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by x220 8y ago
>intelligence If you don't think that intelligence is very modifiable, then you must also not think that wealth is very modifiable too, given that IQ is the most accurate predictor of wealth that we have.
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by x220 8y ago
>Although, FPGAs could supplant some hardware. But wouldn't you want the FPGAs to be open source, too?
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by x220 8y ago
Has anyone been prosecuted for acting similar to your example?
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by x220 8y ago
No, because you can come up for very good arguments a priori for why two or more rational nuclear powers leads to a very stable world, because every party is very interested in preventing nuclear war if they are materialists.
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by x220 8y ago
If you have a job, you are adding value.
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by x220 8y ago
I don't see how that's relevant.
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by x220 8y ago
How do you think people practically learn critical thinking skills? Occasionally people need to be fooled, and shown that they were fooled.
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by x220 8y ago
I heard that story in college. It stuck out because it was pithy and convincing. If you think people don't listen to new ideas or change their minds, do you think people should only be allowed to hear what you think is true, so that th
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by x220 8y ago
I don't know what sort of people you talk to, but I don't treat legal behavior in anywhere near a similar way to the way I treat illegal or directly harmful behavior. The idea of even making such an analogy feels wrong to me. Pick
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by x220 8y ago
A presentation is subjective. Unless you are literally showing people recorded values and scientific study methodology verbatim, it is subjective and open to interpretation to some degree.
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by x220 8y ago
I had a wonderful chemistry teacher once. Someone asked him what he thought about climate change, and he gave a fantastic response. "The atmosphere is a lot like a fish tank full of water. If you put food coloring in that fish tank, it
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by x220 8y ago
I think that leaving information up on the website, but make plainly visible the sponsor (and a list of other items sponsored), would be a decent feature that Facebook would absolutely never implement.
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by x220 8y ago
I don't go that far. I tend to look at a few things: * what is the source? do they have a reputable history? * do they have conflicts of interest? * do they have a history of faithfully printing retractions and admitting mistakes, or a
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by x220 8y ago
>Rather than picking a set of biases and viewpoints and presenting that, news orgs and silicon valley have decided that $thing_i_agree_with and $the_opposite_view deserve equal reach/airtime No, we do that because a marketplace of s
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by x220 8y ago
I really don't think you should remove information (or even be able to sue someone, except for defamation) for it being false, because it gives people the false impression that if information is printed or allowed on Facebook that it&#
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by x220 8y ago
You find it concerning because it's easy to abuse. The fact-checkers get to decide what is "true", and other Facebook users are unlikely to listen to you if you try and convince them that the fact-checkers are wrong.
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by x220 8y ago
Fraud requires financial gain. This is just lying. People are allowed to lie in this way, and you should not believe everything you read, particularly if it sounds very appealing, gets your emotions fired up, or seems to offer benefit witho
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by x220 8y ago
are you implying that a social media company known to manipulate the mental state of its users might want to influence the people who vote for the politicians that talk about Facebook like a monopoly and want to break it up? that's unb
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by x220 8y ago
Rest in peace
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by x220 8y ago
Sure, electric cars are an improvement, but they aren't the end-all-be-all of climate change. The bulk of the problem is out of the hands of individual choice.
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by x220 8y ago
Sure, electric cars are an improvement, but they aren't the end-all-be-all of climate change. The bulk of the problem is out of the hands of individual choice.
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by x220 8y ago
Yeah. Instead of burning gasoline for our cars, we will burn oil/gas for electricity for our cars.
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by x220 8y ago
Even though 100 companies are responsible for the bulk of climate change, lets keep painting it as the moral failure or greed of the general masses.
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by x220 8y ago
I'm honestly confused why you work that much. Are you getting a lot of company stock? Whatever your % increase in salary was cannot be realistically worth the extra time and mental effort you are spending.
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by x220 8y ago
That's a lot like asking "how would you turn water into wine?" Manage expectations and deal with angry people (aside from, in your example, mitigating those failures in the future).
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by x220 8y ago
Figuring out what to do is the hardest part. Engineering is typically the least significant part of the success or failure of a company.
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by x220 8y ago
"Thanks for the info, I'll check this out :)" There, nothing was admitted.
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by x220 8y ago
No, the civil rights movement almost always was at the mercy of those willing to commit violence and kick people out of businesses. Your ideas about how people can kick you out of businesses and punch you if they don't like what you&#x
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by x220 8y ago
>"I discovered that in the South, guys don't give any warning before they punch you." That's not free speech. That's silencing what you don't like with violence.
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by x220 8y ago
>troll has to directly, physically, face the consequences of his free speech That's not free speech.

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