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by ecoquant 3y ago
I have spent so much time in Canada and it is just unbelievable watching the country go more and more insane. What I have read about the Harms act is so bat shit crazy that it is hard to believe it can be real. Then looking at polling on su
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by ecoquant 3y ago
"Harmful" has really become a ridiculous word in my lifetime. In Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone it mentions how MIT professor/Black Jack card counting/Hedge Fund manager Edward O. Thorp spent a period as a
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I am sure part of the reason we have popcorn at the movies is that popcorn was easy to scale. I guess tastes just change. Dinner and a movie did not use to mean dinner AT the movie. If you want a full restaurant at the movies why not also h
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by ecoquant 3y ago
For me, any one of the issues would be a problem in isolation but the combination of issues makes it so going to the movies isn't something I really consider. Oppenheimer was the first movie I considered going to in a long time but sti
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by ecoquant 3y ago
It seems a constant that raves were better 10 years ago before everything became commercialized. "It use to be about the music" I remember hearing this 25 years ago. Of course, what happens is that you get people who have been goi
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I made a pointless cube with a square in VRML a long time ago and VR is ultimately going to be the biggest tech disappointment of my life. The killer app is what I have when I get lucid inside a dream. To only cover vision is missing so muc
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by ecoquant 3y ago
The irony is that youtube was largely built on copyright violation with taking everything that existed in video before youtube and giving it away for free.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
Nasdaq returns by year 2002 -37.58 2001 -32.65 2000 -36.84 The people that think this is bad, can't imagine what 2002 was like when the all time high in the Nasdaq was a few days ago. Hate to break it to everyone but the good times are
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I imagine everyone in this thread is basically correct. The only real thing we have done to combat cancer is stop smoking so much while at the same time increasing every other factor imaginable to promote cancer.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
That is great anecdote. I have been trying to get into Schoenberg for about 30 years now and besides for Yuja Wang playing his Piano Suite I continue to fail.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
Exactly. There are all these steps you don't even think about when you actually have to leave the house. I have estimated that I have to go on about a 90-100 minute walk a day to get back to what I was moving in 2019. I was walking 60
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I think in the US it is the same issue as Tata. I might buy a Tata Altroz for $7500 if I could go to a Tata dealer and test drive one but Tata doesn't even sell to the US from my understanding. So you can't test drive one, can&#x2
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by ecoquant 3y ago
Then couple that with the stress of testifying. I have none of these issues but testifying like this would be hugely stressful. I would have to suspect he felt trapped and this was the only way out of testifying.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
It is almost like Occam's Razor proposes some type of probability distribution, not discounting the fringe completely but suggesting as a heuristic that the most simple is most likely. Some people though seem to like this Anti-Occam&#x
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by ecoquant 3y ago
Totally agree. I am not a professional developer. I find programming to be quite dull and uninteresting. I am going to work on something after this pot of coffee brews that I simply could not produce without chatGPT4. The ideas will be mine
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by ecoquant 3y ago
IMO we underestimate the psychological implications of wealth in modern society. I suspect even if a power ball lottery winner takes a philosophical position it would be taken far more seriously than if they had never won the lottery. At so
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by ecoquant 3y ago
This all reminds me of my asshole great uncle making fun of me as a teenager circa 1997 while I was at the computer and on the internet. Sarcastically asking me "Can you meet girls on that?" and then laughed. He wasn't wrong
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by ecoquant 3y ago
Maybe they should have just not thrown such a slow pitch over the plate with running the whole thing on discord in the open. I am not sure what they expected to happen.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
The real danger is that at some point we hand over command and control of society completely to algorithms and we get bad results because we simply have no idea what is going on. Maybe even worse is we get long term bad results that in the
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I think a melodica is a good comparison and goal. A melodica is not good for learning piano obviously but is a really interesting musical instrument in and of itself. Trying to replace the real instrument makes about as much sense as a pape
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by ecoquant 3y ago
There is no reason to bring labor into this discussion. If you increase the demand for housing without equally increasing the supply, price goes up. I don't think one needs a PhD in economics to figure this out.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
This is just typical doomer stupidity. Of course, no one goes around trying to stomp on every ant hill they can because ants aren't good at math. Not to mention, so much competition in humans is related to sexual competition. I suspect
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I don't know, pretty "meh".
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by ecoquant 3y ago
We forget that our language will evolve in time too as all this is normalized. I could say I just took my artificial general horse to the store after stopping to feed it gasoline but it obviously sounds stupid. People philosophizing about t
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I don't know why the parent comment is being downvoted. The source is using your brain and probability. The ease of ordering research chemicals vs the difficulty of LSD synthesis.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
This line stands out to me though: "Nevertheless, it should be noted that the sodium content of the study diets may have confounded these findings." Ya think? Really? May have? We are going to study diet on blood pressure but not
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by ecoquant 3y ago
You also can't underestimate the possible behavior changes of seeing a massive blood sugar spike from oreos, causing less oreos to be consumed. To believe measuring something doesn't change behavior is just wrong. We know this.
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by ecoquant 3y ago
It also reminds me of stories I have read of drug mules that it makes no sense how they think they wouldn't be caught using the methods they were using. The twist of the story though is they were duped themselves. They were setup to ge
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by ecoquant 3y ago
I think you are underestimating how tough it would be to be playing James Bond and not tell anyone. You wouldn't have to be a delusional braggart to want to tell a friend this. Most spies are not going to be as much of a compartmentali
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by ecoquant 3y ago
It almost like people wrote about a replication crisis a decade ago.

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