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It should be clear from the context of the entire discussion, as you are probably well aware, which philosophical theses we're talking about. My personal opinion is that catching commenters with gotchas based on how they didn't in
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That's why philosophy is in a crisis right now, because it's in fundamental dissonance with scientific observation. You may disagree that this is a problem, but at that point you're implicitly arguing that the intents of phil
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It's about the same in Germany, swimming is part of the sports curriculum, and you have to pass. You're also encouraged to get certified for basic water rescue and things like that. Knowing how to swim is such a basic skill. One
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There is some reasonable scientific middle ground between being an unreflected Deep Learning fanatic at one end of the spectrum and being an AGI denier at the other end. In typical internet fashion, we're mostly exposed to extreme and
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The problem is we don't know a lot about the probabilities of abiogenesis. We do know the basic components for life, such as complex hydrocarbons and amino acids, do occur in non-biological nature. The question is how likely they are t
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I regularly play Wesnoth over the internet with a friend. Though we sometimes explore other games, we always come back to Wesnoth because it's compelling. However, and I say this as a fan, this game has severe issues - it's not ju
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Your big unstated assumption is that any intelligence will always consume the maximum resources it can and cause the maximally possible transformation of any habitat. Normally, when physicists look for these kinds of large-structure signs,
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This is very clever. I remember first coming across this problem a long time ago when improvising my first "vector"-based program on the 286, which I programmed in Pascal at the time. My "solution" was to pre-calculate t
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Your outlook on this really depends on subjective definitions of "truth", "understanding", and "alone". I realize it's one of the central hypotheses of the article that side projects need to have a social
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Welcome Derrick! > when I can't acomplish the "eternal to-do lists" that I have in my head, I feel extremely frustrated. You are not alone in this. There are several things you can do - in my experience - to manage this.
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There is a very real evolutionary component to side projects. They are usually born out of an idea, a will to experiment or just because they sound fun. And they are fun, not necessarily due to reaching a certain goal, but as a way to spe
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> If you wish people to engage with you, I recommend not starting off like that And I recommend you give people the benefit of the doubt, though honestly I have to say I frequently fail at that myself. For example, your comment could b
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> "I guess what I meant by "professional" was more people with a formal education in computer science and some years of practical experience. It is just my impression that this is not so much the case here at HN. This bei
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Given the fact that the officer made a u-turn in order to speedily follow her car way before the "failure to signal" happened, it seems to me watching the video without pretty much any context, that the lane change was merely an
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Lots of HN articles are not about the web, we have lots of science and technical items. I'm not sure what you mean by "professional", I think many if not most people on here do software development for a living. It sounds lik
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> [edit] To be honest, I didn't even know you could downvote on HN. I've never seen a downvote button. It's offtopic, but when you reach 500 karma (or thereabouts), you get the ability to downvote the comments you feel a
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I'm thankful you took the time to engage with me and explain things from an insider perspective (instead of just downvoting me like the others did). You are absolutely right that the entire site shouldn't be judged on two "me
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> I think in summary you're mixing up stuff you've read on LessWrong and stuff you've read about LessWrong. The latter is often inaccurate. That may well be the case, but my only other information source is HN comments,
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You're being a bit uncharitable in your interpretation of my argument here, but I get where you're coming from now. I'm not an LW hater. For a long time, I didn't really have an opinion on LW both as a community nor as a
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I "blame" them in the same way that you can blame the members of Fight Club for talking about Fight Club. It's marketing, and I won't deny it's effectiveness in attracting compatible people.
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It's a stunt shrouded in mystery designed to drive a certain message home. But at least it's not as outrageous as "the Basilisk", which loosely employs the same notion of "dangerous knowledge that would destroy huma
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The mystique generates public interest and boosts the impression that the author knows something nobody else in the world is aware of.
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The article pretty much rules this out, no idea where you got the foul play angle from: > " Lori Greenberg, his mother, said Monday he had no health problems and she was told by police who investigated Sunday night that there was no
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The motivation behind developers dissing each other for their chosen field of work and their tools is absolutely puzzling, and it does real harm. Nobody would assert that printf("hello world!"); epitomizes systems programming, y
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As someone who did a lot (and still does some) server-side development in PHP, I disagree about the newbies part, I think it's deceptive. Doing PHP right is challenging, and for bigger apps it requires more insight into the internals o
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A license won't be enough. You'll have to provide a backdoor as well.
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Riding waves is a good analogy for what's going on with Markoff and similar people. They take the ideas that came out of transhumanism and cyberpunk futurism, and resell them as their own work. On the one hand it's probably a net-
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> They've replaced the de facto policy of arbitrarily banning things they don't like with an official policy of arbitrarily banning things they don't like. Reading that thread, the barrier to ban subreddits seems to be f
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Tough questions to answer for someone on the outside. > Is there any likelihood of an acquirer being interested in purchasing the product but not its developers? At the very least you will be expected to stick around for documentation
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They are talking, just not very loudly. It depends a bit on the venue, but generally in Germany it's considered polite to keep your voice down in public places so as not to disturb the other guests. Plus, many German people like to k

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