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> My personal rule is just not to disrespect people and parts of their culture they find important.

What even is named by the word “disrespect”?

Is disrespecting me just any behavior that I call “disrespectful”?

Seems like bullshit to me.

What is the downside to you for being an asshole? Especially if no one is aware of it besides you?

How many self-help books and YouTube videos does it usually take before someone starts offering advice like this?

absolutely great stuff

> We're making a better world for consumers, but sometimes I wonder if it's a better world for people.

Have you actually on multiple occasions wondered about this? Or has your brain just been colonized by pithy statements?

> You can perceive something, but what you perceive is not necessarily a comprehensive and accurate representation of what may be there.

I don’t understand what point you are making here. Please clarify.

> True, and the fact that this is true has little bearing on whether the underlying proposition is objectively true

Agreed. But if you offer the explanation “magical pink laser did it”, then I say, “going to set up some lenses and sinks and mirrors to study this phenomena”, then you say, “nope, it’s magical, your dorky science equipment can never contain it”.

Then what?

> For many, many people, their sense experience has included some interactions with what they perceive to be the supernatural.

How can you perceive the supernatural? If you perceive it, then it’s sense data. So photons and sound waves.

> A good example is Philip K. Dick's experience of apparently hallucinating a pink beam of light telling him his son needed medical care. He took the kid to the hospital, and found his child had a hernia, IIRC.

Not having a good explanation for how you know something does not imply fairies did it.

But don’t I benefit most by covertly defecting (crypto-assholing) in a well functioning society? Then I get the standard benefits of the society and some stolen ones.

Is there a reason it is better to attribute to incompetence? Or are you just mindlessly parroting shit

> The NSA only cares about you if you are talking to a small number of known hostile foreign people who are already a party to a FISA warrant.

Why are you so confident about who the NSA cares about?

COINTELPRO anyone?

If your car has a networked computer it’s probably bugged/backdoored imo.

(Talking out of my ass)

Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.

Okay cool, imo the desire to avoid hurting her feet is a good justification. What does she say if you ask her, “Are there good reasons for not cleaning up the toys?”

And you know this how?

Just ask me out already, I’m an easy lay.

So you think he would be more deserving of credit if he only did SpaceX? instead of SpaceX, Tesla, NeuraLink, etc?

> In which case, be the opposite of an asshole.

Why?

Then what happens if you ask her why she is saying the stuff she says?

> You sound like you enjoy your freedom to live in squalor.

Right. And more generally I just enjoy freedom.

> Did you know that clutter leads to stress and anxiety?

Thanks Mr Gladwell

> I teach my kid to fight for worthy causes

Right, because somehow you’ve got access to the secret knowledge of what is and isn’t worthy.

> you're describing self-defeating pettiness.

People flirt way too much on this site.

And you desire this to continue? Isn’t she just mindlessly parroting what you say?

> It's about reflecting on what it takes to be a good person

I don’t think invoking the usually incoherently used word “good” is very helpful.

Balwani has a future in teaching text game to young men.

Mission accomplished.

> but kids actually benefit from having responsibilities.

Do they? I’m not sure what I learned from my parents insisting that I “clean” my room.

Who is adrift?

> I'd readily grant that most (maybe all?) supernatural claims cannot be falsified, but that doesn't prove they're false.

What is the meaning of a claim whose truth has no impact on my sense experience?

You are not conscious, stop pretending.

Yeah, operations and execution are fairy tales.

> Do you want to know what success is?

You’re not describing what success “is”. You are just describing something then calling it “success”.

The whole setup is like bad Platonic philosophy.

Socrates: what is success?

Useful idiot: Money!

Socrates: Ah, but will your money miss you after you die?

Useful idiot: Wow! Deep!

> I'm not sure this is Linkedin's problem to solve. They are just a directory.

If the issue reduces user metrics, then they will want to fix it. Ultimate responsibility seems irrelevant.

> It's ironic that the security professionals are the ones hiding their identity, given that they are the best prepared to identify and avoid phishing emails.

I might have demolitions training, but I’d still rather walk around the minefield.

What does this mean?