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A fitting title. The end of my reading, “As news outlets disappear, extreme political movements question the concept of objectivity and the scientific process.” Yuck.
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Cray sounds mildly autistic.
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“It’s not really expression of anything. It’s freedom of manipulation; freedom of engineering people’s brains to be ideal victims. Maybe that’s something society needs to prohibit.” I think governments were first in this space of “engineeri
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“Social media will play a huge part in bringing information to the hundreds of millions of people casting their votes” I reject this premise, and find people who advance it to have questionable views. Social media is the modern equivalent p
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It tastes different I’m sure.
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It’s international. The global elite are not constrained by borders.
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Yeah I noticed 60 minutes was running some sort of SBF puff piece yesterday and immediately turned it off. Was trying to eat dinner. I know his ill gotten wealth will be paying for a massive character laundering campaign and so none of this
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Agree a little bit. But also, it seems like there are many powerful people in San Francisco, people like Nancy Palosi, and they don’t want, the city from becoming Mumbai or Hong Kong or whatever it is you think it should be. You seem to
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>Why not ban utopian authoritarians? Because we can’t ban everything doesn’t mean we shouldn’t earnestly try. It’s not a viable option, but the lesson must be relearned every generation or so. It’s always self-nullifying. People want saf
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Maybe also, or at least tangentially, the Baumol effect.
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She really was pretty moderate in many ways, especially when it came to defense/ir. I doubt her replacement will be as moderate, but hopefully she will be younger and more cognitively fit. (We have a competency crisis in our highest ra
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Ultimately history books are written by the winners. So the question is not whether ai will be the future, but which ai will be the future. From that perspective, it’s just more of the same old same old top down.
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The tech world needs something like that. Maybe certificates are the best solution.
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Reinheitsgebot now!
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Didn’t arbitrary data caps start back in the day when torrenting was a big problem? The ISPs started cutting people off because only piracy could explain such heavy usage. That was in the early 00’s iirc, prior to the net neutrality debate.
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But will that make a difference?
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Yes, the featured article makes that clear the tools are not the threat, the “democratization of” the tools is the specific threat they are alerting people to. Hollywood and big brother have been doing propaganda and fake photos since fore
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Lower trust societies are better if you enjoy living in a warzone and being oppressed by a tyrannical government.
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Supply and demand go together. To talk about one and not the other is simply wrong. If demand was constant or only slightly increasing we wouldn’t have a shortage. The shortage is more demand driven than people want to acknowledge and so we
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“Terrorism is fairly rare” The only people who make that claim are terrorists.
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“Live action role play is an old theatrical behavior and a new excuse. The concern that this label can be used as a defense for planning and preparing a targeted attack on a public official, democratic government, or anyone else is a real o
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It’s hard to answer that concisely but one way to answer it concisely might be: mbti are often described as personality types, “The INFP tends to like x and often does y, they dislike z, …” the big five are just five arbitrary dimensions ar
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Traits are not personality. And factor analysis is arbitrary.
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Not exactly, because we don’t experience people’s big five, we experience a personality. You can argue that personality isn’t a real thing, and that differences can be reduced to five traits but have you ever wondered why five? Why not one?
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Whenever people bang on about debunking this or that artifact of social science research (artifact of the academy to be more precise), I recall that personality can’t really be established empirically by modern psychological science. People
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Poetry and philosophy seem to be good at snapping my mind back out of web reader mode. The Bible too, but that’s sort of philosophy-poetry (or poetry-philosophy if you prefer).
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Old people are filled with rage too, so much useless rage. Most of it is from corporate news media, who work them up about the latest impending world catastrophe that isn’t really a threat to them. If it bleeds it leads. It’s all just very
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“The people that are going to be okay are the people who don’t deny this breakthrough is happening, and embrace it and learn it, and try to use“ Maybe, maybe not.
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People talk about the us education system as though it were a single thing. It’s never been that.
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They market their product as a real time navigation application. They are 100% liable.

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