactions in the biggest and most secretive organization in history. They've been trying for almost 30 years now to no avail, all the while their bud
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Downvoted you for your edit about getting downvoted, the HN guidelines forbid commenting on voting
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How can you know where the money is going when they've never had to pass an audit? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Of...
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If the secret services are keeping their operations secret, how are the "trusted elected people" supposed to keep what they're doing in check?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Proponents of these systems argue that big data and advanced machine learning make these analyses more accurate and less biased than humans. This assumes the data sets of the criminal punishment system are not inherently biased, which i

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