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Reply to by pretzel_logic

I think she’s smart and funny. She’s helped me understand a lot of leftist issues that were opaque to me.

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Reply to Do you think humanity is going to hit the Great Filter ? by surreal

I think we’ve hit it unless we manage to kick off the singularity. The way I see it, humanity is on the threshold of intelligence where we’re just smart enough to destroy ourselves, but not smart enough to stop it.

I don’t think this phase is unique to us. Being able to grasp long term destabilization of your environment, as an entire species, isn’t exactly easy.

Cheers 🥂

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Reply to comment by Pop in If you ran workshops in predominantly white middle-to-upper class high schools to teach about whiteness and antiracism, what kind of approaches/ideas/activities do you think might be useful? by Pop

Yeah. I mean, in my experience the unintentionally racist people I know usually have never had a frank conversation about race with a person of color. And at that, you would want POC from a variety of backgrounds.

For example, there’s a lot of fat/health shaming of people who live in food deserts. White people don’t understand the burden of accessing healthy food in impoverished areas. Even if you have access, processed foods allow you to recover precious hours in the day for things like sleeping so you can work the next day.

But likewise, POC in high income professions experience different challenges with credibility/opportunity unless they can adopt enough white-face they’re accepted as generally white.

Giving people access to first hand testimony of experiences, so they can start to see how the gentle raindrops of bias turn into a flood, is the best way to help them realize their personal responsibility in reversing(not just avoiding) bias.

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Reply to What motivates people, besides money? by elyersio

Freedom - as in free to do what I want with my time, not freedom to die in abject poverty

Permanence - as in creating positive memories in my friends lives, good art, making a positive change in the world

Ethical monotony - avoiding future selves that behaved unethically either selfishly or self destructively

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Reply to Is chaos good? by ziq

Generally, I’d say the powerful are able to turn chaos into opportunity. But a well organized and prepared opposition can use chaos as well. Chaos may expose the illegitimacy of power structures, either when they fail to leverage the opportunity or if they leverage it too adeptly.

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Reply to Stacking smaller magnets? by hanshuynh

Obviously... magnetic field strength is proportional to 1/r^3. So, for a given material you’ll reach a maximum quickly.

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Reply to If free will does not exist how is anarchism possible? by robottroymacclure

I personally don’t rage against nature. What I rage against is people who are slaves to their need to dominate over other people. Perhaps anarchy isn’t the ultimate realization of free will, but it’s freedom of life and movement for me. I would like to have the problem of pondering free will in an environment that maximizes freedom.

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