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>It's not just the loss of the craft and the problem-solving challenge and whatever else. It's the loss of making. It's the loss of understanding . When you make something, you gai…

if we're making a wish list, I also want: - term limits for congress - voter day national holiday - if budget isn't balanced all members of congress become ineligible for election …

Something like ball lightning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

I'd wager this methodology is going to become very prevalent in enterprises going forward. Encoding all of the context necessary to recreate your entire application in "plans" or "…

Core argument seems to be that psychology/behavioral-science are not hard sciences (duh). Kind of insane how they're able to spin that into a 10 page hit piece about Microsoft. I t…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5r8I5PcSDA&t=145s

> it's still a lot harder to succeed as a non white male than it is as a white male. Part of the issue is that you're presupposing a uniform definition of success. Different cultur…

I think the bit about "social fabric at risk of collapse" is, to some degree, always true/possible. A community is only as strong as its constituents, and if everyone thinks the en…

At the end of a day, if you ask for a nurse, should the model output a male or female by default? If the input text lacks context/nuance, then the model must have some bias to infe…

for long-term birth control a copper (non-hormonal) IUD might be a better option. You don't have to remember to take pills, and it's less chemically disruptive to the body. Or bett…

The problem with male birth control pills is that it's the women who bear the bulk of the risk/responsibility when it comes to pregnancy. If a woman says "trust me, i'm on the pill…

That seems way too low. If you rob a bank and give the money back later with 4% interest, you still go to jail. This should just not be legal. Or make it 100%/mo interest or someth…

> makes people learn what the movement is about. I don't know about that. More like it muddies the waters and leads to miscommunication and polarization

Careful, I think your biases are showing. To assert that nobody wants to live in Ohio is an incredibly myopic worldview. I can think of loads of people that would love to work in t…

If it makes you feel better, we're ahead of schedule on population decline, especially due to covid baby bust. It's quite plausible humanity will find balance with nature with a mu…

I definitely don't have a formulaic answer to that question, but here are some heuristics that I'll posit drive us in the right general direction: - Freedom of information So that …

Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. Personally I've always internalized decentralized vs centralized arguments not as "all nodes communicate peer-to-peer" vs "all nodes ne…

Sorry that I don't know how to present this more constructively, but you sound pretty tin-foil-hat-y. You argument seems to be just "I don't understand this thing, so doesn't that …

That still doesn't rectify the conflict. The living being is reducing local entropy -- meaning it's less conscious than if it maximized local entropy per gp comment. Or put in real…

If the the insulation breaks the tool short circuits and the welding tips don't work. Electricity follows the path of least resistance, so given how close the welding tips are toge…

Only if it is indeed a zero sum game. I think most agree that on a sufficiently long timescale life is not a zero sum game, so everyone optimizing for their own quality of life inc…

I don't think your assertion necessarily holds. There are several schools of philosophy that assert that selfishness is the highest moral standard. If I were selfish enough I shoul…

I think you're projecting your perspective of the relative dangers to the Amazon rainforest and the {other} rainforest in that metaphor. In your head one class is in real trouble, …

That seems like it could have more difficult engineering problems than a fusion reactor! Seems like a quick way to accidentally microwave a desert into a sea of glass. Hope you don…