Will_Parker

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by Will_Parker 7y ago
The trouble is that if the "we" who are doing something does not include China and the rest of the world in coordination, then it is just sacrificing local economics in vain. The idea that the rest of the world is going to follow
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
I've never understood the fake shame one is supposed to feel at being productive, resourceful, and seeking to work with passion while removing speed limits. I'm reminded of this article about three personalities and different stag
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> while you are underutilized There's a kind of person who isn't able to be content without a certain amount of autonomy to do the best job possible, and just isn't able to accept being unproductive. I've been able to
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
So, a loop?
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> If you ask why and how you will find hope. Unless you conclude "dumb luck".
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> Whereas if rich countries take the problem seriously, add carbon taxes and tariffs and whatever other measures needed, they have moral, economic, legal, and even military levers against those who don't sign on. I think we're
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> Right now the attitude is "If the US, with all its riches and pre-existing contributions to emissions, can't be bothered to do anything, why should we?" Okay, now the attitude of China will be "We're still at h
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
The far right seems mostly to be denying the science, at least publicly. The far left accepts the science, but is in denial about what an effective solution would be. (E.g. a carbon tax in the US would do essentially nothing in the big pict
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> why isn’t some billionaire using subversive techniques to manipulate the population into doing something? Maybe there is selection bias, where only borderline (at least) psychopaths seeking individual profit and power become billionair
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
Oh yikes, the ice cream / cheesecake of human emotional expression, this will disturb me.
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> Music is a matter of taste I'm mostly with you with one exception. If there's one thing that may be objectively evolved, it is the power of the raw human singing voice. With all its expressivity, dynamics, range, colours, ind
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
Create some accountability to those who allow it?
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> Bots pretending to be people wouldn't be of interest at this level if it was just criminals trying to scam people How about foreign agents trying to influence elections at scale, or inciting civil unrest?
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 A Turing Complete 1-dimensional cellular automaton. Also Conway's Game of Life is a rabbit hole you could literally spend your whole life studying.
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
> The tech is proprietary, and not that fun to work with. That's a very kind way to say: everything in it appears deliberately engineered to ensure continued employment of consultants. :)
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by Will_Parker 7y ago
I'd say all of Shakespeare, Jimi Hendrix, LeBron James, Martin Luther King (keep on going if you like) have a form of extreme intelligence not measured well by IQ tests. The kinds of problems in IQ tests are one thing our brain can ada
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Converted it all to unobtainium?
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
> Only wealthy people should have children, only wealthy people should have pets, etc. I'd be happy if we could get an equal reproduction rate across all income demographics, i.e. more children for wealthy people. As it is we seem t
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
I accidentally put mine through a wash cycle, the buds not the charging case, and amazingly they survived! The sound was muffled for a while. Would not recommend as a solution to your cleanliness problem them.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
The snake oil part of it is also a huge industry. A simple statistical algorithm or set of heuristics can be sold for much more if you can pass it off as sophisticated ML.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Maybe chess isn't practical, but I'm getting a lot of entertainment in following the progress of Leela Chess Zero. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lczero It's right at the critical point wh
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
> Sounds like some pressure is being applied... Maybe, rightly so? It doesn't matter if you like reading, you need to learn it. For a toddler in 2019, I think coding and some math is getting close to this level of importance.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Cargo culting Feynman's beliefs would be ironic indeed. :)
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
It's reasonable to think life is very common. It's also reasonable to think that life might be very rare in the universe, or that we could be alone. Science, so far, hasn't really narrowed down orders of magnitude on some of
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
A 0.05 p value very much does not mean there's a 95% likelihood of the result being true. It's a fallacy that is far too common.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Making a choice to raise a health baby capable of a self sufficient life, instead of one with Down's syndrome, does not seem like a tragedy to me.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Also a testament to the value of under-promising. :)
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Dilemas are, who gatekeeps the gatekeepers, and how much do they want to act like a publisher vs a town square. If too much, maybe they'd become liable for the content they publish.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
What's the budget towards fusion energy research? Given the political difficulties in funding fundamental research, would that be a better sideshow for making a positive difference in the world if we had to prioritize one or the other?
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
I would say it depends on whether you enjoy the data engineering part of data science. E.g. writing SQL queries, writing scripts to scrape data from APIs, tracking down edge cases and verifying correctness, designing clean and scalable pipe

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