Dudeman112

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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Imagine thinking parents being responsible for how their children turn out is a cop out You think 15 years old are capable of being responsible for the level of responsibility they developed? Guess they should have made better decisions f
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You vastly overestimate your peers Software is a subset of any context, which is why I figured it would have been fine to replace it with the more general idea
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I see programmers are as good at judging whole-ass companies as hiring managers are good at judging whole-ass peoples Which is to say, they are awful at it and will act like one observation of one characteristic is more than enough data to
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>What most people usually mean by "complex" software is that its Kolmogorov complexity I disagree. What most people usually mean by "complex" in any context is some fuzzy not-really-defined thing they aren't real
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What, exactly, do mean by "complex" here?
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Indeed. People growing up isn't a function of one variable
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Is a Mechanical Engineering BSc who ends up working as mechanic on a car shop an engineer? Yes, although those fellas mostly don't pretend their jobs involve designing and validating mechanisms with any scientific and industry regula
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>Software engineer applies computer science theory in real world where he she is constrained by real world factors A good 90% of people with that title are flying blind as if they lived the wild west A good 90% of the rest almost never d
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>Waaay easier than external AI and technology intervention RIP everyone that didn't win the normal body lottery though
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I'm no genius, but in a world where I was born in a nation with UBI (or just expected a fat inheritance) I would have taken that masters in Bioinformatics scholarship and continued my research instead of writing shit code so businesses
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>being able to resolve conflict, independently A shame sometimes the best way to resolve a conflict is eye gouging the aggressor before they permanently break a part of your body The thing that stuck with me the most by getting the &quot
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The essence being probabilistic doesn't matter for observable stuff bigger than atoms
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>I'd rather there be room for people over-reacting than risk there not being room for polite suggestion That's the thing. Usually the snark isn't followed by suggestion or anything useful at all People being mean often do
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Just like everything else too, most of the work out there isn't that difficult
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Counter example just for argument's sake: gaming whales There's a whole-ass industry built on exploiting them. How many of them have you personally heard of vs non-whales?
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>It is all worth questioning Only if you are happy to spend your life never doing anything but questioning what's already there The corpus of knowledge of any one field takes more than a lifetime to properly validate by yourself, an
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>Never assume malice etc The assumption isn't "malice", it's "profit"
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While I agree that the epistemology is shite, there actually is a limit to how much you can do by your own self Not everybody has a large hadron collider on their garden
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>I would prefer is that these people are given the tools to find the truth on their own You have a high degree of trust in humanity's capacity for rational thought, don't you? That trust is misplaced and will backfire if you ev
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>Is gameplay not the most important part of a game? It's an artist's medium. The most important part is what it does to who consumes it
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>That affects people directly, the upsdie-down flags and slogans on fields along the roadside don't Those also don't achieve anything. The only form of protesting that the population at large accepts are either illegal or usele
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I think they are referring to the population at large being aware of it instead of actual actions taken Like with the mainstream media and the fact that no one has put the Murdochs in a rocket to Mars
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Am currently living in England, can confirm things they don't like didn't disappear and things have, in fact, been getting worse But hey, happy fishes and being able to flaunt that stylish passport on the massive customs queue May
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"it's not the end of all life" isn't much of a consolation for those that will have to live through the shitshow Some people are used to such a good life that the concept of actual, intense, long-term suffering doesn&#x2
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I get a feeling the only way a school can satisfy your standard for "not cherry picking" are those armed with Omnipotence
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> has been done once it doesn't need to be done again. incoherent angry mumbling
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It doesn't have to be a psychological trick. Sometimes you don't actually have evidence it was exploited - at which point what are you meant to say?
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Maybe because for the vast, vast majority of people that 30% is the boring grind they have to do to survive?
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Ah, being forever branded as an undesirable, being abused by staff, losing your ability to walk outside when you want and have contact with regular people, having very little to do for ridiculous amounts of time, plus having to take care no
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You don't need a "there is no God" experiment, at least if the only god that's actually on your hypothesis space is the abrahamic one All other hypothesis win over an omnipotent god. That model has infinite complexity

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