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In the end be it democracy or totalitarianism there's always a small elite controlling discourse. And I'm starting to think china's is managing their country better than ours

No but they can bear the blame until they burn out and afterwards be replaced by a fresh bundle of youngsters. That's how it usually goes at the companies I consult to clean the mess

Liveleak made me appreciate just how fragile our abstractions of human rights and rule of law are. When the chips are down reality can transform into a hell few can imagine.

Try doing the same as a man and see how far you get without getting flagged lol

Here we go again

These foundations have always been a thorn in the sides of corporate interests. Kicking their teeth in under the guise of tolerance is an efficient way of doing it. Weird how the movement is as tolerant as the nazis to whoever doesn't subscribe to their buzzwords and blatant exploitation of minorities' problems for faux outrage.

The power of all consuming passion and meth

If you think it's just psychology and not 99% of all publications in all domains including computer science you're quite optimistic

Don't know about you lads but furry porn is booming right now. Gotta fit the needs of the market instead of your artistic needs

I have seen this happen a few times in my career however the bias against ugliness is so ingrained there's no possible way of bypassing it. I think the current consensus is that exclusion based on physical characteristics is ethical because it is a very natural behaviour. I don't really believe this but it is what it is.

How will Switzerland counter this change of events

Alright what's the way forward then

Weirdly enough the comments on this thread seem much less disjointed and hostile than the comments on most hn and Twitter posts nowadays. People actuality respond in good faith. Seems the internet really did a number on us this past decade

What are the best introductory books to get more grounded in economics

Stardom levels of success will always be based on relationships and all the power dynamic baggage that entails

The only thing scarier than the thought that Google has algorithms that track your every move is that these algorithms are fundamentally faulty and furthermore they take decisions based on these algorithms. Case in point Google ads thinks I'm 70 years old and married

Highly intelligent people are highly adaptable. If the incentives set by the system favor certain traits deemed as dark there will be a non zero percentage of people developing these traits. Especially in highly competitive fields. For example is it a dark trait to work at the minimum required level in a company while spending the time gained to sharpen my skills so I get a 50% salary increase changing jobs instead of a possible 5% increase for performance?

And is this strategy working?

What's one trillion more

Heh there was that killerbot video back in the day, swarm of small bomb drones hunting via facial recognition. Cartels are quite innovative when it comes to killing

I have a question regarding dark personalities as they are called.

Now it seems clear to me that dark personalities are a problem. My question is, aren't these personalities evolutionary adaptations? And if they're evolutionary adaptations isn't the bigger problem the fact that the environment rewards them? I'm seeing a lot of people bordering on sociopathy who are highly successful.

Why focus on the individual instead of the environment that rewards him

Between rising consumption, rising populations in net food importing countries and global warming we'll see fireworks soon enough

So, what is there left to do?

It's the first remote job thus remote first

Whataboutism seems to be the key feature linking many posts here. It's not a convincing argument

You can try and softly push towards better practices but if it's an organisational issue you will likely fail. Your standards are not unreasonable so it might pay to find a better company

Trying to launder their reputation by using minorities as an excuse, shameful and transparent

What if they shoot everyone? Would that be a satisfying conclusion? I've been looking at how the riot police is handling civilians and it's plain to see most are veterans that still think they're in Iraq. From the 'light them up' when people are watching from their house to how they murdered that guy in the hotel two years ago because he couldn't crawl towards them with his hands behind his back. Something is very wrong with American policemen

The hardest things to automate are always the things that are so easy for us they don't even register consciously

Reminds me of a certain novel I read about few years back where certain people would become living calculators through some kind of chemical intervention. Losing all personality in the process they'd become incredibly productive savants capable of sifting through an ever increasing volume of data.