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Been teaching/tutoring. The pay is not great but it’s survivable. Much more flexibility with my time. I can basically just show up, though I can’t get away with coasting or not hav…

Agree, but really the question is: why is it going up and why is it going up much faster in certain locations or among certain demographics? Or why are outcomes much better in cert…

Well the classic work on sociology of mental illness is not about schizophrenia but about suicide (Emile Durkheim’s Suicide). The same types of social causes can be observed with s…

Preventative is always more important than fixing after the fact where like you said it may be very difficult to do so. Basically what I was indicating though, and which I get from…

Schizophrenia is usually a kind of coping mechanism to handle an unhandleable environment (e.g. family in the case of a young schizophrenic person). It’s also, as some psychologist…

Poverty in terms of what? Needs of the body are met for many (though generally with cheap, ugly, and/or low quality products lacking craftsmanship) but needs of the soul are at an …

I would not say that corporations in America are characterized by merely fulfilling consumer desires, rather creating consumer desires—often without precedent—and then fulfilling t…

Interesting question. Well, both are now capitalist hells, but very different forms. Both individualism and collectivism have positive and negative sides. With individualism, the p…

+1. And let's not forget too that "AI", that is, ML models, are not "autonomous" in the way that humans are autonomous. Sure, we use the word "learn" to describe what they do, whic…

It’s wrong because good capitalists do not want a measly 40 hours of workers’ time. They want it all.

Well, just from reading this, I can tell that you have great potential, not just as a hirable economic agent but, more importantly, as a human being. Being "qualified" according to…

It’s quantity first and foremost, of calories and of gas carrying us around rather than our own bodies. Put in the bigger picture of our capitalist consumer economy, which has been…

Our minds haven't changed. What has changed are external factors (e.g. culture and economic forces). So a causal sociological analysis would see those as the crucial factors here. …

That’s a reasonable explanation for the spread across racial groups. But that spread has existed for a long time. There are other even more important phenomena to explain, like (1)…

Well, we also gotta look at Google's outside incentives, those of being a monopoly. At the end of the day, it's not the most efficient use of resources to innovate internally at a …

I’ve realized only recently a way to interpret what’s going on at Google economically-speaking: as companies grow and as economies grow as well (e.g. to be more automated and indus…

Seems like a veiled (but really not so veiled) demonstration of military power, no?

Not sure by what strange logic you interpreted this as an attack on “men”. They’re using “bro” in a similar sense to how it was used to describe Martin Shkreli as a “pharma bro”. S…

I saw an article recently where an FB spokesperson was arguing—albeit in an indirect, fluffily-phrased way—that in order to be able to only track you in the places X where they're …

> because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation I don't disagree with this statement. But arguably, it's becoming clear that these fields exist, on an economic…

+1. There is a widespread "metric fallacy" or "task fallacy" going around. Models of course optimize for metrics, so they tend to perform well on those related metrics. Humans, how…

I don't think kids doomscrolled the bible.

This kind of purely statistical investigation (quite prevalent in modern academia) is just so bad at investigating holistic causal forces. E.g. in the intro it mentioned “malicious…

Completely disagree. I think what is great about YouTube are the subset of creators that make genuinely good content, and especially those creators you follow consistently for a lo…