Rury

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by Rury 7y ago
I always thought engineering was simply applied math and science. You're not researching and testing new theory explaining the nature behind how phenomena work, or developing new mathematical techniques, that's for scientists and
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by Rury 7y ago
There's many things CPI doesn't factor. For example house prices: https://www.thebalance.com/consumer-price-index-cpi-index-de... "Note that the CPI does not include sales price of homes. Instead, it calculat
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by Rury 7y ago
Right on. Similarly, people often conflate something morally good with something morally bad and ask/argue ”If I mix the two is it overall good or bad?". Which similarly doesn’t matter. The good should never be conflated with the
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by Rury 7y ago
Right, it's a buzzword. Buzzwords are very similar to phatic expressions (aka small talk). They're words that don't convey much information, because they lack stringent definitions. As so, they do little other than feed confi
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by Rury 7y ago
Steve Jobs had a theory about why this type of stuff becomes prevalent in the lifecycle of companies: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-why-innovation... Sounds a lot like google here. Frankly though, I think th
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by Rury 7y ago
>we are collectively living in an illusion of whacked up expectations... it's super hard to hire good people, but most of the time it's because "good enough" isn't good enough anymore So much this. When hiring in
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by Rury 7y ago
Yeah. I think people conflate clean code (readability) with code refactoring. For the sake of readability I don't think having clean code matters much... but refactoring I think can be important depending on the complexity you're
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by Rury 7y ago
Which is my point. Consciousness and computation are entirely up to what we define these words to mean. At some point we have to settle on a satisfactory definition of consciousness that fully differentiates it from computation, or they’re
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by Rury 7y ago
I was quoting the article, but I agree with your point.
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by Rury 7y ago
>You like others conflate "how","what" and "why". Whether or not it is biomechanics,electrochemicals or a projected hologram of quanta is "how", so is whether or not stimuli or measurement of stimu
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by Rury 7y ago
Then what is pain, and how do we make computers artificially feel it?
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by Rury 7y ago
Right, the mind processes it, and in turn does something, analogous to how computers process signals, and in turn do something.
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by Rury 7y ago
Yeah, sorry I don't mean to imply that. I'm just trying to challenge people's assumptions of what makes something intelligent. To me, it's not precisely clear as to what makes something intelligent, and is why I think we
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by Rury 7y ago
>There's no evidence that anything about the way human minds work is fundamentally unexplainable. Agreed. What I'm implying here is if we come circle to fully explaining how the brain works, then in theory we could predict how
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by Rury 7y ago
Pain is a signal to your brain, which causes you to react to a stimuli. Computers react to electrical inputs, and on some level can be considered reacting to a stimuli. Is a computer therefore conscious?
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by Rury 7y ago
>It will be “nothing but clever programming… fake consciousness—pretending by imitating people at the biophysical level.” For that, he thinks, is all AI can be. These systems might beat us at chess and Go, and deceive us into thinking th
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by Rury 7y ago
Frankly, I've thought a lot about narcissism and I'm beginning to think it's a bit nonsensical, as in some ways I think it can be used as a term to demonize others to justify the cognitive dissonance of treating them poorly.
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by Rury 7y ago
On your second question - as an enterprise software developer and hobbyist game developer of ~8 years, I'd say they're complex in different ways... ERP software is mostly a giant CRUD app/database, with APIs, reporting functi
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by Rury 7y ago
Perhaps this: >In inverted flight, the curved wing surface becomes the bottom surface, and according to Bernoulli’s theorem, it then generates reduced pressure below the wing. That lower pressure, added to the force of gravity, should ha
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by Rury 7y ago
>Interestingly, because a sail has effectively no thickness, both sides of the sail always have the same length, which immediately calls the Bernoulli argument into question Bernoulli's principle is often misunderstood. The principl
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by Rury 7y ago
I'm not saying anything about stifling. I'm saying hypothetically you can take the top richest people's incomes and redistribute it to everyone. Since everyone else would then have more income, everyone else would be paying m
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by Rury 7y ago
It'd be closer to zero-sum than your analogy, but either way it wouldn't need to be, as taxes could be re-adjusted as needed.
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by Rury 7y ago
>Eliminate the 1%, and who is going to make up that money? If by eliminate, you mean equalize the inequality - then the remaining 99% will contribute more as they'll be making more money...
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by Rury 7y ago
Singapore and Hong Kong are both in areas which never experience freezing. The act of freezing and thawing of water in temperate climates is super harsh on roads - as water will seep into cracks and then expand when it freezes. It's th
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by Rury 7y ago
Yeah I know what you mean. Frankly, I feel there's major problems behind the concepts of AI and even intelligence itself - and it's difficult to articulate why. It’s as if these terms require aggrandizing to the point of impossibi
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by Rury 7y ago
>Cases that get reported are biased towards people who get more sick True, however I fail to see how this point is relevant when comparing statistics with past diseases - as the same could be said of our historical data we have for SARS
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by Rury 7y ago
>For me it feels a bit more like the muscle movements in my larynx are played out as though I was going to speak the words Apparently, there's been studies showing that is actually true: https://www.theguardian.com/s
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by Rury 7y ago
>does that mean you can smoke with no health consequences by stopping when you're middle aged? The answer to that is clearly no. Young people aren't immune to cancer; they're also increasing their risk of developing cancer
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by Rury 7y ago
It's not clear from the article what this really means. Up to 40% after what time frame? By the end of the study? Was the study a few months? 5 years? Does it continue to get better or just stop at 40%?
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by Rury 7y ago
>Not because of a debt burden, there is nothing wrong with long term public sector debt financing. To an extent... >The problem is the asset bubble in home ownership prices. I just want to point out that these two are, are somewhat ti

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