There could be so many miracle tips or tricks online that really work
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.” ― Tim Minchin
I'm not really sure you understand just how complicated being a doctor is and making the correct diagnosis is. Sure, it might be something small if you feel sad in the evenings. It might also be a brain tumor. Home remedies might work in both cases, and they might not.
But you know what will probably work more often that not? A doctor's prescription.
Talk to you doctor.
Actually, that's a good point! I brought it up in another comment, but there are mathematical geniuses, piano geniuses, scientific genius, etc. But everybody know and can agree on what math is, what a piano is and how difficult it is to play well, what science is and the long road to mastery of a sliver of human knowledge that entails.
But not with morality.
Personally, I think you've suggested an answer that satisfies me: people have no idea wtf morality or spirituality are. Plato and Aristotle once may have been able to point to someone and say, "So and so is more virtuous than us!" or "The king of a foreign nation is full of vice and worth less than coward who turns to bravery." But it's like modern American society cannot conceive of such a concept as moral superiority.
I mean, some people can, and then often go on to be significantly worse than normal people. They are often the definition of immoral. But, as a general rule, saying that you're morally superior to others barely makes any sense and, even if it did, would demand an impossible type of proof.
Since you wrote this post, you probably have some idea of what a moral genius is supposed to be. Can you describe what makes a person a moral genius and maybe give an example?
I mean, that's interesting in and of itself. The concept of a moral genius isn't clear. Others have brought this up, too.
A genius is someone who generally displays some exemplary skill. Terrence Tao, for example, attended university-level mathematics courses when he was nine. Most people couldn't have possibly have done what he did. In contrast, Pablo Picasso was also a genius, creating artistic masterpieces, among his many other talents. Many of his contemporaries didn't achieve what he did.
So, at least we know that geniuses can be recognized as such at any point in their life, and it seems more about achieving a level of mastery or insight into their field or practice that others aren't privy to, even other practitioners.
People keep saying morality is subjective, which is true, but so is art. Still, Picasso was recognized as genius. Still, there are widely recognized universal moral values, like don't kill other people. So, I'm not sure moral subjectivity is sufficient to dismiss what I'm asking.
Other commenters have brought up various moral philosophers like Kant and St. Augustine. Different moral frameworks, both geniuses. Sure. The same commenter brought up Buddha, and I think that's closer to what I'm after. Buddha attained "enlightenment" and then everybody and their god came to him for moral guidance.
I think it's this beacon of guidance as a genius that really captures my concept of a moral genius. Like, if you're a professional mathematician and you get stumped on a proof, you may turn to Terrence Tao to see what he thinks about resolving the apparent problem. Similarly, if you're trying to understand some aspect of art that eludes you but you see in Picasso paintings, you might engage in-depth study of his artwork until you get what you're trying to find.
But let's say you're widely understood to be at least a good person, then who do you turn to? Who is widely understood to be a morally superior person that exceeds even the normal best to which they turn? Such a person would fit my understanding of a moral genius.
And while children are often lauded for being innocent and pure, it's like their untainted understanding of morality isn't recognized as proper moral decision-making. In contrast, the Dalai Lama is often respected as spiritual leader, but I think that stems more from what the Dalai Lama is and the tradition around him rather than the inherent goodness of whoever is the Dalai Lama. The same goes for preachers/the Pope/etc. That might be unfair to discount them, though...idk.
Art is subjective too, but artistic genius is a thing (but takes longer to develop, I guess. I can't recall any young artistic geniuses)
When kids do linear algebra or they rise to the level of GM in chess within the first two decades of their lives, such people are obviously geniuses. Their intelligence is undeniable.
But it's like moral/spiritual geniuses aren't recognized in the same way, if at all. How come their intuitive expertise isn't recognized so easily ?
So, LLMs aren't suitable for brainstorming new directions at the frontier. That seems like a pretty specific limitation that is only applicable in a very small percentage of cases. Like, LLM brainstorming won't be useful if you're trying to improve LLMs in a new way unless that new way is what most people are already doing. But it'd still be useful to help a COO brainstorm how to improve operations since there are tried and true methods of operations management.
I feel like "Republican" is its own derogatory category now.
"Don't be a Republican, care about your neighbor" or "Don't be a Republican, check the facts" feel like completely reasonable things to say because Republicans have basically stereotyped themselves.
I knew they wanted to be slavers again. I called it from the beginning.
Especially the 5th circuit. That's where Matthew Kacsmaryk punts the dumbest cases to Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas, who then shit all over the law.
This is the kind of book conservatives correctly identify as engendering hate for America. After reading this one, I saw the value of just burning it all down.
Only after plants appeared on land some 458 million years ago
Wtf?! Really?!
Republicans: Election integrity is when my preference wins.
But what do you think could be the reason that has affected the cognitive abilities of the American population?
The enduring Republican attack on education and the shift to believing it's vocational training rather than citizen development.
I had the 1000XM4 until recently and it was fantastic, too. My SO would often get mad at me for not paying attention when I was in the computer.
I mean, yes, but what makes you think that?
Not really because I'm not being serious. But at high levels of education that aren't in business, it's because education roots belief in the scientific method and scientific evidence. For the humanities, it teaches a more rigorous form of thinking based still based on evidence and logical thinking patterns.
The way modern conservatives think is very illogical. It feigns a sort of logic but it's really easy to identify as anything but
When you see what humans can do, it really encourages a perspective that pushes against people that say humans can't.
Eh, depends on who you ask. Personally, no, this isn't masculine. People are standing up for what they believe, and more importantly, their resolve come a place of empathy. Merely standing up for what you believe doesn't warrant much praise, imho, especially if your beliefs are demonstrably false.
All those things that would happen when pigs fly, are gonna happen now!
Students at Columbia University have been alerted that all in-person classes will be held virtually through the end of the semester as anti-Israel protesters have taken over the campus. Columbia President Minouche Shafik set a deadline of midnight Tuesday to reach an agreement in negotiations with a...
Current front page of Fox News: ! It takes you here to a page titled "Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over", with the pinned post from Bradford Betz saying what the front page says.
In a new Roosevelt Institute analysis authors Shahrzad Shams, Deepak Bhargava, and Harry W. Hanbury make the argument that neoliberalism must be understood not only as a policy project but also as a cultural project.
This is report discusses the cultural environment in which men's liberation occurs. It points out that the right has successfully weaponized neoliberal discontent to further it's anti-democratic goals. Under the heading "Self-Help Toxic Masculinists and Conspiritualists Weaponize WASH":
> Self-help, already intimately intertwined with the hustle mindset, is today being infused with deeply misogynistic propaganda by far-right popular culture figures like Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Tate. [...] Through podcasts, webinars, interviews, lectures, and books, these men and others like them are using their enormous platforms to offer solutions to the so-called “crisis of masculinity”—a conservative talking point that warps the complex and legitimate social and economic issues facing men, particularly working-class men, into a rallying cry against progress and equality—in an effort to reassert male dominance, heteronormative gender roles, and traditional patriarchal family structures. To do this in a way that reaches wide swaths of people and allows for a shred of plausible deniability, they use the seemingly innocuous language of self-help and self-improvement.
Self-help and self-improvement reinforce the "neoliberal self", "an entrepreneurial subject" where "personal grown and fulfillment are said to be attained through competition with others." But, as the report repeatedly emphasizes, neoliberalism as a cultural order generates and regenerates deep, deep dissatisfaction with it.
Reading what I've read so far, I thought to myself, "What does men's liberation mean, exactly?" (I'm not sure why this community popped into my mind...but it did). Because, without this neoliberal angle, men's liberation risks thrusting men back into a misanthropic culture as feminists. Sure, that's better than being a right-wing, patriarchal zealot, but it's not truly liberating.
While I would obviously recommend the report itself, given that it's 50 pages, I understand that's incredibly unlikely. Maybe throw it in Claude and ask it some questions.
In any case, what do you think?
While “colorblind equality” has a better ring to it than the DEI regime, nonetheless, the concept is unworkable and actually contributes to worsening racial
> If we were to treat the notion of “colorblindness” as the animating principle of the Constitution, the law, and the very concepts of justice and quality, we would thereby concede the moral, ethical, and ideological debates to those who assert that our interpretation of the world must be based, one way or another, on race. Instead, we should regard liberty, not “colorblindness,” as our highest ideal.
What does it mean that many more young women than young men are leaving American churches?
>To be a Christian in America today is undeniably low-status, and all the more so if one ascribes to any form of orthodox theology. High status jobs, meanwhile, are cordoned off by advanced degrees, and therefore inaccessible to men who do not graduate college. [...] Young women leaving church might be doing so due to a staunch commitment to egalitarianism, but more likely they are leaving because of a more general sense that church is not cool.
The first name on the 2024 list of Atlantic storms is Alberto Saurus.
- Chris Cross
- Debby Downer
- Ernesto Cattywampus
- Francine Leanmean
> At the country’s founding, “there was a Christian political theory that was assumed as a consensus position, and the laws of nature and nature’s God don’t make sense without a common shared understanding of the divine and of created order,” Meadowcroft said, adding that the belief that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” as the Declaration of Independence states, “only makes sense within the long story of the Christian West.”
> Biblical language has been used throughout American history, from the founding and Abraham Lincoln’s arguments to end slavery, to combating communism and advancing the civil rights movement.
> “We’re saying we need to return that biblical language and an acknowledgment of our Christian heritage to the public sphere if our institutions and our assumptions about human nature and the law are going to make sense, and that the longer that we keep those out of the public sphere, the more unmoored we become from these core moral assumptions that undergird our whole constitutional system and the more lawless our future will be,” Meadowcroft explained. “So this is not a call to revolution, or civil war, or any such thing, it is rather a restoration, a re-founding, and an establishment of genuine constitutional order again.”
> To get a clearer picture of what Bidenflation looks like, we need to compare prices between now and when Biden took office. That's what TIPPinsights did, and the results show you that Bidenflation isn't just worse than the White House wants you to believe — it's worse than you might have realized.
> Food prices increased by 20.6% under Biden compared to only 2.2% as per BLS CPI, a difference of 18.5 points.
> TIPP CPI data show that Energy prices increased by 29.6%. But, according to the BLS CPI, energy prices improved by 1.9%. The difference between the two is a whopping 31.5 points.
> The Core CPI measures the price increase for all items, excluding food and energy. In the year-over-year measure, the Core TIPP CPI is 16.5% compared to 3.8% BLS CPI, a 12.8-point difference.
> Further, gasoline prices have increased by 29.9% since President Biden took office, whereas the BLS CPI shows that gasoline prices have improved by 3.9%, a difference of 33.8 points.
The latest IRS data on who bears the income-tax burden demonstrate yet again the benefits of lower tax rates over higher rates.
> The latest IRS data on who bears the income tax burden demonstrate yet again the benefits of lower tax rates over higher rates.
> When President Donald Trump entered office, the richest 1% of tax filers ($675,000 income and above) paid a little more than 40% of the income taxes collected.
>The 2017 Trump tax cut reduced the effective highest federal tax rate to 37% from 42%.
> But the most recent IRS tax return data (for 2021) confirm that even as these rates were lowered — not to mention the corporate tax rate cut from 35% to 21% — the share of the tax burden shouldered by the 1% rose to almost 46%.
Written by the guy who came up with the Laffer Curve, Arthur Laffer.
Divisions over the nature of voting are pushing American democracy into a new phase.
> The great constitutionalists, from Aristotle to Montesquieu to Madison, believed that the populace should have a voice, but they also thought, with Cicero, that the well-being of the people was the highest law. Survival and flourishing is most important, not pandering to popular passions.
> Any small “r” republican knows that a good society divides up power among authorities, repositories, and mysteries, such that all are checked and balanced; neither the bounder nor the mobile vulgus can become tyrannical. Pluralist theory seeks both safety and stability in multiplicity. The wisdom of crowds—and brokering institutions.
Introducing a new column by Jon Gabriel: Learning lessons from the past yields big benefits for our future
> Intelligence is easy to find online, but there’s precious little wisdom. Those of us who spend too much time in the digital world (for me, it’s a job requirement) are all too familiar with the firehose of the latest news, trends and controversies. Within hours, they’ll be replaced by new topics just as meaningless.
> Many experts have sounded alarms that this torrent of ephemera and the mad chase for clicks are rewiring brains, reducing attention spans and altering how we process information. Too often, we focus on the transient and urgent and abandon the meaningful and eternal.
Some of y'all should do what this guy did: read a book and touch some grass.
Discourse Magazine is an online publication of the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank.
You should know about these sites, especially for this upcoming election season, because they are referential and nonpartisan. Each website has a line about the content.
Politics
ProPublica's Represent—Find your legislators and the legislative work they're undertaking on your behalf
Fast Democracy—Find legislation in all 50 states, but we'll probably focus on legislation in our state
Ballotpedia's Ballot Lookup Tool—Know how you're going to vote before you go!
Government Sites
Congress.gov—Information specific to both the House of Representatives and Senate.
Regulations.gov—Federal agencies need your comments on their proposed rules.
Federal Register— Everyday, the government compiles a publication of proposed rules, notices of Federal agencies, executive orders and various other things. You can find it all here!
USA Spending.gov—Investigate how your tax dollars are being spent!
Federal Election Commission—Wonder who is giving how much to a particular candidate during an election? Find it here.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)—Not technically a government website. Has all the important economic indicators.
Reference
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy—An excellent resource about philosophy. You can dive into a comprehensive overview of logic, democracy, or whatever philosophy you can think of!.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia—A general encyclopedia
Britannica—Another general encyclopedia
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- Usage
- School:I plan to starting a masters in data science in the upcoming autumn or spring semesters
- Random number crunching: I like to dabble in PowerBI, R, Excel. It's just fun for me.
- Photo editing: Currently using ON1 Photo Raw Max 2024, but may consider going back to Lightroom/Photoshop
- Basic gaming: Stuff like Rimworld, Cities Skyline 1 & 2, and Dota 2.
- I mainly do not want to have to redo my whole build again in 5 years. Ideally, it'll keep for 10+. My current PC is 5 years old with a 1060-3gb that's doing it's very best, which is almost never good enough these days.
I'm really torn between the 7900 XTX, and the RTX 4070 Ti Super, 4080, and 4080 Super. Not sure which is going to remain a strong contender for the next 5 years. In that time, though, I'd be okay with upgrading my GPU, hence why I'd like the MOBO to have PCIe 5 compatibility.
Oh, and this is also a present to me for getting a really good job. If you have any suggestions to further personalize it, I'd appreciate them.
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> The report is a uniquely comprehensive and jargon‐free (to the extent possible) explanation of U.S. legal immigration. Contrary to public perception, immigrants cannot simply wait and get a green card (permanent residence) after a few years. Legal immigration is less like waiting in line and more like winning the lottery: it happens, but it is so rare that it is irrational to expect it in any individual case.
The more Ron DeSantis loses, the more he lies. Get the facts about Ron DeSantis’ latest lies about Nikki Haley’s record and his own.
A list of Ron's lies provided on a silver platter by none other than Nikki Haley
Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, author Andre Archie says.
> Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were both dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, Andre Archie says, but their work is being undermined.
Obviously, this is the height of foolishness, in my opinion.
Captain Planet, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zero,
He's our powers magnified,
And he's fighting on the planet's side
Captain Planet, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zero,
Gonna help him put asunder,
Bad guys who like to Looten Plunder!
A New Year’s plea to those who support the old regime
> We are a nation of rules and the rules are boring. Embrace that. In times of difficulty, go with the boring option. When faced with a frightening crisis, tamp it down with ultra-boring moves. No matter what, stick with the rules.
> I can’t avoid talking about Donald Trump but I’m going to make it brief. I know you don’t like him; neither do I. But let’s assume he’s only a politician. He’s not Hitler, Godzilla or the Beast of the Apocalypse—just a guy with a loud mouth and a desperate need for attention. Most Americans think of him that way.
> This is not about him. It’s about you.
Informal Logic—A Pragmatic Approach: >The fault of blind dogmatism, of only seeing one side of the argument as a position worth investigating, is among the most severe impediments or handicaps in reasonable dialogue.