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status451.com
"He wrote this post, and then people were hurt. There appears to be no rational evaluation of how or why this happened. No consideration of other factors in play, and no meaningful allowance for any alternative explanations." Normally I'd feel like writing this on the blog would be gauche. Believe it or not, I am... |
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www.greaterwrong.com
"If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" -variously attributed "I think of myself as running on hostile hardware." -Justin Corwin Yesterday I talked about how humans may have evolved a structure of political revolution, beginning by believing themselves morally superior to the corrupt current power structure, but ending by being corrupted by power themselves-not by any plan in their own minds, but by the echo of ancestors who did the same and thereby reproduced. |
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deusdiapente.wordpress.com
Looks like someone else has come up with the two very different "systems" of cognition that we wade through every day: Contextualizing and Decoupling. The differing debating norms between scientific vs. political contexts are not just a cultural difference but a psychological and cognitive one. Beneath the culture clash there are even deeper disagreements about... |
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lbfromlv.wordpress.com
Just a few years ago, sending encrypted messages was a challenge. Just to get started, you had to spend hours following along with jargon-filled tutorials, or be lucky enough to find a nerd friend to teach you. The few that survived this process quickly hit a second barrier: They could only encrypt with others who... |
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