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Half joke: If I had to bet, I would guess that reading will exist for as long as civilization does.

More seriously: I am less certain that it will exist in its current form (mass media, publishing houses, etc), but I am certain that textual information will be a standard means of communication and that people will read it. I do think that computer-assisted cognition (including computer-assisted reading) are eventualities at this point. This sort of thing fundamentally challenges the concept of reading: is your brain (by computer-assistance) scanning a hard drive reading? Even though it's alien to us now, I think the answer is yes.

I think a fundamental part of the reasons that Russia and the West cannot seem to escape a death-march to war is that Russia is so often conflated with the USSR. They are ideologically and politically distinct entities, even as much as some in the current state of Russia might wish for the old days.

TBH, Porn is very clearly one of those things that there's basically no intrinsic added value to your life by consuming. Think cigarettes or fentanyl. Something, that, if most people could press a button to make themselves never ever use it again, they would.

I wonder if we will start having people demand we go back to real human porn like in the good old days because it's just not natural to jack it to photo realistic catgirl dominatrices.

All that to say that, in the future, I think the more likely option is that people begin to treat it as a harmful, addictive substance and, that, hopefully, it becomes much more acceptable to seek out public treatment and support for using it.

I think it's certainly an effective marketing campaign. I don't think it's an ARG. Too many things pass the smell test (referencing real companies, reposting real announcements from random accounts, etc). I bet you the countdown is when they come out of stealth. They're not going to use Black Mesa for their business (they're probably even called something else internally). It's all just a ploy to drum up attention.

I wonder if the heat and noise of even a tenth of the data centers in the world would be still so harmless.

Also Michael Pollan has a great book called How to Change your Mind.

Living life on auto pilot for certain points and moments actually is not the default way of existence, it's just the one many of us are most used to. I would highly recommend considering some mindfulness exercises or meditation. You'll begin to appreciate how much of the day you can live fully and attentively.

Herding devs to work on the boring-useful things instead of the interesting-solved things is slightly easier than herding cats.

If I wanted to learn more about rigorous, non-elementary logic, do you have a recommended resource? I've taken a course in intro level probability theory which covered it generally and another course that built on it lightly but nothing rigorous and I am wooed by how concise things become in a logical form.

Thank you for being equal-handed and fair.

Not to be daft, but I can't imagine a single reason this is better for you career or labor organization-wise. If anything, it strikes me like that old quote:

Benjamin Franklin said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Not knowing the wages of those around you makes collective organization and bartering harder which is bad for workers in aggregate.

It's probably easier if your odds are not as good as 50%.

Are you discussing the article or specifically folks reactions in this thread? Per the article, he had reasonably good odds of recovery had he taken a traditional route. I think it's absolutely fair to say that, if your end goal is living on (it's fair if it's not that), you should generally trust doctors and medical science in aggregate over the internet, though there are certainly times when modern medicine fails.

If it becomes ableist to critique those who follow fake medical advice from the internet, how would we reduce the this happening? If people are dying as a result, that's a public health issue and it deserves attention.

I understand your impetus to tell others to 'stick to your lane' but I respectfully disagree and cite their post and your response as why. OP had what you deem a misapprehension and they deem a valid point. By voicing their point as they believes it, you were able to retort with evidence you feel should convincingly disprove it. To me, this is reasoned, diverse discourse correcting for unintuitive misapprehensions, at the very least. Is this not a medium like HackerNews is for?

Twitter has no incentive to change the current structure as their platform now has a massive sway over discourse and an unrivaled ability to create seeming majority opinions. Why would they build tools to make this better?

I disagree that these conversations are inevitable and I disagree about your contention that the marketplace of ideas is no longer a foundational concept in our discourse.

People filtered in the past by what they cared about and who they spoke to. Now much of that filtering and indeed much of your friends are algorithmic suggestions. We're put into interactions on the internet with people you'd conceivably never meet offline. The fact that wasn't true in the past isn't white supremacy or the patriarchy or manufactured consent, it's logistic. It simply wasn't possible for the average person pre-phone, full-stop. Now people follow the people that they feel epitomize the precepts of the identity they agree with most which means naturally the popular people to follow must either become purer representations of the ideology or become less popular than those who are willing to adopt a more refined tankie, neo-nazi, athletic, techie, or what have you interests based persona.

And many many people still believe strongly in the marketplace of ideas. Just look at the Harper's letter from last week. I doubt the many intellectuals there don't represent a broad base of three population.

With a return of billions though? Most profit requires effort.

It's really wild to me that investors realizing foresting exists and continues to exist because it makes money is a story. I did forestry related club stuff in high school for a program called Envirothon and there's a rich history of silviculture in the US and Europe going back a long ways. IIRC, we actually have more forest in the US today than 100 years ago because of silviculture. Notably, the Vanderbilt's started modern silviculture in the US and introduced all sorts of interesting measurements only relevant to foresters to the US like a chain (66 ft imperial) or Diameter Breast Height (the circumference of a tree at 4.5 ft, because that was right around the breast of your average heighted forester).

For what it's worth, I am an adult that spent way too much time playing video games as a kid. Like, I started around the age of 5 and consistently played hours and hours every day. I think for the most part it's not too adversely affected my life (besides some remedial catch-up on social skills in college) and I think I even learned some pretty good lessons from them. I would encourage your kid to be an active gamer (i.e. teach him how to add to a games content or lore, or even become a 'script kiddie' as they used to be called.) That said, video games are just like any other hobby with the added benefit of hand eye coordination.

You don't have to live by principles you raise espouse anonymously 24/7.

I find that Pocket frequently works to get around paywalls. I use it primarily for this purpose.

Are you referring to the Work at A Startup posts? I agree that it's perhaps one of the best cases of aligned incentives I've seen. How do you get a group of high competency engineers to congregate in the same place so you can hire them? Create a forum with content uniquely of interest to high competency engineers (who consequently engage with and enjoy the content, creating more content, causing more engineers to join).

Particularly chilling if you engage with some of the recent theories about a certain power user who recently stopped posting.

Surprised no one has mentioned that you can change to old reddit styling using the settings menu in the top right. That said, Reddit has become mindless fluff which makes me actively less happy.

I can't imagine it being viable for most Western tech workers given the climate of human rights and politics. I am a tech worker, I even have a particular interest in China and know a little Mandarin but I would never live or work there long term given what I know.

Depends on the administration, which is really a problem if you want to consistently attract talent. Seems like an opportunity for Trump to ostensibly change nothing while taking what looks like a hard-line on immigration.

There's an added benefit to Trump of punishing universities for their continued pushback against much of his goals (e.g. Title IX lawsuits, harboring undocumented people/not complying with ICE).

I think it's the sort of game that's challenging regardless of when you play it but relatively simple mechanically. I think it's great for a kid.

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If you're laying off good workers who ostensibly helped build a company you run from the ground up, you're actually a vulture and I think most people would probably agree your job is immoral.

What is this possibly meant to imply? Nonprofits run international ad campaigns, governments run international ad campaigns, the military runs international ad campaigns, most organizations could probably find a reason if they have international domain. What is your insinuation specifically?

The paradox of tolerance is an iffy justification. It's an anecdotal testament of someone who survived the Holocaust, IIRC. Not to minimize the Holocaust or any part of it. That said, as far as I've seen, there's no established historical pattern that fascism is a function of societal tolerance of intolerant ideologies.