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by Lewton 8y ago
LSD made me go from your run of the mill nihilist to being convinced that even consciousness is a complete illusion and all philosophy is built on this ridiculous lie. It's like solipsism taken one step further, no I'm not the onl
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by Lewton 9y ago
"Adaptability" called "Behavioral flexibility" in the article
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by Lewton 9y ago
> I have often wondered what would happen if there were more studies into the benefits of the placebo effec We might eventually find that the placebo effect is a measure of how bad we are at doing science http://www.nejm.org&#
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by Lewton 9y ago
I completely agree with rayiner, and am a little concerned he’s being downvoted so heavily But no, it shouldn’t be illegal. Yet what he said still completely applies to stuff like fiddling with ids on a site where you suspect it might lead
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by Lewton 9y ago
> there was a comment yesterday about how short-bursts of extra activity actually made people less active outside their regular exercise times Made mice less active! Not people. It was a link to an article about a mouse study
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by Lewton 9y ago
Well, New Vegas had a few people from the original fallout working on it afaik. And it's made by Obsidian, who made the excellent Pillars of Eternity which you already praised :)
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by Lewton 9y ago
Did you ever play New Vegas? It got a lot closer to the magic of fallout 1+2
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by Lewton 9y ago
Feynman had a higher IQ than 125 Tests are not perfect, he could have had a bad day Maybe he didn’t care Maybe he misremembers taking an actual IQ test etc
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by Lewton 9y ago
I got the impression that Waymo has a ton of actual, human written, software on top of the ML core, "manually" handling a lot of edge cases. I doubt Uber has this
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by Lewton 9y ago
If you click "not now" it pops up again later. At least it used to, and it was really abrasive about it. Definitely dark pattern behaviour
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by Lewton 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16652387 Previous submission that was massively flagged for some reason Edit: might have been the misleading title
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by Lewton 9y ago
Other big players have taken great pains to ensure that it wouldn’t happen in the first place Uber should be banned from doing AI research on public roads
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by Lewton 9y ago
There’s more than one data point showing that Uber should not be allowed near anything as safety critical as self driving software They let a car on the road that couldn’t even stop at a red light ffs https://www.theverge.com&#x2
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by Lewton 9y ago
Thanks for the link! I definitely agree, gut flora is no joke! And I don’t recommend messing around with it unless you have something pretty serious you want to fix
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by Lewton 9y ago
I really hope Tempe has the balls to revoke Ubers AI driving license. This is completely unacceptable. Their approach to AI driving has been terrible from the start. They don't have the data, nor the expertise to do this in a safe way.
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by Lewton 9y ago
VSL#3 seems to be one of the few probiotic products with enough bacteria in it to actually make a difference. I seem to have used it with some success in calming down a bout of very nasty Rosacea that -might- have been SIBO related. Purely
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by Lewton 9y ago
How does that make the term meaningless? If you owned 90% of a crypto currency it would indeed be centralized If someone owns the vast majority of a crypto currency, they have a lot of control over the price And since stellar is centralized
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by Lewton 9y ago
I’ve never worked hard in my life and I earn more than my (hard working) parents combined
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by Lewton 9y ago
As a vive fanatic "Built ground up for VR AAA titles" != "Adapted VR AAA titles" I refuse to use revive to play any of these games because I don't want to support the exclusives, but I gotta admit that something lik
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by Lewton 9y ago
> totally by accident not an accident if you're paid to do it
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by Lewton 9y ago
> That said, I find the quoted statistic suspect. First of all, the first vaccine wasn't even licensed until 2006, and there wasn't a vaccine that addressed more than 4 of the cancer-causing subtypes until 2014[0]. Second, they
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by Lewton 9y ago
Agreed that my comment has little to no value But I was genuinely curious how other people felt :)
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by Lewton 9y ago
I'm torn, there's literally a link to Johnny Lee's work in the article. So your comment doesn't add anything. But a lot of people read only the comments (or the comments before the article) so your comment does add value
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by Lewton 9y ago
There's very few crimes in my mind that would justify 20 years in prison and fraud definitely isn't one of them
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by Lewton 9y ago
I don’t think it’s possible to really understand how great Spotify’s algorithm is until you’ve experienced it recommending a fantastic song, and you go check the artist out, notice they have less than ten thousand plays and have only releas
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by Lewton 9y ago
> We seen competition not working in many sectors Agreed! I don't think car manufacturers is one of those sectors. Even if you take into account the periodic scandals (emission test, having to recall cars because they were literally
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by Lewton 9y ago
Cars now are much much safer than cars fifty years ago. There’s clearly some incentive to improve safety
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by Lewton 9y ago
> This would mean that the car companies won't invest in improving because they have less accidents then some number, maybe they can put some money into lobby so that number is the largest number possible obtained with some statisti
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by Lewton 9y ago
I think, I agree that we should expect more from AI drivers. But how much more? Even if they managed to decimate the number of fatal accidents, I'm sure that a large portion of people would still be really irrational about it and that
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by Lewton 9y ago
only really relevant if the robot cars end up killing more humans per mile driven than humans already do

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