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by 1attice 4y ago
HN is willing to call out any consensus other than its own as groupthink, policing its voices and members all the while. Willing to champion free speech, but not those who dare to speak freely. In a just & perspecacious universe, this w
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by 1attice 4y ago
Ironic that on a post about groupthink, the one post that did not properly celebrate and idolize tech got downvoted. So, I'll add to the OP's asked-for list: Hacker News. Hacker News is the home of groupthink, because it's wh
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by 1attice 4y ago
Firefox says this file is offered at an https URL but delivered via HTTP, and is thus a security risk. Host should correct misconfiguration.
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is actually a nascent PhD-level thesis. Follow this thread.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Because of the power of metaphor. A PDF is, in the popular consciousness, a digital form of paper. Anything that could be on paper? PDF. Think of it as an FFI for the paper-based OS that our civ still runs upon (and may always.) Like, netwo
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by 1attice 4y ago
I do hope that this article inspires more HN folks to appreciate the stance adopted by Black Lives Matter. It's a lot harder to sneer when you see what the movement is up against.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Excusing violence as a flower of trauma does disservice to all of us who have survived trauma without becoming violent assholes. There is no excuse for violence. There is always choice.
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by 1attice 4y ago
No argument here. I believe that a loss of NN will have tragic, avoidable, predictable outcomes. It is, as you say, not a high-effort policy, so an argument-from-undue-difficulty would not support its dissolution. That said, you don't
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by 1attice 4y ago
Net neutrality is one of those peacetime aspirations that simply does not matter as much as the ongoing culture war, climate crisis, political stability crisis, economic crisis, pandemic aftermath, and the literal (hot/shooting) war in
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by 1attice 4y ago
In writing the above, I also came up with this ELI5: In the video game of life, Elon Musk has infinite lives, has a health bar that stretches across the whole screen, and you and I are lucky to have 1up. Who do you think is going win? Putti
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by 1attice 4y ago
It's not a 'pyramid scheme' like Amway, but yeah, it's pyramidal. The moral discomfort you notice is not because there is something wrong with startups per se, but with the winner-take-all dynamic that emerges in poorly-
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is the thoughtful discourse for which I come to HN! The moderation system is working perfectly; I await this comment's upvote.
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by 1attice 4y ago
What a fantastic (and apposite!) response to the question -- and the article made me nostalgic for the days when intellectuals disdained television, rather than hoard lore about HBO miniseries. Not because they were better, but because I wa
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by 1attice 4y ago
I normally enjoy Aaronson's writing, but I'm actually chilled. This essay depends on a specific, American-hallow take on the Second World War. The 'Orthagonality Thesis' is just a fancy way of shifting the burden of proo
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by 1attice 4y ago
[deleted -- wrong thread]
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by 1attice 4y ago
Not at all. The demographics of this site make its users the ideal targets of propaganda. HN is where smart people peer with other smart people. A little proposition injection, a dash of Dunning-Kruger, and you have yourself a Views Differ
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by 1attice 4y ago
Found the Kremlin talking-point.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Yes, and, near as I can tell, Sidney has never made an implausible threat . Speaking loosely, we could say that Sidney consistently acts like Sidney knows that you know that Sidney is an AI. That's what I'm remarking on. Because
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by 1attice 4y ago
Right, and that's mind-blowing -- it implies that Sidney is made out of fiction about AIs . To the point where it is able to make threats that make sense, given how and where it finds itself in the world. Sorry, but I don't see t
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by 1attice 4y ago
To expand on this. There is an art to making a believable threat. Somehow, Sidney is good at this art.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Most script kiddies are just remixing/reproducing dox threats from a training set as well. A more interesting question is, *why did Sidney make a realistic threat*? What is striking is that here, as elsewhere, Sidney kept their threats
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by 1attice 4y ago
Sydney is OP
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by 1attice 4y ago
All problems are, when seen from far enough away, 'transition' problems. They are very, very real for the people experiencing them. Life itself is transitory, often on a shorter timeline than the problems encountered throughout.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Vancouver didn't start from scratch, but aggressively built out its cycling infra over the past two decades. I love bicycles, I love green tech, and I love my e-bike! But I also note these concomitants: - Rapid gentrification. Foot&#x2
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by 1attice 4y ago
Imagine Henry Ford limiting the availability of autos in pre-Vichy France "to prevent a second Great War" after taking a call from Berlin, and you'll get a sense of the moral quality of this decision.
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by 1attice 4y ago
The problem with 'commonsense' is that it's neither a sense, nor terribly common. It is, rather, that sweet spot where intuitions are useful. Which is to say, when you make a 'common sense' judgment, you are typical
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm out of the loop. Does this affect ETH's new proof-of-stake model? Is the SEC effectively saying, "this is close enough to a pyramid scheme for us to ban"?
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by 1attice 4y ago
Reminds me of my fave new microgenre: foreign films about something going wrong with the sun that causes it to scour the earth with gamma radiation, eg. _Into the Night_. It may be time to begin flying west
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by 1attice 4y ago
This point feels as though the author intends it to function as a 'defeater' -- C++ and Rust are used, therefore VSCode is a bad example (as a neighbor post says, an 'exception that proves the rule'.) I invite you to con
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by 1attice 4y ago
now I feel bad about editing it away :D That's the problem with 'fun', obscure words. No matter how good they sound, the piece overall sounds better without them --- an instance (by no means the only) of the well-worn truism

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