Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
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Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
14hr ago
Yes, general knowledge can contribute to a rejection of the null hypothesis. That is why, while for the time being, I do not believe that there is a difference in genetically-determined intelligence between races, I am not claiming that as a sanity-complete proposition. If Omega-the-super-intelligent-computer-with-a-100.00%-track-record-of-being-right were to conclude that such intelligence differences exist, I would conclude that Nature is a racist arsehole and support transhumanism more vigorously, but I would not be compelled to re-evaluate everything I thought I knew the way I would if Ωtsicwa100ptrobr were to state that China does not exist or that the Napoleonic Era didn't happen.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
14hr ago
Summary of content in link:
- The linear no-threshold model of radiation is not an accurate model of biology, as cells have DNA repair mechanisms; thus dose profile is as relevant as total dose. Long-term exposures adding up to high totals show little-to-no additional cancer risk if less than one millisievert is received per day. (There were over 2,000 'radium girls'; about 100 of them developed cancers, all of whom were exposed to >1mSv/d, and most of whom received >20mSv/d.)
- More has been spent than is prudent on reducing very small daily radiation exposures.
- The requirement that no opportunity be forgone to reduce radiation exposure, even if from 0.0004 millisievert/day to 0.000395 millisievert/day, combined with the structure of nuclear regulations (e. g., requiring a half-built plant, fully compliant with regulations at beginning of construction, to be torn out and restarted to comply with new standards), has driven up the cost of nuclear energy, and made the cost of building nuclear reactors unpredictable.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
14hr ago
in goods that are extremely inelastic (land)
Land may be inelastic, but the inelasticity of housing is a choice.
They used to think we'd never have energy too cheap to meter, and actually we don't have energy too cheap to meter
Also a choice; see the writings of Jack Devanney. (Summary will be posted below.)
And please explain why your preferred policies have failed so badly in the UK.
Artificial constraints such as 'the elites and middle managers must not be stopped in their monkey-dominance games', 'land-owners must never see their assets not gain in value', 'advances in nuclear technology must not be used to make cheaper energy if they can instead reduce already minimal radiation exposure by epsilon', &c., &c.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
22hr ago
“The poor will always be with you” is not a moral statement, it’s just a fact. We cannot, long-term, take care of everybody that we might like to. And no politics, no ideology however well-meaning can make it otherwise.
--Corvos, 2026
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
--Paul Ehrlich, 1968
The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it... Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.
--Alfred Velpeau, 1839
Same schist cheems mindset, different day century....
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1d ago
a tiny fortress of blue beset on all sides by an encroaching jungle of red
I've heard that described as 'a blueberry in tomato soup'.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
2d ago
And the paramilitary organisations that ended up becoming Israel were trying to kill Palestinians before Israel even existed.
And Palestinian Arabs were killing Jews even earlier. Haganah was founded following the 1920 Nebi Musa riots; Irgun was founded in 1931, two years after the Hebron massacre; Lehi wasn't founded until 1940!
(Also, re your previous comment, the 'Stern Gang' and 'Lehi' were the same organisation; listing both of them is redundant.)
and the Jews lasted for quite a while without [a sovereign state of their own].
...up until the post-WWI imposition of widespread migration controls. If the United States had let in the passengers on the MS St Louis, and those following in their footsteps, the impetus for a Jewish-majority state would have been greatly diminished.
I don't think it'd be that bad if they went wandering for another thousand years
In that case, I'll be happy to see you at the open-borders-for-every-country-including-Israel/Palestine/combination-thereof protest marches!
given what they've done with the state that they actually got.
The actions of Benjamin Netanyahu, many of which I do not condone, nevertheless are not something for which future-Anne-Frank-times-six-million bears any culpability. It is her, and her 5,995,000 innocent compatriots, about whom I am concerned.
given the actions of Israel itself, I don't think they can be trusted to have a sovereign state of their own
...actions which only occurred because people were trying to kill them. Mordechai didn't just attack Haman for no reason.
I don't think they can be trusted to have a sovereign state of their own
And given the events of the MS St Louis, the Nations can't be trusted without such a state!
but I don't think anyone should have nuclear power (see my comments in other threads - it isn't a viable energy source
In a sovereign Jewish state, that would be up to its citizens; however, I'm sure many of those citizens would agree with your position on that particular issue.
No problems with them setting up a nice big solar/wind farm though!
In that case, for 'NRC' substitute 'EPA' and for 'potential radioactive releases' substitute 'disruption of endangered desert fauna by solar panels and birds by wind turbines'.
they can live in a multicultural and multi-ethnic society like the rest of the world.
I believe that that is a laudable long-term goal, and hope that is achieved someday; however, I doubt that all the necessary pre-conditions have been established, or that it would be appropriate, given the events of the II quarter of the XX century, for such to be imposed on the Jewish people from without.
A world with many multi-cultural multi-ethnic societies with no immigration controls, in which ethno-nationalism and restriction of immigration had long and continuously been outside the Overton Window, would, I suspect, find the people of Israel much more amenable to a one-state solution.
and given that most of the [J]ews I meet in person(at anti-zionist protests) don't fall into this category I'm not going to be persuaded that this is arguing for their ethnic cleansing.
Unfortunately, many people do not make such distinctions.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
2d ago
same forces that made men's survival contingent on physical toil.
Which we have ameliorated with the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the electric motor....
this enables Alice to functionally rack up infinite debt
"The problem with infinite debts is that they are really hard to repay. On the other hand, the interest can be quite manageable." -- Slate Star Codex, May 2014
Yeah, I hate working for shitty bosses too
...which is why unions were invented.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
2d ago
Yes, that would be the null hypothesis. The observed differences in height, both in the observed tribe members and in human beings in general, is the evidence with which we reject the null hypothesis, but it does not stop being the null hypothesis because it is rejected.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
2d ago
Then she dies or becomes undignified.
And how is that not a worse outcome than Bob being expected to pay a slightly higher marginal tax rate‽
Bob may find it undignified to act as Alice's fetch-and-carry servant.
'Getting things off a high shelf because he is taller' is a metaphor for paying a higher tax rate because he can more easily afford to.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
3d ago
So we can blame gestures at everything on Nyarlathotep?
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
3d ago
It’s circumstantial evidence, but we’re reaching “Scott Peterson switching all his dating profiles to ‘single’ 12 hours before his wife went missing” levels of circumstantial evidence.
"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor".
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
3d ago
[H]ow exactly is an institution supposed to maintain credibility with the entire population?
They could start by admitting that they are capable of being wrong, and when they update their advice, not pretending that We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken!
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
In that case, (assuming we have not discovered a method of directly measuring souls) we would have to examine their capabilities to make a determination.
(Some have hypothesised that the Pirahã might be such a population. Sometimes I wonder how Pokó's daughter would have grown up had she been adopted by a Brasilian family.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
Genitals and reproductive systems are not a resource, and making women's survival contingent on marriage has often given abusive men the ability to inflict terrible suffering on them.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
Being expected to contribute to your neighbour's well being is not subjugation. Conan the Barbarian's desire to crush the adjacent tribe, see them driven before him, and hear the lamentations of their women is not the same thing as expecting that if you have more food than you could possibly eat before it spoils, and your neighbour is near the point of dying from hunger, you ought to share you food with him.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
The 'thing for which we are looking' is usually 'a difference in variable X between group A and group B.
X can be 'rate of disease progression/recovery' with A and B being patients administered a new medication vs. a placebo.
X can be 'susceptibility to radiation' with A and B being species of bird.
X can be 'biological capacity for intelligence' with A and B being human ethnic groups.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
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My point was that Ayn Rand and Peter Singer are both wrong; If Alice needs help, and Bob has the means to assist, I reject both the notion that 'Bob has exactly zero obligation to help' and the notion that 'Bob is obligated to contribute even to the point of self-destruction'.
I have discovered a truly marvelous definition of one person's obligation to their neighbour, which this forum is too narrow to contain. I don't have a *complete answer', but there are some useful heuristics.
For the most part, mind > body > personal possessions > non-personal property (idiosyncratically referred to by Marxists as 'private property').
The genitals and reproductive system ought not be subject to the dictates of the community, provided that everyone involved is a consenting adult.
If you do not live or work in the same place as someone else, in a modern society your obligation to them can usually be discharged by financial support, allowing them to purchase whatever they need from someone else.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
And if 'getting what's on the shelf' is a metaphor for survival? Maintenance of human dignity?
Can you be certain that the precedent that you set won't come back to bite you in the hindquarters?
I would rather live in a world where the sink-or-swim, devil-take-the-hindmost, law-of-the-jungle social-Darwinist mode of organisation is left in the past and remembered as one of humanity's many mistakes, even if it means that if I become extremely wealthy my taxes will support people who are not useful to me.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
I assume you are familiar with the phrase "with great power comes great respons[i]bility."
I am familiar with that phrase. Part of the responsibility is to not use that power to do bad things. Reducing someone else to a state of subjugation, for no other reason than that you can, is a bad thing.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
saturday trading
I thought most Christians held Sunday as the Day Of Rest....
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
civilization has also historically required the less able to defer to the more able.
People have historically done lots of things that they ought not to have.
The able help and do a disproportionate share of the work, and in turn, get status and power, the less able give up status and power in exchange for being provided for.
Almost, but not quite.
If you have the ability to help someone, and you help them, you deserve appreciation. In extraordinary cases, you deserve prestige. You are not entitled to dominance, and you sure as hell aren't entitled to dominance over the people you helped.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
Alice has a womb and Bob does not, but Bob wants to have a genetically-related child. Since Alice is "more able" than Bob, does she therefore have an obligation to provide Bob with a genetically-related child?
No, because the cost to Alice is far greater in that case.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
She can go find a ladder. Or offer Bob something of value.
And if there aren't any ladders around, and Alice doesn't have anything Bob wants?
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
5d ago
The null hypothesis would be that the value of X (in this case, susceptibility to radiation) does not differ between group A (previously known birds) and group B (the previously unknown species).
One, the carrying capacity of the planet is not a single number, but depends on the tech package. Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer, neolithic agrarian, mediaeval agrarian, Victorian-era industrial, and distant-future zero-point-energy-powered societies all produce different figures for the 'carrying capacity of the planet'.
Two, it is far from certain that humanity will be forever limited to the surface of a single planet.
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