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I think what people need to realize is that the Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly "not real" because, on average, everyone (regardless of competence) overestimates themselves. Saying…

I suspect the worry is that it will be similar for the pill. Highly effective now, but less effective for future variants.

I think you're looking for this behaviour? Try using * instead of _ and that's what you'll get. Use two for bold, if you want.

The person you're disagreeing with agrees with this idea about morality: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-affecting_view ). You, on the other hand, (I think) believe somethin…

Well, burials only matter if others care about it. Other values, such as "do not harm others", etc., matter even if others don't care about them, because they concern actual suffer…

Don't think they had much choice in the matter, seeing as there was a punishment for defection.

I reserve all rights to the atoms that make up my body ad infinitum, which means my estate will be able to claim copyright on your descendents for selling work that contains said a…

> That’s mostly because you live in a society which doesn’t value burials or the afterlife and which worships information, which must be acquired at any cost. Even if I was, I'd be…

Exactly, and that's why we must do absolutely nothing. Wait, no, that's exactly what it takes for evil to prevail! Rats, I suppose there's nothing we can do, then.

There might be the confounding factor of being unlikely to buy a novel you don't know exists. If Rowling releases something under her own name, I'm sure to hear about it, which wil…

>DER SPIEGEL: But you do save data about your users like the device ID, the phone model, the WhatsApp user name, the phone book and thereby also the numbers of all their contacts, …

70k? In San Francisco? Big oof.

If you fired everyone who ever lied you'd have nobody in your company.

The ESDX 'diamond' would be nightmare to use on an ortholinear keyboard.

More people than that are overweight. The total amount of food might be enough, but simply ill-distributed.

Kids might make your life better, but they probably would have been better off had you stuck to your plan of not having them.

That's a very sensible perspective. Unfortunately, you will probably, as most people do, change your mind about this and decide to have children anyway.

Makes you wonder whether you ever thought not having a baby might be a sensible option.

I think that's precisely what ICANN was going for. Reacting to it, in the eyes of some people, implies there's at least some truth to what the other party said.

That's great, but my intuition fails me when I try to consider what it would mean for the answer to some question to be a complex number. It's even worse for quaternions, because I…

And yet look at the demographics of any service/app that has a slightly more complicated sign-up process.

Signal has a desktop client, though? Not sure where that issue came from.

You can create icebergs with 'holes' in them, which have very interesting floating behaviour [0]. It doesn't work every time, though. Not sure why. [0] https://imgur.com/a/0lcW8xT

What's even more interesting is that Lippman proposed a separate entity which was meant to inform the media!

I don't think that idea even works in theory, let alone in practice. In lieu of making a longpost about why this doesn't seem like a good idea to me, I'm just going to defer to the…