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An oppressed people - the Jews, have become oppressors? This comment doesn't even attempt to draw the distinction between the government of Israel and the Jewish people. How would …

> I'm going to strongly disagree with that, and not sure how you decided that was objectively true. My argument was to point out a lack of good reason in the first place to have co…

> It strikes me as a genuine and reflective post from someone who cares, and I would hate to see others use "you are both legally adults" to avoid doing similar reflection. However…

>> Organic for the most part is a myth. What they do is either spray with a pesticide that can be classified as organic That's demonstrably untrue. Many organic methods use no pest…

Organic and sustainable methods are more efficient, even without GMOs [1]. It is a myth that GMOs or high-tech is the answer to food production/land scarcity concerns, as simply ma…

True, but the Great Oxygenation Event took an extremely long time to effect most species though, and there are certainly exceptions, but that's just it, they're exceptions. Humans …

>But it's no more or less "natural" than ever. "Natural" is probably not that useful a concept in general, it doesn't really mean anything in general, just like it doesn't mean any…

Requiring that it has "plane-ness" seems like an unpackable ambiguous criteria. I am speaking on a simple functional level. Rather, a given iron atom is one of the atoms that make …

>Now, if you want a particle to be conscious, your minimum expectation should be that the particle can change. The crux of the argument seems to be here, and is simply a fallacious…

Layman here, are there any serious limitations to your approach, or is it fair to say with the algorithms and hardware you have that motion planning has essentially been "solved"? …

So a wider age range is inappropriate for your age? 27-35 seems fairly narrow. What are your limits for appropriate age range?

So people should ignore a counterargument that makes sense to them because Terry Gross has more experience? We should blindly follow authority in spite of our own reasoning abiliti…