Isomorphic_reasoning
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Isomorphic_reasoning
9mo ago
Dieting isn't fun so they choose the easy option. It's not impossible for them to eat less. If you put a gun to their head they'd do it but they just don't want it bad enough to go through the discomfort
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
I think a distinction needs to be drawn between projects which impose a true negative externality on neighbors and projects which merely remove a previous positive externality. A slaughterhouse really is making things specifically worse and I think that should be compensated but residents who currently enjoy the seclusion brought by the woody area behind their neighborhood and thus are lobbying to disallow bulldozing it to build more houses can fuck right off.
Isomorphic_reasoning
4mo ago
I don't think you need full moral equivalence for vegan arguments to work. You just need a sufficient ratio. Even of chickens have only 1% of the moral value of humans the suffering we inflict upon them in factory farms is a great evil. On the other hand if chickens have 10^-100 times the moral value of humans its trivial. Unfortunately we are far from the point where we can actually compute such a ratio with any authority (though many have tried) so often the arguments fall back to intuition and emotion.
Isomorphic_reasoning
5mo ago
If this was happening it would show up in the stats as drastically lower life expectancies for gay men.
Isomorphic_reasoning
6mo ago
It's still lower than a good chunk of the people here. It's not like a 1400 then was harder to get than a 1600 now
Isomorphic_reasoning
9mo ago
The funniest part is that if we look at the actual talent levels in purely physics the white husband might actually be the better one in this scenario. Affirmative action reaches truly obscene proportions at the top level like stanford physics professors (this makes sense, the father right you go on the bell curve the more a 1 SD difference in means affects the availability ratio)
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
And they're not wrong, an 85 IQ black kid does in fact have a much better chance of becoming an NBA player than a successful mathematician. Of course this will still be the case no matter how many mathematicians you put in front of him for him to look up to.
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
you edited your post
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
Federal is the key word there. Most weed offenders are at the state level
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
Harvard is notorious for this, iirc only about cca 20-30% of its admissions are there on merit, the rest are legacies or diversity admissions.
I don't think this is true. I just looked it up and only 14% of Harvard is legacy admits. And about the same are black. The rest should be merit admits
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
If supply at that price is much greater than demand there will necessarily be shortages. It's not like the scalpers are the reason for that.
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
Is this not already the case? I don't think it would be legal for say a public school to explicitly teach that there is no God. (Teaching evolution and the big bang theory is not the same. These are well supported scientific facts)
Isomorphic_reasoning
9mo ago
Yeah that version sounds much more like standard nepotism. I was thinking specifically about the version where a spousal hire is offered as an incentive to a new recruit.
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
Fentanyl is a symptom of the drug wars. If people could buy pure oxycodone pills from reputable companies at the drug store no one would be buying counterfeit fentanyl pills from the cartels
Isomorphic_reasoning
4mo ago
Whatever it cost in 1865 would have been worth it
Why is it hard to believe that pro-lifers really, honestly think that abortion is murder?
The fact that a lot of pro-lifers are reluctant to call for criminal penalties for the woman getting the abortion and instead place all liability on the doctor does make me think they don't really think it's equivalent to murder. That's certainly not how we would handle a woman who hired a doctor to euthanize her 3 month old baby. We would charge them both.
I do think they actually believe it's immoral and I don't expect the eugenic style arguments to convince any but the most confused pro lifers (ie people who are only defending the pro life side because it's the republican position who never really personally thought it through) but i think only a minority are consistent in their belief that it's 'murder'
Isomorphic_reasoning
10mo ago
I think just as an example, in history, I’d ask students to write about counter factual versions of the events in question. How does history look different if Rome had adopted Mithraism instead of Christianity? How does history look different if the French or American Revolutions fail?
This isn't a history exercise, it's a creative fiction exercise and treating it like a history exercise does nothing but instill false confidence in students about their ability to reason about situations with far too many unknowns
Isomorphic_reasoning
1yr ago
It seems as though social contagion is far more prevalent than I realized and trans people don’t actual exists besides a very small subset with actual dna issues.
Trans being a social contagion is not the same as saying trans people "don't actually exist". I think in debates like these we need to choose our words carefully if you want to have any chance of convincing the other tribe.
No, he didn't realize it would be more efficient, he realized it was worth more and wanted to cash in.
This is a distinction without a difference. The farmer might not be thinking in terms of efficiencies but the forces that make the land more efficiently used as housing are the same forces that make the price higher thus making it more attractive for the farmer to sell. You're also ignoring the primary point. It doesn't matter why the farmer wants to sell what matters is that it's his land not anyone else's so other people have no right to tell him how it can be used.
Isomorphic_reasoning
4mo ago
If that's true (and im inclined to agree with you) the correct move was deporting all the freed slaves back to Africa after the Civil War. Why didn't we do that?
Isomorphic_reasoning
8mo ago
Probably, but I'm not the all, and I don't care about the sums of all. I'm one person, and I care about myself. I will benefit from a reduction in the supply of labor.
Why are you so certain you'll benefit from a reduction in the supply of labor? You are both a producer and a consumer of labor (even if you don't employ people directly you do it indirectly all the time) so the effect on you personally could go either way. The specifics depend on your line of work and your consumption habits as well as the lines of work of the migrants. I don't know what you do for work but if you're anything like the typical motte poster you won't be facing a lot of direct competition from uneducated migrants so if you're solely interested in your own economic situation as you claim the consumption effect could easily dominate.
Isomorphic_reasoning
9mo ago
I know, and my contention is that this is not a narrative they would cling to if they truly truly believed it was 1 for 1 equivalent to murdering your own child. Look at how people respond to women who kill their own children, for example, casey anthony. People, women in particular, hated her. No one was making excuses for her. The fact that women who get abortions don't receive this same level of hate is indicative that it is seen as lesser than murder.
Isomorphic_reasoning
9mo ago
The key to an optimal outcome here and in life is to develop the character to choose blue and develop a community who chooses blue. Reducing everything to a calculation of the optimal individualist outcome ends up degrading the spirit and the self.
Not quite. That's usually the case with a lot of these cooperation dilemmas but this one has the feature that everyone choosing red is just as optimal as everyone choosing blue
Isomorphic_reasoning
11mo ago
If it's so good that people are convinced, then doesn't that imply it was actually valid?
Is this a serious question? Have you ever met an actual human being? Even the smart ones can be misled by compelling but ultimately flawed arguments and the bottom 95% are absolutely hopeless
I think you're using a different definition of "can pick red" than the people you are talking to
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