abathur

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by abathur 7y ago
I'm not certain it would be fundamentally better. It seems possible! But it will have new dynamics at scale, and our current predicament already suggests that we aren't great at predicting what will emerge from them. But I wanted
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by abathur 7y ago
No, it doesn't. It amounts to saying that different rules and dynamics govern higher-order systems. It's not that the ir-/rationality of individual participants isn't a factor--but multiple interacting systems and feedba
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by abathur 7y ago
I don't really think it's all that useful to think of even individual humans as rational or irrational, but in any case: Governments (much like cities, markets, neighborhoods, societies, companies, social networks, "the media
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by abathur 7y ago
This doesn't scale. Even investors and economic agents can't be said to behave this way, and their incentives to put in the effort are much more immediate and explicit. Few people have the time, resources, patience, persistence, a
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by abathur 7y ago
> I’m not persuaded that this all constitutes a conflation; it appears the only distinction is that Twitter is acting legally and Russia is presumably acting illegally (and I’m not sure they are acting illegally), but I’m not convinced t
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by abathur 7y ago
I roughly agree that we should require vastly more transparency than we do for all large-platform decisions (traffic/ad/metadata/data-sharing agreements between any number of firms, developer accounts, payment/donation p
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by abathur 7y ago
I've found quite a few things over the years. Phones. Car keys. Cards. Wallets. I've run after people who left purses, bags, chargers, and even a guy who straight-up forgot his laptop on a table. The vast majority of the time, the
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by abathur 7y ago
I posted separately a link to a YouTube profile of the architect. He mentions later in the video that the blades are taken out of service when hairline cracks are found in them.
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by abathur 7y ago
I was curious how the playground looked in use, a question well-answered by this profile discussing the project that I found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V4C4RQcyrSo
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by abathur 7y ago
Is there any defensible reason you're determined to create an authoritarian fetish out of my assertion that scientific research worth funding in the first place is worth bundling with a communications budget to ensure it is appropriate
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by abathur 7y ago
I don't want to go around picking on specific comments or arguments, but I still wanted to address what reads like a lot of insecurity and scar tissue, here... - It's better to understand people than to not understand them. Averag
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by abathur 7y ago
You forgot to quote the part where I didn't advocate for harsh authoritarian barriers or punishments for non-poet scientists: > ... capable of communicating their work lucidly, I think there's a lot of forsaken social value.
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by abathur 7y ago
I'm happy Cormac does this work. I'm even happier that he pointed out a few rules to break. This time invested to improve science writing by one of our greatest living writers is a friendly/magnanimous gesture from a discipli
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by abathur 7y ago
It isn't massively distinct, but another way the observed differences could still be due to nurture rather than nature is that the connectome of the subjects could literally be shaped by how we raise and socialized the genders. This is
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by abathur 7y ago
* I haven't looked into it myself, so I can't really address your specific question about using fast/optimized libraries such as BLAS. This doesn't (seem to) distinguish your system python (i.e., the ones that'll ru
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by abathur 7y ago
The moral standpoint isn't that there shouldn't be more (or less) male software engineers. The moral standpoint is that there shouldn't be an AICandidateFilter|HumanPrejudicialInterviewer that only coincidentally appears to b
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by abathur 7y ago
On the off chance the various responders in this sub-thread see this comment, for a while I've hoped someone would advocate for privacy/TOS policies to follow a similar model to OSS licensing. Normal people could conceivably read
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by abathur 7y ago
To be fair, we didn't have to understand the climate to break it.
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by abathur 7y ago
I agree that we'll probably need capture, but just want to inject a concern I have with seeing capture as salvation: Any capture/sequestration tech that produces marketable byproducts may have a big leg up on any tech that has to
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by abathur 7y ago
We didn't have to understand the systems and their feedback loops to break them.
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by abathur 7y ago
I feel a little misread, but that might be my fault. I'll try to expound... - If you find that engaging with an art-object or art-performance--or even entire categories of them--doesn't help you find an art experience, it's f
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by abathur 7y ago
Just here to take you way-too-seriously and promote a different way of thinking about art :) Art is an experience, not an object. Reflecting on an object can help you find an art experience. Some people set out to create special objects des
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by abathur 7y ago
It's not that far afield (and yes, I'm certain we could; and I would love to), because the mandate is to make money. We can expect that, on average, they will do everything people do to make money. Some of that will be corrupt. It
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by abathur 7y ago
A caveat, first: I think two of our larger-scale social issues are that incentives are often misaligned with the outcomes we actually want, and that we don't create structural room for innovation. That said, I think this is still prett
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by abathur 7y ago
Ooof. Man. Not any stripe of psych or therapist, but I'm not sure you can. I've never found directly trying to change someone's mind all that productive. I think the big precondition is some combination of curiosity+humility.
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by abathur 7y ago
Glad you noted this. I also came here to add that I also can't think of a single woman in my social circle (most of my friends are women) nor in my partner's that meets the earlier characterization. It's OK to think wrong thi
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by abathur 7y ago
I'm not exactly sure how you would characterize it, so I'll just project into the space you didn't see fit to fill. We are an endlessly-(infini|adjec)tive species. I have a Whitmanesque love of our species' best and wors
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by abathur 7y ago
I'm torn on this. I think it's good to police flagrant fear-mongering and all other forms of predation on our worst qualities. But we also got here by people and systems preying on other bad qualities like complacency, laziness, h
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by abathur 7y ago
Is climate change more of a scientific problem, or a political one? Will the problem de-materialize as soon as some scientists finally figure it all out?
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by abathur 7y ago
Setting dynos to 0 and back got us up, though.

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