> Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y Sure it can. Not only can advertising…
> Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you. Why do you think everyone deserves respect? I prefer the brutal honesty of the internet rather than the fake civility you…
The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human rights (…
Great wars make great generals. People aren't great in and of themselves. They are great within an environment. So everyone is a "victim" of externalities.
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires. I'd even put george washington and Vo Nguyen Giap above…
> Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Ethical considerations are preventing us or at the very least limiting the speed of development. But mostly our lack of knowledge of the brain was what…
Black death didn't kill feudalism ( even if we could come to a consensus on what feudalism is ). The societal structure wasn't affected by the black death. Feudalism died as european monarchs and elites got wealthy and…
> Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England. The highest suicide rates exist in countries without gun rights.…
Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.
Sure they do. If FB stuck to legal-based censorship then they wouldn't need to ban atheist or gay rights content because those content are legal in the US. But if they swing to moral-based censorship, then those…
Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand in misleading us. But tech companies…
> The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. This is a classic case of the race to the lowest common denominator. When the…
Isn't this the same thing with colleges? Most of the rise in tuition costs goes to administration rather then education.
> This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year. My favorite is the yearly "end of china" report by gordon chang. I remember the guy talking about…
I guess I was precocious then. My hate began at 25.
> Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y Sure it can. Not only can advertising…
> Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you. Why do you think everyone deserves respect? I prefer the brutal honesty of the internet rather than the fake civility you…
The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human rights (…
Great wars make great generals. People aren't great in and of themselves. They are great within an environment. So everyone is a "victim" of externalities.
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires. I'd even put george washington and Vo Nguyen Giap above…
> Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Ethical considerations are preventing us or at the very least limiting the speed of development. But mostly our lack of knowledge of the brain was what…
Black death didn't kill feudalism ( even if we could come to a consensus on what feudalism is ). The societal structure wasn't affected by the black death. Feudalism died as european monarchs and elites got wealthy and…
> Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England. The highest suicide rates exist in countries without gun rights.…
Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.
Sure they do. If FB stuck to legal-based censorship then they wouldn't need to ban atheist or gay rights content because those content are legal in the US. But if they swing to moral-based censorship, then those…
Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand in misleading us. But tech companies…
> The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. This is a classic case of the race to the lowest common denominator. When the…
Isn't this the same thing with colleges? Most of the rise in tuition costs goes to administration rather then education.
> This sounds like the infrastructure version of the 'financial bubble' prediction that crops up every other year. My favorite is the yearly "end of china" report by gordon chang. I remember the guy talking about…
I guess I was precocious then. My hate began at 25.