Readit Newstoren commented on Thank you HN · Posted by u/throwAwayXYZ69
Life can be tough as we all know.. Glad to hear that you're doing well, keep it up.
toren commented on Men Beware: The Abercrombie and Fitch Effect newneuromarketing.com/men... · Posted by u/cirrus-clouds
> I wouldn't mind see Craig f. do all the talking.
Something irks me about this comment.
If someone had made the same remark but instead it was about a woman, I wonder what the response would be.
It would be a shame if people cared either way.
toren commented on Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician quantamagazine.org/decade... · Posted by u/digital55
> He's also Thiel backed.
Is having Thiel's association a positive thing still? Serious question.
I would assume so. I couldn't care less about his political affiliations
I guess one of the problems with Peterson (and also with people like Zizek) is that he manages to say some completely indefensible things (i.e. he seems to tie so many of the world's problems to "liberal professors in the universities"), while also managing to say some very poignant and insightful things that do genuinely improve one's thinking. I think the second part is the reason why he has built up such a large following.
Exactly. One doesn't have to agree with every single thing he says to find something of value in his ideas. Similarly, it's idiotic to discard his entire set of ideas because you have found some disagreements.
Peterson is a con artist who appeals to desperate and impressionable men that can’t be bothered to read the Nietzsche and Jung that he only skims for sound bites.
Ah the old "Peterson is a con artist/fraud", aka "I automatically disagree with what he says because he's not a left-wing atheist" or some slight variation of that.
The more people are told to stay away from his work for such intellectually lazy reasons (such that he's inflammatory, offensive, etc, primarily pushed by journalistic hit pieces), the greater the odds of the uninitiated taking a look at his work and finding some value in it. Ironically, the dynamic somewhat resembles your overly religious parents on that damn devil's music.
Note: "finding value in his ideas" does not correspond to agreeing with everything he says. There are many valid critiques of Peterson. It also does not mean that you discard everything he says because you disagree. These strike me as symptoms of lazy ideologically driven thinking, most often political, and particularly speaks volumes of the left vs right divide in America.
toren commented on Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse washingtonpost.com/news/t... · Posted by u/ghosh
You say "overpay" but if the user pays for it then that would have been an efficient price - making the entire transaction beneficial.
Economically it would be the market clearing price so would be beneficial to the market generally. Sounds like a great thing.
Wouldn't that price be the consumer surplus price (above the market clearing price)? And wouldn't that transaction have been a result from an inefficiency in the market (lack of perfect information)?
Genuinely wondering. My economics is a bit rusty so not sure if what I said is remotely valid
toren commented on How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life mailchi.mp/mit/how-ocw-tr... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky
You'd think MIT would be all about educating the world as its mission. But its mission is to remain elite and unattainable for the masses so that it ranks high in US News and World Report. OCW can't really be that much of a money pit considering the resources at this university's disposal.
Yeah! That's why it provides an absolute ton of its courses and lecture material online for free!
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