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by IKantRead 3y ago
Existential dread. Nietzsche was right to be concerned with the "death of God". People have a very hard time dealing with the inevitability of our own death and the fundamental meaninglessness of our existence. Even people who thi
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Interestingly enough the Marxist variation on this is that, if we assume Marx's Labor Theory of Value (I know, big assumption for most, but let's just go with it and see what the conclusion would be): All surplus value is extracte
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by IKantRead 3y ago
To add to what you're saying: It's not like the Object-relational impedance mismatch[0] is some great unknown property of ORMs. Since people have been putting ORMs into production designers of these systems have been well aware th
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Are you confusing Wittgenstein with Russell? Tractatus is basically the opposite of "windmill tilting", it concludes that the vast majority of philosophical "problems" end up being essentially "windmills" in th
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I also wished we had an academic world that valued that advancement of a field that wandering the world in thought and then showing up with a ground changing work was enough to get a Phd. It's hard to imagine a new Wittgenstein in the
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With 10+ years in DS, I've always felt that best DS were always basically software engineers that knew math and were more interested in prototyping cool machine learning product than maintaining production infrastructure. Unfortunately
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> "I don't see my seeing of a flower" Then you must have a fundamentally different qualitative experience of consciousness than I do. The flower I am holding right now, it is real to me because I can observe myself experie
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> Scepticism does not falsify reality I don't understand why you're even making this statement, no philosophical skeptic would disagree with this. Skepticism has always attacked our understanding of reality, not reality itse
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I'm not even sure what "really is a flower" even means. Surely you'll at least agree that the concept of "flower" is a mental object that we use to classify a set of related sense perceptions. If you're
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It feels a bit like contemporary physics has caught up to the concerns of 18/19th century philosophers. Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant and others, while disagreeing with each other in major ways, all agree on one big concern: We'r
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To add to this sentiment: I increasingly find the idea of "reading a book" (in the sense of "completing a book") when talking about serious works of literature, philosophy (or even technical books) somewhat nonsensical.
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I suspect many people on HN have never had a proper office with a door. While I do agree with your overall premise, having had offices at multiple roles over my career, it is a major improvement over cubicles and open office. Having a s
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I should have specified gasoline consumption since this more closely maps to what we assume EVs will replace. That has been increasing overtime, barring of course the pandemic, we're on track to pick up from where 2019 left off this
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> We are making progress and as long as the pessimists don't get their way. I've been hearing a similar statement for decades now, but the global emissions only continue to rise. In fact, I've been hearing that logic sinc
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> There is no motive for truth This also ignores the larger question that has been a known issue for at least 2,000 years: "Quid est veritas?"
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The hype has also been great at fueling economic activity which contributes even more across a wide range of sectors. We know how to reduce carbon emissions immediately , we did a great job of it 3 years ago, we just don't like the an
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The idea that "experience" is an outdated concept would only make sense coming from an industry that really doesn't even really have "senior" people. Having worked in multiple fields throughout my life, I deeply mis
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The trouble with climate change has always been that by the time you notice the "big nasty effect" it's already too late to prevent catastrophe. To be clear, it's never too late to improve our fate, but by the time som
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> Where are we in the hype cycle on this? Can we stop acting like the Gartner "hype cycle" is anything more than a marketing gimmick created Gartner to validate their own consulting/research services? While you can absolu
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by IKantRead 3y ago
oh thanks for this! I had no idea, and it would have been better than nothing at all!
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I was recently stuck on the tarmac for nearly 3 hours over night. It was an awful experience (especially since they were unable to give us a real estimate, we kept hearing 15-30 mins for the entire duration). I would have much rather they
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We currently have no reason to believe this, and information we do have seems to suggest that is very unlikely to be the case. I'm also guessing from my username you can infer that I don't think we even know enough to concretely s
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LLMs and essentially all neural networks can be viewed as learning compression algorithms where the behavior of the compression algorithm is learned and subject to potential constraints beyond mere file reconstruction. Highly recommend read
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The problem is funding. The best psychology work tends to be much closer to philosophy than science. But philosophy generally doesn't get much funding. Anyone interested in psychology will ultimately be forced to optimize for funding,