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Good points here frens. But immigrations is not the problem any more is population replacement which is related but no the same. And the solution for that is remigration or something worse. 5d ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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“In-group members have access in that particular industry to more talent, more capital, more assistance via their ethnic and family connections.” ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am. ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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I suppose the crux here is not the cause or even what action must be taken, but the likelihood of real change. ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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I think you're right on all counts. The nation-state is done, historically at least if not conceptually. The pull of online/commercial/industrial/financial/scientific universal civilization seems to dissolve everything else into tendencies within itself. S... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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I mostly agree with the following: ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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This conversation reminds me of an article (author I can't recall) defining four alien intelligences: ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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Thank you for the breath of fresh air. I wholly agree that status is not the most important factor. The economic arguments seem completely unconvincing as it doesn't explain how in terms of "leisure time, space, and childcare help" the average person was m... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 9 9 retry

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It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence. ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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I increasingly find notions of rational evaluation of compatibility leading to consent amusing, since there are underlying physiological mechanisms like prolonged eye contact that can spur the kind of mirror neuron self-other dissolution which operationali... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman: ... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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What do you mean by this? What I meant by the mind being an artificial world is that it has its own internal rules that aren't just its parts contending in terms of base reality. It's not a natural ecosystem, but a highly cultivated and abstracted one. I h... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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To be clear, I'm not denying that there are hard materialists, some them quite loud. What I'm describing as false is that the bad conclusions actually follow from mathematical physics. I'm objecting to your attribution of them to ... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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One of my biggest frustrations is that people are quick to seek nutritional advice when nutritional self-experimentation is incredibly easy. ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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Arguably we got mathematical science from the greeks, but I'd love to see a good historical analysis of how that happened. What greek texts were Newton and his predecessors reading? 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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There will be space for many different species and subspecies of cetaceans, and therefore many kinds of dolphin culture, in our civilization. For instance, the Yangtze River dolphin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin occupy different ecological niches. Resp... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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There was an interesting post related to this and the prospect of a Biosingularity a few weeks back: ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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Agreed, the cover is what provides security, and provides a barrier to external threats (impeccability). For an internet community, especially considering possible threat models, this sort of barrier is far stronger than material security, say, in the form... 1y ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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