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Удержал себя от спора в комментариях. Хорошо! Пойду лучше прогуляюсь, пока есть немного свободного времени.

TIL: the Nasty Effect

The most striking—and perhaps most unsettling—aspect of our study is that the actual blog post about the topic of nanotechnology was neutral, with equal amounts of risk and benefit information across conditions. The incivility instigated by lay (albeit fictional) online users induced an increase in polarization of risk perception about nanotechnology. This study's findings suggest perceptions towards science are shaped in the online blog setting not only by “top‐down information,” but by others' civil or uncivil viewpoints, as well. While the Internet opens new doors for public deliberation of emerging technologies, it also gives new voice to nonexpert, and sometimes rude, individuals.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcc4.12009

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“But as regards the principles of ethics, of legislation, and of religion, spheres in which ideas alone render experience possible, although they never attain to full expression therein, he [Plato] has vindicated for himself a position of peculiar merit, which is not appreciated only because it is judged by the very empirical rules, the validity of which as principles is destroyed by ideas. For as regards nature, experience presents us with rules and is the source of truth, but in relation to ethical laws experience is the parent of illusion, and it is in the highest degree reprehensible to limit or to deduce the laws which dictate what I ought to do, from what is done.”

Immanuel Kant, “The Critique of Pure Reason.”

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The best thing that happened in the US and the rest of the world last week was Arya Stark killing the Night King.

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They say Avengers was also quite good but I didn't see that one.