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by underlipton 3d ago
I'll do you one better: each state gets a direct share. So, not nationalized in the sense of getting put behind a faceless bureaucracy forever; states collectively have control and benefit directly from success.
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by underlipton 6d ago
>I have personally deactivated that toggle on multiple occasions and for some reason it keeps getting toggled on Thank you for pointing that out. I just checked, and mine was on, too. Annoyingly, the toggle even stalls a bit, so I hit it
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by underlipton 6d ago
This. These platforms are asking to be trusted with unprecedented amounts of the public's data and, unprecedentedly itself, the public's reasoning and decision-making. It's an awesome responsibility that requires a singular a
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by underlipton 6d ago
Surprisingly, large, structural changes in society require non-zealots, who yet can still see the advantages of the vision, to be on-board. I haven't read Steinbeck, but I get the feeling that you're mischaracterizing his thrust.
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by underlipton 7d ago
That's what happens when you abuse people's trust for years: they don't trust you.
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by underlipton 9d ago
I know what the common objections are, and I actually addressed the one you mention: in actual UBI pilot programs, there was no resultant inflation. If you have objections that weren't among the ones stated earlier, you can state them
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by underlipton 9d ago
>Before LLMs, what was there to be excited about in the near future? Solar power? Self-driving cars? The energy transition? It’s laughable. I, for one, would have welcomed our green energy revolution overlords. Also, VR/AR, before t
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by underlipton 9d ago
You're making a lot of assumptions, not least of which is that "noble" is the only word linking material wealth and intrinsic goodness. See also "fortune", "blessing", "worth", "value",
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by underlipton 9d ago
This is the anti-intellectualism I'm talking about. You're disagreeing based on vibes and not facts. Disagreement shouldn't even come into the conversation; falsify the net positive effects. The research is clear that most of
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by underlipton 9d ago
I think the anti-intellectualism crisis gets mischaracterized. Common rejection of experts, academia, and empirical findings is certainly a part of it, but I tend to see more of an issue with targeted, self-serving ignorance, particularly a
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by underlipton 10d ago
You presented it as something we should have known, because it's logical (and it is). But the problem is that we apparently don't know it, and haven't for some time. It appears as if (part of) humanity has gotten it wrong for
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by underlipton 10d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582188 That's at least one sector of the Christian world that ignores that line. I don't think they're alone. You also have other etymological canaries like "fortun
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by underlipton 11d ago
Even if those statistics are correct, I do think you're ignoring that smartphone apps are specifically engineered to be low-friction and highly-addictive, and pushed specifically to the people who are anxious about spending money on ot
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by underlipton 11d ago
Is it? Wealth is used as a proxy for virtue, and has been for a long time. "Nobility" has two meanings, after all. Why the same word, if not the same root sentiment? Unless one definition was originally meant sarcastically.
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by underlipton 11d ago
As always, it is good to be aware that many people are too anxious about more existential issues to comfortably an consistently expend effort on intellectually-taxing tasks that aren't perceived as directly related to their survival. I
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by underlipton 12d ago
Believe it or not, Djiboutian. The tenacity of the Djiboutian is little-known, generally, but highly regarded amongst those who do.
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by underlipton 16d ago
What do you even talk about on a phone call like this? I have both intense social anxiety and FOMO. Knowing that this thing exists for a week and then no more is torture.
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by underlipton 16d ago
Related: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Neutron_Jammer_Canceller I wonder how often *teleports behind you* shows up in space operas.
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by underlipton 17d ago
This goes for almost every institution you can think of, save higher education and the field of climate science - and, even then, you can make an argument for lax funding and marketing on their part, in terms of overwhelming politicians and
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by underlipton 19d ago
I don't understand what was unclear.
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by underlipton 19d ago
They definitely use three exclamation points instead of that last question mark.
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by underlipton 20d ago
Trying to open the website turned my gaming laptop into a 747. This has got to stop.
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by underlipton 26d ago
"Nothing would fundamentally change." And he meant it.
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by underlipton 26d ago
Buried lede is that this is someone's chance to coin a new term for "something that feels like jury nullification but isn't because it's a grand jury and the internet lawyers are being pedantic because they really don&#x
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by underlipton 26d ago
>we have to remember that they're fighting a battle against SEO and spam We have to remember that they decided to side with the SEOmongers rather than crush them, because it was better for Google's bottom line.
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by underlipton 29d ago
One wonders what the lowered stress vis a vis healthcare concerns that a reformed system would take care of would do for our ability, as an electorate, to make better decisions in other arenas.
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by underlipton 29d ago
It's complicated. If you actually look at the citations, they were looking at - and kind of necessarily so, if you think about it - a cohort of wrestlers who were born more than a century ago, and not later than mid-century; so, not th
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Employees from lower class backgrounds face backlash when they negotiate(hbr.org)
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by underlipton 1mo ago
IIRC, the farther you are from an "ideal" 19th century Frenchman, the less BMI says about you.
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by underlipton 1mo ago
>Getting all the way to the obese BMI range while having healthy body fat is only happening for people with an extreme dedication to body building and diet And sumo wrestlers. The line seems to be drawn at (effortful) activity level more

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