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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Yeah, they're what I was using. If you want to believe she was who she said she was and lived to be 122, there's evidence in there to support it--providing you're willing to ignore all the evidence pointing to identity theft
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
That's a very weird way to spin it. The Wikipedia article misrepresents the situation (e.g. reporting that she "had correctly answered questions about things that her daughter could not have known first-hand" (which is irrel
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
There's a missing dimension: orthogonality. Having terse notation that implements a feature that you can reason about in isolation is fine for both beginners and experts. But features that have complex interactions with their environ
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
So far as I can tell, the main source of this claim is the comment you are responding to, and similar. I think the real issue is this: "The party is heavily opposed to political corruption and high politician incomes and wants to reduc
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I think fried eggs were pretty similar in the 1830s Maine to what we have today; I suspect transportation was most of the issue, as eggs would be significantly less efficient to transport than, say, a side of beef. Hamburger steak was steak
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I don't think it's safe to deduce that there were few differences from the (perfectly valid) observation that there were many similarities. The problem is that the similarities all exist along shared dimensions (they typically wo
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I think it depends on which you look at. Some of them seemed cheep, others seemed pricey, which was likely correlated with other aspects (how posh/swank the restaurant, how "captured" the clientele, etc.)
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Classical liberalism: a political and economic philosophy emphasizing individual rights, civil liberties, limited government, and free markets. We are are talking about the famous Xi Jinping, right? The one that rules China with an iron fi
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/feb/10/bernie-sander...
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
So are you saying Xi Jinping is the Classical Liberal and Bernie Sanders is the Comunitarian? Or are you saying it's the other way around? (For clarity: I didn't "flip" them, I'm saying that they are both Communita
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
> ...tell me what you think about AI, and I’ll tell you who you are. Those worried about [...] Significant omission: those worried about automating the production of bullshit at industrial scale.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
> Just tell me what the options are, and what facts can be found about it. Even this is fraught with pitfalls. Which options are ignored, which are emphasized? What counts as a fact? ("The continents don't move" would h
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
They also both say far more random shit than their fan clubs are willing to admit. Amusingly, you can often find cases where they've voiced the same or very similar opinions (though at different times).
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Resistance is when you're nobly standing up to the other side and things get a little out of hand. Domestic terror is when the roles are reversed.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Since when are Socialists considered Classical Liberals? It's not that the labels are charged, it's that they are nonsensical unless you look at them from a very narrow bespoke perspective, where "things I like" go on on
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
And the two most "Libertarian" politicians listed (Sanders and Sánchez) are both avowed Socialists...WTF? I really think this says more about the biases of whoever came up with it (or their sources) than anything about reality.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I love self-referential humor!
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
As for the fear of breaking things, that's where our old friend version control comes in. If you're worried that you're going to break the AI's code but still think it needs to be refactored, fire up your safety nets an
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
So...it's your impression that the media and the current US administration like each other? Interesting. That is not the impression I've gotten.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Also, it's very hard to tell what the audience is organically rejecting from what various organizations (foreign or domestic) with a vested interest in the coverage are trying to suppress or what seemingly unrelated algorithmic process
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I miss the days when doing stuff like this felt like a fun puzzle to solve with existing tools rather than a frustrating exercise in resolving dependency graphs.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Sure, it sounds dumb when you say it like that. But do you know how many people are doing things that are even dumber right this very minute? I don't know either, but I'm sure it's larger than either of us would like to admi
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
I miss her too. :(
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
The article assumes that AI will get shitty the same way search, social media, etc. did. I don't think this is the case at all. It's pretty clear that LLMs will rapidly discover entirely new and innovative ways to be shitty.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them." -- Evelyn Waugh Paraplegics don't have the use of their limbs. Acting as if "sensory issues" are in the same category is grossly insensitive.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Connected hexes meaning "connected _occupied_ hexes"? It certainly seems to let you select empty hexes. Is it that the "size" of a district is based on area, rather than population (as in the real world)? No, that&#x27
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
Again, that's public (shared), not yours. Not sure how (or why) you've gone from "we shouldn't be judging other people's taste" to "I get to defecate wherever I want."
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
See, the "your" in there is what we call a possessive pronoun. It indicates that something (in this case, my porch) is owned by someone (in this case, me). That makes what you are proposing doing a property rights issue, not cul
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
You don't have to sell me on it, I was already convinced.
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by MarkusQ 4mo ago
[spoilers] https://snipboard.io/NZ8sa7.jpg

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