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by graphpapa 4y ago
Hegemony shapes discourse in its image. I believe the issue is not which ideology ‘truly’ affirms some self evident notion of self interest, but which ideology can successfully assert its own notion of self interest as self evident.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
This is wonderfully perfectly provocative. A clever button pushing projectile innocently lobbed into the everyday pitter patter. An imposter post meant to deviously short circuit the HN tropes' internal logic.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
Plenary Talk by Michael Levin on "Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition: Evolution, synthetic organisms, and biomedicine" at the Virtual Miniature Brain Machinery Retreat, September 16, 2021. Introd
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Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition(youtube.com)
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by graphpapa 4y ago
I want better systems and I am cynical about pursuing other ends in this willfully politics-blind isolated manner, impressiveness of their achievements having a slightly tragic quality under that light. I am not from the US but I think the
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by graphpapa 4y ago
Competitions are defined by their constraints. You are arguing for the doped olympics. A defensible stance but not self evident as default.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
Since wealth is concentrated more and more into a minority, redistributing wealth is surely aligned with increasing the quality of life for a majority of people. Why do you say it would be worse for everyone?
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by graphpapa 4y ago
I think the big problems the OP alluded to are more about politics and cohesion than these neat science puzzles. Medical innovation does not inspire me when the medical system which administers these innovations remains so dysfunctional.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
Conversation & social matters are so variable and vibe based that I think trying to get grip on something like 'likability' via a metric like 'contributions ratio' seems absurd.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
Everyone vaguely informed about this story knows it was a scam. Reporting anything else is untruthful. Why do you defend reporting you know to be untruthful?
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by graphpapa 4y ago
The key topic discussed in the OP, which I engaged with in my comment, is the extent to which 'simple logic' fails to map to complex problems. Naturally, sometimes it is appropriate to describe a problem in a simple way, sometimes
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by graphpapa 4y ago
This is just bait you didn’t make an attempt to engage with my angle. I write earnestly I’m interested in what you disagree with
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by graphpapa 4y ago
I’m not saying anyone should go after them. They followed the rules, how do you go after someone who followed the rules? I’m just saying that it’s still okay to condemn (just as an act of casting judgement) rule following when it’s anti soc
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by graphpapa 4y ago
I think it’s still worth being critical of individuals even if they follow all the rules. The super rich have the largest influence on society as a whole. They cast a vote on the status quo by endorsing anti-social policies with their actio
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by graphpapa 4y ago
The point of the speaker is that /in general/ these types of comparison amount to equivocation of the incommensurable, and this characteristic leads to progressively more unintuitive results as the breadth of application expands.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
This makes me realise the growth model is a sort of pyramid scheme.
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by graphpapa 4y ago
I think you’ve just each used a different sense of the word ‘actual’. Sense 1) “‘Actual’ mathematics does not consist in notational embodiments” ‘Actual’ as in essence rather than appearance, territory rather than map. Implies platonic real
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by graphpapa 4y ago
being able to talk to strangers in a way that is comfortable and interesting is a form of smartness in itself that should be self evident. The prescribed meaning of 'smart' is often so narrow as to be quite dumb
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by graphpapa 4y ago
I think the sense in which that counts as 'voting' (in the sense of a democratic political system) is only analogous in such a distant tenuous way that it is really a poor use of the word
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by graphpapa 4y ago
Of course you’re not guaranteed a good teacher by studying the conventional way. Studying from books is a great skill to develop regardless.
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by graphpapa 5y ago
I can’t remember exactly but this seems like a mischaracterisation. I think it was termed more like “it is a bullshit job if the world would run just as well (or even better) if the job didn’t exist”. Still relies on self-assessment but isn
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by graphpapa 5y ago
I assume the intended market is people who like this style It may still be confusing though that’s another point
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by graphpapa 5y ago
A well distilled (yet detailed if you follow all the links) summary of good practices for good-thinking-supported-by good-note-taking. The actual form of the piece nicely serves to illustrate (one of) the thesis it puts forward: that more c
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by graphpapa 5y ago
I think this is great. It seems to be a popular opinion on this site that ‘everyone should have a personal website’.. but I think the options available don’t make it a likely outlet for a lot of people because there is too much friction req
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by graphpapa 5y ago
A figure of speech
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by graphpapa 5y ago
I can see combinatorics relating in the sense that exploring the space of potential compositions can be approached as a ‘combination of’ type problem for different elements.. chords as combinations of notes, chord progressions as combinatio
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Using the shortcut CMD+L (changes focus to and selects the whole url) Makes this a non issue personally, your mileage may vary
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by graphpapa 6y ago
The intended comparison is presumably not be to all marriages, but to marriages which are strained enough for divorce to become a question. I don’t know what good data on that would look like. Perhaps ‘Outcomes for children of parents who w
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by graphpapa 6y ago
But procreation-related-statistics only tell the story of one aspect of a persons life. A divorce can be new start, and life has much more to offer than ‘choosing your mate’
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Why does it have to be one or the other? Some relationships absolutely cause less destruction by ending. Some provide sufficiently despite great flaws.

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