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Exactly. >Share everything to the world, and let everyone make their own judgement based on what they see? What's the alternative to this? They don't share all the information with…

There will always be things humans can do that AI cannot. And if there ever comes a point when that's not the case, there will be no need to distinguish the two.

I'm leaning towards there being no causation between skin microbiome and wrinkles. Did anyone in the study have botox? Crow's feet wrinkles are generally caused by two things: UV d…

I was hoping to do this as a project. The issue I had was having access to a database of all books with an ISBN, or which books to include.

People have tried to create alternatives to Reddit numerous times over previous controversies. It never sticks. I don't see this time being different.

The premise isn't exactly that people shouldn't select for traits that they desire, rather that it is irresponsible for journalism and other forms of media to make allusions to hei…

Sure, some forms of intelligence or other personal qualities could be opted for when choosing a mate. Should inconsequential physical traits such as race and height? You tell me. O…

To me, that's even further evidence that both race and height are totally inconsequential. That fact that these things can bestow social advantages is no reason to view either of t…

I'm not implying anything about the biological racial differences between humans. When I say racism, I'm talking about people of colour who experience prejudice based on the colour…

I think we can ignore the outlier of basketball players playing at the highest level. We could also point to CEO's of Fortune 500 companies and their races but that shouldn't lead …

That's a good corroboration of my point that height being a positive characteristic is largely cultural/societal and of no true importance as it relates to a person's worth.

The majority of women, especially before we began to actually combat racism, would also agree that being white is preferable, as would black men who were subjected to the results o…

My point doesn't relate to whether rural or urban children become taller. Height is largely genetic, and discounting malnutrition it has no bearing on a person's health. Shorter pe…

Again, substitute the "socially beneficial" arbitrary trait of height for race and ask yourself if that sounds acceptable. Should people opt for white children simply because racis…

Height certainly exists, but it has no bearing on a person's worth, despite what this article or society at large would have you believe.

Why does it matter if they reach their full possible height, barring health complications? At least 80% of height is genetic so creating a value system based upon something that ha…

Using the terminology of children turning out slightly "better" in cities in the context of height is slightly distasteful, even though it is societally quite prevalent. Height is …

Re the AppleCare+ point. If you are unlikely to break a screen more frequently than every 2 years on average, it's more economical to just not get the service. This is ignoring oth…

Could you elaborate on Sapiens' anti-human bent? I was going to get around to starting it soon.

This comment is nonsensical, it genuinely feels like it was written by GPT-3

My solution was to generate random sentences in my head. I then iterate through the letters of each sentence, and if the letter is M or later in the alphabet, I select right. If th…

How do you reconcile point 1 with the fact that atheists on average have higher IQ's than non-atheists?

But every trait or behaviour that survives on evolutionary timescales does serve (or did serve, in the case of vestigial features) a purpose. I'm not sure what the exact mechanism …