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Ai is a redundancy reducer, which it feels so deeply uninteresting somehow.

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Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland... My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.

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Maybe one of the historical values of the church was connecting the rich with the poor on a social level.

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To to the surprise of no one. Dog ownership can help fulfill a nurturing drive while being easier than raising kids. www.reddit.com/r/psychology...

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Why does anyone think it implies something that all societies have had some sort of religion? It's clearly because of the well known risk assuagement bug our psychology has.

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A weird feature of abductive reasoning is that the LESS data you have, the MORE confident you can be in your conclusion.

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Christianity misleads people into thinking it's helping them be moral. Not by making them better, but by convincing them they COULD be a lot worse than they're actually capable of, and taking credit for the delta.

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I had a dream that I stumbled upon a church BBQ, and I looked up at a tree and the branches and shadows looked like the face of Jesus. I thought, huh, if I were religious that would make for a good conversion story.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty sure Cookie Run Kingdom is just a game my daughter made up to make me feel like an old out-of-touch grown-up

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

With all advertising, remember they're spending money to get this message to you. You always have to ask yourself, what makes it worth it for them to spend that money?

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If Krav Maga was invented for the Israeli Task Force, why didn't they just name it Jewjitsu?

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Seems like the incentives to not have kids are in place, which makes me wonder why and how the incentives were ever otherwise? How could grandpa afford 8 kids? How was society structures such that it was possible, what was different?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Pre internet people used to infer and intuit answers to things all the time, so it must feel pretty bad that their opinions and intuitions are subservient to information that's available to anyone. Young people don't know what what that world felt like, to feel right all the time.

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youtu.be/fy3oJpuFzaI?...

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One of the biggest issues with skepticism is see, is when to say "there's insufficient information to be confident" in inferences to the best explanation. After all, you can make ANY explanation seem like the most likely in a vacuum, by simply not presenting any contradictory evidence.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Ghosts, phantoms and dreams haunt the edges of our awairness for those who pay attention.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

@earlkmiller.bsky.social delivers the #SANS2025 presidential address: "Cognition emerges from neural dynamics"

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

This should disabuse anyone thinking they can understand market moves. Missed earnings by 30%

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“They put poison in the food, it makes us sick.“ The reality here is so fucking boring that it doesn’t stick on anyone’s head. What “they” did was make food cheap and “ultra palatable” which is the fancy phrase for “very yummy.” Thats it. A huge part of the problem is that food is too good.

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I feel like the world has amusement park pricing

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