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Cowardice.

engaging w/ someone is different from discoursing with them. "engagement" is what social media companies say they provide - but really they just offer "discourse".

> the public's inability to engage with epistemological problems on systemic scales The public's inability? What about everyone's inability. No one deals well with epistemological …

dunno what "TFA" refers to here, but it seems like we're heading into a argument regarding epistemology, which is not a discussion that HN handles well. IMO "truth" is distraction …

We want an an appropriate degree of emotional engagement with discourse, which is 1-1 with how much discourse is happening. People being too angry is caused by people discoursing t…

Because there are actually multiple "arenas of discourse" and people will simply switch the "marketplace" they're using. It's technocratic hubris to think that there is just a sing…

right - like how the stock market behaves nowadays w/ quant traders - which then motivated people to construct darkpools of liquidity where the real trading happens.

No one has ever cared about factual accuracy except for the military. All other social benefits of "facts" trickle-down from there.

The chilling effect may actually be a good thing, given that discourse these days is overheated. There's a weird magic trick that social media companies have played on people to co…

Tech can start out as an extension, but what people fail to understand is that it can become slowly become autonomous over time, kinda like how a party gets out of control and peop…

It's really arrogant to think that any argument for a moratorium must be based in lack of information.

all the correct observations about averages aside, quantity!=quality

and we're just soooo much smarter nowadays than we were 1000 years ago...

Denial of what? That AI is as important as AI-fans think that it is?

This is list of ways that Pope Francis behaved differently from how a narrow section of catholics would prefer for him to act. Sucks that catholicism seems to be too difficult for …

I'd love to see demographic data on sedevacantism, but it's probably pretty difficult to gather. It def seems like the phenomena is enabled by the internet, and demonstrates the sa…

Seems like this is more about millennials getting old than it is about the internet changing. Especially since it embodies millennial's FOMO + fragile sense of self.

I suppose it makes sense that I'd find sedes on HN, since this place is mostly about hubris.

you're ignoring religion.

The whole trajectory of history would have been different if a butterfly didn't flap it's wings. The bomb had effects, but it didn't change anything. We still go to war, eat, sleep…

cool - so AI is gonna dramatically reduce the number of emails that get misunderstood... still gonna still be sending those emails tho.

Opinion falls into two camps because opinion falls into political camps. The right-wing is tired of the California ideology, is invested in the primary and secondary sectors of the…

I think academics are much, much more naive than we like to think. The same trick that pharma played on doctors is being played here. Just because you can do fancy math doesn't mea…

It doesn't matter who wrote it, it got picked up, had a good argument and affected market opinion. The execs now need to respond to it. Humans also don't grasp that things can impr…

We have an LGD on our hobby farm and figuring out socialization is really hard. Despite raising her in the barn among goats, I did give her a fair amount of affection and now she i…