BaronSamedi

16 ms·

31.
by BaronSamedi 6y ago
"First, a bunch of generic smart people on Twitter who got things exactly right" I think it is far too early to declare anyone "exactly right". We won't know for months, maybe years; maybe we will never know because
32.
by BaronSamedi 6y ago
A perhaps more important downside to arrogance is that hubris leads to blindness. One can be so blinded by the light of one's own brilliance that one fails to see beyond it. Intellectual humility, therefore, is the recognition of our l
33.
by BaronSamedi 6y ago
I liked Taleb's "The Black Swan" but find his Twitter persona grating. He displays an attitude of, "anyone who doesn't agree with me is dumb". I think the opposite is needed now. Complex and difficult issues ar
34.
by BaronSamedi 6y ago
I don't know if AGI is possible or not but I do think this is a valid question. The AI risk people gloss over this fundamental question and proceed directly to the question of "AI safety". This is a major weakness in their a
35.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
> accepting that overreacting is much more desirable I wish that were true but it is not. It is entirely possible to take actions that make a bad situation worse. The consequences of an economic shutdown, for example, are unknown. The wo
36.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
Not ignored, I just cannot find any good data on hospitalization rates by age group nor the associated stats. These figures also do not take into account pre-existing conditions which greatly influence the CFR.
37.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
I think that in hindsight Sweden's approach will look reasonable. The data we have now, imperfect as it is, shows that the elderly are the main risk group and therefore the ones needing special protection. The South Koreans have very g
38.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
I'm sure people have many good ideas. Two things that come to mind are: extend the Berry Amendment to the entire US Federal Government and designate certain products such as medicine as critical and require that they be manufactured in
39.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
It's easy to take basic scientific discoveries for granted. The existence of DNA and micro-organisms, for example, or that living organisms change over time were important discoveries. It wasn't that long ago when people didn&#x27
40.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
I think the reality is more subtle than this. Is, for example, the discovery of DNA going to be falsified? I don't think so. Is the notion that living organisms evolve going to be falsified? Again, I doubt it. The case of Newton and Ei
41.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
This was so interesting. The way it handles copy & paste seems better than our current convention. Its use of typography was elegant. I suppose that is a benefit of using a text editor that can also format documents for publication. I d
42.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
I agree but would qualify it. There is a clear benefit to JS based web applications. However, there was not a need to insert JS into every web site. With JS used sparingly in trusted web applications we could whitelist them and block JS eve
43.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
Let's hope that Amazon recognizes the seriousness of this problem before it manifests itself financially. By then it could be too late. If we think about this as a "reputational security" problem then Amazon is already vulner
44.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
The economist Timur Kuran has an interesting theory on this topic called “Preference falsification”. Under this theory people lie about their true opinion due to social pressure of various kinds. The interesting part is that this phenomenon
45.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
Modern behavioral genetic research as described, for example, in Robert Plomin's "Blueprint", seems to make some people uncomfortable. I suppose it could qualify as "heresy" as it challenges a number of widely held
46.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
In my view, at least part of the reason science has been so successful is precisely because it distanced itself from the emotional and spiritual. For those areas of life we have art and philosophy.
47.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
You are using the word "bad" equivocally. Bad as in "bad for your health" is one thing (no problem with that), bad as in "eating ice cream is morally bad" is quite another. What would the claim that eating ice
48.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
We could even take an additional step on the path of honest communication and instead of "good" and "bad", say "things I like" and "things I dislike".
49.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
Very interesting point about Democracy. It suggests that Democracy has a natural scale, for example a city or town of a certain size. The city-states of classical antiquity, the middle ages, and the renaissance seem to support this. Of cour
50.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
Thank you for posting the link. I have read this. What do you think about Turchin's theory? I'm unsure whether I agree with it or not.
51.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
The point that struck me was the assertion that American elites have become dysfunctional. And, that wokeness is more of a symptom rather than cause of that dysfunction. That is a very interesting idea and worthy of consideration. Historica
52.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
That seems to be trading one type of lock-in for another. The problem with that approach is that now you have added a highly complex layer into your architecture that you need to maintain, integrate, and secure. I think it more likely that
53.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
That does exist to some extent. See https://www.slash-pro.com/products .
54.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
How does prioritizing security equate to "denial of service"? A securely designed system can be user friendly.
55.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
The web has changed. It has become a vastly more hostile environment. In my view, the appropriate way of acknowledging this change is to prioritize security over features. Whether a feature is useful or not is no longer the primary consider
56.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
This paper is emblematic of a serious problem in the software development field: lack of empirical research. It is unsurprisingly filled with opinion and anecdote, with little mention of research in the area. And in the one actual study cit
57.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
I agree that breaking up these companies is the best option. I can understand the calls for regulation but that is only treating the symptom and will have negative side-effects. The size and position of companies like Facebook leads to a co
58.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
I was also going to say it's likely a Docker network problem. Docker-in-docker runners work great for us and make it possible to do all kinds testing in the pipeline; for example Selenium, custom REST, OWASP ZAP, etc.
59.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
Science still carries significant cultural cachet. It may be the only remaining sources of authority that does. How much longer that cachet can be abused before it is lost is a concern of mine. The replication crisis and general low quality
60.
by BaronSamedi 7y ago
And rationalizing because we actually have no idea why we are doing it.

More ›