DiogenesKynikos

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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Wikipedia has many policies. Verifiability is one of the most important ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability . In this case, Wikipedia's policy is reasonable. I tried looking for any articles
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
I tried looking for reliable secondary sources that discuss the Odin programming language. I couldn't find any. That's not Wikipedia's fault. It is a bit weird that people are insisting that Odin is such a big deal that it mu
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
It's also that letting editors argue based on their own original research would be a recipe for chaos. "Use reliable secondary sources" is a simple rule that limits the scope for possible conflict and chaos. For an online enc
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Because plenty of secondary sources have covered it. Wikipedia's philosophy is that it summarizes reliable secondary sources. You're asking for Wikipedia to change its fundamental philosophy so that editors go out and gather prima
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Wikipedia's core policy is verifiability, not truth. If you put a factual statement into an article, you're required to have a written source that Wikipedia can cite. "Someone who says they're the CEO said so on the talk
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Switzerland is half as dense as New Jersey. It's around the same density as Delaware and Maryland. And it's full of giant mountains, which neither Delaware nor Maryland have.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Switzerland is small but mountainous. And just for reference: * Delaware: 200 people / km^2 * Switzerland: 230 people / km^2 * Massachusetts: 350 people / km^2 * New Jersey: 490 people / km^2 So you can thin
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Switzerland.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Switzerland has some of the highest prices in the world for everything. This isn't unique to the Internet.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
The framing here is sensationalist. Going from near zero 40 years ago to being just 10 years behind the state of the art now is actually pretty rapid convergence. Calling that a "failure" is strange.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Beijing - Shanghai is about 1200 km. HSR has a 70% market share. The trip takes 4.5 hours. The only real reason you would fly this route would be as a connecting flight. But if you just want to travel from Beijing to Shanghai, HSR is the ob
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Note that most of those subsidies are things like sales-tax exemptions for EVs and support for charging infrastructure in China. In other words, they're not subsidies for Chinese cars being exported abroad. They're not even direct
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
"Pump and dump" is when Trump talks up a stock he just bought and then sells it.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Because the journal is a stamp of approval, and scientists are measured almost exclusively through their publication record. Getting a paper accepted by Nature can make a career. It's easy for anyone to publish papers online, but it&
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Nice, so every time I visit a restaurant and want to leave a review, I'll have to lawyer up. Sounds eminently reasonable.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Do you think it would harm the US economy if every state instituted its own currency, put up border checkpoints, only allowed its own citizens to work and live in-state, and imposed tariffs on all the other states?
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
People like Mr. Vigneault know nothing about how academia works. If they get their way, they'll do massive damage to Canada's academic research ecosystem. Academia is naturally open and international. These people don't get t
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
That does not explain DeepSeek, nor does it explain the car industry. The main advantages the Chinese car industry has right now are: they lead in battery R&D, production is highly automated, they iterate quickly, Chinese work culture i
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Price at home vs. abroad is key. The term dumping comes from the idea that a company that sells profitably in its home market dumps excess production abroad at below cost. This is not what is happening here. Chinese manufacturers are making
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Most of the Chinese domestic market is open to foreign competition. The areas that are closed off are those that are politically sensitive: publishing (including social media) and banking. As for dumping, Chinese goods generally sell at a m
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
You're vastly underestimating the economic importance of EU integration.
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by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Something like this happened to me too, for what it's worth. I wrote a completely factual description of my bad experience with a shop, and then got a nasty notice from Google that my review was being taken down because of a defamation
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Your brain is a biological neural network that evolved to solve a practical task. The result is that your brain experiences something it calls consciousness. We now have artificial neural networks that are capable of doing almost everything
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
> while also acknowledging that there is something different between the conscious experience we are all aware of as humans, and instructions executing on a chip. You say this based on what? Your brain is executing instructions on wetwar
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
It absolutely is true. LLMs know more than any human being, are simultaneously experts in nearly every field of science and humanities, are able to make novel mathematical discoveries, can write and understand every major written language,
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
LLMs are able to do almost everything that we consider human intelligence, and in many areas of intelligence, they have surpassed us. It's not at all extraordinary to assume they're conscious.
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
AI is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's like having a free private tutor who is always available. It's a great learning tool. On the other hand, students can use it to do all their homework for them, and skip learning al
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
> Its still bunch of instructions. So is your brain. That's the problem with this argument.
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
> invented later as a form of hostile mockery grounded in large part in sectarian bigotry When you read about the theological questions that led Christians to kill and excommunicate one another, "angels dancing on the head of a pin&
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
What we have right now is, "Mostly good science, which produces a constant stream of major advances, but which is subject to the same pressures and failure modes as any human endeavor, such as bias and financial interests with ulterior

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