TelmoMenezes

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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
I understand your point. I work with sociologists and I also follow the ongoing "Internet cultural wars". People like Jordan Peterson (who I don't either dislike nor agree 100%) really brought these matters to the forefront.
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Conventional software engineering is extraordinarily brittle, in the sense that any random mutation to a program is likely to cause catastrophic failure: it is very likely that it will not even be valid anymore, or behave in a completely di
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The Sokal Hoax happened in a journal of "postmodern cultural studies", not sociology. Furthermore, it was an academic essay, not an empiric and quantitative study. Can you point to anything akin to the Sokal Hoax that happened in
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Maybe the real problem is that so many creative people are trapped in wage slavery?
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> What am I really losing though by allowing access? Sovereignty over your cognitive processes.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> Otherwise, the argument seems to be a case of "I don't like the way you got money/attention out of me", or "I want someone else to pay for the content I consume". You are consuming content from me this ver
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> Let's say I agree with this idea and let's also ignore the fact that by stating it's a right, we are implicitly stating that someone else needs to pay for it with their own money if you cannot. Yup, we do that sort of th
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> Unfortunately, anonymizing the data is not what's being demanded. People want to completely delete their data, which presents a harder problem from a modelling perspective. 99.9% of the people are not even aware of the distinction
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
1. Anonymize the data in the machine learning training corpora. 2. That's it. Problem solved. Question for extra credits: These machine learning models you speak of, do they mostly do stuff that... a) is in the interest of the users b)
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> There are actually many more mechanism in evolution, such as genetic drift or geographic separation. You're merely focusing on one special aspect of evolution here. No, it's not some ad-hoc aspect among many. Notice that I wa
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It's just a very succinct and abstract description of the modern synthesis of Darwinism and genetic theory. All organisms are self-replicating mechanisms, in the sense that they can generate a new organism that is built from the same D
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She is not claiming that high energy physics is foundational. The foundations of physics are the main theories on top of which the whole edifice is built. In physics, these foundations include the Theory of Relativity and the Standard Model
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Of course there is nothing dehumanizing per se in the use of a certain type of communication medium. A text message from a loved one that is far away and that one misses dearly is much more meaningful than small talk about the weather with
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> There are many propositions that cannot be doubted, so that's insufficiently precise. I can even doubt that 1 + 1 = 2, because I cannot prove to myself that I am not completely crazy. This is not a new idea at all, it's the &
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> It's fine to say that science does not support the claim that animals have consciousness, as long as you also agree that science does not support the claim that humans have consciousness. It doesn't. Can you name the scientif
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I would argue that consciousness is the least subjective phenomenon there is. I think that the difficulty in defining it comes for the fact that good definitions are so fundamentally simple that people miss their depth. My favorite one is t
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> Therefore, we could as well extend that presumption to a being sharing structures with similar functions. This is more or less the current mainstream stance. I think it's fine to do it for practical purposes, for example deciding
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
One of the first times I traveled to the USA, I was watching TV in my hotel room and caught some sort of documentary about art. They were showing a painting by Gustav Klimt and the nipples were blurred out . I couldn't believe it! I k
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> This is a non sequitur. Inequality doesn’t need to go down for workers to get better living conditions. Even if this was true, and there is a mountain of empirical data suggesting it isn't, do you really believe inequality can jus
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> Isn’t that exactly what the gig economy does? No. Inequality is increasing every year. > What would Uber drivers be doing if uber ceased to exist? Depends on the reason for Uber ceasing to exist. If Uber went bankrupt, they would pr
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
Traditional taxi services are horrible all over the world, I don't think a lot of people will dispute that. The problem with things such as Uber, and the "gig economy" in general, is that they provide a better service by cond
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
You made a moral statement: "No one is entitled to income, a job, or having others pay for their expenses." This can only be interpreted as a description of what you believe the values of your society to be. Of course, some people
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> No one is entitled to income, a job, or having others pay for their expenses. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the USA is a signatory, they do. Namely: Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has t
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Oh come on...
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Our overall computing environment acquired a distinct patronizing/infantilizing feel to it in the last decade. I don't think it's only visual -- or even visual at all, not sure.
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> One of the main causes of infant mortality is parental obesity. [1] The article you cite does not say that it is a main cause. It says it is a cause, and that it doubles the chance of infant mortality in obese mothers, but it makes no
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$5/year or something like that.
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Because the twit summarizes the interesting bit, while the project page not so much. Which is good to motivate people to learn more about the project, right?
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Uncaptcha2: Defeat ReCaptcha with Google Speech2Text(github.com)
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