IsaacL

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Which part of them is particularly environmentally sustainable? The metals and plastics used in their manufacture is pretty minimal compared to cars or home appliances. Their power consumption is low compared to heating or lighting (a macbo
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I'm not a fan of the EU at all, and I'm not a fan of unnecessary government regulation. However, this article is FUD. American readers tend to assume the worst about government regulation of the web, but a charitable reading sugge
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Can any deep learning experts answer a related question I have? What's the state of the art in recognising rotated 3d objects? I know that deep learning systems can recognise, e.g., different animal toys held in the hand, at different
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Of course I've already read up on Singapore. It's a paternalistic, de-facto one party state, on a model common in East Asia. They make a different set of tradeoffs to Western nations - harsh law enforcement to achieve low crime ra
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Most light manufacturing remains human-operated, though - I'm thinking the 200-person widget factories in Shenzhen or 50-person tailoring shops in Vietnam. They don't typically make a small range of products on a mass scale, but m
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The price is far higher than it needs to be, though. Historically normal tax rates were around 10%, not the ~40% typical for most industrialised nations today. From around 1910 to 1950, there was a massive push to centralise control of econ
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I think automotion is the crux of the basic income argument. If mass automation was going to happen the way many people predict, basic income would make more sense. I don't think it will, and I think most jobs will be difficult to auto
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"And, btw, you may want to actually read TSG, it's pretty cool :)" I second my sibling poster. You are clearly a very smart person who has no qualms about confidently misrepresenting a book you haven't read. It's no
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I disagree. "Genes as the unit of selection" was, at the time TSG was written, a controversial theory. Group selection was the popular viewpoint (the very tempting notion that individual animals make selfless sacrifices for the he
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I actually got bit by the opposite of this early in my career - I have a knack for solving algorithmic coding challenges, which meant interviews tended to go really well, and led me to think my self-taught web dev skills were much better th
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Personality type might also be a factor. Not all young founders "play house". There's always been silly startup ideas, but that's mainly because a lot of people are silly. The "playing house" thing seems to be
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Ayn's Rand Speech to Officer Cadets at West Point(fare.tunes.org)
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Recently, I have found myself drawn to a range of people who describe themselves or are described by others as “libertarians” – only to find once again that there’s a hymn sheet of horrors that many seem to sing from. [...] Another commo
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Can you say more on the fight between traditional and symbolic logic? I'm glad to hear that classical logic is making a comeback, though it's news to me.
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There's a direct link from Kant to Hegel to Marx, and from Marx to all the horrors communism brought into the world. A separate link leads from Kant to Frege, Russell and modern analytic philosophy. Which is hardly on the level of Marx
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Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (it's available on Kindle) has the kernel of what he is talking about. Oversimplifying out of necessity, there's been a long running philosophical conflict between empiricists (focus on rea
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I remember meeting you back in August on Hacker News! Since then I read P:WNI and ITOE on your recommendation, then worked my way through a huge stack of Objectivist non-fiction. I registered for OCON last week - even if you're getting
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My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me(theguardian.com)
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People interested in the theory of an impending return to the gold standard might enjoy http://keithweinereconomics.com/2013/12/28/the-theory-of-int... . The author is a proponent of "new Austrian economi
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An even older science fiction story from ancient Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History
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I've only just seen this comment; all I wanted to say is that your interpretation sounds far too cynical. Maybe I just can't fathom what kind of mind gets an ego boost from "making the barista perform".
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I quit my job about 4 months ago feeling the onset of burnout. I was completely useless for most of that time but have just recently managed to get back into creative work. By the way, look up comments by the Hacker News user ahoyhere (Amy
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I had the same problem. My comment: --- "The crucial assumption is that the abstract program, as a mathematical object, requires design and therefore intent. Accordingly, only artificial things can compute. We cannot say, for example,
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I was quite surprised to see the tea-making and sandwich-making robots. I met a startup in Hong Kong, CafeX, who were working on a coffee-making robot, and my first reaction was that they were using cutting-edge technology to solve a trivia
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Difficult in what way? (I ask as it's possible my unique mix of interests made it more accessible to me.) I'll take a look at your other books. Also, do you have an email address? I'd like to chat more. Mine is in my profile.
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You've persuaded me to take another look at her philosophy. If you're still here, any books you'd recommend? Is Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology worth the read? I read Virtue of Selfishness which was OK -- I prefe
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Heh. It does add a certain something when you read her books. 1984 probably packed more of a punch when it was distributed covertly in totalitarian Soviet states. You're reading about a society which bans books, in a book banned by you
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"That’s very strange. As an American, would I say Puerto Rico is one of the very last things that ought to ever be cut in the federal budget? Heck no! Puerto Rico has repeatedly decided it’d rather not be a state, but at least it’s st
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I second the Ted Chiang recommendation. I've only read his novella "Understand", but it tackled Eliezer-esque themes in a non-Eliezer-esque way. Actually, you've inspired me to go look up his other stuff.
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Funny and accurate summary. I'm 25 (and planning to marry and have children) but I'm realistic about what child-raising will be like, and don't entertain egalitarian fantasies. This is partly because I went through two divorc

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