Sagat

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by Sagat 13y ago
Be careful when trying to untangle correlation and causation: it may well be that poor people and criminals are more likely to turn to religion. After all, atheism is mainly found in more educated populations.
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by Sagat 13y ago
There are a ton of events which rival the Holocaust in horror. In fact, genocides are being committed as we speak.
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by Sagat 13y ago
It's too easy to claim that citizens are not involved in what the government is doing. One reason these agencies are so bold is because Americans themselves are completely dismissive of the rights of foreigners, thanks to the old manif
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by Sagat 13y ago
Diversity isn't a magic pill that automatically improves everything. Students should be selected based on their merits. If this results in non-diverse samples, then so be it.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Sorry, if you are not putting your life on the line, you do not deserve to call yourself a "warrior" or any other term which implies duty and honor.
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by Sagat 13y ago
> they did not have the same chance to develop an ethic framework as adults had, because they had less years to learn. Many people die without ever having found an ethical framework. In fact, it's possible to make ill-designed ethic
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by Sagat 13y ago
The reason "nihilists" aren't taken seriously is because they like to rely on an overly simplistic understanding of the world and ill-conceived metaphors.
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by Sagat 13y ago
There are a number of alarming studies (as some other poster said, take a look at N. Carr's book) that show that screen time, especially in our formative years can have dramatically negative effects on brain development. So it's p
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by Sagat 13y ago
Not necessarily. If like at least half of users you spend your time watching videos, memes and your facebook feed, you aren't going to become more literate or understand anything.
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by Sagat 13y ago
People can choose things but that doesn't mean you should sometimes try to steer them in an other direction. That's the whole point of morality and other coercive measures which all have a different place on the scale of subtlenes
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by Sagat 13y ago
If you are interested in such things, I suggest reading Transcend by R. Kurzweil. He takes the supplement craze up to 11.
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by Sagat 13y ago
It's named after Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Duh.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Obey the Musk!
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by Sagat 13y ago
They're just jealous of Bill Gates.
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by Sagat 13y ago
What he said.
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by Sagat 13y ago
1. Those are all allegations. In fact, the whole DSK mess is extremely unclear and the case presented against him is highly suspicious, although it is clear that he is a bit seedy. Some believe it to be a political machination for a number
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by Sagat 13y ago
That's what scared me the most about that book: it's so plausible it's almost inevitable. Maybe in the future, true power will be the ability to escape monitoring?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Really suspicious looking site, bro.
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by Sagat 13y ago
There's a huge difference between being spied upon by your own government and being spied upon by some manifest-destiny-following foreigner.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Please don't apply american fundamentalist puritan standards to everyone, please.
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by Sagat 13y ago
It's true that most people don't care about most things since they operate inside a small, simple world without being concerned with the things outside of their immediate experience. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing; man
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by Sagat 13y ago
You would want to be filmed at all times, and have that footage available to everyone? That's insane and I suggest reading Dave Egger's "The Circle".
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by Sagat 13y ago
Wow thanks a lot for indiscriminately lumping together Western Europe in a single, confusing category.
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by Sagat 13y ago
I have trouble taking psychology and psychiatry seriously. They are the softest of the sciences and mostly based on cultural norms anyway. Consider the fact that homosexuality was labelled a mental disorder in the DSM not long ago. This is
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by Sagat 13y ago
France isn't really that open minded about sex. Although most people are secular, you still have the whole judaeo-christian morals hanging around in the background, subtly changing everybody's behavior. Eh ouais.
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by Sagat 13y ago
What if it evolves in the wrong way? Plenty of emerging middle classes in developing countries are now looking to join the American-style unsustainable lifestyle movement.
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by Sagat 13y ago
The problem is that not everyone is making less progeny. Japanese and European populations may be in decline, but African, Asian, Arabic, and Hispanic ones are growing at a brisk pace. So yes, it's pretty bad for some people to limit b
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by Sagat 13y ago
Why waste people's time like that?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Who is that? There are no google results.
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by Sagat 13y ago
I wonder who Satoshi is and how much he's worth now. Not many people can put on their CV that they created a new currency.

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