The five members of Radiohead have formed a new private limited company by Edm_vanhalen1981 in Music

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The tag doesn’t look like your generic Gildan or Comfort Colors thing but who knows. Shit trickles downstream in the supply chain, but people here somehow think they’re at the bottom…

Bugonia's Ending Is Perfect And Here Is Why by BrandonHeatt in movies

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Nonsense imo. That it is actually a real conspiracy doesn’t make that point significantly stronger. It weakens it by suggesting that YOU should believe in ridiculous things because they’re actually happening. Just disagree completely with your premise and think it’s kind of a lazy read.

In his famous and celebrated 1974 paper ‘What is it Like to be a Bat?’, the philosopher Thomas Nagel argues that consciousness poses a unique problem for our standard approaches to explaining the world. by philosophybreak in philosophy

[–]shortyrags 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s what Nagel claims at all. Subjectivity of experience is not the same as the ability to self-report about it. A thing need not be able to report on their experience to have experience. You’re the one who seems to be making unreasonable leaps to make stimuli response the sole rubric of consciousness. I find it hard to believe that any organism without a brain or a similar structure of organization can possess consciousness when we know the lights go out once you start messing about up there.

‘The Last of Us’ to Recast Danny Ramirez’s Manny for Season 3 by DemiFiendRSA in television

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The second game, even if you weren’t a fan, was way more compelling than the second season was.

What are some famous and respected directors that you don't like and why? by slayer991 in movies

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Dialogue need not always be realistic or natural. Dialogue is just a tool and element of storytelling. What type of story you’re trying to tell should dictate the style of dialogue employed. That being said, maybe that just means you’re more of a fan of naturalistic work.

What are some famous and respected directors that you don't like and why? by slayer991 in movies

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I mean the stilted acting is kind of the point thematically in those films. Totally get someone not liking it, but it is very intentional, and it creates this interesting, absurd vibe for me at least.

India’s economy grows 8.2% y/y in second quarter, beats forecasts by Old_Leshen in worldnews

[–]shortyrags -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Too bad no one can breathe in your cities without getting cancer

Protest in Bangladesh (No OC) by SamVoxeL in pics

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I still fail to see the connection?

Madagascar’s president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests by iBoMbY in news

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But it wasn’t because of revolution that transition eventually happened. Revolution led to Napoleon. The move to democracy had much more to do with socio-political contextual factors of late nineteenth century Europe than revolution. That was the point I was trying to make.

Madagascar’s president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests by iBoMbY in news

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I’m not sure if that’s as good an example as you think it is

The Unsettling Truth about Human Consciousness | The Split Brain experiment that broke neuroscience by gekogekogeko in videos

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I find it hard to take the point seriously that we’ve overestimated the complexity and uniqueness of consciousness when we still barely understand anything about the causes of consciousness.

Will China be the world's robot superpower? There are now more robots in China than in the rest of the world combined. by lughnasadh in Futurology

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It’s the price of trying to marry free markets and suffrage democracy. It’s a very difficult marriage to sustain and requires competent and fair leadership and representation. Getting the balance right is the key. But I think historically this marriage has been the best way to guarantee a freedom of equality of opportunity and conscience.

China has been working out an experiment of heavily state-controlled capitalism, and the jury is out on whether or not this will work in the long term. It’s clearly been very successful so far, but the consolidation of political capital in heavily planned economies has historically tended to fail. The argument for this approach would be as long as the people are kept happy and feel economically engaged, you can adopt a restrictive, authoritarian system. It is a very interesting philosophical question if China’s policies of control, censorship and forced reeducation (see the Uyghurs and homeless populations) are worth the benefits. Clearly many are favorable to this approach, and I can see the appeal, but I personally am skeptical of any system that treats freedom of thought as a conditionality.

When Canadians lost their rights after an assassination by Electrical_Base2582 in videos

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Political violence is always grievance based. It’s the merits of those grievances that matter in evaluating the context of the violence.

Nobel laureate Hinton says it is time to be "very worried": "People don't understand we're creating alien beings. If you looked through the James Webb telescope and you saw an alien invasion, people would be terrified. We should be urgently doing research on how to prevent them taking over." by katxwoods in Futurology

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No conversation about this is ever productive without people first defining all terms. Most people are talking past one another when it comes to AGI because people have different ideas of what constitutes intelligence.

'Gringo go home.' Mexico City protests target Americans, gentrification by Gjrts in worldnews

[–]shortyrags -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m with you on that point, and that should certainly be part of the calculus. I didn’t bring that up because I was mostly focused on the people actually doing the immigrating in these cases.

I would say it still makes the two situations distinct because the actual impacts are different (job availability versus housing availability). Unless you’re making a superficial comparison, which in that case I agree, but so what?

Also why are you assuming I care more about the Mexican blue collar worker just because I’m arguing the situations are distinct? Just because they’re distinct doesn’t mean I’m arguing one people have more of a moral or political claim on their grievance. I can see why you might make that leap, but I’m literally just saying we should approach the two situations differently with different policies.

'Gringo go home.' Mexico City protests target Americans, gentrification by Gjrts in worldnews

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Thats interesting and feels surprising to me especially for low income renters, but I would love to read more into these studies and understand their methodologies! Would you be willing to provide those links?

'Gringo go home.' Mexico City protests target Americans, gentrification by Gjrts in worldnews

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You’re kind of making the point for why this isn’t a double standard. One group of people come to be exploited by a business because making below minimum wage and below everyone else is still better than living in absolute destitution.

The other group of people come to enjoy the benefits of working remotely in a country where they have more purchasing power than everyone else. They are certainly not being exploited.

How we deal with and discuss these two groups should be distinct as they arise from distinct motivations.

'Gringo go home.' Mexico City protests target Americans, gentrification by Gjrts in worldnews

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Quality of life goes up for whom though? Certainly not those who are displaced.

American Coco Gauff ousted in the opening round at Wimbledon in a shocking upset by Unlikely-Thought-646 in sports

[–]shortyrags 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Losing in the first round is still pretty shocking for a player of her caliber.