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by FFRefresh 2y ago
He already owns xAI, valued at $45B+.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
4 things (for other people's benefit): 1. This person didn't claim THEY were harassed. They claimed others were harassed. This was not THEIR lived experience. They were talking about harassment secondhand. 2. The secondhand claims
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
If one wanted to substantiate some of your claims here to be convinced of the problem you suggest, what's the best way to do that? What are the names of the IRC channels you were part of that said they weren't bigoted but used hom
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
As an anecdote, I was very active in those communities/networks back in the day, and I don't remember the rampant racism/sexism you suggest. The main vector that people demeaned others on was based on technical skills.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
That's great! For the sake of humanity, can you please start documenting your realizations/interpretations in some sort of readable/understandable format, with your reasoning? Especially those realizations/interpretation
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
On examining the negative thought patterns, I think there's at least a couple parts to it: 1. If you very much believe no amount of physical health interventions will have any cognitive effects, then it seems like the probability of yo
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
This is not meant as a criticism, hopefully more of an inquiry if you so choose. Is it possible that your 'feeling' of your brain being irreparably damaged is actually factually incorrect? And that your assumptions/model of t
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
You dismissed the article and author by labeling it a 'hit piece' by 'someone who hates wikipedia'. When other users asked if you had any substantive critiques of the claims in the article, you responded by saying you do
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Would you actually be interested in reading about Wikimedia finances though? Wikimedia is a non-profit and posts all of their financial data publicly [1], why not go read it there? What's interesting is that you somehow know that the a
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
How can you be sure any research won't result in violence? How do you establish whether a given piece of research/data will result in violence? Is your basic operating model for this: "Never show any data that shows there are
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
But making it known that the line of questioning will bring violence to others is implying that if the person continues the line of questioning, they are then knowingly and intentionally bringing violence to trans people. In a lot of legal
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
As an extreme example: Times Square in NYC is considered a "Walker's Paradise" with a walkability score of 100 on Walk Score. But it seems like the worst possible place to walk, and most NYC locals I know avoid that area like
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I think with the popular conception/definition of walkability and the assigned importance of that conception is a little over-rated. I personally feel like it overvalues commercial activity (restaurants, retail, grocery, entertainment)
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
There was no accusation of making up anything, as I cannot possibly know your personal experience. What I was doing was pushing back on using comically outlier events as something representative of rural living, that the GP would have to re
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I grew up in a rural area, and I experienced zero instances of loud ATVs and shotguns where I lived, at any time of day. This view sounds like a TV trope, which one might lean on if they don't have much in-person experience of living i
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
...according to your subjective value system.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
> You're not exploring anything, you're not celebrating life, not producing any meaning. You just sit there, like a robot, pissing it all away. I would suggest that meaning can be found, even if you are unable to transcend our
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Not to be too much of a cynic, but this article definitely has me losing a bit of respect for this writer. It reads like the social acceptance of his writing/illustration is of the utmost importance to him, and that social acceptance s
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I think there a few aspects to whether something can be 'interesting' to me with regards to creation (i'm probably missing some): 1. Is the broader topic/activity interesting to me? (interesting in of itself, not for the
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
This view is really interesting to me. It seems like you are hyper-focused on ends/outcomes. And if an end/outcome of a pursuit isn't completely novel, unpredictable, or result in you being the best at the pursuit, then what&
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
You're focusing on how socially valued your creative work is (and how it ranks relative to others), which is an external factor. I tend to find that if you justify doing creative work on whether it'll be better/more interesti
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I agree, but I think they are linked. Culturally, the 'pro gender revolution, LGBTQ' movements and the fat pride movement (amongst other movements) are part of the same underlying thrust of our society. The basis is the idea that
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I actually don't think invocations of 'natural' are very useful given: 1. There's a degree of ambiguity involved with the term as far as what gets lumped in with natural vs not 2. This ambiguity gets leveraged by those w
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I think I agree with the thrust of what you are saying, in that we do need to think about the negative externalities of different technologies before scaling them out as a species. I am getting a little tripped up on your usage of 'the
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Minor quibble with the usage of 'unnatural'. Humans are part of nature and our creations/society we build are a result of nature as well. In the bigger picture, I don't see why 'physical labor' should be consid
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
My two cents (as someone who definitely does not have all the answers, but is learning as I get older): 1) Know that this is a completely normal feeling, especially in more individualistic/atomized cultures where status competitions ar
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
To explore the idea being brought up here, what type of death causes are considered 'tragic' or 'one-off'? Is it the improbability of the cause which will influence the decision-making? If so, wouldn't how the cause
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Right now, non-hypothetically, would you be willing to donate your internal organs to those who will die without them, even if it meant you will not survive yourself?
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Thanks for sharing some personal context. I'll admit, when people use the terms "hard", "extreme", "alt" before a political direction, I don't really know what they're actually signifying in term
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
What is Thiel's platform? Without just leaning on name-dropping? What are his actual views?

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