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by aaplok 3y ago
The article addresses this very point, using the example of climate change: > it will be VERY plausible for an AI to simply conclude that it should proceed with the most expedient way to delete ~95% of humans. The elimination of ~95% of
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by aaplok 3y ago
Good point, motive and intent do have value in assessing the likelihood that someone committed an crime (or any action). It's not quite the same as using motive to claim that someone is wrong though. However, I agree that ad hominem is
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by aaplok 3y ago
> We create small, smart cadres of people who watch power and wealth pass them by, and they advocate to overturn the system driving their envy. "They're just jealous" forms of arguments are an ad-hominem fallacy, where cha
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by aaplok 3y ago
> it’s common knowledge that most faculty today are de facto activists. Whose common knowledge? I have never heard the argument that most faculties are activists. This argument is a classic ad populum fallacy [0]. Using it to character
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by aaplok 3y ago
From the article: "The concerns articulated in the FfY formation statement pertain to universities — and not their members! — as activists". They push back on institutions taking up activism, not individual faculties engaging in a
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You could try to create an account for them on hn?
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You left out quite a bit from that quote: > Bates held research and teaching positions at Cornell, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins universities in the US between 1980 until 2011. > > In 2005, Bates founded Singular Computin
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by aaplok 3y ago
Maybe the gifted kids that are not neurodivergent are better at avoiding to stand out, and so are more likely to escape notice?
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by aaplok 3y ago
> I doubt even 0.01% of the people in this this thread are talking about spiking. That is a strawman. At least two different people referenced spiking explicitly in their comments. There are 136 comments in this thread at the time of wri
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by aaplok 3y ago
I wasn't talking about addicts. Spiking is a thing. Being a victim of spiking puts one in an extremely vulnerable state, and filming someone in that state is abject, whether or not you are aware they've been spiked. Nobody pretend
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> An inebriated person on the street has decided to accept that people will see them in a compromising situation. Not necessarily. At the very least the person may have been drugged against their will - it happens, even if it's not
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by aaplok 3y ago
Galois didn't take part in the French revolution, he was born well after. On the other hand it is true that there was a lot of turmoil in French politics during his time, and that he was pretty radicalized himself.
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> If you're willing to move with your family, it's a strong signal that you take academia seriously. Not really. It only signals that you consider your career and interests as more important than the ones of your entire family.
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by aaplok 3y ago
Yes, you are right that discoverability isn't detrimental unless it becomes an expectation that this is how one must engage with software. I assume that it is also the preferred way to engage with software for some people .
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I usually struggle with GUIs and I find the concept of discoverability awful. Having to randomly click through tons of menus until you discover the right place is frustrating. I use MS Word maybe twice a month, and every time I go through
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by aaplok 3y ago
> the boomer phase of their life Isn't a boomer somebody who was born during the baby boom? What's the boomer phase of life?
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by aaplok 3y ago
Small correction. Bongo is (was) the ruler of Gabon, not Niger.
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> Syncthing is my key to keeping my ~/git tree in sync between the two environments. Why don't you use git directly for that?
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by aaplok 3y ago
Without going into the merits of this particular case, you can get charged for inciting to violence. Indeed that's being arrested for what others could've done. Specifically for what they could have done, but would not have done
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by aaplok 3y ago
What matlab workflow do you use that makes transitioning from REPL to file easy?
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Why does this affect whether it is a war crime or not? Imperial Japan committed numerous war crimes, whether or not they agreed that they were war crimes at the time. By the same token anything that was done to them should not be judged b
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> Defenders can use anything, including weapons of mass destruction, to defend themselves. Not according to the Geneva convention. Targeting civilians is a war crime, regardless of who does it. In many wars, both sides claim to only defe
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> All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job. Honestly it sounds more like a problem with your job's hiring process than with diversity movements. Even if yo
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> The investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons. If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it mi
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> no one involved in selecting books or publishing them has any incentive to keep the costs reasonable. There is an difference in having no incentive to keep costs down and having an incentive to keep costs up. Some professors are simply
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by aaplok 3y ago
I'm not sure lecturers profit off textbooks. What you are witnessing is more likely indifference and hubris from the academics than a deliberate strategy to extract more money out of students. This doesn't make it less unethical,
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by aaplok 3y ago
I agree. Collaborative editing in this space is awful. > This field really is another case of "we can re-land and re-use rockets, but digitally organizing a theoretically well-structured information space is impossible". Maybe
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You don't normally need to enter metadata manually. You can import it using the publication's doi, arxiv etc. Then papis gives you an opportunity to review and update the metadata. The other functionality that papis provides is a
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Could it be that you won't apologise because a part of you fears that the apology might be used against you? The recovery process will necessarily pass by trusting people again, and making yourself vulnerable to them. That is the only
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I feel that you are shifting the goalpost and trying to drag me into a debate I am not interested in. Your question was simple: "OP was asking why de Sade is promoted so heavily. [...] OP's question is also my question. Why is thi

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