pythia__

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by pythia__ 8y ago
To be able to trust random Internet users was never a good dream because cheap identity is the Internet's default. (Not necessarily a bad one.) More surprising than reviews regressing to the mean is that it took them so long. Why?
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by pythia__ 8y ago
Corporal punishment is more humane and a more effective deterrent to crime than prison. I am not actually sure if most people don't believe this.
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by pythia__ 8y ago
They will be as effective as anti-piracy law would be if pirates were paid to seed. At best they will prevent respectable publications from directly using distributed archives as a source.
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by pythia__ 9y ago
>kind (especially when others around us are unreasonable just because they can) Think about why you want to be kind to such people. It is one thing if you expect your kindness to disarm them and be reciprocated and another if you don&#x2
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by pythia__ 9y ago
If obvious inefficiencies are not being fixed, nobody's incentives are aligned with fixing them. A sustainable solution must address the wrong or weak incentives, not try to fix the inefficiencies one at a time. Business owners are uni
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by pythia__ 9y ago
The problem with voluntary human extinction is that suicidal ethical systems are inherently self-limiting. A serious negative utilitarian who wished for human extinction would have to sterilize or kill others to succeed.
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by pythia__ 9y ago
>I for one would like to see the tables turned more often. The most prominent example of this in recent memory is Peter Thiel sponsoring Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. Do you approve of what he did?
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by pythia__ 10y ago
It's funny how when they ask you if you really have to be anonymous it tips the scales towards "yes".
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Can you give a few typical examples for when your are and aren't entitled to your "casual time"?
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Why is it unethical? What ethical principle is being violated? (These are not rhetorical questions.)
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by pythia__ 10y ago
People may yet make a comeback as a premium service since they can do things that self-driving cars can't like help a passenger carry bags.
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by pythia__ 10y ago
If those who augment their brains outcompete those who don't by an ever-widening margin (seems more likely than not), this discussion topic is preemptively obsolete. Their ethics will be dominant sooner or later.
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by pythia__ 10y ago
On the other hand, if a lot of countries had apocalyptic weapons (a phase that naturally precedes such weapons becoming available to individuals), it could all but eliminate war. Countries behave surprisingly like rational agents in interna
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by pythia__ 10y ago
You can have it both ways: use CloudFlare and offer direct access through a hidden service (since DDoS attacks over Tor are impossible, expect for application layer attacks).
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by pythia__ 10y ago
As a Slashdot comment points out, CloudFlare could protect the owner from DDoS attacks with minimal effort on his part. Edit: The original original post already talks about CloudFlare. The reference was lost in an Internet game of telepho
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by pythia__ 10y ago
I think you do my argument a disservice by equating it to the general trend of people denying X can be automated until X is automated. It is more specific: I say that some jobs (roughly, those requiring an agent to rapidly gain an understan
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by pythia__ 10y ago
I'll answer your specific questions first. Driver, no. Maid, no. (But keep in mind that robot maids/janitors are considerably farther away than self-driving cars. Cleaning environments not specifically designed for it is really co
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>Also, what will keep the 95% from revolting? Security robots! More seriously, as robots do more and more, people will start to place a premium on having a human do the work where they notice the difference (so, not Amazon warehouses but
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Not ceding classic liberalism with the word is the point. (Because ceding too much of it puts you at danger of a populist takeover, i.e., "literally Hitler".) Land explains this better (mentioning Thiel, too) at http://
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Conversely, if you recognize this, do not let "liberal(ism)" become a thought-terminating cliche for you.
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by pythia__ 10y ago
The idea just might be in the air, but there are several ways an attempt at implementing it can go, some of which are less likely than others to succeed through differentiation. Those details should not be neglected. For one, "libertar
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Every "permaban" like this is an opportunity to get a famous person on a distributed Twitter competitor like GNU Social (especially if the ban actually lasts). If you work on one you may want to contact him. People whose presence
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>It takes decades to build up a world-class university. Maybe centuries. This has been accurate so far but it could be because the idea of disrupting university education and research is only now gaining prominence. The incentives are bi
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Your characterization might suggest that they hold too to little faith in rule of law, but the opposite is true. What true-believer "sovereign citizens" do not recognize is that there is no rule of law in relations between soverei
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by pythia__ 10y ago
What you are describing is stereotype threat. High-quality evidence for it is scarce to none; a recent meta-analysis: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022440514... .
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by pythia__ 10y ago
That is exactly the point. Holding elections, even peaceful, transparent elections, is not the same thing as "replacing the government." Most government employees and non-employees who heavily influence policy are not elected and
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Never mind Turkey. Could you name three Western governments that satisfy Popper's criterion?
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Come Back, Colonialism, All Is Forgiven (2008)(content.time.com)
18 points by pythia__ 10y ago|35 comments
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Good question. Quite a few people seem to be, actually. Mark Lutter is one at http://freecitiesinitiative.com/ . Patri Friedman, perhaps the most famous supporter of idea, attempted to start a charter city in Honduras but t
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Planned cities, if privately owned and governed, are the opposite of communism.

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