that's awesome. I think CBT is really reductive. Quite pessimistic, as well - CBT seems to hold little hope of actually healing many issues, but only aims for symptom management. I think that's because it's not a very…
IFS is amazing.
in gestalt therapy this is called being at an impasse - you are in touch with yourself enough to know that you're not happy, but not yet sure how to change your life to be happy. long term I do believe it is better to…
very cool! some similar themes to LotR. Did you intentionally make the crows names use mainly phonemes from the word "crow"? That's a cool technique
I'll say it again: I'm not saying that we can use past lack of nuclear war to predict future lack of nuclear war. All I'm saying is that each year's probability is not independent, meaning the model of a probability of…
I might not have said this clearly enough - I'm not saying that conditioning on "did we have a nuclear war" will change the probability to be less. I'm saying that the event "did we have a nuclear war in year n" is not…
Another issue with this logic is that the probabilities are not independent. Saying that you have probability x of nuclear war every year and so probability (1-x)^n of no nuclear war in n years assumes independence. In…
surely there's some middle ground between infinity and a paltry $3500. in our legal system there are concepts like damages, emotional damages, pain and suffering. it's not just about how much wages you missed out on. or…
seems like a good place to put this quote: "Justice is what love looks like in public." If this conservative economist wants to spread love, he can start by supporting economic policies that prevent the 1% from…
Agreed, life is not always zero-sum, and higher taxes don't always translate to better services. Let's look at an example of where life is zero-sum, which also happens to be an important battleground that leads to more…
People should stop complaining that they don't have healthcare because they have iPhones and vaccines and don't literally live in the mud? Maybe that would hold water if there were literally no other option, and if the…
this is a really cool idea, and well-executed! only thing Id say is the glyphs end up very bulky, it would be cumbersome to write and readd
I don't see this as a counterargument for two reasons. First, how do the actions of other countries have bearing on what is true about the history of our country? Second, I don't know the details, but seems to me that…
Of course it's a powerful (alleged) quote, but it's far from the only evidence that the War on Drugs is not based, even in principle, on social good, but rather to serve powerful interests such as private prisons and…
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or…
I highly recommend to everyone who is curious about this to read Nickel and Dimed. I read it for a college course and it opened my eyes a lot to the reality of life for people who our society does not allocate enough…
> just a lot of people see those options as beneath them or as just too hard of work. This might be true for some people, but don't forget that many of the available jobs are also very low-paying. People may not want to…
Hmmm idk... anyway, time to get back to grinding leetcode so I can go work at Facebook and make 200k instead of a paltry 150k somewhere else!!
this website is such an incredible compendium of wisdom and facts. how has this been accomplished?
> To say they are "taking advantage of the commons" implies they're leaving the commons worse off I don't agree. All it means is that they're benefiting privately from something that belongs to everyone. This is…
you and me are not a multinational billion dollar for-profit corporation. we have different capabilities, incentives, and externalities to our behavior. nestle is taking advantage of the commons for massive profit, they…
> much of what’s involved in doing it just feels tedious and I know I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap I started to feel this way during my first internship in my sophomore year…
this is always the right-wing rhetorical contradiction: "less government!"... when it comes to limiting the power of capital, and redistributing its profits to society "more government!!" when it comes to squashing…
when you say '"because capitalism" is always a terrible argument', you're doing more than observing that it's used nebulously sometimes, you're saying that by definition it cannot be used unnebulously, which is just…
that's awesome. I think CBT is really reductive. Quite pessimistic, as well - CBT seems to hold little hope of actually healing many issues, but only aims for symptom management. I think that's because it's not a very…
IFS is amazing.
in gestalt therapy this is called being at an impasse - you are in touch with yourself enough to know that you're not happy, but not yet sure how to change your life to be happy. long term I do believe it is better to…
very cool! some similar themes to LotR. Did you intentionally make the crows names use mainly phonemes from the word "crow"? That's a cool technique
I'll say it again: I'm not saying that we can use past lack of nuclear war to predict future lack of nuclear war. All I'm saying is that each year's probability is not independent, meaning the model of a probability of…
I might not have said this clearly enough - I'm not saying that conditioning on "did we have a nuclear war" will change the probability to be less. I'm saying that the event "did we have a nuclear war in year n" is not…
Another issue with this logic is that the probabilities are not independent. Saying that you have probability x of nuclear war every year and so probability (1-x)^n of no nuclear war in n years assumes independence. In…
surely there's some middle ground between infinity and a paltry $3500. in our legal system there are concepts like damages, emotional damages, pain and suffering. it's not just about how much wages you missed out on. or…
seems like a good place to put this quote: "Justice is what love looks like in public." If this conservative economist wants to spread love, he can start by supporting economic policies that prevent the 1% from…
Agreed, life is not always zero-sum, and higher taxes don't always translate to better services. Let's look at an example of where life is zero-sum, which also happens to be an important battleground that leads to more…
People should stop complaining that they don't have healthcare because they have iPhones and vaccines and don't literally live in the mud? Maybe that would hold water if there were literally no other option, and if the…
this is a really cool idea, and well-executed! only thing Id say is the glyphs end up very bulky, it would be cumbersome to write and readd
I don't see this as a counterargument for two reasons. First, how do the actions of other countries have bearing on what is true about the history of our country? Second, I don't know the details, but seems to me that…
Of course it's a powerful (alleged) quote, but it's far from the only evidence that the War on Drugs is not based, even in principle, on social good, but rather to serve powerful interests such as private prisons and…
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or…
I highly recommend to everyone who is curious about this to read Nickel and Dimed. I read it for a college course and it opened my eyes a lot to the reality of life for people who our society does not allocate enough…
> just a lot of people see those options as beneath them or as just too hard of work. This might be true for some people, but don't forget that many of the available jobs are also very low-paying. People may not want to…
Hmmm idk... anyway, time to get back to grinding leetcode so I can go work at Facebook and make 200k instead of a paltry 150k somewhere else!!
this website is such an incredible compendium of wisdom and facts. how has this been accomplished?
> To say they are "taking advantage of the commons" implies they're leaving the commons worse off I don't agree. All it means is that they're benefiting privately from something that belongs to everyone. This is…
you and me are not a multinational billion dollar for-profit corporation. we have different capabilities, incentives, and externalities to our behavior. nestle is taking advantage of the commons for massive profit, they…
> much of what’s involved in doing it just feels tedious and I know I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap I started to feel this way during my first internship in my sophomore year…
this is always the right-wing rhetorical contradiction: "less government!"... when it comes to limiting the power of capital, and redistributing its profits to society "more government!!" when it comes to squashing…
when you say '"because capitalism" is always a terrible argument', you're doing more than observing that it's used nebulously sometimes, you're saying that by definition it cannot be used unnebulously, which is just…