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Everyone on Earth has a petty identity. If we allow secession just so every self-identifying group can 'rule' themselves then we encourage those petty identities when we should be …

Good, we can't allow the dissolution of nations.

>"85% of tech jobs at the company were held by men, and women engineers at the company experienced a deeply unpleasant environment." But many women have come out to defend the comp…

I dislike most insects. So long as this doesn't impact humanity's ability to thrive on the planet I don't mind. Since we're doing just fine in the face of such significant losses i…

Maybe this is due to widespread use of insecticide? Even so, I'm shocked that the decline is so significant. In none of the major extinction events of the past have insect populati…

I'm glad this is the top comment, because I don't often see common sense critiques of UBI that acknowledge price adjustment. We can't just print money, that is obviously going to f…

Well I think the US was more justified than Pol Pot, Stalin et. al. when it engaged in violence.

They should be understood in context. The US was engaged in a war against dictatorial USSR style communism for nearly 50 years. History has shown the US to be on the right side of …

The crimes of the United States measured in human lives destroyed are significantly less than Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc. We can very easily look at history and make this judgement. …

That's pretty naive to say. Reagan killed (directly or indirectly) orders of magnitude fewer people than the dictators mentioned. Reagan also presided over and encouraged the advan…

Gentrification is really a non issue. When areas begin to attract wealthier people, they can begin to attract nicer businesses and infrastructure as a result. So the entire neighbo…

Survivorship bias is kind of bullshit, I mean luck does play a role in success, but the longer you work at something, as long as you have a good idea/plan of attack/all the other t…

I would disagree with that, creativity is a key part of general intelligence

Agreed. If you're really smart and a prick, well, then you're just a really smart prick. Intelligence and emotional mastery are divorced from one another.

Traditional procedures that balance due process and expedient justice are the solution here. Anyone who faces abuse needs to speak up to either HR in a corporate setting or the pol…

The potential for anonymous slander is too high for a real system like this to be justified. Whispers turn to rumors which turn to falsehoods. Someone interpreted as being "creepy"…

Good explanation here: "It’s because their products are index funds. They measure their performance by how well the track the relevant indexes, not their absolute return. If they h…

The answer is to allow all speech that does not have the intent of hurting others. I'm completely on board with limiting hate speech, but if I try to make a point that, say, illega…

>“For at least 4000 years, there were settled communities but no evidence of state power” Well that doesn't mean state power isn't necessary for large scale communities. It just sh…

Seconded. Great book. The range of neural architecture that exists in nature is really fascinating and something that i think could help inform AI research.

Geat aticle, vey informative and helpful fo paents of gifted youth

Maybe you aren't using the accepted definition of stable? What fills the void when nations in the Middle East fall is chaos.

Ah yes, let's pull support from one of the most stable nations in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has their hands in some bad stuff but they are far preferable to ISIS or a prolonged…

Yes Iran and Saudi Arabia are also exacerbating the conflict. The US has been providing support to Saudi long before the Yemen war began.

I'd say more direct causes are the destruction caused by the Yemeni civil wars, religious opposition to modernization efforts and ongoing terrorism and violence perpetrated by extr…