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Random question: how does VR work for blind people?

Nobody knows where any of their data goes and few people care. Tiktok is currently better at Algorithms than other SM, go figure. Some people hate Tiktok because they’ve never used it and incorrectly think it’s all dancing 14 year olds; others simply hate China because despite having a market economy its government has a little more power than in the West, which allows China to sometimes act outside the myopic lens of market logic when necessary (blasphemy) while reaping the market’s gains.

This seems one major downside of cars: lots of decision makers vs mass transportation with significantly less.

That outcome honestly sounds better? Less loss of life

When it comes to suffering, for me it tends to be like "I'll be much happier when this is over", or "Oh God, make it stop", like I'm on the verge of throwing up in my mind and waiting for merciful release. And then eventually I get fit and more attractive and slightly more confident. Sometimes I even want the pain. No idea why. It's certainly not rational. Thinking about it probably makes it worse.

So Nike probably got it close ("Just do it."), but I think a more accurate slogan is "Don't think about it beforehand--just do it, y'know, for a little while, unless it hurts really bad, in which case you should stop doing it and consider seeking medical attention."

Suffering sucks. It sucks especially when there's nobody to see/tell about it/nobody cares, no prestige, or sense of moral worth to be derived from it. If I jog by myself, I'm a nobody. If I jog on a team I'm part of a story. I think this is why jogging around the neighborhood doesn't stick. It just sucks, all by itself, and you may even get heckled for it. Nobody cares, and if they do it's for the wrong reasons. By myself I'm not contributing to anything besides my ego.

I think my class bias shows clearly here. This middle-class type of suffering is voluntary...

I was going to write more, but that's all I have for now.

I confess I’m slightly annoyed to be trolled. Maybe I just don’t know enough to appreciate it.

> As a web developer 20+ years

Wow, that's dedication!

> I'm just happy to see how much job security I have

I'm glad for you!

> none of you are smart enough ...

Now I feel bad about myself!

The article argues that we have an innate desire to be distracted from our thoughts. I agree, insofar I may generalize from my own experience. In my experience, being alone with my thoughts is depressing. I can't focus anyway.

> But if you run a forum and say you will not allow any view to be expressed therein that you don't agree with, you aren't in fact "allowing people to make up their own minds"

I think you're missing their argument. YouTube censoring doesn't prevent information from being published elsewhere.

IMO if a person isn't satisfied with a business they take their money elsewhere. The market will decide if the business is right or wrong.

China bans topics all the time, and they're on a trajectory to become the strongest nation in the world.

I second this, but I guess I'm biased towards replicable experimentation.

I don't think that platforms can be neutral, or unbiased.

> There has been election fraud.

Has there been election fraud? What evidence supports this claim?

Why should we believe you if you don't cite any evidence for your claims?

Aren't transaction fees economic incentives for persons or organizations who run banks that make up the "nodes" of our current network? So everyone is now a bank? Or rather, anyone can choose to run a bank? But then as time passes some banks will get big, and it becomes impractical for anyone else to choose to run a bank, but now the New Big Banks are not accountable to any government as they (technically) are today...

I'm skeptical because I read this and it sounds like using technology to create a system with even less accountability and whose outcomes, however horrific, will be justified by "That's just how the system works; I don't know what to tell you."

Confirmed. Apple chips are the future of gaming!

It’s not clear to me why reversing a string is dangerous or pointless.

I'm not so sure myself. I think we've already adapted to social distancing before COVID. For example, the phenomenon of streaming and watching streams.

I’m confused because I thought the brain liked sugars:

“The bold implication of this idea is that the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose, and Baumeister and his colleagues have confirmed this hypothesis in several experiments.”

Kahneman, D. “Thinking, Fast and Slow”. 2011. pg. 43, para. 2, Se. 5.

I think you’re too hasty to assume OP thinks they should be unemployed AND have no income.

Anyways I agree that we need to work less.

If I don’t absolutely hate doing it then I know I’m not learning.

Rick Roderick had a "Let's just sit down and talk about modern life" approach to his lectures that I find helpful. See "Self Under Siege" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA

My understanding:

Terms like 'modernism' and 'postmodernism' assume that such terms represent meaningful periods of history. If we roll with this assumption, then modernism refers to a collective cultural mood of optimism about the prospect of Utopia, marked by a strong sense of personal agency, derived from the intellect and the technology produced by the intellect. If modernism were a person it would say something like "Now that religion--dogma--is out of the way, I can use my brain to invent things that will improve our lives, and eventually we will live in a Utopia, or something close to it."

In contrast, postmodernism refers to a collective disillusionment with the world, a loss of faith in or a deep suspicion of Utopia, especially w/r/t the intellect and technology, and a consequent erosion of a sense of agency such that the very existence of the Self is uncertain. Postmodernism might stay in bed and say things like "I'm depressed because, while rationality has undoubtedly helped some people, it has also hurt quite a few, on a scale made possible only by the technology I've created, such that it's not clear anymore if life is actually improving at all."

That's the way I see postmodernism. An exercise in humility, it's a kind of moody, self-reflective style of thought that is ruthlessly critical of one's own perspective, intensely vigilant the self's capacity to distort perspective by tending to itself at the center of things, and always suspicious of one's own position in power structures for the sake of leaving no stone unturned in the search for meaning.