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17d ago
It's not that small. If South Korea got teleported to Europe, it would be the 7th largest country by population. It is small by area and has a very high population density, though I'm not sure if urban population wouldn't be a bigger factor in ease of fashion spreading. And South Korea is surprisingly far from the top on that metric.
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11mo ago
Do lawyers commit the majority of moral anti-realism despite being only a minority of the population?
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1yr ago
BENs ; WS ; UMC-W ; WWC
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You know what modernity really needs? A Strong Leader, one with determination as strong as steel, who'd make usage of unexplained acronyms punishable by death. Nay, we need 50 such leaders.
Other than that little homicidal nitpick, cool post (really).
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1yr ago
How about "the mistakes weren't actually that disastrous and a Chernobyl every decade would be worth it if it meant we could get rid of coal"? (Not sure about the decade thing, but my understanding is that consequences of Chernobyl were seriously exaggerated.)
The messaging about nuclear seems to always implicitly admit that nuclear disasters are unimaginably bad but it's okay because we've made sure that the new reactor designs are so super safe that it could not happen again. That's bullshit and people know it. Could they instead be persuaded of a more grounded assessment of the risks?
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1yr ago
And the women retirement age tends to be lower which is completely backwards if you look at life expectancy.
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1mo ago
By my count it's only 6 simple steps and one is optional but nice to have.
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2mo ago
I knew I hadn’t had too much to drink - but had absolutely no idea what happened between that spiked drink and ending up in jail. To even list some possibilities is to discount the galactic extent of possibilities.
... You are going to tell us. Right?
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11mo ago
So it's not actually a simple recipe, because a recipe is something that should give you expected result as long as you follow the steps, and the steps themselves should be simple, mechanical, and not contain any unexplained complexity.
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1yr ago
Well, we don't have any knowledge of anything if you use such a demanding definition of knowledge.
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1yr ago
Which is why we have so many people eager to plug themselves into the experience machine.
Name three examples.
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2mo ago
Apparently when some Russians made a local chan-style imageboard, they went a bit too far with being inspired by the original name (at least change the number).
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2mo ago
I flatly don't buy that whether I hit a guy or not is just stochastically determined by parameters plus randomness, I believe that it's actually a product of me electing to do so or not.
There's no contradiction here. You are (some of) the parameters.
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10mo ago
Just because people call something "creative", doesn't mean it actually is.
If we restrict ourselves to the domain of cognitive tasks (ignoring the complexities introduced by physical labor), then I think the speed at which different tasks get automated by AI is a decent empirical index of how much creativity a task requires.
That's the AI effect transformed from a sociological observation into an axiom of some, as of yet unformulated, theory of true intelligence.
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10mo ago
I wonder if Canada fares better. I kind of doubt it. It seems like the Chinese and maybe the French are the only ones left who can handle these types of projects.
Aren't Koreans pretty good too?
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11mo ago
If this is still supposed to be about the unlikeliness of abiogenesis, then this analogy would only make sense if you believed that the conditions necessary for the arising of life happened only once in the entire history of the universe. Then it really would be a miracle.
But it's more like there are a bajillion people about to be executed, each with their own thousand-strong firing squad and we know that at least one of them survived. With so many tries, one of them could have gotten super lucky. (And of course, we don't really know how many marksmen you need to postulate to match the probability of abiogenesis happening in some small volume of the primordial soup at a particular point).
(If it's about the wonder of the fact that our universe can support life at all, then I'm fine with answering "I dunno" while insisting that there's no justification for jumping from "I dunno" to "therefore, God.")
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1yr ago
Replacing comment collapse/uncollapse buttons with old-timey text based ones:
I use it in combination with other changes, don't know how it will look on its own.
(other changes: https://www.themotte.org/post/25/share-your-custom-css/1121?context=8#context)
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1mo ago
What's dumb? Wanting to enjoy a game's mechanics without being forced to compete in big sweaty boy league?
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1mo ago
On Ozempic I am rather bearish. There are very few buttons in the body which can be pushed for gain without many side effects. It sort of violates a no-free-lunch theorem (which I do believe in) regarding pharmacology.
That seems too strong. A no-free-lunch theorem for pharmacology might make sense for things that we expect to have been already optimized by evolution. Maintaining a good weight in an environment of caloric abundance and whatever else is causing the obesity crisis (corn syrup? microplastics? the chemicals they put in the water to turn the frogs gay?) is probably not one of those things.
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11mo ago
You accidentally.
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1yr ago
"Lol no," said the man after criticizing people who approach the subject with the sophistication of 12 year olds.
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1yr ago
No biggie. You just need to materialism more and adopt a pattern-based theory of identity.
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1yr ago
In my experience, there's great value to be gained from going completely offline (preferably by disabling your router and physically moving it to another room). But good luck doing that while having a coding job.
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12d ago
There are startups working on synthetic milk. Seems like it would be easier to make than synthetic meat. At least nobody should complain about texture.
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17d ago
Not really. I wasn't aware that Title IX was that old and thought it was something created shortly before the whole college sexual assault drama started.
It's possible that it still illustrates the principle, though not as sharply as it would if Title IX was a more newfangled thing, but I don't know how the American political discourse in the 70s looked like.
Well, Cocaine Bear is just from last year.
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