Stupulous

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by Stupulous 4y ago
This is a fair point. Primarily the reason that children can dominate a website is that they have so much more time to participate (and probably are more likely to contribute in a low-effort way), so putting the mark at 16 or 17 would still
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Have there been instances of governments providing cryptographic identification services yet? That seems like a hugely beneficial thing they could do in this space (with the side benefit of social websites that aren't overrun with chi
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Setting aside the question of whether the truth should be suppressed because of consequences, this kind of research could very easily be beneficial. Suppose you find out that the green people from East Arbitria are less productive. The imme
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I think you're making the same point. While biology would require your 8-year-old to work to survive, the social structure of your family (followed by your broader social network and eventually the state) is such that that's not t
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I would think the moral calculus is different when the non-consensual activity is sex vs. eg. cutting timber or cooking fast food. A single rape is a lot more traumatizing then a decade of physical labor. I don't know anything about ho
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by Stupulous 4y ago
If nobody cares where a Cessna is, why is it mandatory that everyone can find out? You could count on a fingerless glove the number of people who care where my car is, but I'd prefer not to stick that information in a public database.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
They're using US numbers both for iPhone count (which they overestimate by ~40 million) and total electricity. That should bias their estimate against their point, as the US is particularly consumerist. Correct me if I'm wrong, bu
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by Stupulous 4y ago
While we have Spotify's ear: why is the default behavior to clear my queue if I play another song? It's especially an issue on mobile, where viewing a playlist or album means that an errant tap almost anywhere on the screen undoes
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by Stupulous 4y ago
> across racial lines... Nobody cares if you appropriate it. It seems like the first tweet from your linked article is suggesting otherwise.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I agree that the graph is misleading, but your response is misleading as well. It looks like we spent more than twice as much in inflation-adjusted dollars at the peak in 1966 (49 billion) as at the peak in 2021 (23 billion), and generally
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Maybe I was unclear, but I completely agree both that your example does not prove that computation is a superset of thought. I'm looking for an example that would at least suggest the opposite- something humans can think that a compute
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by Stupulous 4y ago
That's the opposite, an example of a computation that is outside of the set of all thoughts. Notably, such examples wouldn't exist if computation was strictly a subset of thought, but that can be waved away by acknowledging that t
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Can you give an example of a thought or type of thought that is not contained within the set of all computations?
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Worth noting, I think, that California has the highest income tax rate in the country by a good margin and the 4th highest tax revenue per capita among states in 2021.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
This is tangential, but your opening statement threw me for a loop. As a Libertarian, I've spent a lot of time arguing with people on the left and right who are on the pro-censorship side when it comes to corporations. While it wouldn&
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I don't know if that's true for everyone. If someone doesn't believe that an idea should be the property of the first person who thought of it for an innate moral reason, they might still believe that it's unethical to t
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Sure, it's a toy example to tease out the underlying shortcomings of the measurement. Societies where the median does not reflect the typical experience do exist.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
If half of a country were impoverished and half were billionaires, I'd say they have a pretty serious income inequality issue. A median would randomly conclude that either the typical person is a billionaire or in poverty. Best case sc
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Favoring a Western lens or English language sources is racist, whether the word was used or not, insofar as it favors white people and the people white people care about. You might disagree with that definition, but it's not like the
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by Stupulous 4y ago
I imagine for most people it's a total non-issue. Unless you're a scientist or you breed plants/animals, believing in creationism instead of evolution makes pretty much no difference.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Yeah, this place is so conservative that you can't even say that Republicans are extremists who are intentionally undermining the country and that everyone who supports them is suffering from a rare mental disorder without people calml
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by Stupulous 4y ago
100M in net worth would motivate me, but one of the differences between me and a talented CEO is that I don't already have 100M in net worth. Gates had well over 100M when Microsoft went public in 1986, Bezos had more than a billion wh
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Out of curiosity I looked into the numbers for this. As of 2017, there were 700,000 Americans in India. As of 2018, there were 4.2 million Indians in the US. Dividing by population, that means ~0.2% of Americans are in India and ~0.3% of In
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by Stupulous 4y ago
It would not have made sense to discuss Musk's competence in context because Musk doesn't have autonomy over how Twitter chooses to respond to this.
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by Stupulous 4y ago
As someone who somewhat supports public land ownership (of the Georgism variety), I think you'd have to be plain nuts to use that belief to justify discouraging others to use the word 'landlord'. Especially considering I hear
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by Stupulous 4y ago
While I don't doubt that an intent of this is to promote empathy, I would need to see some evidence before I could be open to the possibility that that is its effect. Anecdotally, these things seem to incense anger and hatred- I'v
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by Stupulous 4y ago
Easy enough in theory. If you actually try to implement this, good luck calculating 4003 without calculating 4002 and adding one.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Cellular automata can be Turing complete, so they cover at least the entire range of a neural net, and more if it's not recurrent.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Your point is that people who want Twitter to be neutral are ideological, because being pro-neutrality is itself an ideology? Even taking that as a given, they could still absolutely hide behind a veil of neutrality- they support neutrality
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Is China not a uniquely threatening force? They have the second largest GDP, the second-most expensive military with the most personnel, considerable influence over other important Asian countries, and a major role in manufacturing the worl

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