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by lariati 5y ago
I think this partially a myopic view from young people. I remember being a little kid and watching a week long show about the JFK conspiracy on either one of the big 3 networks or PBS. Area 51 alien conspiracy is so ubiquitous I don't
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by lariati 5y ago
Noise?
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by lariati 5y ago
If we follow the science then what does "misinformation" mean in an information theory context? It has no meaning at all. Since it basically has no meaning it does make it quite a good word in a propaganda context. We can make thi
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by lariati 5y ago
I suspect in reality all these narratives are basically fiction. We know we are really bad at tracking knowledge work productivity but we will make up narratives based off bad data. I imagine the real story is that the productive people are
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by lariati 5y ago
I feel like any nytimes article I read is practically written by an algorithm. "Since the pandemic began, Americans’ happiness has cratered" As if this isn't mostly because of the disruption to normal life caused by the pande
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by lariati 5y ago
Totally agree. At least on KDE I really don't notice any difference in performance and always have both installed. I use Firefox 99% of the time though. I think it is something about the tabs that I like better but it is a minor differ
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by lariati 5y ago
So he is basically going to get bored and binge watch shows on Netflix for 3 days. The irony to me is I would think curating a website like that is as big a problem as anything. That is going to take up way too much time and space in your b
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by lariati 5y ago
Exactly and the vast majority of people were racists at the time who I am sure did not agree with the protests. Something has gone wrong though with this trucker protest because people should have already been arrested. LBJ wasn't gran
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by lariati 5y ago
The irony is this is exactly why the US is a republic and not a democracy. Direct democracy is 100% mob rule but no one really cares to read the Federalist Papers or the mountain of thought that was put into this at the start of the US.
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by lariati 5y ago
These truckers did nothing other than grease the wheels of authoritarianism anyway. This is the last real protest in Canada. Next time, these "emergency" powers will either be immediate or these new powers are just new permanent g
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by lariati 5y ago
I would just add Neil Postman's Technopoly as a much easier read. I have never been able to get through either of those Ellul books and have tried several times. I am not even sure if it is Ellul himself or translated French thought in
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by lariati 5y ago
Of course but people just like to puppet nonsense and are ignorant of our own history. This for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_b... Or what about the vice president shooting one of
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by lariati 5y ago
Because the cyberpunk values and predictions couldn't have been more wrong. It didn't even take 25 years to make 1984 look like an improvement in privacy and surveillance compared to what we have now.
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by lariati 5y ago
If the idea of happiness is never having to leave the house then the past 25 years have been great.
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by lariati 5y ago
The whole point of a prediction market is to try to uncover hidden information like this. I remember this idea was floated after the 9/11 attacks. A spike in a terror attack odds would be an early warning system as someone with inside
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by lariati 5y ago
Girard was a Stanford professor. His Uncommon Knowledge episode from the Hoover Institution is quite interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk I do agree though, the article is pretty lame.
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by lariati 5y ago
Comedy and what people find funny though has such huge variance. There are many professional comedians that I don't find funny at all but enough people do that they can make a career out of it. To me, it would be like trying to classif
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by lariati 5y ago
I am 50 and have never owned a television myself. I have never had a Netflix account. At this point, I have been offered pretty nice TVs for free more than once. If you really get use to living without a TV though it feels like it has negat
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by lariati 5y ago
You obviously don't understand the pricing mechanism and utility of basically a decentralized equity valuation engine. I mean that is what the stock market ultimately is. These articles are pointless. No one is going to bother reading
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by lariati 5y ago
Investing in a company though is basically doing a crowd sourced valuation on the future cash flows of the company. It doesn't matter if you see it that way or not. Your buying and selling is still voting in a sense on the valuation of
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by lariati 5y ago
Not to mention the "market cap" is complete fiction. I think you can notice this best on a new coin. I was looking at chia for whatever stupid idea they had with proof by useless storage. https://coinmarketcap.com/
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by lariati 5y ago
I don't see the moral argument at this point though with fentanyl. Nothing quite robs one of agency like death. Before fentanyl, I don't think I would be for full legalization. At this point though non-legalization seems immoral.
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by lariati 5y ago
The potency has also become quite outrageous. As if drinking straight moonshine is somehow a better experience than a bottle of wine because the proof is higher.
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by lariati 5y ago
I love philosophy but I just don't agree. I love history also but I think that is just as much a waste of time for kids. A teenager in the modern world has just not lived long enough to put these ideas in any kind of context. It just b
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by lariati 5y ago
I have listened to François Chollet say that all intelligence is specialized intelligence. I suspect the question really doesn't make sense if that is true. We just have this bias/mind projection fallacy that intelligence is a gen
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by lariati 5y ago
Thanks so much. That is an amazing level of choice in the example code. I need this right now as a type of statistical strength training.
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by lariati 5y ago
Same here. I really feel like I should curate a twitter profile but it is just bad for my mental health. To me, it feels like a small library of really cool books but the library happens to be housed randomly inside of a giant lunatic asylu
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by lariati 5y ago
I mean Marshall McLuhan's entire career is practically about this. A medium of communication is not neutral. A book is not just word of mouth stories written down. There is a feedback loop in there that a book becomes something entirel
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by lariati 5y ago
Crypto has to periodically 10X though for this to happen. The narrative has a type of theta/time decay as there is just no way for the majority to 10X their investment periodically. I think it is also very hard to think about the globa
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by lariati 5y ago
You also can't separate that this all became popular during a global pandemic and people love to gamble. I think its easy to underestimate the amount of global entertainment dollars that have been on the sidelines the past two years. I

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