> What is the meaning of life
It's debatable that this question is even sensical. “Life” could very well have no “meaning”. This question could be as absurd as “what do screwdrivers desire?”
If we accepted the question is valid: my claim is not that we can answer any question with a single figure. Rather that numbers can and should be used to describe everything and inform all our decisions.
About the big questions or life: whatever (concrete) doubts we have, numerical data comes to our rescue: should I have kids? Should I work harder? Should I vote yes on this referendum? Should I meditate? There are studies or surveys or cost-benefit analyses or diminishing returns or cutoffs or optimums for all that.
> Whose life is better
There are entire fields of research devoted to improving (and so, necessarily, also _measuring_) quality of life, aka well-being: within medicine, psychiatry, sociology, philosophy.
There are metrics (longevity, physical health, mental health, suffering, pain, stress, purchase power, crime rate, democratic quality, self-reported happiness), units to measure it all (years, QALYs, BMI, USD, % of disability), and ways to combine it all into a single measure.
I'm not saying there is one single perfect metric or that we have found the ultimate way to measure well-being. But it's definitely measurable, and we're getting better at it.
Whoever measures higher has “a better life”.
@rastinza What isn't?
**_Everything_ is quantifiable, and should be quantified.**
Everything is a #measure or can be measured.
#Science can study anything, and #mathematics is the language of science.
The fact that some aspects of life seem hard to estimate doesn't mean we are better off not even trying and coming up with our best approximation.
More #information rarely hurts, and even rough approximations (accompanied by their respective confidence intervals) are useful information.
One can measure, weigh and analyse… and still be sensitive, funny, romantic, impressionable, intuitive, creative — if one so chooses after all the (numeric) information is available.
> _“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”_
(living thread)
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This is definitely an Orwellian take.
RT @guardian@twitter.com
Orwell’s 1984 was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/george-orwell-1984-about-liberalism-not-totalitarianism-claims-moscow-diplomat?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1653381154
Since when are plant-based diets and CBDCs mainstream? Less than ~10 people in my entire social circle have adopted the former, and afaik zero have ever touched the latter.
How are Tesla or being fit counterculture? Tesla vehicles are known and desired universally and I see more and more every day on the street, and most of the people I know either are fit or are clearly trying to be fit.
Are you a fan of anthroposophy, man?
@slanted Well, the article is a critique of the book, talking only about what's wrong with it. What you say (and lots of other important facts about sleep) is perhaps (should be) in the book itself.
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🇬🇧Entire German government now opposes EU #ChatControl #CSAM proposal to scan all private communications for suspicious content.
Source of quote: https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/ministerin-faeser-frauen-werden-umgebracht-weil-sie-frauen-sind-80165048.bild.html
Photo: http://nancy-faeser.de
Read on: http://chatcontrol.eu
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Me sorprende esto que cuentas (de informática). La verdad es que nunca fui un heterodoxo en mis trabajos y prácticas, pero no esperaría que la creatividad y el combinar con otras disciplinas se penalizara 😟 ¿Tienes ejemplos que puedas compartir?
I laughed out loud with this one.
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Sometimes I make compromises because being a privacy advocate is too inconvenient. But when an app says it won't work unless I disable the VPN, then I just uninstall the app.
I'm talking about you, @buffer@twitter.com .
RIP #Vangelis
#BladeRunner and its #music score had both a profound impact on me as a teenager, and they still give me chills.
Ah, that new literary genre: _“I messed up real bad and my #cryptocurrency vanished in a matter of minutes, life's tough, apologies to everyone who lost a few bucks or a few millions”_…
