Gargoyle

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by Gargoyle 10y ago
True, but when asked directly if he was atheist, he answered "No."
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
There's probably a way to ask this politely, but I'll just ask bluntly to save time and confusion... Did you think you could change the way people hired overnight? There probably is a way to do what you set out to do, but it see
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
There are many companies that do much more in revenue with sites like that, yes.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I see nothing unusual about their website. It looks like the sites for 5,000,000 other companies that don't sell things online.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
No, the people who wrote and ratified the First Amendment to the constitution of the United States engaged in truly "fake news" themselves. They published lies they knew were lies in order to gain political advantage, and many of
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Think about what I've actually suggested here and not the comparisons you're leaping to. As I said, I didn't avoid those comparisons by accident. What I'm suggesting is not the same thing.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
While it resembles some concepts of the past, it doesn't resemble any actual implementations of those concepts, so I intentionally avoid attaching those labels to it. They do not accurately describe what eventually needs to happen.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>They're going to see those Other People over there paying them to shut up, sit down, and be useless. Right. And what I'm getting at is removing those Other People from the equation. I see that as a completely essential part o
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
What aspect of the sales rep job is unable to be automated in the next couple of decades?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
You end up with the problems due to the framing. If you frame it as a gift from your betters (which is how it is currently framed), yes, you have problems. If you frame it as something you're owed as a human right, there are many fewer
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
So make it not charity. Make it part ownership in the entities that generate all this wealth. It's not basic income, it's dividends from the society you're a part of. Capitalism got us this far, but it's rapidly approac
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
> the machine learning stuff presently in use is well tailored to very narrow, specific problems It's more accurate to say the machine learning in use now works on narrow classes of problems. But even that is a giant leap forward
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
People think it's different this time because the new machines are more generally capable than the specific purpose machines of the past. It's not "the new machine can gin cotton" or "the new machine can weave cloth
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
No, you'd rent a car is what would happen in reality. Same way as the vast majority of people who visit Zion. I went to many remote areas in the western US before I moved from the east coast, and it was often in rental cars (and not o
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>I'll trust the CIA over the FSB/GRU any day of the week. Perhaps, but that's irrelevant to the issue of attribution at this point.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
What happens to cities when the jobs have been automated out of them? There's the meltdown on the horizon.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The footnote in the post also references this paper for the claim- Intelligence and personal influence in groups: Four nonlinear models. Simonton, Dean K. Psychological Review, Vol 92(4), Oct 1985, 532-547 http://psycnet.apa.org&
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Mensa is just the top 2%, though. The top 0.1% are to Mensa as Mensa is to society as a whole. For the reallllllly high IQ people, your average Mensa member can be the worst. Smart enough to know they're smart, but unable to see how m
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I 100% support this and would like to see it made permanent.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I don't think Facebook needs to control what gets on the news feed.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
You may laugh, but I just finished a gig working on this. Watch this space.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
In all these interviews with fake news makers, I've been amused that people who are obvious experts at telling people what they want to hear are still telling people what they want to hear. And it sails right by the real journalists un
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Of course, now any FBI investigation would have to take into account that reddit employees are known to silently edit comments.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
In what way is it an abuse of the system?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Wow. And he knew it was stupid when he did it. There's been a lot of talk about having the right temperament for leadership lately, and this is an excellent example of lacking it.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Something I've wanted to ask, then... Why is there a relatively short cutoff period for deleting one of your own comments?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
As I mentioned below, I've followed this from the beginning. I was reading the Podesta emails and following discussion in r/dncleaks when this stuff started popping up in there. I suppose it may have started on one of the chans fi
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>If you knowingly post and spread damaging fake information (deliberately engineered to accuse people of child molestation) on the internet[...] What you're missing here is that they genuinely believe it to be true. As incredible as
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I wonder if RL San Francisco is profitable loaded with normal government mechanics. :-)
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
"The other is that their abuse problem was a big factor in them not getting offers from a couple of suitors during their attempt to sell themselves. I think it's safe to say their abuse problem cost investors literally billions of

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