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by yters 6y ago
It looks like the output is a statistic. I.e. a trend line with error bars based on fitting prior historical data. Additionally, the processing of said historical data also seems to be statistical in nature, since there is a lot of missing
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by yters 6y ago
Let's take the Galileo case. There were a consensus of experts on Aristotelian cosmology, the best rational worldview of that day, and Galileo's model did not match observations at that point. So, his proposal was rejected. Obv
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by yters 6y ago
In which case, scientists should focus on making the science abundantly clear, as well as addressing the numerous objections people have at the science level. It seems like they want to avoid the hard work of following Sagan's advice,
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by yters 6y ago
So Sagan thinks appealing to authority of consensus is fine, but not authority of someone in charge? It's still not clear to me exactly what sorts of authorities we can and cannot appeal to, and why one sort is fine and another sort is
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What if most of the finds are results of statistical models?
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What if the relevant expertise is evaluating the veracity of statistical models?
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'Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.&
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Something like Wolfram's vision has to be true if materialism has any hope of working. The universe is finite and discrete, so a Turing machine is an upper bound on its capabilities. The original thing that started it all has to be r
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by yters 6y ago
Sure, don't ignore the social side of things. But, with enough propaganda and programming, and attracting everyone out of reclusive communities with fantastic products and lifestyles, then eventually we can gene edit our way to perfec
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Since the smallest particles of matter are indifferent, as far as we can tell (i.e. swapping one particle for another makes no difference in the physical state of the thing), then insofar as minds are individualized some kind of dualism is
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Confidence is a function of truth.
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In that case, we just use propaganda and conditioning through our education system and commercial advertising to Skinner box train everyone to believe in materialism and that they are nothing but meat machines, and there is no higher purpos
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by yters 6y ago
The article says materialism is the dominant view when it comes to the mind body problem. It could be inevitable that once modern science is discovered, that 'free will' is a useful fiction that is disposed of for a more scientifi
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I don't think the notion of a legal system makes sense within materialism. The idea of law is that there are universal rules that everyone is individually responsible for following, and are punished if they do not.
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Strange that most are materialist when it comes to mind, but dualists in most other areas of life. E.g. capitalism is a dualist theory, that assumes humans have individual agency and thus property ownership. Our system of law is the same,
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Well, at least most animals don't try killing themselves, regardless of how bad their quality of life is, so they seem to prefer existence to quality of life.
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Is there any upside to industrialized livestock farming? E.g. the enormous number of animals that get to live?
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What are the bad working conditions? Someone showed me some petition signed by 8000 Amazon employees, but the petition was mostly about climate change, no bad working conditions. Is there somewhere these bad conditions are documented? I th
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by yters 6y ago
I wonder if the different economic system had anything to do with USSR's collapse? And perhaps US collapse becomes more likely as we change economic systems? For example, communists killed and imprisoned all the kulaks (land owning fa
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by yters 7y ago
What if everyone with a sense of morality dropped out of big corps and government, leaving only the apathetic and evil? Is that more likely to turn the big corps and gov into forces of good, or evil?
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Is it true there are only two possibilities: maximizing richness or heading to the poorhouse with family?
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Hard data on all the evil that Amazon is presumably doing. What are all these evil things that makes Amazon so horrible?
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Sounds like they answered my question.
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by yters 7y ago
Could network analysis be used to deanonymize these rolling ids? I remember reading that network analysis easily deanonymizes blockchains. Seems same would apply to rolling ids.
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Why are you so sure the data remains private? Has Apple never handed data over to the gov. for investigations criminal and otherwise? Some of the genetic companies hand data to the FBI. The reason is great and moral, tracking down serial
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by yters 7y ago
In the lesser scheme of evils, Amazon firing employees who are unionizing to force the corporation to follow their environmental agenda, does not rank very high on the scale.
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Well, there are the billions who are now alive thanks to modern agriculture and medicine. We are perhaps comparing the best of the past with the worst of the present, which may not be a fair comparison. Best is to collect the best of past
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I think so. Graphing death rate by latitude shows tropics and southern latitudes (summer during cov2 outbreak) have substantially lower death rates than up north. My best guess is sun and heat is the cause.
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by yters 7y ago
Thanks! It does substantiate the point these are mostly white collar workers complaining about their environment agenda. I saw a single bullet about work conditions, and this was couched in a context about not docking pay if there are big
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or much faster and less serious

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