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Most hard problems are not solved simply by creating a technically superior product, they are often unsolvable due to mundane factors like user adoption, distribution, financial is…

We have been attempting our best to come towards the most correct answers for everything, since forever. To suggest all of a sudden that this method is irrelevant is odd. It is to …

> Show me a rigid decision procedure proving it right or misinformation. You and another commenter missed a crucial part of my sentence: dialectics. The method of isolating the con…

Dialectics. Immanent critique. The method of isolating the contradictions of a system so as to arrive at the best possible answer. No one said there is a quick formula for this, bu…

I don't make policy proposals, I just want people to think about whether deliberate misinformation infringes upon the rights of others.

> Could you show me such a decision procedure? Sure, it's called reason, philosophy, and the scientific method, all of which influence a dialectic which is a method of arriving at …

It's not a person, it's philosophy, logic, science, etc.

If you only believed lies, your thoughts can never truly be free. However if you believe some truths, your thoughts as expressed and built on top of those truths are free, whereas …

Reason. Reason is the judge

Something i rarely see come up: misinformation is itself an assault on free speech. You are confusing the minds of people who have a right to the truth and therefore the freedom to…

I've always felt this, I've never seen a business actually _do_ this. Why don't businesses just stop employing so many people? Stop expanding? Stop trying to acquire more users? I …

So what's your solution then? Would you be in favour of democratising the workplace so the workers own and have a say in the company?

It's pretty naive to think this is the extent of it. They didn't make a billion dollars by sending people information about how much time you spent on the app. They analyse your ch…

I am for legalising drugs if the evidence suggests it works. I'm not for legalising drugs because of some free market ideology.

> Only 2% of federal criminal defendants go to trial, and most who do are found guilty From pew research

That's about where i expected it to be actually, and that's about 200k people, so it's pretty bad.

Eh, plenty of studies I've seen, from economics to environmental science, has some policy recommendations at the end. It's a problem but if you're going to discard this study you h…

I am not insulting you, and I think you are smart. I'm saying that it's unreasonable to expect that banning people is a slippery slope unless you already think corporations and gov…

This is literally how it used to work before the FCC removed the FCC fairness doctrine in 1987. Fox news was then founded in 1996.

Or... competition responds to other competition. If your competition fires 50 employees, you no longer have the pressure to keep an extra 50 employees just to compete with them. Sa…

Liberals own the media companies that are doing the banning. The government has no role in this. My claim is that if you don't like what the companies are doing, you don't like fre…

Read what you just wrote 3 or 4 times over. Who is the mob? Stripe? A billion dollar company who has one small board of directors who made this decision? What am I underestimating?…

I'm tired of people who have only read one book in their entire lives (1984) trying to explain to me how banning Trump is going to lead to an angry leftist mob throwing me in jail …

I have seen this exact phrase like 500 times in the past week. Do you guys all read the same books or something? It's such a huge exaggeration to say that stripe's decision was mot…