CREwert
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this seems an entirely plausible practice for checking/guiding/reviewing ones thinking. Will try it.
These problems are why we are starting a new, rival theory and practice: robust altruism. We plan to
1) be less susceptible to hijacking
2) be less prone to harmful fanaticism
3) balance short- and long-term perspectives
Wish us luck.
the music player has problems even if you dont subscribe to "apple music", too.
Alas! Its a different Craig.
true, but elephants dont speak English.
Dont follow this link; its a dodgy web site that tried to harass me with popups and downloads and phoney virus warnings.
look at "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/d...as well as "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz as mentioned.
Each of these paints a fully researched rebuttal to the mainline nutrition science sources you cite. Roughly "All of modern nutrition science is woefully corrupted, since about 1940".
What happened to peanuts? eggs? Dead cow? Those are proteins; peas are what I put in my food so my wife wont steal it.
I think its less about a sign function than about showing how optional (i.e. nullable) values work. Most languages have them, and making that possibility explicit is recent best practice.
The articles point is that most of the crapping has a strong racist flavor. Which sounds plausible, if not yet statistically demonstrated.
Certainly there are plenty of closet racists and 1/2 racists being drawn out by Ms Kondo.
Promise isnt (yet) working with convicted clients. This is purely a pre-trial intervention, as they keep saying. So supposing that they will be trying to exonerate their clients is a red herring.
Supposing that their motives are pure profit is extra cynical; there are plenty of organizations in the world that do good and still earn a little money.
Since this is all pre-trial, the incentives for Promise are to ensure that they have the best rates possible of a) showing up for trial and b) not committing extra offenses until then. The only danger I see is the possibility that they would over-select candidates and get too many who use this as a way to dodge their trials or commit more crimes. Since either of these harm their ability to do business, I would think you agree that they are incented to minimize those events.
I dont think Lucas applies; its about the weakness of regulations to control actors. This is a new organization that aims to offer an alternative for existing government actors.
The system will always be bent towards people with money; thats what money is for.
I like that you are trying to help the people on the other end of that curve.
Depending on how an organization is constructed, profit is not always "all that matters".
Public Benefit Corporations, as well as Nonprofit Corporation, are possible, and will provide some assurance that the company doesnt turn evil tomorrow.
It could be incorporated as a not-for-profit. And I have heard that there is a 3rd kind of incorporation somewhere between purely-for-greed and not-for-profit, where some profit is expected, but is not the only reason for the organization. Look for "public benefit corporation".