Artoemius

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by Artoemius 11y ago
Anyone who had to deal with time zones at least once in their lifetime, provided that they have a perfectly natural habit of reading Wikipedia when they find something new to them.
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by Artoemius 11y ago
Thanks for this post. Now I'll wait a bit longer before moving to an Android phone. From a developer's point of view, Android is known to be a mess. I thought the reason was the lack of organization between the numerous manufactur
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by Artoemius 11y ago
It's almost as if there are two separate types of people. People who learn by reading books and people who learn by asking questions. They do not always understand each other and maybe it's bad. However, I can attest that reading
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by Artoemius 11y ago
I never read in my original language anymore. Seems like the whole universe writes in English now.
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by Artoemius 11y ago
It's not that we have forgotten how to program. It's that everybody and their dog is now a programmer. Professional racers don't need an automatic transmission, but it's quite helpful for an unprofessional driver.
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by Artoemius 11y ago
It's one thing for a headline to be inexact, it's another thing to be a standard clickbait perversion of the contents.
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by Artoemius 11y ago
> For helping to advance an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans unique and extraordinary? If you care about being unique and extraordinary more than about reason, knowledge, trut
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by Artoemius 11y ago
I think (or at least hope) most of the downvotes have nothing to do with congratulations, and only refer to the part where AI is called "an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans
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by Artoemius 11y ago
> For example, Quetelet showed that the average rate of suicide was relatively stable from year to year. While this would hardly be startling news these days, in the 1830s suicide was seen as a highly irrational private decision that cou
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by Artoemius 11y ago
That's depressing. As I'm becoming older, I'm beginning to suspect that the bright sci-fi future isn't really going to come true after all, and we'll have to live in a sad bleak dystopia.
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by Artoemius 11y ago
This describes stupid management rather than micromanagement. Not giving people enough time, interrupting them with urgent but unimportant work, failing to set clearly defined goals or to give clear feedback. All this has nothing to do with
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by Artoemius 11y ago
Sorry, but it looks like your technical issue has become a PR issue. Contacting his employer was an act of intimidation, and no amount of cover-up will make up for it.
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by Artoemius 11y ago
I think the best defense against the misuse of nuclear weapons is to empower as many people as possible to have nuclear weapons. If everyone has nuclear weapons powers, then there’s not any one person or a small set of individuals who can h
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by Artoemius 11y ago
For me, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is hands down the best book of 2015: http://hpmor.com/
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by Artoemius 11y ago
I don't think that's why people don't keep private diaries. I would rather guess that they have no interesting thoughts. Technology actually made it easier to keep a diary that's truly private (I use a simple rar archive