rimiform

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by rimiform 2mo ago
I think what people need to realize is that the Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly "not real" because, on average, everyone (regardless of competence) overestimates themselves. Saying that incompetent people overestimate themselves d
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by rimiform 5y ago
I suspect the worry is that it will be similar for the pill. Highly effective now, but less effective for future variants.
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by rimiform 5y ago
I think you're looking for this behaviour? Try using * instead of _ and that's what you'll get. Use two for bold, if you want.
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by rimiform 5y ago
The person you're disagreeing with agrees with this idea about morality: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-affecting_view ). You, on the other hand, (I think) believe something can be bad even if it is not actu
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by rimiform 5y ago
Well, burials only matter if others care about it. Other values, such as "do not harm others", etc., matter even if others don't care about them, because they concern actual suffering of living people. If you follow Parfit, y
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by rimiform 5y ago
Don't think they had much choice in the matter, seeing as there was a punishment for defection.
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by rimiform 5y ago
I reserve all rights to the atoms that make up my body ad infinitum, which means my estate will be able to claim copyright on your descendents for selling work that contains said atoms!
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by rimiform 5y ago
> That’s mostly because you live in a society which doesn’t value burials or the afterlife and which worships information, which must be acquired at any cost. Even if I was, I'd be dead when it actually came about. The implication o
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by rimiform 5y ago
Exactly, and that's why we must do absolutely nothing. Wait, no, that's exactly what it takes for evil to prevail! Rats, I suppose there's nothing we can do, then.
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by rimiform 5y ago
There might be the confounding factor of being unlikely to buy a novel you don't know exists. If Rowling releases something under her own name, I'm sure to hear about it, which will surely boost sales. Although perhaps this was ex
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by rimiform 6y ago
>DER SPIEGEL: But you do save data about your users like the device ID, the phone model, the WhatsApp user name, the phone book and thereby also the numbers of all their contacts, right? >Cathcart: It’s true that we do have some info
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by rimiform 6y ago
70k? In San Francisco? Big oof.
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by rimiform 6y ago
If you fired everyone who ever lied you'd have nobody in your company.
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by rimiform 6y ago
The ESDX 'diamond' would be nightmare to use on an ortholinear keyboard.
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by rimiform 6y ago
More people than that are overweight. The total amount of food might be enough, but simply ill-distributed.
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by rimiform 6y ago
Kids might make your life better, but they probably would have been better off had you stuck to your plan of not having them.
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by rimiform 6y ago
That's a very sensible perspective. Unfortunately, you will probably, as most people do, change your mind about this and decide to have children anyway.
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by rimiform 6y ago
Makes you wonder whether you ever thought not having a baby might be a sensible option.
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by rimiform 6y ago
I think that's precisely what ICANN was going for. Reacting to it, in the eyes of some people, implies there's at least some truth to what the other party said.
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by rimiform 6y ago
That's great, but my intuition fails me when I try to consider what it would mean for the answer to some question to be a complex number. It's even worse for quaternions, because I can't even use the spatial analogue there.
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by rimiform 6y ago
And yet look at the demographics of any service/app that has a slightly more complicated sign-up process.
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by rimiform 6y ago
Signal has a desktop client, though? Not sure where that issue came from.
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by rimiform 6y ago
You can create icebergs with 'holes' in them, which have very interesting floating behaviour [0]. It doesn't work every time, though. Not sure why. [0] https://imgur.com/a/0lcW8xT
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by rimiform 6y ago
What's even more interesting is that Lippman proposed a separate entity which was meant to inform the media!
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by rimiform 6y ago
I don't think that idea even works in theory, let alone in practice. In lieu of making a longpost about why this doesn't seem like a good idea to me, I'm just going to defer to the story of the Tower of Babel. You could also
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by rimiform 6y ago
I think you are absolutely right. I can see the fallibility of 'Old World' media as well, but I think those who (actively) try to discredit them are playing with fire.
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by rimiform 6y ago
Johnson sounds like he just finished reading Deleuze and Guattari.
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by rimiform 6y ago
"At least you still have a job (even if it sucks)"
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by rimiform 6y ago
Per the article: "Even the oppressive insistence that we should love our body, no matter what, can tip into upbeat intolerance by implying that it’s not OK to want to work on tummy folds or laugh lines." It's certainly relate
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by rimiform 6y ago
> Most of the higher-quality longitudinal evidence I've seen does not show that there is an increase in believing in conspiracy theories or misinformation (or, as we used to call it, people simply being incorrect). Do you have a sou

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