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We can't have much more confidence that other humans are conscious (solipsism) than we can that dogs are conscious. We could say that other humans have (1) a similar brain to us an…

Panpsychists don't draw the line at a single cell and would say that a rock is conscious, to a smaller extent than a human is or an insect is. Doing this gets around the issue of c…

Precisely, especially when intelligence gives the user so much more leverage nowadays (through tech and capital) than it did in the past, a Pareto distribution is exactly what we e…

That's exactly what we expect to see in a meritocratic system. Chess, poker and competitive gaming are almost completely meritocratic (especially poker) and we see the exact same d…

Public cost private benefit - externality, tragedy of the commons, etc

It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)

What do you expect from Vice nowadays

Well said, it's not a problem unique to Facebook, Twitter is as much of a problem but they don't get dragged as much because they're more willing to take a knee to the woke religio…

That's a despicable (let alone false) thing to say and you should be ashamed of yourself.

The daughter may be lying. We have no evidence that this was RBG's desire.

Thank you for sharing these experiences

It is heavily political since there's no evidence of efficacy. You can see the heterodox academy piece that summarises the available evidence. Since it is not efficacious then I'm …

This article is literally fake news. It references SPLC which is known to be full of crap (Majid Nawaz) and they provide no evidence that the accused individual is actually a white…

This is a pedantic response. There isn't an important difference between building a physical system and building a system in code whose generating process is that which you're tryi…

You're missing the point. Their bias doesn't come from whether they've literally worked in the White House, it comes from their political beliefs and how strongly those beliefs are…

+1 for pragmatism and common sense, a lot of the sciences (especially social science) is useless fluff

The visual test is the best. By far the biggest problem among data scientists is being too theoretical and relying too much on statistical tests and metrics instead of common sense…

Actually there is a reason to believe the replication over the original, or vice versa. There's vastly different selection effects occuring for original Vs replication which impact…

You are massively understating the quality of the extant evidence, meaning you are either ignorant or dishonest about this situation

Disagree. National journalism is nowadays politically charged entertainment, sensationalism and fake news. Local journalism is more likely to be real news.

This is an obviously sarcastic commentary and parody of the apologetics that are often found on HN for what's going on in China

He didn't use the 'authoritarian' framing (he sarcastically questioned whether it was 'exemplary'), that's something you're presumptively attributing. There was not 'zero' coverage…

Is "wide support" of her arrest (as framed by the person I was replying to) an example of white lady in distress? That seems like the exact opposite of white lady in distress. Or i…