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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
It's a stupid anecdote to point out the fact that differences in cultural attitudes can explain and somewhat justify test scores. I'm not even American, and I never claimed that the anecdote is true.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I once heard an anecdote that might describe some of what's happening. In the trenches of WWI, when it was time to fight, soldiers would have to climb up a ladder onto a battlefield. The problem was that German snipers could see the to
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
A lot has happened in the past decade, and it's not 3% driving the 97%, not that it ever was ( http://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay... ). But either way, the percentage of people wh
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
In the U.S., the courts can't decide whether something is moral or immoral. If we throw people in jail for corruption, it won't be because they were found guilty of having a bad moral character. It will be because of an illegal co
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I'm probably going to be downvoted to oblivion, but I would actually be more at ease in general if most people would defer critical judgments to a reliable and open-sourced AI. For example in terms of driving, my discomfort about how a
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I meant call them and ask about how they handle cyber crimes. It's part of their job to answer questions about public security.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
You should go ahead and call your local police department. Chances are that they don't deal with cyber crimes unless you live in a large city (or if your city contracts with a larger police department). There's also the issue of j
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I don't understand people who call themselves clowns and calls everyone else clowns as well, then expects to be taken seriously.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
It's not strictly about security. Some people like to close their curtains at night not because they think it makes them safer, but because that level of exhibitionism seems weird to them. It's the same principle.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
The 90's are in fashion at the moment, I believe.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
yeah but mainstream culture is always defined by a small group. and it is recognizably American. like having a million of those ribbons and plastic trophies from science fairs or organized sports. or republicans calling poor people "fr
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
hedonism can look great when it's practiced by people who believe that the greatest pleasure comes from appreciating art. but it can look horrible for example in the case of suicide bombers, who i believe to be rational agents (i don&#
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
they try to maximize pleasure and minimize pain
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
> but it doesn't match what I've seen from the behaviour of hedonists. it matches what i've seen. > Furthermore, they aren't 'pain avoidant' they are 'pleasure seeking', there's a big diffe
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hedonism/ "Psychological or motivational hedonism claims that only pleasure or pain motivates us. Ethical or evaluative hedonism claims that only pleasure has worth or value
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
Finding value in pleasure is different than saying that only pleasure has value. It seems to me that a hedonist would not bother playing games or telling stories with senile parents, since only the games and the (pleasant) stories have valu
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
You can move around the definition of pleasure, but then you end up with situations where pain as a means to pleasure is indistinguishable from pain as equal to pleasure, which undermines the whole premise of hedonism (that only pleasure ha
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
Mercy killings and martyrdom (or any beliefs that optimize for the afterlife)
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
Case in point.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
There are many fundamental problems with hedonism, but hedonism avoids dealing with the problems because that's its nature.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I'm not sure, but when I was in the military, my SSgt told me not to burn bridges because I might end up in a situation where my life depends on that person helping me out. I thought that was an interesting incentive to cooperate. So m
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
"Climbing the ladder" has the connotation of stepping on other people in order to get ahead. Thinking about the analogy, if there are a bunch of people trying to climb the same ladder as you are, you have to pull people off or cli
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
The bias isn't the surprise. I'd like to think that the core NPR demographic understands that every narrative has a bias. The surprise is that the mainstream left is exhibiting behavior previously associated with the far-right.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
It caught me by surprise the other day to learn about this. It's not just Twitter and Reddit and Facebook. It's also college campuses and public events, and weird unexpected places like public radio (Planet Money, I think, or Frea
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
Mental health legislation is a mess. Decades of Freudians spreading misinformation doesn't help, but we also do a horrible job of educating children. We're worse at that than we are at educating children about sex, which if you th
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
> people mostly just care about being able to put food on the table, pay rent, and being able to save up enough to be able to support a family and buy a house. I think that's what capote is frustrated with. College (traditionally, a
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
To be honest, it's really confusing. It's not so much that I worship financial success, it's that I'm scared of being financially insecure. It feels as if the only way to secure my future and the future of my children is
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
I don't think I've ever felt loneliness in my life despite having been socially isolated several times.
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by ctrlalt_g 10y ago
>they have to do what is expected of them In a corporate environment, this is not much different than it is in America. Also, if you own a small business, you never have to participate in corporate tribalism. I've met plenty of peop

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