moosey

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by moosey 1y ago
This cynicism isn't useful. You speak about how everyone wants to use every word against you, but your generalizations about people make me believe that you are the one looking for some kind of failure. Listen, I don't know what k
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by moosey 1y ago
I don't aliens that could come here would recognize profit as something real. They would see us destroying the world to eat meat. To pointlessly travel at high speeds. To drive cars around in pointless errands. To collect pointless kni
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by moosey 2y ago
I love living in small towns. Truly, I do. I lived in towns ranging from 2k to 10k, and like 90% of it is great. But avoiding police is essential for people like me who even have slightly more melanin in their skin than the usual amount. Th
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by moosey 2y ago
I want to be a techno optimist, and my feelings are that the potential that tech could be an enormous positive utility for humanity. This falls apart not because of tech, but because of human flaws: desire for individual power, categorical
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by moosey 2y ago
Their system is designed to push engagement. My guess is that COVID conspiracies generated this engagement, and their system automatically pushed it to the top. We already know that a lot of dishonest but emotionally charged speech gets pus
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by moosey 2y ago
Engagement. In fact, IMO, trying to achieve engagement should be illegal psychological experimentation on humans, but I'm an outlier.
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by moosey 3y ago
This winter in my neck of the woods I hear a lot of people saying "oh, what great weather this year", because it's warm and without snow. If they had taken enough math to understand chaotic dynamic systems, they would need be
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by moosey 3y ago
I think there are so many cultural pathways that lead to anti climate science today (and anti-vaxx, etc.) that it's impossible to list them all. Generally they feed narcissism, and they must: in order to believe the anti-climate change
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by moosey 3y ago
To sum up another comment: it's cultural, not biological. Race is not a useful scientific guideline for any kind of scientific study. For example: there is as much biological diversity in sub Saharan Africa as the rest of the world, bu
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by moosey 4y ago
This tendency is not necessarily human. There are enormous numbers of humans disinterested in control of others, or their environment, etc. Those who want control might suggest otherwise, and they might actually believe it, but that's
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by moosey 4y ago
I'll answer. I have limited myself to vegan food for the last 17 years or so. Buy good cookbooks. Bring your own food to things. That basically sums up our success sticking with it. Health-wise, my health markers are extremely good. No
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by moosey 4y ago
Lacking evidence otherwise, I would say that we have to assume the internal experience of most life with central nervous systems are remarkably similar to ours, because we are remarkably similar. The next step is to take this into account i
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by moosey 4y ago
The difference between the bison and beef cows is that the bison lived longer lives than the beef cows today. Growing new animals vs. maintaining a population has significantly different energy requirements.
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by moosey 4y ago
I think we should fill most elected positions basically at random, and eliminate the presidency. Populations make great quantitative judgements, but not qualitative. It seems that selecting at random would be best to get voices of folks exp
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by moosey 4y ago
It's great to have a note system where you can get general information about a subject. However, such a system will not encourage you to read and recollect the information on a regular basis. It seems to me that the only good personal
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by moosey 5y ago
We already have the language to describe someone who claims an expertise in a knowledge area without the study necessary to be an actual expert: dilettante. And that's all that we'll actually be without memorization. There is a hu
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by moosey 5y ago
This ignores data that shows how many older people retired, and how large that effect is. Sum up the number of people who died, were injured, retired, our found better work, and it had a much greater effect than the government payouts. Othe
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by moosey 5y ago
If I were a leader of a country that engaged economically with the US, I would be less concerned with the use of the dollar for UBI than it's current use, which is too enrich a small financial elite. A group that not only had outsized
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by moosey 5y ago
My point is, what does it serve to build tanks? If the goal is to protect "our nation", then we are serving the abstractions. If you take a "command economy" and tell it to feed the people of the world, restore natural a
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by moosey 5y ago
A "command economy", or even "China", are still abstractions. Arguably, your points further prove mine.
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by moosey 5y ago
Until human society stops serving abstractions (like money) over things that are real, then real things will continually face consequence. These will still over into our lives in a multitude of ways until we no longer have real systems to s
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by moosey 5y ago
I actually believe that a small percentage of people want to climb the hierarchy. Based on books I've read, finding meaning in their work, either locally (how it helps the company) or globally (how does my work serve human welfare), is
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by moosey 5y ago
I believe that the proper response to this is to limit the percentage of hospital wards that can be devoted to COVID 19 cases, as the main effect of low vaccination rates is that the hospitals get too full. And suddenly, I'm not worrie
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by moosey 5y ago
I often hear a thought process to the effect of: > Why learn something in depth when it can just be looked up? And the answer is that you can't daydream about something or think about it deeply unless that information is easily pull
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by moosey 5y ago
One of the most sure fire ways to accomplish nothing is too judge yourself based on your accomplishments. The other leading cause of procrastination, according to modern learning research, is too give up when frustrated... The belief that t
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by moosey 5y ago
When you say "fixed", I assume you mean that the traumatized brain is returned to a state where a person can learn and experience positive emotions. In most cases, I would argue that it's probable, yes, but I'm not an ex
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by moosey 5y ago
Political positions can be literally any point of view. Will I be allowed to have a gun free workplace, for example, when I am required to hire people who believe in sovereign citizen movements? Will we be forced to permit people to carry g
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by moosey 5y ago
Zuckerberg no longer experiences risk except for in the most abstract of ways. Not in the way that the vast majority of people think about risk. I would also suggest lack of conviction and lack of ability to complete the job look very simil
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by moosey 5y ago
There are a number of people who are "originalists" on the court. People who believe that they have a special understanding of the founders. A belief that they, at a minimum, channel the ideals through some kind of unknowable mean
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by moosey 5y ago
I'm optimistic... That a complete reorganization of our economy and society that leads to happiness and ecological stability is possible. I am not optimistic that humans can develop the emotional fortitude needed for this reorganizatio

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