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The bourgeoisie in Europe accumulated the capital required to start industrialization through their slave colonies. This isn't up for debate. Stop sanitizing your history it only d…

My mind was in between whinging and kvetching.

Oh my god here, is the same qualification near the top of the article. > One of the problems the two friends looked at was a version of a century-old unsolved question in geometry.…

> While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.” Emphasis mine.

I'm currently reading The Black Jacobins which is about Toussaint L'Ouverture and the revolution in Haiti. Even after having read accounts of the brutality of slavery multiple time…

Unfortunately the rationalist community basically engages in sophistry centered around a naive and outdated positivism with Bayes' rule slapped on top.

https://imgur.com/a/NwwBiIo I did this on a computer I don't usually use in an incognito tab.

If one were to examine that subreddit at this moment it would appear that the mods are very strongly against Scott Alexander being doxxed by a reporter and are also handing out ban…

It's not a good look to compare people to a virus.

No, because they're countries. Who deals with an international incident caused by the NYPD?

The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.

When the NYPD did a work slowdown, rates of crime according to their own data went down.

You are engaging in circular reasoning.

I can't prove a negative. Show me something JBP has said that is challenging and novel.

His technical papers are fun to read and based on solid mathematics. He's collecting that work into a book which is about as poorly edited as you would expect but the math is solid…

I think there are unresolved philosophical issues around probabilistic interpretations where it's not clear a priori what the space of possibilities is. Even if we could pin it dow…

> Only a few months ago People have been expressing the exact same sentiment you are for years and years .

Diversifying police forces does not fix the problem. It's what the police do not who does it. Black individuals can participate in Black oppression. I will not elaborate on the poi…

> Right now you have the two political parties and virtually all the S&P 500 corporations, all the universities, and most of the media (including social media) actively supporting …

> By definition, racism is something only individuals can do and so racist laws are the product of racist people. Well here's your problem buddy. You decided that racism is somethi…

Let me try to clear something up for you. The people protesting on the streets right now don't give a shit what color the boot on their neck is. Systemic racism doesn't just mean t…

Oral traditions record, among other things, historical events.

> Truly I find the mechanistic view of nature so grim and pointless. Would you find it ridiculous if I said that it serves an ideological purpose so deeply entrenched in our civili…