Tycho

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by Tycho 10y ago
yes (unless the robots are like I, Robot level androids)
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by Tycho 10y ago
I'd rather stick with the tried and tested "earn a living" model of human civilization. How is a machine literally going to do these things? Is everyone going to buy a personal trainer robot? Is everyone going to install a ho
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by Tycho 10y ago
Today a middle class person will have a doctor, a dentist, an accountant, and a lawyer. That list could extend to include personal trainer, geneticist, travel agent, dermatologist... The list is endless. Some things will allow people to mon
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by Tycho 10y ago
Gardener Housekeeper Nanny Personal trainer Personal assistant Tutor Pet care Archive researcher Take two things that could unlock numerous needs for jobs. 1) education, which we currently do en masse, but could be personalised to varying e
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by Tycho 10y ago
What makes this so great is that it's private correspondence, unburdened by any audience except the recipient. It's hard to imagine such frankness in a contemporary NY Times column, with the usual liberal/progressive/SJW
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by Tycho 10y ago
> Who said anything about partying and drinking? The author.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I find the label "quiet" rather presumptuous. If I don't say anything it's likely because I think the odds of an interesting conversation are unfavourable. Nothing to do with shyness. Blame yourself for not being interes
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by Tycho 10y ago
The immune hyperactivity theory is interesting. It's kind of like the opposite of AIDS. (unless there really is an undetected threat) Someone I know who has ME describes it as feeling like they have the flu all the time.
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by Tycho 10y ago
How much were you sleeping?
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by Tycho 10y ago
very cool I was thinking, you could probably train a neural network to learn how to remove gridlines from the image also.
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by Tycho 10y ago
What is the latest thinking with respect to the cause of the condition, and also the causes of recovery? Has research advanced much in the last few years?
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by Tycho 10y ago
60% chance is not really much different from a coin flip. Plus they might have some inside info that the public hasn't had a chance to react to yet.
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by Tycho 10y ago
i guess with today's smartphones you can just flick through the pages one by one while filming, and then you'll have a video you can pause at any page, with sufficient resolution to read it.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I'm confused by your inclusion of pregnancy in that list.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I'd never heard the term rent-seeking until I started reading HN and learned it was a term used by economists.
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by Tycho 10y ago
It doesn't talk much about the damage from impact and also jet fuel.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Going a bit further, Chris Langan's CTMU characterised the universe itself as a sort of back-propagation algorithm with a global utility function.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Whatever box you open, you take the name inside and go to the number you associated with that name. So when you end up at box 89, the last box you opened must have had your name inside. So you will have found your name, provided you got the
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by Tycho 10y ago
What do people think of this idea. Let's say you want to casually improve your maths knowledge in your spare time. Let's say you find it frustrating how you generally can't just google concepts as you come across them, becaus
860.
by Tycho 10y ago
Do you have any actual examples of people complaining that they were misled and would have voted differently if this particular issue (NHS) had been clarified for them? Personally I have not seen any examples. I've just seen sore loser
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by Tycho 10y ago
Fair point.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Well, to be fair, here we have a neutral media source calling Chomsky the most important living intellectual. Seems to fit Moldbug's curious side-note.
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by Tycho 10y ago
"As a broad generalization, [my] stance in any controversy will be the opposite of Chomsky's" - Mencius Moldbug Is Chomsky the archbishop of the Cathedral?
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by Tycho 10y ago
I don't think it is. It's just a counter to your implication that 'only diehards' take this position.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I seem to only notice this when I read recent books. I suspect only reading old books gives you a filter that gets rid of that kind of thing. The worst habit is when writers just start listing examples of stuff, beyond what is required to m
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by Tycho 10y ago
he's one of those people in the running for 'most gifted person who ever lived' IMO as purely a composer he's somewhat overshadowed by some of his great contemporaries, but the Piano Sonata in B Minor combines all the st
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by Tycho 10y ago
You seem to have contradicted yourself. You admit that people wielding institutional power (who would surely include judges) can make decisions affected by conscious or unconscious biases, and it's not racist to point this out. Case cl
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by Tycho 10y ago
The entire edifice of modern liberal politics seems to be built upon the very idea of conscious and unconscious bias on the part of people wielding some fraction of institutional power. Usually it's referred to with terms like 'wh
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by Tycho 10y ago
Compare these two statements: "A defendant, who is running for office on a promise to get tough on Mexican immigration, questioned the neutrality of a judge from a Mexican immigrant family who is presiding over a private lawsuit agains
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by Tycho 10y ago
It's a simple implication of bias for this particular case. The example of the Muslim judge is also straight forward. No complicated theories or conspiracies are necessary. People whose common sense is not clouded by liberal hysteria c

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