oneoff786

You asserted

> Those 2 groups of people will firmly be labeled as pieces of shit in my mind and no amount of arguments will ever sway that position.

But are now implying that you would be agree with my example if it were true. Thus demonstrating that your statement is wrong. You are willing to engage in cost benefit analysis for elder care. This case is simply easy and improbable to arise.

We can play with the numbers until you think it’s realistic and unreasonable. The point remains.

Straw men are dumb. But not as dumb as absolute sweeping statements of certainty.

There are many, many cases of expensive medical treatments that extend life in a miserable fashion. There are many cases of expensive medical treatments that extend life in a non miserable fashion. Doesn’t mean they make sense to do. Doesn’t make you an asshole to think about it.

People are not complaining that they are not paid for the period they are working. They are complaining that participating in the strike has revoked their tuition remission for the entire semester. Idiot leader. This will play out incredibly poorly. Grad students put up with more than they ought to already.

It is hyperbole for sure, but there are plenty of real world cases where I would find the cost benefit not worth it. Personally I would find the cost benefit not worth it for any situation that has me lying feebly on opioids until I die.

But the point remains. If you can’t agree with the hyperbole then you’re in the wrong making grand blanket statements about the way things work and saying nothing can convince you otherwise

Most of those games don’t require faster speeds though

So if a doc recommends a $1M expense to keep my drugged out dad alive for another day, as I a piece of shit for saying that does not make sense?

It absolutely does sound bad.

People “get their share” by living in a society that is held together by those taxes imo. There are surely many edge cases, but in countries like Canada/US/UK I think people generally get their due.

Regardless, setting up a mini hospital in someone’s home is just dumb. There is no reason for such a high level of service. You want to die at home? Sure. I’m down for MAID at home.

You want a suite of private doctors and equipment at home? Pay for it. If you want public service you should go to public service facilities.

I think it’s also intentionally misleading though. It’s not dying at home. It’s riding out the rest of your days under detailed medical supervision which presumably intervenes and prevents you from dying.

I can be simultaneously angry that our medical system sucks and still believe that setting up a mini hospital in dying elderly people’s homes is a colossal misuse of government funds.

Ten years is a lot of years. You specifically called out a single decade of films. If someone is twenty, a film in 1980 is more than double their whole lifetime away. Wanting to chat with the youth about things before their time as the SHARED culture is dumb. If you’re 35, you were born in the 80s.

Believe it or not, not a whole lot of people will watch Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time and think it was an amazing movie anymore. That’s not to say it isn’t well made. It is. But is also just not very interesting to modern youth.

Ehh but this is the 5e players handbook we’re talking about. Google 5e handbook pdf and you’ll get results, for free, easily found even if you’re not pirate savvy.

> unmoderated interaction with other irresponsible people

Other irresponsible people means their peers right? Like teens talking to teens without adult supervision?

I’m responding to

> less cultural cohesion due to hyper diversity in memes resulting in fewer shared experiences

My take is it’s a bunch of people who are out of touch with the youth assuming that the youth feel out of touch with each other.

Ok but… this is so obviously a generational thing. You know who does know the YouTuber? His peers. He does not watch cheesy 80s films and you don’t watch 40s theater. People absolutely don’t need mainstream media. Mainstream media hits the lowest common denominator and tends to suck.

I think most YouTubers and uncomfortably fake to watch, but I would still prefer people watch that over mainstream tv…

And how did memes make that harder

But come on. Diversity is not actually bad. People being diverse even if they think it’s bad is not bad. And memes are not a meaningful driver of diversity.

My iPhone definitely does not last more than 2.5 hours when doing an intensive game.

I feel like most people don’t buy the book either

> less cultural cohesion due to hyper diversity in memes resulting in fewer shared experiences

People being different is bad?

It’s a strong rebuttal because this is not a random sample. It tells you nothing. These are not credible interpretations of data.

Rebuttal

https://aninjusticemag.com/are-50-of-trans-women-in-prison-s...

Largely the point being that this sample would only include prisoners with serious long punishment crimes, like sex crimes. It’s hardly a random sample.

Probability of sex crime given you’re in prison for a serious crime is not a reliable indicator of baseline probability of a sex crime.

There’s no need to get mathy tbh. Distributions are not real, and the ones we create only describe parts of what actually happens. This is obvious and always has been.

How much water does your faucet leak per day? That might be a good case for a normal distribution. But today I smack it with a hammer and it can’t stop flowing. We now have a ton of water far more than should ever appear on that original normal distribution. Is that because the model is wrong? No. It’s because the model is not designed for these circumstances.

We can’t build a model that estimates flow distribution including the possibility that I smack it with a hammer. That doesn’t mean we don’t believe it won’t ever happen or even that we think it is unlikely to happen. It’s just a weird edge case.

A lot of people (taleb) imply statisticians are idiots because they insist the distributions are comprehensive. But statisticians don’t insist this. Black swan, fat tails, and all that are just terms for things outside modeled conditions. And yeah. They happen.

Don’t imagine it as a wave like one people surf on. Imagine it as a tide.

The central limit theorem applies to sample means, not individual events. I’m not sure it has any relevance to predicting the probability of a single large outlier tsunami

No no. The aliens are only interested in the largest military budget obviously. Because the US can definitely stand against a FTL capable alien civ

I don’t get how you can write something like this, read it, and then tell yourself it makes sense. You think the videos are, in order of probability:

A recruitment advertising campaign, aliens, and then lastly a plausible camera illusion mixed with some unclear or just mistaken testimony?

Oh good statistics. Tell me what proportion of sexual violence is perpetuated by trans women against non trans women? Or what kind of sexual violence is committed by men against women in unisex bathrooms? Or perhaps a study on whether the belief that forbidding trans women from entering women’s bathrooms would materially alter sexual violence rates at all? Because virtually all sexual violence is not a random on the spot violent rape and if it were it most certainly would not be abated by rules suggesting it’s not ok for you to enter a bathroom.

> It is also a safety issue in contact sports if males are allowed to compete with women.

Women’s sports rarely allow heavy contact, and we are plenty comfortable with other natural differences such as height and weight. We also have plenty of precedent for people playing things like Ultimate Frisbee as a contact co-ed sport and things are fine.

Its hard not to read this and think of Black only bathrooms.

What exactly is the risk?

The historic small society solution was to shun people who were problematic.

Plenty of people are civil. Reminding someone that they left their coffee on their car should not make you feel anything special.

Absolutely not. That would be absurd.