Liesmith

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by Liesmith 12y ago
there is no explanation of what exactly the Discovery Channel is doing wrong here. the video says "what is the movement about" but never actually follows up by telling you what the movement is about.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
No one gives a shit about mensa. It will just make you look like a jerk. Definitely leave it off unless you want people who receive your resume to yell "hey check this guy out" and pass your resume around the office for laughs.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
They're actually not that political, usually. They're immune to politics so that protects them a great deal from the pressures that can be brought to bear on other branches of government. They also have historically had a complete
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Both of these quotes seem to come from a place of awe for computer science as if it is magic and only wizards can do it. "I might have been able to do it" is scoffed at because how could anyone say that! If you could do it you&#x2
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Yeah, actually, he went to two. Charles Darwin went to Cambridge, and then to the University of Edinburgh. both of which are and were two of the foremost universities on the planet. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, The Winnower. Also whe
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by Liesmith 12y ago
How is basic problem solving a test for rationality? Artists and serial killers and the mentally ill can learn to count.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
You should probably see a psychiatrist and/or psychologist instead of asking hackernews how to solve this problem.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
A much better question than "do rational people exist" would be "do people generally behave in a rational way?" Who cares if I'm not 100% rational all the time. As long as people in general tend towards rationality
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by Liesmith 12y ago
I dunno, dude. I was like you until recently, but smartphones are really personalized so my experience may not help you. What would you put on a laptop that fits in your pocket? I'm not much for social media apps and am actively hostil
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Huh. I didn't know any of that. Sorry for my dismissive reply.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
If you read the article it applies to all the schools that take government money.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
We do live in a world where this policy isn't necessary. the UK doesn't really have a ton of people who take creationism seriously like the US does. As the article mentions, the state mandates the teaching of evolution in schools,
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by Liesmith 12y ago
"contrary to what you might expect, research has gotten less efficient over the last 60 years, despite innovations in clinical research: the number of drugs approved annually has remained relatively static, while the financial resource
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Every time people talk about the "deep web" or "dark net" or whatever I roll my eyes so hard that I worry they will fall out of my head.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
This is an extremely poorly thought out article. The core idea, that you can't be the best at something and still fail, is so naive that it ruins everything else that the guy says.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
with a large transporter you don't need spaceships anymore.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Hatsune Miku is far from erotic except to a specific subset of fetishists, the robot restaurant is a gimmick, and study after study has demonstrated that people need actual human contact in the nursery and in times of stress or illness. Peo
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Oh. You're one of those people. Look dude, slaves in ancient rome were not 'better off' than free people. They were slaves. They were beaten regularly, if they were attractive they were raped regularly. Sure you've got t
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by Liesmith 12y ago
This is a fiction. Here's what actually happens to slavers: The first slave rulers are vicious conquerors who enslaved people. Over time, their offspring grow more and more dependent on a larger and larger population of slaves (they do
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by Liesmith 12y ago
No, what gives them power is their very real ability to unilaterally use deadly force on a whim. What lets them maintain power is apathy on the part of the proletariat, their desire to be ruled, and individualized fear of authority. The ill
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by Liesmith 12y ago
This is silly. Yes, the worker holds the means of production and blah blah blah but if you're not united with all the other workers then the local lord can just murder you and now everyone is scared and climbing over one another to arg
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by Liesmith 12y ago
You need to understand that this is nonsense. First of all, there is lobbying and power politics in really, REALLY local politics. Also it costs a lot less to influence a low level guy. If all I have control over is a school district, you m
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by Liesmith 12y ago
China is not, technically, a superpower. Not in the way Russia and the US were during the cold war, or the way the US remains.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
You know how p2p systems can be more effective? By not being p2p systems, and instead being centralized. It's not some kind of natural progression, it's an evolutionary process. Centralization gives you control, reactivity, and al
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by Liesmith 12y ago
It is exciting to think that everything is collapsing and the world is changing and now is different than the past. And in a lot of ways it is. But there is no technological singularity that is going to make human beings irrelevant. We need
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Actually literally everything in the universe guarantees that we will reach a stable solution. That's how things work. That stable solution may end up killing billions of people but eventually you get a status quo. Systems gravitate to
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Again, intellectual capabilities are not what makes you immune to automation. We can make smart robots. We can't make those smart robots visit cancer patients in a hospital, or serve me food while playing a violin at a restaurant at my
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by Liesmith 12y ago
There's no one who can't contribute to important problems. You assume that they are all related to intelligence but you are wrong. Wal-Mart Greeters and nursery caregivers and hospital candystripers are all solving important, impo
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by Liesmith 12y ago
It's slavery. Well, indentured servitude, but that's just a slightly technical way to say slavery, like those pedophiles who call themselves ephebophiles like it makes a difference. It's still messed up and vile.
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by Liesmith 12y ago
Why in God's name would you say that there is a case for basic income and tie it to debt slavery? Especially in circumstances where people have no income but the basic income, because allt he work they're qualified to do is done b

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