Tretiak
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#209, #StandUpLocust, #MurphysFerry, Surah Yunus 10:71
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Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
4hr ago
Yep. I’ve mentioned the Reproducibility Crisis here before. Science isn’t as airtight and rock solid as people think it is. Small sample size effects, lack of long-term consistent results, etc.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
4hr ago
In some select domains, sure. But I’m also pretty confident the Dred Scot decision isn’t being upheld anywhere in the US anymore.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
4hr ago
No, I know that’s what you were saying. My point is that there’s a reason why that moral precept is put before science and it’s not a conclusion of it. If a person wanted to wholly structure a society purely based on the scientific facts of the matter, it’s not one they would likely want to live in.
Tretiak
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5hr ago
Speaks really poorly of the quality of the publication too, if it’s allowed to pass. I remember reading a paper once in a “journal” (that actually had some legitimate backing) about the possibility of igniting Saturn with a nuclear weapon and I was thinking, “What the fuck is this shit?,” as I made my way through it. Academia in no way is this sort of purified, pristine landscape of nothing but rigorous logical and scientific clarity that people think it is. There’s at least as much bad science as people think there is good. And some areas of it are outright corrupt.
Tretiak
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6hr ago
If that’s the case we need to pull from Kiwi Farms more. They never have this problem, /s.
Why are we constantly raising the bar and treating adults as children? They are not so underdeveloped that they should be lacking this much in the sense and good judgment department. In my parents heyday, young children were doing very complex tasks (no they weren’t doing hard labor, thank God) and learning on the fast track. There’s been a great coddling of people in the 21st century.
People I work with at my current job think I’m some kind of magical worker for no other reason than the fact that I do my job. It has nothing to do with that at all. It’s a product of the culture I was raised in. Young children are adults in training.
Tretiak
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7hr ago
It's not like we don't have lots of evidence of negligent or even outright fraudulent publications in even reputable journals.
There was a meta analysis done once that showed about 50% of peer reviewed papers turn out to be false. If you look at something like PubMed epidemiological literature, a lot of it is riddled with multicollinearity that severely impacts the precision of their regression estimates. This was actually acknowledged in findings of their own studies. But it generalizes across disciplines. You find it in Neoclassical economics where models have been repeatedly subjected to different datasets and the existing structure falls completely apart.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
7hr ago
There’s a reason citizens have “equality before the law.” You surely don’t find the principle alive in science or the animal kingdom. Some technocratic societies seek to implement a limited version of that in specific domains, but an entire society founded on such principles I’d imagine would be a very miserable one for anyone who’s not a top performer.
Tretiak
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7hr ago
I used to be like that. I still am but less so given the way I’d get treated. If it’s an elderly woman or a man who seems really down on his luck, I’ll offer a helping hand and some of my time, but I don’t do it for just anyone anymore.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
15hr ago
Well, if one of my homegirls really needed help and couldn’t get it elsewhere and she offered to buy or make dinner later (I’ve had this happen), sure; why not? (I wouldn’t do this if I was in a relationship though, unless my girlfriend/spouse was okay with it) If on the other hand she thought she could dial me up because she was a pretty face who was entitled to my assistance for no other reason than the fact she exists, she wouldn’t be in my contact list for very long. As we used to say growing up: ass, grass or cash for those girls.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
15hr ago
He tends to become active around topics like this. There are a large minority of topical users on TM who only come alive when the discussion shifts around to certain issues. There’s a reason I don’t partake in a lot of the political discussion here. It’s mostly arguing on incremental, insignificant tidbits of current events that aren’t going to end up going anywhere. Culture War is too top heavy on that dialogue IMO.
That more than anything is what gets me in hot water with others. Irony and immature sarcasm is a huge part of how I live my life. There’s a reason in past circles whenever my name gets brought up, “smart ass” is the first thing that comes to people’s minds. I have found that people either hate it or love it. It doesn’t mean I’m not out to present and deliver the logical argument; I am and I do, but I don’t see the problem with occasionally adding a little flair to things.
Tretiak
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17hr ago
If you change your mind too much as time goes on, that’s different from simply disliking half of what you buy.
Tretiak
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19hr ago
There used to be a company called Trunk Club (that I think was bought out by another entity), that sought to solve this problem for you. What you would do is image yourself, and an associate with I guess(?) a qualified fashion sense would go out and shop for clothing and brands on your behalf, you’d pay for the clothing plus the markup for the shopper, and your clothes would be shipped directly to your front door. You’ll could still return them if you didn’t like them. I never used them at all but I found it very interesting when I first heard about it.
Tretiak
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19hr ago
Much of this can be easily challenged. Consider the other side of the coin and look at people who have achieved celebrity wholly unworthy of the status. I see people who think “Destiny” is a good debater. Destiny is a fast talking moron with a permanent case of bed head who treats Google like it’s some sort of “God machine,” that can spit out conclusions he agrees with all day to win arguments. That’s… not how that works… And the people who look up to and idolize him are fools. If you want to see good debaters in action, look in the philosophy and rhetoric departments. Not Jordan Peterson. Or Matt Dillahunty. Etc. There’s plenty of people like this. What Elon and Belichick have in contrast with the others is competency.
Tretiak
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19hr ago
The open relationship is a complete non-starter for any guy she’s likely to be interested in that has a brain cell. Any woman who would front the idea of an open relationship either already has someone in mind, or is cheating on you and just doesn’t want to bother with having to hide things anymore. The only real men out there of her wish pool that would “tolerate” that are ones that don’t have options.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
19hr ago
That’s not really his point, I think. His point is that if you’ve already served that purpose, there’s nothing further to gain insofar as you offered assistance freely without anything in return; and as such, you get marked as “that” guy. You’re basically a chump.
Tretiak
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19hr ago
To your first point, you’ve just described Briffault’s Law. I don’t know how many people here would strongly contest that point, but I’ve observed much the same. Maybe “help,” here and there, depends on the circumstance but sure. If she’s asking me to sacrifice, she’s going to have to begin negotiations. The only people I will unconditionally sacrifice for is my family. Most of these arguments rarely end up disputing the points of the other side directly. Instead they argue on the length and degrees of different factors.
Tretiak
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19hr ago
For the same reason Austrian economics appeals to simpletons. If it has highly complex mathematical formulas and macroeconomic models in it, people aren’t going to read it. I find it entertaining, TBF. Sometimes the mind needs a break.
Tretiak
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1d ago
That’s often because people vastly underestimate just how finely grained genetic determinism is at the microstructure of things. I’ve sometimes wondered if memes play an epigenetic role in social behavior and how it occurs.
Tretiak
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1d ago
Were any of them ever screened for the genetic markers for it? There are well known risk factors associated within different variants of the APOE gene. Other forms have different associated vectors, but this is something that’s caused a little bit of worry even with me when I got to thinking about it one day. My genetic tests are all clear, I’m not a carrier for the genetic determinants, but it makes you wonder.
Tretiak
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1d ago
I don’t know why that is either… Because I’m not a usual fiction reader, but I love stories like that. For some reason it just never clicked with me previously. One thing I will say though is audio productions of all the old classics have offered me a great deal of renewed enjoyment to re-experience. I’d recently listened to the Dorsai series a couple years ago after I’d read the books even years prior to that, and it was a great experience.
That’s a quote I’ve really taken to heart over the years. A basic charity and generosity is obliged to others, per Catholic social doctrine. Beyond that though, I closely guard what’s in my self-interest and I’m not stupid. If someone puts in a tall order that involves me, they’re absolutely going to pay for it. Over the decades I’ve collected so many favors from others, I own as much social debt in my friend group as Japan owns financial debt on the US economy; and they know it.
My father used to tell me “the trick is not to make an emotional investment,” and “judgment is the first step to attachment.” I’m a highly judgmental man and it’s taken a lot for me to temper that characteristic and I have to a great degree; but it’s also meant that I don’t entertain bullshit. When you lose control emotionally and get mad, you’re not solving anything, you’re just mad at that point; and you become a hostage to the next thought and whatever emotional punchline it contains.
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