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I don’t deny that conspire over pr campaigns happens. What I’m saying is that the same thing happens as a side effect of marketing and polling, in the open with no conspiracy involved. Groups are addressed and in doing so group identities a
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>”It is a conspiracy theory of course (and therefore wrong, of course), but some people are of the opinion that somewhere within the vast unknown/unknowable mechanisms of government, there are forces that deliberately slice the popu
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“collapse in trust of governments” I’m pretty sure it’s for 2 reasons: 1) politicians are slick hair car salesman types that have no shame, 2) government being incompetent. Re 2, if the government could do the things they promised to do, th
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No. What I want is more unbiased scientific study of the topic before assuming we know for certain that climate change hasn’t altered the relationship between wildfire and forrest health. Funding more research is hardly “playing fast and lo
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I’ll take the other side here. First, ok you were right in that the redwoods of big basin seem very healthy right now. I was swayed personally, as a layperson, by the following argument: it’s possible that current wildfires differ from past
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Without a doubt the best sort of press for Elon is this. Somewhere between “protest too much” and unabashed seething resentment.
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I imagine this information is useful for insurers and large healthcare organizations who may want to limit costs by marketing to high conscientious extroverts.
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“fair use because I don't have 1000 lawyers” That the legal system operates differently for those with greater wealth is a more general, certainly important problem, but not specific to LLMs or copyright. One hopeful thought to conside
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Oh I see, you’re saying we can simply eradicate human life! I didn’t consider that was what the parent was suggesting, but it is true I suppose, in a logical if pedantic sort of way.
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I’ll bite: some people want to save more, other people want to spend more. To remove inequality from humanity is to remove human nature itself. Whether or not that’s a good thing is totally besides the point. The premise requires a lack of
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I hope your situation improves. Keep the faith.
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People are listing the obvious but missing the correct answer: mental illness causes suicide. The brain goes in old age, which doesn’t just mean cognitive impairment but personality changes, mood and behavior regulation difficulty. Older pe
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I think “chosen poverty” is a fraught notion. Cultural poverty perhaps, but poverty is, according to most useful definitions, an undesirable state.
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Bell curves exist in nature. Not that natural == good. But “need” and “nature” hang together.
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Dystopia cancelled. /s Ip68 is a mere 1.5 meters! It’s still a dystopia until we get iso6425.
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If you get thrown into the pool with a wallet in your pocket, no big deal. With a cellphone, it’s a $current_iphone_price loss.
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Maybe try putting a volume in the lavatory? That’s my algorithm for getting things going with a stuck read.
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“Yet”?!
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Malaria is now a threat in California. And still people burn fossil fuels.
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It’s not that much worse than the daily mail. I don’t think biased news is failing. On the contrary, the more government spending follows fake news suppression, the more profit in biased news. See American tv news for the same general trend
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“Doubt it.” Is the antivax problem worse after COVID? Why doubt what is empirically very well-established?
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“I'd rather be dominated in a political arena than in a military one” Is that really the only choice nations face? Just a binary eu or no eu, domination either by treaty or by military force? What about diplomacy?
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Right. I think some people simply prefer less concentration of power. I suspect it boils down to personality, maybe the big five traits largely determine where one sits with respect to freedom/control of other peoples.
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Yes, it’s very likely people with sleep trouble (caused by apnea usually) are more likely to consume greater quantities of caffeine to help fight daytime sleepiness caused by the apnea.
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I’m not trying to relay information, rather was attempting to make a conceptual point which I’ll restate for clarity: the world is filled with shades of grey. Just as some doctors are bad, some vaccines are bad. You can redefine vaccines t
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Same is true for doctors. Some good, some very bad. In fact, the same is true (don’t hate me for saying so) various other types of pharmaceutical products, including vaccines that rely on herd immunity and those that are merely “vax treatme
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Yes, and we’ll never know if OJ Simpson did it either. Right?
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Well, if it’s not good then who cares. If it is good, but subversive for lack of a better term, then that strikes me as worthy. Most work done in that spirit is bad because it’s low quality, not just because it’s agenda driven. I’m all fo
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Of different ways to evaluate translation, whether or not the translator had an agenda against the protagonist of the work they’re translating is a strange criticism. Personally, I became a fan of Wilson after reading her Euripides, I think
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“these companies have received significant subsidies” I think telecom got 100 billion from Biden’s stimulus package. I agree it’s too much but shouldn’t the answer be to just not give billions to the telecom industry?

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