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The author claims "peripheral route" opinions are becoming more common because of information overload and the need to be parsimonious when forming opinions. He also claims that peripheral route opinions are more weakly held than central route opinions.
How does that account for increasing ideological polarization, when you would expect people's opinions to shift more with the breeze?
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There's nothing physically impossible about the Hyperloop (basically a maglev in vacuum tube, nothing wrong with the tech, just not particularly economical). Maglevs have been deployed successfully in some parts of Asia, they are just dreadfully expensive and nimbys have fears about radiation but they are hardly new technology.
Note that the main point about the hyperloop was the vacuum tube, not the maglev part. And the vacuum tube doesn't actually work. It's not actually feasible to create a vacuum tube hundreds of km long. It's just about physically possible, but it's not really technologically feasible - not for a system that is supposed to be in constant operation all year long. It's also important to remember that vacuum tube trains a…
But: it's probably still a dumb idea, but one that is borderline.
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Before we had vaccines, covid was killing more people than heart attacks and car accidents. Combined. Deriding people for caring about their own safety is callous and puerile.
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Which smart people believed in infinite compression algorithms or true perpetual motion?
Various folks into the 21st century. Edit: point taken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_perpetual_motion_...
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On that note, the entire LK-99 debacle.
But super conductors do exist and room temperature superconductors may be possible. Nobody has ruled that out at all.
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Communism is one of the worst ideas, with the worst track records, and have always captured the most intelligent people, even today. A casual browse through HN comments is enough evidence.
You're probably one of those people who read any criticism of capitalism as a cry for communism.
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Communism is one of the worst ideas, with the worst track records, and have always captured the most intelligent people, even today. A casual browse through HN comments is enough evidence.
You're probably one of those people who read any criticism of capitalism as a cry for communism.
It’s not his wealth, objectively a good thing, that prevents a rich man from getting into heaven, it is his prioritization of it over superior goods, his idolatry even. And riches come in many forms.
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On that note, the entire LK-99 debacle.
But super conductors do exist and room temperature superconductors may be possible. Nobody has ruled that out at all.
People gobbled it up with the justification that random researchers on twitter "replicated" the results under the assumption that these anonymous researchers are putting their entire career on the line and therefore should be paid attention to. That is literally playing into the point the article is making. I.e. people believing lies because the information came from a higher status individual.