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by nova 11y ago
> The cosmopolitan worldview that approves of melting-pots was born in response to the terrible failure of nationalism, which "we" experienced to the fullest. History hasn't ended up yet. I think we're going to see ho
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by nova 11y ago
> Because humans are humans, regardless of where they originated from. It's our responsibility to take care of people, period I think that only westerners, with our pathological altruism, are silly enough, or brainwashed enough, to
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by nova 11y ago
> The fix to failed integration is not to prevent people from getting in. It's to improve integration. And why is that our responsibility? This is outrageous. I were forced to emigrate due to war, poverty or prosecution and happened
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by nova 11y ago
> The problem with colonization is that it disrupted the holistic growth of national communities The same with immigration, then. Psychologically is even worse maybe, because instead of an overtly foreign power coming to conquer your la
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by nova 11y ago
It never stops to amaze me the doublethinking necessary to simultaneously believe that "colonization is bad and Africa is war-torn because of the arbitrarily drawn borders by Western powers" and "multiculturalism for the West
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by nova 11y ago
> What's the more precise (and less false) statement hiding behind this? Damage control due to the recently increasing friction caused by massive immigration.
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by nova 11y ago
> You seem to think "reflecting on its past" is one of the advances that came with Western civilization Not if taken so far as to become self-destructive. > Not sure what "modern western ethnomasochism" is, It mean
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by nova 11y ago
> Every society on Earth exists as it does because it destroyed much of the previously existing landscape and natural inhabitants, THANKS. Every human culture out there is responsible for wars and horrible crimes and destruction; primiti
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by nova 11y ago
I can only recommend reading this paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf It really lives up to its title. Suddenly computational complexity is not just a highly technical CS matter anymore, and the Chine
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by nova 11y ago
I'd say pattern recognition is a very important aspect of science, and intelligence in general, so every ideology who tries to suppress theories for aesthetic or subjective reasons (criticizing something for being "offensive"
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by nova 11y ago
> 5. something else? 0. Stop the dogmatic multi-culti cult, accept human nature (= we prefer to live with our kind) and strive for a world in which every race and religious group is able to live peacefully and prosper, in its OWN LAND, w
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by nova 11y ago
I used to like the Nolan chart too, but recently I've been thinking that even 2 axes is overfitting. Politics is so complicated that only a very simple model has predictive value, even with huge variance. I think a single axis order-di
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by nova 11y ago
On the other hand, The Culture is just sci-fi, while Japan exists.
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by nova 11y ago
Evolution doesn't apply from the neck up, didn't you know?
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by nova 11y ago
> An aging population, combined with falling fertility rates and no immigration is a disaster waiting to happen. No, that's what's going to happen in Europe. Japan will just have to make some deep, technical changes to budget a
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by nova 11y ago
> Accepting immigrants is a pretty good insurance against your civilization going extinct, in fact. Yeah, it only gets replaced. > More diversity, more innovation. Sure, sure.
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by nova 11y ago
Also automatic indentation.
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by nova 11y ago
> And if someone disagrees I'd like to hear your opinion. No opinions, only censorship.
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by nova 11y ago
And an enviable level of social trust.
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by nova 11y ago
I think Japan will manage. Not sure about Europe.
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by nova 11y ago
Well, that's horrifying. I'll shut up now.
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by nova 11y ago
So "you are free to say whatever you want, but if I don't like it I will destroy your life".
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by nova 11y ago
What do yo really mean by that? Personally I worry that mere attaching some empty labels to an argument is reason enough justify censoring it.
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by nova 11y ago
So, free speech is great as long as you don't strongly disagree with it.
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by nova 11y ago
> Spain is approaching 100% debt, 44% public spending, and it looks like it's getting worse. It is. Spain is scheduled to elect the local Syriza equivalent in November.
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by nova 11y ago
> Polarization and naivety are easy, subtlety and deeper understanding are hard Isn't precisely the problem that we can't have a rational discussion of this issue without people bringing out the X-word, the R-word, the I-word a
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by nova 11y ago
And then you have linear logic (which is to constructive logic what constructive logic is to classical logic), with its two kinds of conjunctions and two kinds of disjunctions, one of which is difficult to understand but does have excluded
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by nova 11y ago
> equivalent of low carb diets But they actually work.
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by nova 11y ago
In Spain is "Chinese", not "Greek".
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by nova 11y ago
MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living - NEO (politely): Excuse me, please. MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo?

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