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I think this partially a myopic view from young people. I remember being a little kid and watching a week long show about the JFK conspiracy on either one of the big 3 networks or …

Noise?

If we follow the science then what does "misinformation" mean in an information theory context? It has no meaning at all. Since it basically has no meaning it does make it quite a …

I suspect in reality all these narratives are basically fiction. We know we are really bad at tracking knowledge work productivity but we will make up narratives based off bad data…

I feel like any nytimes article I read is practically written by an algorithm. "Since the pandemic began, Americans’ happiness has cratered" As if this isn't mostly because of the …

Totally agree. At least on KDE I really don't notice any difference in performance and always have both installed. I use Firefox 99% of the time though. I think it is something abo…

So he is basically going to get bored and binge watch shows on Netflix for 3 days. The irony to me is I would think curating a website like that is as big a problem as anything. Th…

Exactly and the vast majority of people were racists at the time who I am sure did not agree with the protests. Something has gone wrong though with this trucker protest because pe…

The irony is this is exactly why the US is a republic and not a democracy. Direct democracy is 100% mob rule but no one really cares to read the Federalist Papers or the mountain o…

These truckers did nothing other than grease the wheels of authoritarianism anyway. This is the last real protest in Canada. Next time, these "emergency" powers will either be imme…

I would just add Neil Postman's Technopoly as a much easier read. I have never been able to get through either of those Ellul books and have tried several times. I am not even sure…

Of course but people just like to puppet nonsense and are ignorant of our own history. This for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_b... Or what abo…

Because the cyberpunk values and predictions couldn't have been more wrong. It didn't even take 25 years to make 1984 look like an improvement in privacy and surveillance compared …

If the idea of happiness is never having to leave the house then the past 25 years have been great.

The whole point of a prediction market is to try to uncover hidden information like this. I remember this idea was floated after the 9/11 attacks. A spike in a terror attack odds w…

Girard was a Stanford professor. His Uncommon Knowledge episode from the Hoover Institution is quite interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk I do agree though, the …

Comedy and what people find funny though has such huge variance. There are many professional comedians that I don't find funny at all but enough people do that they can make a care…

I am 50 and have never owned a television myself. I have never had a Netflix account. At this point, I have been offered pretty nice TVs for free more than once. If you really get …

You obviously don't understand the pricing mechanism and utility of basically a decentralized equity valuation engine. I mean that is what the stock market ultimately is. These art…

Investing in a company though is basically doing a crowd sourced valuation on the future cash flows of the company. It doesn't matter if you see it that way or not. Your buying and…

Not to mention the "market cap" is complete fiction. I think you can notice this best on a new coin. I was looking at chia for whatever stupid idea they had with proof by useless s…

I don't see the moral argument at this point though with fentanyl. Nothing quite robs one of agency like death. Before fentanyl, I don't think I would be for full legalization. At …

The potency has also become quite outrageous. As if drinking straight moonshine is somehow a better experience than a bottle of wine because the proof is higher.

I love philosophy but I just don't agree. I love history also but I think that is just as much a waste of time for kids. A teenager in the modern world has just not lived long enou…