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Some people certainly can simply enjoy spending time with people not of their assumed cluster of traits. But that's not what's going on with trans women. They aren't doing some sor…

https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Like-State-Condition-Paperback... The alternative is to do the thing that doesn't scale, because all the purported ways of scaling are worse than that…

Um. A hammer that can build 100 houses a second would be incredibly valuable, both solving and causing some very important problems. So good analogy from my perspective I suppose, …

Salespeople don't want to join an org without performance-based compensation. We can ask why, but that brute fact is enough to explain why sales positions tend to have performance-…

"people only use about 2% of the volume of their house at any given time"

Did you not read the last clause? > lastly, it happens to be true

> which are far less intelligible they seem fine to me maybe you're just used to it, and i'm used to the other it, and mine requires fewer distinct glyphs

> resent Fine, step one, work on why you'd resent that.

It contextualized, of course. <= 2019: 4.5-5.5 == 2023: ~5.5 (between: significantly higher, also COVID, probably not a coincidence)

If you play games you can't play games without missing a ton of really good games. There are _a ton_ of really good games.

Only if they actually tried to think. Otherwise they don't get automatic passes for believing random things just because I am not 100% guaranteed to end up believing a correct thin…

In a very real sense, so do you.

Not easier. More awesome .

Things going bad is bad. Dying is bad. Etc etc. Sometimes on net things are good because of other effects like "ah, promising new competitor gets a chance to shine!" but if you cou…

IF a company goes bad, it's great that new companies eat their lunch. It's bad for a company to go bad. It's bad for a company to lock out competition.

Pretty much every direction is a local improvement given _some_ starting point, but if you broaden your overall search, the "more self-deception" direction is gonna be worse.

If we prevented all suicides there would be _well more than ample_ precedent of people trying to commit _and being stopped from_ committing suicide and later hating everyone for ke…

'cause humans beat apes and if you plunked down 20,000 humans onto a world with 10 billion apes, humans would beat apes call it a slippery slope if you want, the fallacy is when yo…

I had this problem. It crippled me. One or more of the following solved it: - just time plus regression to the mean - talking with a therapist, for a while - being hit with a compl…

> we’ll need to identify important people with both a high degree of importance but with a low degree of tech literacy, i.e. your average white, male C-level executive From this, y…

It is not flawed. The subject is under study, continually. The debunking comes from https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118 where yes, many measures of happiness seem to inc…

There are many potential right reasons. One wrong reason might be "I heard it from a Facebook group founded to spread the word that GMOs were created to make a pliable citizenry".

The paper you linked to says, in its summary section, "For the general public, evidence shows that physical distancing of more than 1 m is highly effective and that face masks are …

It's pretty conclusive. It's been conclusive for years and years, before COVID-19. There's no question at all that masks reduce infectiousness through the extremely obvious method …

It does not. It maximizes log-wealth. Maximizing expected wealth gives a strategy which results in $0 a lot of the time but much much more than Kelly occasionally, achieving a high…