TelmoMenezes

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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> That's pretty disrespectful and ignorant to other cultures and customs. Not all customs deserve respect. I guess I don't have to produce a list of all the things that were once "customs", and that now horrify us. &q
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If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?(aeon.co)
2 points by TelmoMenezes 7y ago|1 comments
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
This is very interesting work. Regarding: "However, graphs are inherently combinatorial structures made of discrete parts like nodes and edges, while many common ML methods, like neural networks, favor continuous structures, in particu
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> The first thing I thought when I saw Elon Musk's writing AI was how powerful of a search marketing tool this is. "Search marketing" is the current euphemism for spamming?
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> oh yes, and about the ZX Spectrum... I can't imagine anyone willingly changing from something else to that rubber keyboard! Yuck. The ZX Spectrum had tons of games (many of them quite creative, many weird), all kinds of software (
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I highly doubt that you are just the "end user" you claim to be, otherwise you wouldn't be here, having this discussion. But let's assume that you are. >Of course there's the argument with google trying to get a
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. No, that is not the reason for my comment. It seems clear to me, both by life experience and reading related research th
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Ok, so you are assuming that you would be immortal and free to pursue intellectual endeavors forever. This implies that all of your problems would be solved. You would be forever chasing the dopamine hit of understanding more of the fields
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I wonder if you would enjoy it as much as you imagine.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> The vast majority of people in the world work in order to feed themselves and their families. Yes, and this is an inane state-of-affairs given 2019 technology. We could keep the entire world population fed with minimal effort, if we st
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> How could you compare someone voluntarily engaging in employment to slave labor? Is it really voluntary if the alternative is to die of starvation?
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> life was hardship and adversity Life was certainly hard in ways that it is not now, but it was definitely hard in the precise ways that we evolved to cope with. You had to worry a lot about obtaining food and shelter, and protecting yo
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> If the industry was more competitive they wouldn't be able to turn away money. This is the stupid libertarian answer for everything, not so different from communism in its arrogance and over-simplification of human motives and beh
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
It's worse. We can elect a new government.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
If they were really smart they would see the bigger picture.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> We decided collectively Who is "we"? I know it doesn't include me, because I was never consulted on the matter.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Congrats on overleaf. Me and my colleagues use it everyday and we love it!
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Echo chambers are like Russian Dolls. Maybe you are satisfied with just opening the first one. It's up to you, no right answers! But it is definitely not the same to move to another city in your own country or go somewhere else where s
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
In my experience, it is incredibly mind-expanding to live for some time in another country (or countries). Really live there, have a job, rent a house, make friends, etc. It is a process of detribalization, that can help you understand bett
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Discovering this made me pretty happy about the world. Most people are generally pretty friendly to one another (at least over email!). Another possibility is that modern wage laborers are forced to wear a mask of positivity and say &q
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Well, not really if you are just doing what the system wants.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
"Hacking the system" now means being funded by the system? It used to mean something else when I was a kid...
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> As they've always done through the media? The hardest thing to swallow, for some people, is that these things show very openly how democracy is deeply flawed. If you study a bit of History, or look beyond the western world, you wi
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Exactly!
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> If you just said "All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops", it's reasonable to expect that existing Chromebooks will be made Linux-ready as well. Adding "going forward" does not remove this ambiguity. You ju
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I apologize in advance for going a bit off-topic, but I would like to point out the following: It is never necessary, and always inelegant, to write or say "going forward". Also, it stinks of corporate-speak. The English language
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> The difference is really about how you "recharge". This is a very recent Internet cliché. I believe that the terms were introduced by Carl Jung about one century ago, and they refer to the dominant focus of one's mental
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I will assume below that soul = conscience = first person experience of reality > No souls: you take a definition of "soul" as something supernatural and reject it's existence. This position is technically called eliminati
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Sorry, I forgot about the mentality here for a second. I will spell out the point I was trying to make through provocation. It destroys the fun/joke, but whatever... The Web was invented a few meters away from the EU, in a lab that lit
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
All webs are splinter webs of the EU, since the web was invented here.

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