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by abnry 7y ago
I get your point, and it has its merit, but at some point you'd expect things to slow down, right?
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by abnry 7y ago
>That it makes a company liable in case someone repairs their truck and it blows up, since they can't prove that the two were related. Also to consider: the machine blows up after a repair, but it's not related to that. Wouldn&
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by abnry 7y ago
As someone who is religious, I think this is a bad approach because it is transactional and tries to force the will of someone unfortunate. Both of those directly oppose the values of my Christian faith (grace and freewill). But unlike othe
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by abnry 7y ago
> As an aside, I really dislike that so many of the US domestic charities are religiously driven. They happen to be more motivated to provide services. If you wish there were more alternatives, more secular people should start their own
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by abnry 7y ago
I don't know the details of the approach (though someday I would love to study them) but I gather that the correlations are very strong and that it has been replicated many times (including in different languages). Though what is key i
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by abnry 7y ago
Haven't seen this in the comments yet, so I'll offer some extra information on the Big Five approach. Essentially, it is a linguistic approach to personality. The original 5 categories were found by asking people if they would des
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by abnry 7y ago
Right, but there is a massive difference between saying that some people can be misled and categorizing an entire political party as a bunch of fools. (As an aside, it is entirely fair to question your future tax rates under a politician pr
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by abnry 7y ago
Why do you use the word "we"? I wasn't directing my comment to you. An assumption isn't necessarily condescending. I assumed I was talking to someone on the left side of politics and was giving examples for the sake of a
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by abnry 7y ago
You are missing the point. If I say, "I support X" and you say, "I support not X," that's just a disagreement. If I say, "I support" and you say, "I support not X, and if you weren't so blind you
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by abnry 7y ago
Just a reminder to everyone that survivorship bias is a thing.
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by abnry 7y ago
It's not intuitive for someone new to mathematics, but as someone with two math degrees, it is just the strategy of "do stuff to something until something about it looks similar to something you've seen before" that math
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by abnry 7y ago
When I say can't get bogged down I mean I don't have the energy to get into a big long discussion. You baited me into starting one... but I'll be brief. The sensation of seeing blue is clearly, to me, unrelated to the materia
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by abnry 7y ago
Given the lack of explanatory power physical theories have so far provided for consciousness, I think it is fair on that alone to be agnostic about the claim consciousness is purely explained by physical attributes.
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by abnry 7y ago
Let me turn that question on its head and ask you why should it be sufficient? Just because it interacts with matter doesn't mean we default to assuming a materialistic approach is sufficient. I can't get bogged down with arguing
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by abnry 7y ago
Let's get the criticisms of the article out of the way: --It has terrible formatting and typos. --It puffs up something more important than it is. --It is more about pedagogy than a mathematical idea. --It suggests the idea is original
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by abnry 7y ago
Obviously a materialistic approach is necessary, but to claim it _only_ requires a materialistic approach is different.
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by abnry 7y ago
See, this seems entirely obvious to me but so many people are stuck with a 100% materialism worldview that they expect their to be some scientific "explanation" for consciousness. And that truly baffles me.
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by abnry 7y ago
Yes, I would imagine given how long Office has been around, there are some people who have delved quite deep into the feature set and become dependent on it. It's hard to let go of one feature that you have come to rely on.
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by abnry 7y ago
Would it be better to deprecate the world plagiarism and fork it into the words cheating and reputation stealing? To me, that would ultimately be more accurate, because it better encapsulates the harm involved.
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by abnry 7y ago
One of the issues that makes this murkier is that it is often only social norms and expectations that determine whether someone is misrepresenting themselves. In the meme world, the whole purpose is to share and modify slightly. There isn&#
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by abnry 7y ago
I am not convinced reputation would work the same way, or that plagiarism isn't bad, but I definitely agree with the ego-centrism in the modern scientific world. I personally think it is a moral hazard and is something that discourages
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by abnry 7y ago
This is a roadmap, not a tutorial. You still need to get in the car and turn the key in the ignition. Logically, it makes sense to learn some technologies before other technologies. They build on each other. And for someone like me who know
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by abnry 7y ago
There's the concept of T-shaped expertise. Start with a broad base but then narrow down to a specialty. So you've kind of got both. Doctors, for instance, still have to know the basics of every bodily system, regardless of what th
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by abnry 7y ago
There are two reasons someone might come to you for help. (1) For advice. Simply put, to get problem solving input. This is the less common case, however. (2) To get emotional courage to face whatever difficulty they have. This is the more
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by abnry 7y ago
To refine this, it's not necessarily about giving advice unsolicited, but minimizing the personhood and agency of the person you are giving advice to. Sometimes giving unsolicited advice is the best thing a friend can do, but you need
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by abnry 7y ago
I think it aims to be more of a fiction like experience than your typical nonfiction. Some of the clever stuff is delightful, imo. Also, I learned about the unsolvability of the word problem for groups from that book.
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by abnry 7y ago
For my own mental (and moral) health, I always remind myself to focus on what's published, not the publisher. Too often when I see a cool math result I think, "darn, I wish I published that." Then I realize what that attitude
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by abnry 7y ago
With crostini you can now run linux apps. It is still in beta.
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by abnry 7y ago
Google's management of YouTube has been terrible the past several years. I don't find it hard to believe there isn't more to the story.
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by abnry 7y ago
I joined twitter in 2013 or 2014 for the math community. It was great. We were all posing little problems to each other. Then 2016 came, and it was never the same. Now you can't the politics seeping in. The way twitter shapes you and a

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