Tarnstellung
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Tarnstellung
2yr ago
the popular factoid that there's more "genetic diversity" in Africa than elsewhere
Is that not true?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
It greatly saddens me to see parents caring about practical vegetables with devotion for decades, forgoing having healthy children.
Or having healthy children who are severely neglected because all the care and attention goes to the vegetable sibling.
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2yr ago
Asbestos and leaded fuel were also "fine for a long time".
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2yr ago
Cochineal, a red food colouring, is another very common insect-based food additive.
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2yr ago
Meat has a large environmental impact. Reducing our environmental impact "is seen as creating a better world". Modus ponens.
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2yr ago
If you want to just give people money, GiveDirectly is the most effective (in the EA sense) way to do it. A dollar goes much further in Rwanda or wherever than in the US.
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2yr ago
What's wrong with Soviet art? I would expect the kind of people who complain about "modern art" to be delighted by socialist realism.
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2yr ago
Gothic architecture was notably also influenced by Islamic architecture.
When you say "Gothic (medieval) architecture", are you implying that Gothic architecture is mediaeval architecture?
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2yr ago
What did Soros or his foundation do?
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2yr ago
Not going to happen unless Russia is destroyed. Having a de facto NATO protectorate on your border is a matter of life or death for Russia.
They already had Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. How is adding Ukraine to the mix "a matter of life or death"?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
Of course, the AI can be customized to do various things so (I'm assuming; I don't know much about this) one could theoretically train the AI on various subs to get it to generate responses that would be more in line with what's typical of the sub. But let's be honest here—that's a lot of work to run a few low-level scams.
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2yr ago
Why only 50% for Erdogan winning? I don't really keep up with Turkish politics, but it seems to me that his grip on power is as strong as ever. Has anything changed in the past couple of years?
Aren't autogynephile and homosexual supposed to be mutually exclusive, autogynephiles being heterosexual men who like to imagine themselves as women because they like women?
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
"me after the meeting with extremely accusatory"
Googling that now gives me this page, because of your comment. DDG still has zero results.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
Are you sure the forums aren't excluding Google with robots.txt?
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2yr ago
What did they post? I couldn't find anything, all the results on Google are about the suspensions related to Musk's jet.
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2yr ago
Weren't FTX's investors mostly institutional investors, VC funds, etc., meaning the damage will be widely distributed?
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2yr ago
I identify as an owl (see username). My pronouns are hu/hu.
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2yr ago
Off-topic, but looking it up, I found this, apparently a real part of the comic. I found it hilarious, it looks like a parody of the recent obsession with "mental health".
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
I don't understand why inert gas asphyxiation isn't used for executions or voluntary euthanasia anywhere. Just build a small room and fill it with nitrogen. Trivial. The person just loses consciousness peacefully and doesn't even notice anything.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
My view might be summarized as "clothing is personal preference, hygiene is non-negotiable".
What are your principles and standards? Anything unusual is automatically bad? I guess that is less subjective.
Although, if your political beliefs are close to those of the average Mottizen, consider how unusual they are in universities, big companies and other significant employers in the current year.
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2yr ago
University systems now screen out 80% of faculty hires on "diversity" scoring before even passing the remaining resumes on to the hiring committee to be judged on merit.
This may be true for universities – I'm not sure about the exact numbers but I accept your overall point – but do we have any reason to believe this was also the case for Brinton? As I said, Brinton seems to be well qualified for the position. Does the US government regularly do this kind of screening? Do we know about other more qualified people who were automatically rejected for not being diverse enough? Someone with a PhD in nuclear waste management instead of just a master's degree? Without evidence, this is just assuming your outgroup did something bad and then getting angry about it.
That said, you brought up hiring at universities. In another comment, I dismissed concerns that narrow affirmative action would have a significant negative effect on the ability of members of the majority group to get hired, because situations where it may apply are exceedingly rare. However, this has made me reconsider. It is my understanding that, outside a few specific fields, getting an academic job is extremely difficult, and it is often the case that a large number of applicants are equally qualified. Narrow affirmative action could then make it straight-up impossible for some people to get hired. Honestly, as of writing this, I haven't quite made up my mind. But if we had deltas here, you'd definitely get one.
Tarnstellung
2yr ago
The assumptions are:
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The marginalized groups really are marginalized. In your example, this would mean you have a significantly larger amount of money than me.
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We're looking at this dispassionately, from behind a veil of ignorance. Of course the group that benefits from inequality would support inequality. I usually cringe at this saying because it's so frequently abused by the left, but it does apply in this case: when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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2yr ago
It's worse in the very trivial way that it leaves a whole lot of the population fighting dice that are incapable of rolling in their favor. Yes, it actually feels quite bad to know that you automatically lose any tiebreaker no matter what for something you have no control over to fight a disparity you had no hand in.
I thought of this, but given that these situations are very rare, I don't think it really matters that much.
Besides, if the "marginalized" groups really do face a disadvantage, then they themselves may "feel quite bad" about their their own chances. If members of both the overrepresented and underrepresented groups adjust their beliefs rationally, the total amount of "feeling quite bad" should remain the same (that is, of course, an enormous if). It really is just levelling the playing field, unlike quotas or double standards.
and of course there is the other factor which is that I have literally zero faith that the people making these choices are actually not rounding everything down as to what counts for qualifications for people with my phenotype and rounding everything up for qualifications that count for people like Brinton before they declare that several candidates are of equal qualifications. I have seen the faces of this kind of person when they see an unrepresented minority in a prestigious position.
The current ideology does support affirmative action beyond what I consider justified, but they are pretty explicit about this. They're not pretending to only use identity as a tiebreaker and then secretly adjusting twice. If (another tremendous if) the belief that affirmative action is only justified in the narrow circumstances outlined above became widespread, I would expect people to implement it fairly.
I will admit that, given the magnitude of the ifs, this is mostly an intellectual exercise. Maybe I would be better off just supporting total identity-blindness, lest narrow affirmative action slip down the slope into wokeism. Not that it matters much, given that the world is already well past that point.
That is the official reason, because the UK government knew it would be hard to convince the British public that Serbia was worth fighting over, but they were keen to get involved from the very start.
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