NateEag

19 ms·

301.
by NateEag 3y ago
I think his point is that even if we're technically in a simulation, we very likely do not have access to any exterior world. Thus, in some sense, this is base reality "by definition" - that reality beyond which you cannot fi
302.
by NateEag 3y ago
> Any intelligence capable of human level reasoning would be able to choose “evil”. Tangent, but if this is true (which seems likely to me) ... If a hypothetical creator valued the existence of other intelligences more than it valued pre
303.
by NateEag 3y ago
I think OP understands that calculus is an enormously powerful tool. I think the OP's point is that much like the Newtonian physics that paired with calculus to put a man on the moon, calculus is a pragmatically magnificent tool that d
304.
by NateEag 3y ago
The canonical compilation of these anecdotes is "The Self Does Not Die": https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Self_Does_Not_Die.h... There are a few stories in it that left me raising my eyebrows and
305.
by NateEag 4y ago
I believe OP was engaging in sarcasm.
306.
by NateEag 4y ago
I think when you "really destroy their argument," the average human bystander thinks "... what a jerk." If you quietly make a few good points, don't push too hard, and ask sincere questions to help you understand th
307.
by NateEag 4y ago
Slightly OT, but it's interesting to note that there's a somewhat-developed thread of decentralization and independent thought running through the New Testament. The most famous is probably Jesus being asked to weigh in on a polit
308.
by NateEag 4y ago
I mean, in some sense these are creative. But they mostly read like someone churning out monster manual entries by pairing animal names with adjectives then putting in the obvious two sentences of description. Nothing about it engages my br
309.
by NateEag 4y ago
s/key you/key to/ I hate typing on screens.
310.
by NateEag 4y ago
I remember watching Avatar in 3D and being blown away (both by the dreadful screenwriting and by the amazing 3D effect). It taught me that the key you immersive 3D is to treat the screen as a window. Things have depth beyond it, but never p
311.
by NateEag 4y ago
I didn't mean you were forcing them to approve it. I meant that, over time, your system will become right more and more often, not by virtue of genuinely understanding the situations, but because it has more training data and comes up
312.
by NateEag 4y ago
Your description sounds like you're training your reviewers to rubberstamp the system's results as correct. That is a horrible outcome. By the time something comes along they really need to question, they'll already have adap
313.
by NateEag 4y ago
As a US citizen, this strikes me as hilarious. I think businesses around here that want to retain employees already make an effort in the form of generous PTO and healthcare policies. Most don't.
314.
by NateEag 4y ago
Worth pointing out that many logical fallacies are legitimately persuasive, acceptable arguments. They're fallacies because they're not acceptable in a rigorous proof, not because they're entirely without any place in thinkin
315.
by NateEag 4y ago
As a father of young kids, I cannot recommend John Klassen's "Hat" picture books enough: I Want My Hat Back This Is Not My Hat We Found A Hat The Rock From The Sky They're beautiful exercises in minimal, precision water
316.
by NateEag 4y ago
It just now occurred to me that a natural solution to this problem could be to move past code review to "other teammate writes the tests for your PR." You owe them an additional beer at the next happy hour for each test they write
317.
by NateEag 4y ago
No one's conclusively shown either that we do or don't have free will. Showing rigorously that we do would be a massive change in academia, as would be showing that we do not.
318.
by NateEag 4y ago
Emacs is heavily regex-centric (though tree-sitter support may be slowly changing this), and it suffers badly from escaping problems when writing them, so it's not surprising that it has a built-in library to generate regexes in a much
319.
by NateEag 4y ago
As is so often the case, Emacs already has a mature implementation of this built-in: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx...
320.
by NateEag 4y ago
OP is sarcastically pointing out that since the US has never had socialized health care, that cannot be the explanation for a sudden uptick in mental health issues circa 2012.
321.
by NateEag 4y ago
> fly in the face of religion s/religion/a particular interpretation of the first few pages of Genesis/
322.
by NateEag 4y ago
A completely alternate explanation that I don't quite believe but can't pass up mentioning: Perhaps the Beatles really weren't that great, but were massively popular for reasons other than master craftsmanship. Fast-forward
323.
by NateEag 4y ago
I tried a few of my favorites and the results were... predictable, I guess. It kind of matches genre, but has no grasp of musicianship or why I might like a track. And this is a fundamental problem. See Avery Pennarun's brilliant exp
324.
by NateEag 4y ago
> assist in story development, unexpected plot twists, believable character dialogue, etc. This is the sort of thing I'd expect current ML language models to be terrible at, judging from my limited exposure to them. They just shove
325.
by NateEag 4y ago
Your choice to be generous is a kind and good one. I don't have great insight into copyright issues, but as one who loves music and used to play a lot of it, I'm right there with you on the "it's all bad news over here&q
326.
by NateEag 4y ago
I suspect you're wrong that the stealing is inadvertent. I'm suspicious the makers of the art generator AI systems know exactly what they're doing and see no issues with it.
327.
by NateEag 4y ago
Did I do that somewhere?
328.
by NateEag 4y ago
Or, perhaps, OP has had good dogs in his life and recognizes the negative externalities many dog owners push onto the rest of us. I'm still annoyed at whoever let their dog crap in my yard and didn't clean it up. I stepped in it w
329.
by NateEag 4y ago
I strongly agree that spiritual-sounding platitudes can be a dangerous stand-in for actual mental health assistance. I grew up in conservative evangelical Christianity and saw that happen far too often. I don't see how the OP describi
330.
by NateEag 4y ago
What did you find objectionable or offensive in the grandparent post?

More ›