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My model of how liberals think, based on teaching at a left wing college, is that liberals find "politically incorrect" views disgusting.
I thought the research was that liberals didn't have purity axis of morality (Haidt, is it?).
Duh, hot water helps when something's frozen.
A little water holds a lot of heat, comparitively.
... I didn't realize my comment was so unclear as to need summarizing.
In other words, he didn't think your comment added much to his original.
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Publication: the "anti-science" trope is culturally polarizing and makes people distrust scientists
True. I think hardly anyone on either side would use the term "anti-science". The terms aren't important, but rather the article is referring to the "us-vs-them" mentality.
Also, I like the term "competitor priesthood."
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Google only turns up "About 915,000,000 results" for anti-science.
I haven't seen Her yet, but this reminds me of something I've been wondering about.... one of the things people do is supply company for each other.
A reasonably competent FAI should be able to give you better friends, lovers, and family members then the human race can. I'm not talking about catgirls, I'm talking about intellectual stimulation and a good mix of emotional comfort and challenge and whatever other complex things you want from people.
Is this a problem?
Well, assuming you mean "ai in an undiscernable facsimile of a human body" then maybe that's so, and if so, it is probably a less blatant but equally final existential risk.
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Take up Magic: the Gathering. It's an amazing game but playing Constructed formats competitively can cost a thousand or so dollars a year on new cards.
I think spending thousands on magic is the land of diminishing returns. Though, if he has a local game store, he could draft every week for $500/year, and that includes both the social experience and the cards.
Since we're already at the anecdote level: A friend of mine saw a LASIK surgeons conference at his university and he says they're all wearing glasses.
That is good evidence, but I'd disbelieve its reliability a bit because it is so funny. Like obese dieticians, or non-rich investment brokers, or divorced marriage counselors.
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Humans can drive cars
I'm occasionally still amazed that traffic works as well as it does. I must say I'm hesitant at using this example to claim that people are more capable than you might think. Driving is just something humans happen to be competent at. There are plenty of things roughly as complicated as driving a car that people aren't surprisingly good at.
This also reminded my of something people said at the latest meetup. At least two people told me they had deliberately tried to get more scared of driving, because they had noticed they had less fear in a car than on a plane despite planes being safer.
Driving is just something humans happen to be competent at.
I don't think it is pure chance, since it was designed in iterations around human capabilites.
Yes, I'm an academic and I get a similar reaction from telling people I study the Singularity as when I say I've signed up for cryonics. Thankfully, I have tenure.
Do you actually say you "study the singularity" or give a more in depth explanation? I ask because the word study is usually used only in reference to things that do or have exisited, rather than to speculative future events.
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Yep, and I totally agree. The point I'm making is that with immigration we can afford to have more finely-grained selection criteria. Instead of a blanket ban on immigrants from third-world hellholes, we can at least choose the best ones.
Again, provided we are comfortable with disparate impact and all.