noqc

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by noqc 1y ago
This is America, you can just call 345 feet a football field.
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by noqc 1y ago
The form of government matters a lot, when evaluating its security apparatus. I feel a lot differently about the death penalty in America than in Iran too.
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by noqc 1y ago
No, I really mean atheists that crave religion.
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by noqc 1y ago
Same as it ever was, but with more of them, people are a little warier about their own, I think.
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by noqc 1y ago
That's almost word for word what I said...
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by noqc 1y ago
When I read the article in its entirety, I was pretty disappointed in its top-level introspection. It seems to not be true, but I still maintain that it was obvious. Sometimes people don't pick the low-hanging fruit.
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by noqc 1y ago
There are a lot of rationalists in this community. Pointing out that the entire thing is a cult attracts downvotes from people who wish to, for instance, avoid being identified with the offshoots.
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by noqc 1y ago
Perhaps I will get downvoted to death again for saying so, but the obvious answer is because the name "rationalist" is structurally indistinguishable from the name "scientology" or "the illuminati". You attract
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by noqc 1y ago
probably add "in the negative", to that.
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by noqc 1y ago
This system would make a lot more sense if the number of people you had to get to agree to a bill with a bunch of riders was more than 50%.
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by noqc 1y ago
>I expect better science writing from them. based on what?
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by noqc 1y ago
> Musk is a clearly brilliant man proof left as an exercise for the reader.
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by noqc 1y ago
You are conflating civil law with international law. In a civil context, my right to self defense is very weak. If my neighbor is stockpiling weapons, and announcing his intention to kill me, I am obligated to trust the deterrent of the sta
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by noqc 1y ago
What point of mine do you think you are attacking? The parent comment said that these rights were being given up "in order to squash anti-war sentiment". This was wrong on two counts. a) The rights were preserved, the assaulter wa
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by noqc 1y ago
This is a deep misrepresentation of my core stance here. Claiming that you have the special sauce to finding the "Truth" is cult behavior. I'm saying neither that people, not groups of people suck. In fact, my argument is rou
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by noqc 1y ago
Then you should read the article.
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by noqc 1y ago
Terry is saying to stop bugging mathematicians for theorems about misinformation.
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by noqc 1y ago
Breach of fiduciary duty is already extremely hard to prove when share prices are down . Mark has the added benefit of the doubt that arises from the fact that his incentives are fundamentally aligned with the company's incentives, gi
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by noqc 1y ago
Putting your phone in the fridge seems like a pretty crazy thing to do, but we do it sometimes. Plane crashes are very rare. I don't fly a lot of planes, but I do know what muscle memory is like, and sometimes it misfires. Misfires are
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by noqc 1y ago
You are right, I was remembering the description of turning the switches back on.
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by noqc 1y ago
> one second delay did the report say a one second delay or that the two switches were turned off at consecutive seconds? The latter is what I remembered, but I'll check again.
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by noqc 1y ago
The murder suicide angle isn't particularly worthy of assumption yet. Have you ever put your phone in the fridge? Pilots deactivate the fuel cutoff at the end of the final taxi to the gate. This makes flipping these switches a pract
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by noqc 1y ago
You honestly have to be really trying to misunderstand me that hard.
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by noqc 1y ago
What do you imagine the purpose of naming the movement "pro-life" to be?
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by noqc 1y ago
All human epistemology is trying to be "less wrong", just like all cereal is "all natural". The rationalists aren't even the first to recognize the value of printing it on the box.
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by noqc 1y ago
>Do you think someone who labels themselves as "Christian" inherently believes they are pure of soul and perfect, and sins less than non-Christians? I have known a lot of Christians. I can answer with an unequivocal yes.
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by noqc 1y ago
If the tax equals the externalized costs of burning carbon, and people continue to burn carbon, burning carbon is "good".
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by noqc 1y ago
You can try to be rational without naming yourself a "rationalist".
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by noqc 1y ago
If your name for your "ideology" is "better than yours", then yes, I consider this to be a superiority complex.
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by noqc 1y ago
>Is your argument that LVT generates revenue therefore you can't criticize that it could suppress development in some cases? No.

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