NateEag

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by NateEag 6y ago
You make an excellent point. I shouldn't have been sure about the author's intent. Thank you for pointing out my error.
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by NateEag 6y ago
I'd say that makes it an apt analogy. It just makes a point opposite to the author's intent.
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by NateEag 6y ago
One thing that bothers me is how it completely automates something like the process of citogenesis: https://xkcd.com/978/ It was trained on the internet, a gigantic repository of half-truths and misinformation, and it
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by NateEag 6y ago
I'm not sure whether I'd vote for or against this proposal. I probably would just ignore it entirely, if it was experimental and opt-in. If it was required, I would probably stop using HN. Despite trying to be a careful systems th
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by NateEag 6y ago
Thanks for the numbers. Good to see some evidence my hunch was right - I'd say 43% of the sample is "many". YouGov speculates in their presentation of the data they gathered that perhaps more Republicans approved because they
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by NateEag 6y ago
I can't speak for OP, but long before the election, I was expecting violence around the US if Trump lost. I didn't predict an attack on the Capitol, but it didn't really surprise me, either. I speak as a conservative who is a
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by NateEag 6y ago
..."good and evil," not "God and evil."
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by NateEag 6y ago
Remember that Elohim let humans break their own source code, according to the book of Genesis. Tree of the knowledge of God and evil, etc, etc...
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by NateEag 6y ago
If our ancestors had this attitude, we might not have rage-builders being used daily by a third of living humans. I don't believe all problems are unsolvable, but I've seen many systems fail because they do not take human nature i
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by NateEag 6y ago
A cop sees a guy crawling around under a streetlight and asks him, "Sir, what are you doing?" The man replies, "Well, officer, I dropped my car keys and I'm trying to find them." The policeman offers
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by NateEag 6y ago
Your proposed system seems mostly unaware that bias pervades all people and therefore all systems. I don't think there's a way to system-design ourselves out of this situation.
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by NateEag 6y ago
I've never seen a purely theoretical solution work the first time it's applied in practice, even in the simple, straightforward context of programming a computer. I think the word "invented" has to mean something more th
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by NateEag 6y ago
Humans are not perfectly rational agents, so this does not follow.
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by NateEag 6y ago
If it has never been seen to work, by what criteria can you claim we have invented it?
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by NateEag 6y ago
I think I put this too strongly, in retrospect. By "distrust", I just mean that I do not default to trusting any news source I know of. I try to take what they say as plausible but not likely the complete picture. I also keep an e
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by NateEag 6y ago
I did not even imply it does not exist, let alone say it. That would be a truly massive claim. However, if I've yet to see it, I don't know why I'd trust that it's happening regularly just outside my view. Until I see ev
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by NateEag 6y ago
https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
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by NateEag 6y ago
I approve of your nitpick. I am a counterexample to your main point. I distrust most media sources because I've not once seen one present rigorous, transparent, verifiable research about a current event of interest to me. I think I&#x2
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by NateEag 6y ago
As a Christian that has read the Bible probably a dozen times, I know of nothing in the book that says only God can create life. Can you point me to a spot where it says that?
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by NateEag 6y ago
That is a beautiful poem. Eliot is often beyond me, but The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Ash Wednesday both made intuitive sense to me in many ways.
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by NateEag 6y ago
Ah, maybe I misunderstood the original post. Thanks for clarifying.
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by NateEag 6y ago
Individual humans are not directly demeaned and violated by copying TV shows. They are by non-consensual porn. I personally believe strongly that porn demeans, dehumanizes, and violates the people in it, even when it's consensual (and
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by NateEag 6y ago
Well, the majority of respondents. I'd guess there's a significant selection bias there towards exactly the kinds of users that write their own configurations. Starter kit users seem way less likely to hang out on HN or r/ema
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by NateEag 6y ago
FWIW, I don't think of myself as a Lisp programmer, but I still answered that as "able to write my own packages" because I have. Writing a basic package really isn't that difficult.
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by NateEag 6y ago
I did my time with Java back in the 1.5 days. It was not a good syntax. It felt, as they say, like a battle with the compiler. I originally learned on Pascal, C, and C++ in college, so it's not like I was natively biased against C-li
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by NateEag 6y ago
Oh, absolutely. It's clear in the books, and outside that he made it very explicit that he mourned what it was doing to the English countryside he loved. I was just being pedantic about the events of the narrative, because it's cl
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by NateEag 6y ago
Uh, no, it does not. It takes Samwise Gamgee, a devoted and skilled gardener, spending a year of his life planting new trees to replace the ones that were lost. Yes, he uses a magical resource he was given as part of his reforestation campa
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by NateEag 6y ago
It's that companies are made up of a bunch of humans, not omniscient rational agents. The company doesn't "want" anything. It's a big social machine that is not so much designed as evolved, and only the very core of
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by NateEag 6y ago
I believe the US law defining what "organic pesticides" are is here: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f1... I'm not sure what the industry standard for something being a &quo
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by NateEag 6y ago
I think the complaint is meant to be "organic doesn't mean anything". I read GP as saying that while an organic product might be produced responsibly, as your family's farms do, it could also be factory-farmed using pe

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