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> The key phrase is: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > we mean intellectual interest, not all kinds of interest > For example, there is social interest (the s…

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Empirically, places that focus on "collective actions" and "society-level solutions" tend to be worse than places that allow that power to be bestowed in response to capital flows.…

> suppress voting by low income and minority voters Are you implying that having an ID, such as a drivers license, is out of reach of either low income or minority citizens? That s…

To concur: It's not merely predicated on a utilitarian ethical viewpoint, it assumes that we've accurately accounted for costs of the options (eg, second and third order effects) w…

Why would they? They're not going to have to re-issue shares at a lower price; they're going to get bailed out by the taxpayers. The conditions for government money should be: 1. A…

My back of the napkin math indicates that roughly 2x as many people will die in the US this year. Normal deaths are 2.8M/year. There's 330M people in the US. At 70% infection, that…

> Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous. How often have those experts been wrong?

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The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids. These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more compli…

> In particular, Eastern Europe of all places is relatively egalitarian in men-vs-women in programming. Why doesn't that suggest the reverse -- that women only have equal rates of …

I had similar problems, and resorted to just declining meetings that interrupted that work block. I didn't even mark it on the calendar, I just declined any meeting before 11a. I a…

It absolutely is. We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society. That's w…

That's.... true? Math isn't a science, and some quantum physics is regularly chided for being more philosophy than science, because it doesn't make testable predictions. The distin…

> "Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a cl…

Environment activists have been bombing things for decades. If anything, they've calmed down.

Setting aside the morality -- which is its own reason to treat people well -- it's damnably effective. Something I got from a book on negotiating: It doesn't matter how good of a n…

Why aren't TQFTs evidence for string theory? If we know you can build quasiparticles and non-local effects out of braiding/knotting dynamics -- wouldn't the minimal assumption be t…

Canada only accounts for 0.5% of the world population and about 1% of internet users (total Canadian population / total internet users) -- and I think it's telling that you didn't …

Know where the skeletons are buried. Punch back, especially upwards. Know an analyst at the investment bank with the largest holding in your company.

Only 4% of the world even plays soccer. Being in the top 10% of them puts you into global fractional percentages. If it's not soccer, having done it likely puts you in fraction-of-…

That's a rather emotive argument. Do you have any evidence to back it up, that reducing the air travel and other extravagances wouldn't be sufficient, but that we need to give up d…

So, you don't actually know how either. It's trite and cheap to demand change you don't know how to do.