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Manglano

68 karma · joined December 17, 2016

Hi, I'm David. I write code and dream in machinery. I recently left a job because I want to find some work closer to my heart. If we're both commenting here, no disrespect, and sorry if I'm slack!!
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Manglano··on Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking
A great way to coerce individuals into having their genetics profiled so it can be used in business decisions. This is amusing to me as a biologist, because the methylation apparatus and mRNA splicing suggests that etiology of "genetic disease" is vastly more complicated than simply possessing certain mutant alleles. Though, certain genetic diseases do proceed in this manner, and the mission of molecular biology going forward is to develop methodologies which approximate hardness in an intrinsically chaotic system. Large sample sizes, meta-analyses, etc.

This is one of those "preliterate peoples do not develop epidemic myopia" sort of things, perhaps.

Manglano··on No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
We assume the precondition that the Universe we experience and observe originated in a vacuum of...existences, for lack of a better term. This seems myopic, why should it be so?

What if the universe we experience is the product of interactions between distinct universes, which circumscribed by different physical laws, and the only universe we can sufficiently experience and observe is that which is governed by the Strong Nuclear Force?

Manglano··on Why So Few Resisted Hitler
An ignorant person will always choose to commit an act of violence towards another to protect against uncertainty. To resist this urge and live with uncertainty is a form of wisdom.
Manglano··on Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
These are distinct concepts. Anyone can receive the benefits, so it is universal, but there are conditions.

Advocate for the Unconditional Universal Basic Income. All citizens deserve an equal allotment of the benefits, especially because no nation's populace is ever 100% mobilized as workforce.

Manglano··on The worrying implications of China's social-credit project
The institution of "Social Credit" could easily become an apparatus of social coercion indistinguishable from the Truck Token systems.

An individual not behaving according to the interests of the group would face starvation and homelessness for not adhering to certain social norms. It would be trivial to enforce beliefs (no matter how odd or antihuman) through this apparatus. Under a currency system driven by public opinion, survival becomes a matter of "Obey or Die."

In such a system, existence is analogous to slavery.

This is not an advocation for lawlessness, but rather for the continued use of currency and the independence of the financial organ from the whims of human opinion. The human mind is subject to ongoing cognitive and social distortion. Currency independent of these factors is a mitigating measure against human cruelty.

A strong social benefit system and the show of empathy in which one is anchored is a stronger mitigation against antisocial behaviour than the Social Credit concept.

Manglano··on No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
Assume the physical universe takes the form of a set of axiomatic systems whose statements are elementary particles and whose interactions are logical operations; i.e., metals in the presence of ions will form salts. Matter creates the gravitational interaction as a function of mass.

Why do we assume the theories are unifiable?

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