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Probably what *this* should be called.
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Post by Rylinks » Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:12 am

possibly. most basic income plans take money from rich people on net so if accounting for that differently makes people support it go for it

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Post by Crunchums » Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:17 pm

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/18/fa ... oderation/
this seems like definitely a thing. i feel like any time i have some opinion that's not just the obviously woke political opinion then I have to fight through this. like if you want to talk about how maybe sex (securities fraud) differences are a partial reason for the low % of women in computer science, if you do not preface it with an acknowledgement that gender discrimination is a factor then people will assume that you think that gender discrimination is not a factor at all
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Re: slatestarcodex

Post by Doug » Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:04 pm

Crunchums wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:17 pm http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/18/fa ... oderation/
this seems like definitely a thing. i feel like any time i have some opinion that's not just the obviously woke political opinion then I have to fight through this. like if you want to talk about how maybe sex (securities fraud) (rape) differences are a partial reason for the low % of women in computer science, if you do not preface it with an acknowledgement that gender discrimination is a factor then people will assume that you think that gender discrimination is not a factor at all
It isn't, no professor anywhere ever says hey women get out of my class
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Re: slatestarcodex

Post by Juri » Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:10 pm

Doug wrote: Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:04 pm
Crunchums wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:17 pm http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/18/fa ... oderation/
this seems like definitely a thing. i feel like any time i have some opinion that's not just the obviously woke political opinion then I have to fight through this. like if you want to talk about how maybe sex (securities fraud) (rape) (rape) differences are a partial reason for the low % of women in computer science, if you do not preface it with an acknowledgement that gender discrimination is a factor then people will assume that you think that gender discrimination is not a factor at all
It isn't, no professor anywhere ever says hey women get out of my class
I'm not sure that's what's meant by gender discrimination in that context
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Re: slatestarcodex

Post by Crunchums » Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:57 pm

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/d ... c-hobbits/
the generated LotR thing is really funny imo
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Post by Juri » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:04 pm

Crunchums wrote: Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:57 pm https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/d ... c-hobbits/
the generated LotR thing is really funny imo
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Post by Juri » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:05 pm

If by any chance you find or give this letter to the enemy, may they learn the strength of the ring
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Post by Juri » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:09 pm

I have no actual way of evaluating the claim of 'dreams as an unbound prediction mechanism', but hell if it isn't a cool and compelling narrative!
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Post by Crunchums » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:02 pm

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Post by rianalnn » Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:27 am

RIP Gutter

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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.

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Post by Crunchums » Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:37 pm

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/28/t ... d-a-sheep/
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. The sheep votes for the Wolf Party, because he agrees with them on social issues.
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Post by 人造 » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:01 am

i don't agree with his bart killing policy, but i do approve of his selma killing policy

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Post by Crunchums » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:34 am

what
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Post by Doug » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:47 am

It's a Simpsons reference
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Post by Crunchums » Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:45 am

oh, probably about sideshow bob?
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Post by Doug » Sat Mar 30, 2019 4:38 am

Exactly right
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Post by Crunchums » Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:38 pm

the names are obv from the simpsons but the thing that gave me pause was maybe it was some pun on BART
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Post by KingRamz » Tue Apr 02, 2019 4:04 pm

It's from the episode where Bob runs for mayor. Homer is deciding whether to vote for him or Quimby, and says that as he decides to pull the lever for Bob.

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Post by Crunchums » Wed May 08, 2019 9:03 pm

i have been reading this thing https://nintil.com/2015/12/24/slaying-a ... rs-moloch/
i feel like when i read things i am inclined to agree with them 100% which makes me feel like i am inclined towards [ur=https://www.google.com/search?q=fox+vs+ ... e&ie=UTF-8]hedgehog[/url] thinking
so now i just try to hedge (heh), like i have this idea that i like, but probably just following the implications of that idea is not the perfect/correct answer
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Post by Rylinks » Wed May 08, 2019 9:27 pm

written too clearly; didn't read

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Post by Rylinks » Wed May 08, 2019 9:28 pm

Canada, everything in the Caribbean, Mexico, everything in the Pacific. Canada or Mexico don’t have an army capable of stopping the United State’s yet they don’t invade? Why? Becaue the realist theory of international relations is bunk. People don’t generally want to go to war nowadays, and politicians follow.
it's because the US agrees with canada on like 99% of things. Try becoming a communist dictatorship and see how far not going to war gets you

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Post by 人造 » Wed May 08, 2019 9:30 pm

Rylinks wrote:
it's because the US agrees with canada on like 99% of things. Try becoming a communist dictatorship and see how far not going to war gets you
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Post by Rylinks » Wed May 08, 2019 9:30 pm

okay try becoming a hereditary theocracy

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Post by Rylinks » Wed May 08, 2019 9:36 pm

But in the long run, there is a long-term tendency towards the truth.
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Post by Rylinks » Wed May 08, 2019 9:37 pm

in general the whole article seems blind to the possibility of decit

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Post by Crunchums » Thu May 09, 2019 3:27 am

Rylinks wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 9:27 pm written too clearly; didn't read
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Post by Crunchums » Thu May 09, 2019 4:15 am

In the system, you shock yourself eight hours, but then you’re free to do as you please (Save for speaking against the system). But, I assume, you have friends, family, and so on. So one day, when having dinner with your relatives, you say: We are alone here, no one can hear us, so listen well: I think the system we are living in is fundamentally nonsense, and we should stop shocking each other. Your family knows that they are expected to kill you for having said that, but they also think that the system is nonsense. And, being family, they don’t really expect other family members to kill each other. So they agree, and make common knowledge their disagreement. The rule is thus defused for the family. On a series of ony-by-one talks with other friends, this innovative idea spreads along groups until the system is effectively abolished.
seems pretty accurate though, yeah?
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Post by Rylinks » Thu May 09, 2019 10:45 am

it kind of seems hypothetical-fighting? like yes the electric shock scenario is unrealistic, but there were absolutely times where people's family would report each other to the secret police;

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Re: slatestarcodex

Post by Rylinks » Thu May 09, 2019 11:12 am

again the problem is decit--if an apparent friend of family member is willing to break the implicit secrecy, they're not just going to tell you that! And that makes conspiring like this really risky, because you not only have to trust everyone's silence, you have to trust their judgement of who else to talk with.

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