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>Kennedy pointed out that the legal professional style to which students learn to assimilate is “overwhelmingly white, male, and middle class.”46 But the Socratic method’s encounte…

Socratic method is too hard on poor diverse students, hurts their delicate feelings, doesn't actually encourage independent thought, and forces pupils to adopt straight white male …

There's a difference between having humans check IDs and storing facial [and other data] data in a database.

Your original comment partly reads thusly: > it's ok to discuss violence in Black communities and cheating in Asia, but it would be racist to assert that because you are Black/Asia…

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>racist to assert that because you are Black/Asian/White you are more predisposed to violence/cheating/racism The fact that a conclusion is racist does not mean it is factually inc…

Feel free to point out the irrationality of any part of my post. You are resolving your cognitive dissonance by ignoring documented differences among cultures, which is fundamental…

No. What is "interesting" is the blatant disregard for facts because of the association that they have with race. There is no question at this point that Chinese culture encourages…

>MDMA is risky, and you probably shouldn’t use it I don't understand how the author can come to this conclusion after describing almost every mentioned paper as unreliable for one …

How do we know that the universe isn't sitting on the back of a giant turtle? Most of the math that we use is self-consistent, and our proof system is, as far as we can tell, relat…

Perhaps I accept that there are more than 2-5 dimensions in the sphere of politics, and that occasionally one must compromise because no singular philosophy is perfect in all circu…

As someone who leans libertarian, I tend to shy away from rigid legislative solutions to social problems and corporate overreach. However, articles like this make me wonder if it i…

>“It never made sense to me that it was possible to have a battery-powered car that could drive more than 300 miles but not have a battery-powered drone that could fly more than ab…

The entire premise behind so called scientific experimentation is reproducibility. It is what allowed humans to move past superstitions, demonstration of consistent causes and effe…

>AI is not good at subjective decisions of qualitative data That's exactly the core strength of AI. It is what differentiates AI from hard coded solutions. Estimations(subjective d…

Manipulating data to "hit you in the gut" amounts to propaganda, of which people can be (rightly) wary, regardless of the veracity of the ultimate message.

Amphetamines at therapeutic dosages.

I've always wondered if my various general practitioners had primarily bullshit jobs following the rise of the internet.

I don't know what is more absurd: that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation, or that a private entity is b…

This comment comes off as intensely smug, from someone who has little experience with difficulty in dating. Things are not so simple. In fact, the very nature of social interaction…

Well, probably by training the net under such conditions. Actually I see no reason that, with a sufficiently large and accurate dataset, a neural net can't be trained to pick out a…