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How can you describe something as “objectively” horrible-looking? Your opinion on the way that something looks is precisely that: an opinion. I’d add that neither the Arabic nor La…

I guess the argument would go that your income is significantly higher in the sense that the quantity and complexity of stuff that you can afford now is vastly greater than 100 yea…

It would be really interesting to take a model like this and see if you can get it advance the frontiers of science, maths or whatever else in directions that we now understand but…

I’m sure that he/she would ride a lot more if it cost nothing, but I think the point is valid: even if Uber could 10x or 100x productivity, they could not do the same with income, …

I do think about this a lot. On the one hand, you might be right, and it may not matter at all. On the other, we often do that kind of stuff because it makes it harder to slip up b…

Even if the information is technically available, a business can sit there optimising for a specific problem while individuals have to deal with tens or hundreds of separate proble…

It’s very possible that things were always this way, you’re right. My own perception is that politics has become more divisive and less respectful in my own lifetime, and I happen …

There is indeed a difference and I don’t think we’re disagreeing on that.

This is exactly what I was trying to point out. You've made some reasonable points here, but that doesn't offer any evidence for the hyperbolic statement that Israel is pure and un…

That might be true but, even if it is, it's a far cry from the statement that the Israeli government is singularly evil.

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Wow skimmed that part - yeah I guess fair enough

I personally think it's unfair to accuse this person of sexism. I didn't even know he was talking about a woman until you pointed it out. It's possible that this comment comes from…

The models may be writing the code but I would be surprised if they were contributing to the underlying science, which feels like the hard part

If that’s a pun, it’s next level

To the extent that a character makes a joke about his relationship getting serious enough that they started sharing an iCloud account

I understood it to mean properties of large-scale systems that are not properties of its components. Like in thermodynamics: zooming in to a molecular level, you can reverse time w…

I think the comment is referring to “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”.

This seems not to be an opinion that other people hold, but I never saw social media as “free speech” given that some third party can decides which parts of what you say get promot…

It’s funny, I always thought it was obviously egg. Assuming evolution, the first recognisable “chicken” must have been the product of a mutation, hence the egg from which it hatche…

You may be right, I’ve no idea. For me it’s the principle more than the specific amount. I can’t understand why a manufacturer is entitled to charge you to use something that you s…

When you pay for goods or services, you should expect to receive something. If you pay extra for leather seats, you’re getting leather seats. If you pay for DLC as part of a game, …

There is a middle ground between woodworking and TikTok, no? People enjoyed talking to each other and had fun before we had technology. It’s easy to see social media as harmless, a…