There's a difference between "government sources" for hard facts (CDC), facts about the world (e.g. DoJ travel warnings, CIA factbook, DoE energy savings tips), for facts about the government (e.g. for Trump's EO, the…
Google wants to avoid editorializing, and be able to throw their hands up and say "not our fault!" due to the plausible deniability of "algorithms". They can't pull that off anymore. There needs to be a shift towards a…
> Work to change the cultural baggage around one's value being tied to one's day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a…
Great comment. Agree with you on the solutions (sourcing). I don't have a clearly defined political identity, so, mostly by accident at first, I tried changing my own ideology. I discovered every ideology has a pretty…
When your views are so contrary to HN-orthodoxy as well as societal orthodoxy, you can't just debate with a quip (like yours).
Your comment is the epitome of social-justice dogma. > marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers. Learn the difference between positive and normative. There is a huge…
Except dystopia isn't "everyone lives in a bad, mean world". It's societal dislocation. For some, the dystopia is real, right now. For others, it never will be.
These are often not kids of the lower-classes, who are more likely to end up on the streets caught up in crime than in their bedroom playing video games. It's the middle or even upper middle class children often doing…
Take away their video games and drugs, and see what you end up with. Their video game addiction is obviously a sign of deep, fundamental and overwhelming distress. I think you're going for the "they're victims too, not…
> But increasing number of single mothers reduce the stigma of being a single mother, and allowing single mothers to "soldier on". Is that a good thing? Is it something we should pursue?…
The main downside is for the children. Believe me, you would not want to be the child of such a man or such a woman.[0] This is worse than lack of iodine, lead in the pipes, or congenital deformities from pregnant drug…
That doesn't take into account the fact that (through no fault of their own, and meriting no shame), single parents are pretty systematically worse statistically than bioparents in a nuclear household. Take into account…
> No. That's a bizarre concept concocted by angry people on the Internet who have overdosed on Tumblr, attempted to derive a first-principles explanation for why people appear to believe strongly in the importance of…
"Privilege" is an original-sin like concept concocted entirely by sheltered sociologists who don't understand how to do science. It was predictable that they would come up with such a Puritanical and moralizing concept.…
You're totally right. Sources were. Journalists were surveilled (not just through bulk collection, but specifically) to have their sources revealed. The jailing of journalists, though, is now within the President's…
> Speech can, and does, incite action Action is the sole responsibility of the one committing the action. I don't buy the premises of the fascist "speech is violence" crowd, and thank God that world leaders are not as…
I'm arguing that this isn't "bad diplomacy", and only is if you judge it by its appearances. Geopolitics is driven by constraints. Nobody will declare war against Trump because his tie is too long.
That makes you much easier to manipulate, ironically (ironic since you wouldn't think that being more judgmental would lead to being more naive, but here it would).
> Is it that weird that there's an expectation What's weird is that you attribute any importance to appearances, and prefer one type of appearances over another. You know what they say: judge people by what they do,…
It's weird to see so many people utterly obsessed with appearances (which all of the above count as) as if the President's job was to be an actor. Prediction: Trump's style will not make it more or less likely for him…
> The idea that the US is weak and needs to increase its military budget to achieve "Peace through Strength" is laughable. Who are you arguing with? You haven't read my comment, clearly.
Where did I argue we have to rebuild the military? Are you even replying to the right comment? Is your first sentence projection?
Attempting to frame opposition to lowest-common-denominator-politics as a equivalent to racism and other -isms with a word made up by sociologists is laughable. A Porsche costs more than a Toyota. 2-weeks processing…
You're arguing that AI will lead to much more nuanced discourse, and much more complex and detailed pros and cons rather than the ruffian binary polarization we have now, and I agree.
You're supposed to look at what an optimal currency area is, and see if it applies. Don't just take Wikipedia's opinion for it. It's not. Cultural, language differences, asymmetric shocks, many reasons why. It would be…
There's a difference between "government sources" for hard facts (CDC), facts about the world (e.g. DoJ travel warnings, CIA factbook, DoE energy savings tips), for facts about the government (e.g. for Trump's EO, the…
Google wants to avoid editorializing, and be able to throw their hands up and say "not our fault!" due to the plausible deniability of "algorithms". They can't pull that off anymore. There needs to be a shift towards a…
> Work to change the cultural baggage around one's value being tied to one's day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a…
Great comment. Agree with you on the solutions (sourcing). I don't have a clearly defined political identity, so, mostly by accident at first, I tried changing my own ideology. I discovered every ideology has a pretty…
When your views are so contrary to HN-orthodoxy as well as societal orthodoxy, you can't just debate with a quip (like yours).
Your comment is the epitome of social-justice dogma. > marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers. Learn the difference between positive and normative. There is a huge…
Except dystopia isn't "everyone lives in a bad, mean world". It's societal dislocation. For some, the dystopia is real, right now. For others, it never will be.
These are often not kids of the lower-classes, who are more likely to end up on the streets caught up in crime than in their bedroom playing video games. It's the middle or even upper middle class children often doing…
Take away their video games and drugs, and see what you end up with. Their video game addiction is obviously a sign of deep, fundamental and overwhelming distress. I think you're going for the "they're victims too, not…
> But increasing number of single mothers reduce the stigma of being a single mother, and allowing single mothers to "soldier on". Is that a good thing? Is it something we should pursue?…
The main downside is for the children. Believe me, you would not want to be the child of such a man or such a woman.[0] This is worse than lack of iodine, lead in the pipes, or congenital deformities from pregnant drug…
That doesn't take into account the fact that (through no fault of their own, and meriting no shame), single parents are pretty systematically worse statistically than bioparents in a nuclear household. Take into account…
> No. That's a bizarre concept concocted by angry people on the Internet who have overdosed on Tumblr, attempted to derive a first-principles explanation for why people appear to believe strongly in the importance of…
"Privilege" is an original-sin like concept concocted entirely by sheltered sociologists who don't understand how to do science. It was predictable that they would come up with such a Puritanical and moralizing concept.…
You're totally right. Sources were. Journalists were surveilled (not just through bulk collection, but specifically) to have their sources revealed. The jailing of journalists, though, is now within the President's…
> Speech can, and does, incite action Action is the sole responsibility of the one committing the action. I don't buy the premises of the fascist "speech is violence" crowd, and thank God that world leaders are not as…
I'm arguing that this isn't "bad diplomacy", and only is if you judge it by its appearances. Geopolitics is driven by constraints. Nobody will declare war against Trump because his tie is too long.
That makes you much easier to manipulate, ironically (ironic since you wouldn't think that being more judgmental would lead to being more naive, but here it would).
> Is it that weird that there's an expectation What's weird is that you attribute any importance to appearances, and prefer one type of appearances over another. You know what they say: judge people by what they do,…
It's weird to see so many people utterly obsessed with appearances (which all of the above count as) as if the President's job was to be an actor. Prediction: Trump's style will not make it more or less likely for him…
> The idea that the US is weak and needs to increase its military budget to achieve "Peace through Strength" is laughable. Who are you arguing with? You haven't read my comment, clearly.
Where did I argue we have to rebuild the military? Are you even replying to the right comment? Is your first sentence projection?
Attempting to frame opposition to lowest-common-denominator-politics as a equivalent to racism and other -isms with a word made up by sociologists is laughable. A Porsche costs more than a Toyota. 2-weeks processing…
You're arguing that AI will lead to much more nuanced discourse, and much more complex and detailed pros and cons rather than the ruffian binary polarization we have now, and I agree.
You're supposed to look at what an optimal currency area is, and see if it applies. Don't just take Wikipedia's opinion for it. It's not. Cultural, language differences, asymmetric shocks, many reasons why. It would be…