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The Japanese. They're the first known group to explicitly represent Emoji, unlike the older Latin derived systems which could only represent emotion through character combinations …

>We calculated the Amazon CEO's annual earnings by finding the difference between his 2017 and 2018 net worths

I don't think it's jaded at all. I don't disagree that a sales team is necessary, either. I'm just describing how a business works: it creates a solution and then finds a way to ex…

Think about any software company with a large sales team. The people writing the software are not the people selling the software. Writing software and offering it to people does n…

The pursuit of growth is the foundation of all life as we know it. Every species (but not necessarily every individual) will seek to produce offspring and grow their "genetic footp…

I'm not sure what your nitpick is supposed to be getting at. Good businesses create a solution to your problem and then "insert themselves" between you and that solution. That's ho…

If the Universe is the territory than Knowledge is the map. I'm not at all mistaking the map for the territory: I'm pointing out that the set of maps that can describe a given terr…

I disagree fundamentally. You may as well ask me to imagine Earth as a disc, with multiple rotating spotlights shining down on it and a giant ice wall around the edges. I understan…

You're right--chess is a decidedly finite game. Even so, we have not "solved" this simple, finite game--not even close! If we're not close to solving such a trivial game, how can w…

This leads to a more fundamental question: What is the universe? Is the optimal move in an a given chess board considered knowledge? If so, can't we create entirely new sets of kno…

There is no contradiction because there is no limit of knowledge. The limit of y = e^x is infinity. You can keep increasing x and y will increase exponentially. So you plot the fun…

As much as I enjoy Asimov, I have to say that he is wrong. The gap between what we know and what is true might have decreased immensely, but it is still infinite. Any quantifiable …

Simply look at the career of Van Gogh or any "Bohemian starving artist". Listing only the most popular, most influential artists proves my point: for most people art is an untenabl…

There is a difference between "making money and making art" and "making money by making art". No one is entitled to having other people value their artistic output. I would argue t…

Takes like this confuse me. ChatGPT is not stopping anyone from making art. It may stop you from profiting off of your artistic labors. Though, if you need a profit motive to make …

This is a hierarchy of one stratum (birds) cooperating to dominate another stratum (fish). If anything, this link shows that operating effectively within a hierarchy has clear adva…

>It didn't take millions to build Linux or wikipedia, just a couple hundred to a couple thousand absurdly dedicated people. Maybe it didn't take millions of people to build those t…

Hierarchies in society get stronger, deeper, and more complex the larger the societies are. There is a function to hierarchy, it doesn't exist for its own sake. In small groups tho…

When we define intelligence as having the ability to do the things that only humans do, it's no wonder that we can't see intelligence in other species. Most animals don't have digi…

Most people agree with you, which is exactly why there is no chance that an organization like this can have a real impact. How can a breeder, who is incentivized to create a stream…

There are two kinds of shelters: open-admission, and no-kill. There is no third kind. We will never be a no-kill nation without addressing the root causes: lack of availability of …

Lottery winners owning fancy houses should not be taken as an endorsement of their wealth acquisition strategy.

It's how you get /r/X and /r/TrueX and /r/X_memes and /r/ECKS

What would a moderator normally do? Delete comments, issue warnings, ban if necessary. So they can just do the same thing. Nothing changes on their end, but for the user, they're o…

I don't see how that could be true. It's the same workflow for the moderators, it's just that users can unsubscribe to their view.