wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What's your point?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why should it not apply to cigarettes as well?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Except the demand for one is created by gun point
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>People never needed technology to commit genocide - there are plenty of examples throughout our whole history.[1][2][3] Technology was used in all of those examples. Technology by itself didn't create mass murder, but it does makes
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>If we had orders of magnitues more of genius level intellects pushing the boundaries of technology and science, humanity would be better for it. I just don't see where this would be harmful if it works as intended. Because science
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Great, as long as I'm wearing a comfortable pair of tennis shoes. Otherwise, if I'm wearing a pair of dressy leather shoes, my feet quickly begin to ache.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Ah yes indeed. I suppose I was looking moreso for an example of how technology has helped create a net positive effect against misinformation and other major social problems.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Would effect does speeding up news propagation have, if not for promulgating unsubstantiated speculation?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Consider how Facebook for instance has influenced the social problem. In what ways?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
> if its so passive that I can barely detect it happening, all power to them. So you don't care if people are manipulating you, so long as you are unaware?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I've yet to see anything successful or promising. Unfortunately, this seems to be far more of a human social problem than a technical problem.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Just because you don't click on an ad or think you ignore them doesn't mean you're not being manipulated by them. Subconscious influence/manipulation is more powerful and prevalent than most people realize. The most skil
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present o
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Those documents are often released to tell investors and taxpayers "here is how we view the situation and why" Indeed these tend to be more data oriented but they are still not without their great faults. Case and point: the e
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Business news sources tend to be clear headed, because they are in the space of news you can put a dollar value on, and hence will pay for to make more accurate. It also pays to put out dishonest hit pieces against competitors, or disho
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's an ideology, not a science
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What is the meaning of programming?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How do you know?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
When there's too many cooks in the kitchen, we all benefit when there is less people trying to cook.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Remember the trillions that went missing due to fraud and sly bookkeeping in 2008, and how no one was held accountable?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Isn't government intervention the reason why real estate prices are so high there in the first place?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I'll stick to real money, thanks. By "real" money, you mean more established and widely used, correct?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>>"we are all independent beings who are completely unaffected by external factors" >Maybe individual people have this attitude, but it is certainly not a tenet of medical/psychological practice. This is indeed evide
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>or because they're not a group that can be profited from politically They already are being profited from politically via the War on Drugs.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Or at least the idea of what true AI is is a constantly changing mythology
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I forget where but I've read of this theory before: that what constitutes a true AI is constantly redefined as the level of development that we have not yet achieved, so as to be invisible
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Staying on earth is running a server without a backup. We all know how that ends.. Work oppurtunities for data retrieval companies. Unless there is an exoplanet comparable to Earth that we can reach, your analogy is akin to calling a fl
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps a counterpoint would be that the opportunity cost of colonizing mars would be better spent by first solving the existential issues here on Earth. Once we have figured out how to achieve homeostasis on a planet so plentiful in resour
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps it may be the increasingly worrisome and out of control political climate?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure If by "profligate" he means "wasteful in the use of resources" then this whole thesis falls apart immediately.

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