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Yeah, serfs had access to land and were self sufficient to a point.
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Cold on a Cob posted:this exact thing is why i can't discuss oil pipelines with my mom. she's otherwise not chuddish at all but if she can't imagine a world where her husband gets to work on something not associated with the oil industry To be fair, if the current regime killed the oil industry or MIC its sole response to the sudden influx of unemployed/unemployable people would be Harris holding a press conference where she says "Time to learn to code  " with zero further supportTo be even more fair, any government willing to and capable of killing the oil industry or MIC would be so different from ours that it'd likely have utopian second careers ready for everyone affected
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mossyfisk posted:Gig work is almost the exact opposite of serfdom. Yeah, serfs got all kinds of holidays off.
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Gig work turns the employer / employee relationship into a service. Your employment is just one more product Uber sells.
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skooma512 posted:"Retired at 38". Delving didn't seem possible since we were in disagreement, to put it mildly. If he married into it are you capable of doing the chigurh gas station speech from memory
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Elizabeth Holms has "fans" wtf? And not just like, weird old guys on twitter who want to gently caress her, but young women who want to be her? I wonder, do they idolize her in some weird amoral-grift yasss kween way, or do they think she was a super genius who's brilliant vision was sabotaged by lies about the tech "being impossible"?
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Sep 8, 2021 19:49
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Maybe it's kind of how serial killers have fans 
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bawfuls posted:Elizabeth Holms has "fans" wtf? And not just like, weird old guys on twitter who want to gently caress her, but young women who want to be her? I wonder, do they idolize her in some weird amoral-grift yasss kween way, or do they think she was a super genius who's brilliant vision was sabotaged by lies about the tech "being impossible"? I mean, every rich person is grifting and taking in big fraud bucks, and plenty of them have fans. All Elizabeth Holmes did wrong was grift a liiiiitle too blatantly and hurt some other rich people in the process.
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bawfuls posted:Elizabeth Holms has "fans" wtf? And not just like, weird old guys on twitter who want to gently caress her, but young women who want to be her? I wonder, do they idolize her in some weird amoral-grift yasss kween way, or do they think she was a super genius who's brilliant vision was sabotaged by lies about the tech "being impossible"? Yes
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Gigdom is a subset of Findom where I have less job security
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the only difference between her and elon musk is that elon managed to get into the S&P and as such is now untouchable
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Elon is a tremendous piece of poo poo but the company he stole from engineers does actually produce a product which, at times, works. The cars exist on the road and drive, even if many of them catch fire or try to kill their occupants. Theranos was vaporware the whole time, based on a goal that by all accounts is physically impossible.
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Yeah I mean she was going around giving TED talks about how you should ~follow your dreams~ and how when all the so-called smart experts told her something couldn't be done that just proved her idea was great and she should pursue it harder. I could totally see people buying into that hero persona really hard and then not accepting any of the reality of the situation after that.
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Vashro posted:Gigdom is a subset of Findom where I have less job security It is time for Findom Gigdom where I pay a stern woman in latex 50% of my earnings to access her furnitr app where rent myself out as a footstool for 86 hours a week.
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bag em and tag em posted:It is time for Findom Gigdom where I pay a stern woman in latex 50% of my earnings to access her furnitr app where rent myself out as a footstool for 86 hours a week. uh, how do i sign up for this?
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What do you guys think of Freddie de Boer's thinking on the genetic heritability of intelligence? https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-resist-blank-slate-thinking-for I don't know if it's irrational or not but I can't help but being skeptical about the straight line he draws. From what I understand, intelligence is a kind of emergent quality that isn't easy to link to specific genes.
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bawfuls posted:Elizabeth Holms has "fans" wtf? And not just like, weird old guys on twitter who want to gently caress her, but young women who want to be her? I wonder, do they idolize her in some weird amoral-grift yasss kween way, or do they think she was a super genius who's brilliant vision was sabotaged by lies about the tech "being impossible"? We stan a queen with a deep voice.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:We stan a queen with a deep voice. I know that you're joking but I hope this was painful to type.
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ToxicAcne posted:What do you guys think of Freddie de Boer's thinking on the genetic heritability of intelligence? We just don't know It's a bit silly to think it's not at all genetic, as genetics is the way intelligence arose in the first place unless you are a creationist But it's way too easy to fall into a eugenics trap and accidentally do a fascism so there's really no great good that's going to come from that line of inquiry, most likely
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ToxicAcne posted:What do you guys think of Freddie de Boer's thinking on the genetic heritability of intelligence? freddie is absolutely correct and puts my thoughts on the page in a better way than i can but you aren't wrong to think he's simplifying a bit. intelligence is not at all easy to link to specific genes and probably doesn't actually exist as a single quantity at all. just because we don't know the exact linkage though doesn't change that there is a genetic factor to talent including talent at key academic skills like math and reading. environmental and social factors play a huge role too of course! but not exclusively. which is, as he says, why the argument must be made from the left that meritocracy is completely nonsensical bullshit
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Jazerus posted:meritocracy is completely nonsensical bullshit I certainly agree with this
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Jazerus posted:freddie is absolutely correct and puts my thoughts on the page in a better way than i can There was someone who actually studied brain stuff who used to post in like, PYF I think? And I remember one thing he said was that we know there's this quantity being measured more or less by "IQ" (even after accounting for the massive asterisk of all the flaws in IQ tests), and it's at least partially heritable, and correlates with other things, but we don't really know what the hell it is. Is it some kinda intelligence? Maybe I guess??? Is it all there is to intelligence? Probably not.
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ToxicAcne posted:What do you guys think of Freddie de Boer's thinking on the genetic heritability of intelligence? there must be a genetic component to it obviolly but gently caress if we’ll know what it is in our lifetime. we can’t even define “intelligence” well enough to figure out how to measure it independent of culture/language/literacy/etc. we’ll probably have better luck discovering genetic markers for very specific traits that get lumped under the intelligence umbrella
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Shame Boy posted:There was someone who actually studied brain stuff who used to post in like, PYF I think? And I remember one thing he said was that we know there's this quantity being measured more or less by "IQ" (even after accounting for the massive asterisk of all the flaws in IQ tests), and it's at least partially heritable, and correlates with other things, but we don't really know what the hell it is. Is it some kinda intelligence? Maybe I guess??? Is it all there is to intelligence? Probably not. yeah that's called the g factor. general intelligence. there's a lot of debate over whether it exists as a monolithic quantity or if it's just a proxy for a very wide array of talents and personality traits. i tend to fall on the latter side, as someone who also studied brain stuff. the problem with a lot of the g factor research done in the last 20 years up until about 2016 is that it was fMRI-driven and fMRI turned out to be a hugely unreliable technique that produces misleading results, whereas the research before that is generally just bad for typical 20th century reasons. i'm not sure that that's adequately clear to the population at large so people still write lots of neurosci/psych articles that draw on research that turned out to be bad.
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isn’t that like a third of all psych articles at this point
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you'll know that nonphysiological psychology has begun as a legitimate field when they squeeze 3 sigfigs of prediction out of something. so far not yet
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you'll know that nonphysiological psychology has begun as a legitimate field when they squeeze 3 sigfigs of prediction out of something. so far not yet it feels like we’re still in the balancing humors phase of psychology
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The Bloop posted:I certainly agree with this I'd hope everyone in CSPAM would agree that intelligence, certainly in the dick waving sense, is pointless when other factors, like how rich and well connected your parents are are vastly more influential to a person's success in life. Having a safety net to fall back into lets you explore, experiment and take risks in ways someone without such a net never can, no matter how intelligent or hard working they are. I've said it before that the smartest person in the world is probably working in a field 18 hours a day somewhere in a developing nation, or stuck behind a register living paycheque to paycheque without hope of ever escaping to a better life.
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Ironically the stress of living that kind of struggle reduces ones IQ.
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Stephen Jay Gould: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
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Orange Devil posted:Ironically the stress of living that kind of struggle reduces ones IQ. I can't find it right now, but wasn't there a study that showed paying someones rent makes their IQ instantly 5 points higher?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I can't find it right now, but wasn't there a study that showed paying someones rent makes their IQ instantly 5 points higher? Unrelatedly, I have a large check I'd like to make out to your landlord
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I can't find it right now, but wasn't there a study that showed paying someones rent makes their IQ instantly 5 points higher? I don't know that study but "stress lowers IQ" seems like a pretty solid takeaway that also points out how volatile the measure is.
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Jazerus posted:freddie is absolutely correct and puts my thoughts on the page in a better way than i can I get the impression that he's simplifying a lot. I don't really see evidence of some gattaca esque future anytime soon. Gene editing is hard and super expensive.
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jeebus bob posted:I don't know that study but "stress lowers IQ" seems like a pretty solid takeaway that also points out how volatile the measure is. Stress alters decision making, and IQ is basically a test based on decisions.
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https://twitter.com/RationalWiki/status/1435137538801418248quote:Romundt began to realise that the cruise ship industry was, as he put it, “plagued by over-regulation”. (Along with airlines and nuclear power, according to Harris, it’s in “the top three”.)
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