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by acituan 5y ago
> I thought it was obvious[1][2] that the end game for those that want to control the web is sending opaque binary blobs of code that only use the browser for the canvas tag's framebuffer. Google is also a search company, the produc
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by acituan 5y ago
Just stop. If you don't have a counter-argument that is not an ad-hominem attack, strawmanning someone's position or shallow namecalling, you don't have to participate. This is not the forum for that. Here is HN Guidelines fo
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by acituan 5y ago
> That is of course not true. Individually curated means synchronized with others as no individual exists in a vacuum ... That it is free to evaluate its own future path You misunderstand. The question is whether individual value structu
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The problem is not about being hard working or not hard working. It is about the constraints around that hard work; or lack thereof. In late modern labor society the normativity is to achieve in itself, without any philosophical or ethica
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by acituan 5y ago
You seem to be conflating psychology the science vs psychotherapy the practice. The latter approximates engineering and producing real life results takes precedence over proving things from first principles. Just like with medicine, you don
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by acituan 5y ago
> i don’t understand why you think this is a huge gotcha ... most vegans are oriented around harm reduction Avoiding a true scotsman fallacy aside, the OP was strongly centering their argument on "no violence against animals".
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by acituan 5y ago
> I urge everyone to at least _try_ Beyond Burgers, is they require no violence against animals. I understand what you mean by violence and I don't want to come across as a stickler just for sport, but if we are taking a hard ethic
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by acituan 5y ago
> There's no reason to be afraid of simple chemistry Food chemistry is one of the most complicated chemistries ever. Not only we can't simply construct an argument of safety from first principles but also nutrition labels hardl
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by acituan 5y ago
> So it would be disingenuous to imply Epictetus had the perspective of an impoverished slave when he founded his own school of philosophy. Good thing is that I made no such implication. It would be equally disingenuous however to imply
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by acituan 5y ago
In the case of depression and anxiety, at least in the view of CBT, there is always some sort of cognitive distortion at play. In other words, if the mental anguish originates from having taken a distorted view of the world, it wouldn&#x2
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> either they're speaking from a position of privilege or they are lying I am not bothered that this is a false dichotomy as much as the fact that, intentional or not, it forbids taking a positive view of the world to anyone who a
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by acituan 5y ago
> People who live paycheck-to-paycheck with family or medical issues wouldn't agree with you. You wouldn't know if you were talking to such a person right now without making a circular argument such that "a person without
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by acituan 5y ago
> The world is a scary and violent place. Without Liveleak, you might never feel it. Counter-point; the world is mostly a neutral, even OK, place, with also violence in it. Our cognition is heavily biased towards saliencing and preservin
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by acituan 5y ago
> Implicit in your statement is the idea that the "injustice" might "suck", but not so much that it's worth blowing up your employer. Which is to say: you really don't think this injustice sucked very much.
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by acituan 5y ago
> You point out that this is part of a pattern of societal behavior you’ve known your whole life, and that pattern has affected your life negatively and materially. This is not received well — combating a single incident is easy, but unr
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by acituan 5y ago
Yet multitasking is still being branded as something of a higher cognitive functioning. Byung-Chul Han in The Burnout Society claims that it is the opposite: > “The attitude toward time and environment known as “multitasking’ does not re
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by acituan 6y ago
> as top ethics talent will certainly avoid working for Google, and prefer academic freedom elsewhere I wouldn't be that sure. I know the "headline narrative" is invested in painting Google as evil (and they don't ten
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by acituan 6y ago
> notably, that you can't start with a thing you want to prove, which is in fact step 2 of the elementary-school scientific method. On the contrary, I totally agree with you on this, researcher needs to pick a particular part of the
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by acituan 6y ago
> It's not "runaway activism" if you hire ethics researchers who find ethics problems. The fundamental difference between activism and research is that activism sets the agenda ahead of time while research explores the k
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by acituan 6y ago
Ethics researcher omits relevant research in paper to smuggle in a particular agenda. Company calls it out. Researcher realizes the limits of her narrative setting powers. Non-vocal majority is happy to see runaway activism being curbed in
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by acituan 6y ago
> a leading Ethical AI researcher a douche! Ex -ethical AI researcher, we don't know what her next job will be, and she certainly lost an opportunity to lead by losing her place at Google. We are yet to see if this maneuver will co
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by acituan 6y ago
> But the real world is messier and opportunities don't just vanish: if you do the math on a basic risk parity strategy with the S&P and some uncorrelated ETF, you can see it will beat the market on a risk adjusted basis. Sure,
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by acituan 6y ago
> I believe in the fundamentals of investing in stocks because in all it's technicality (and given the buy-and-hold strategy), you are investing in a business by owning a part of it which naturally means that you will and do get th
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by acituan 6y ago
> You don't need to take on higher risk for a higher return The lower the risk of an instrument, the more it will be saturated with investors, the more thinly per-investor share of profit will be spread. Therefore there is no such
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by acituan 6y ago
Can you contextualize who you are, so that I can better understand “us”? You mention seriousness as an absolute virtue, but if it fires people for a harmless, easily correctable mistake in an internal tool, it is just misguided and an exc
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That is the stated reason but we all know that is not the real reason. If they added an ascii art of a dinosaur or a message on another topic to that internal security tool, they wouldn't have been fired, probably not even a slap on th
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Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech: Code and Data(tech-journalism-diversity-report.github.io)
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by acituan 6y ago
No one is disputing the act of people departing. OP tries to smuggle in the reason of departing together with the act of it as a fact and that is a problem. Fact space is infinite, which ones we choose to surface and which ones we leave
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by acituan 6y ago
> The article says "roughly three-quarters of the Black employees" left the company over a 6 month span due to feelings of being discriminated against. That isn't an accusation. It is a fact. I am not comfortable with pro
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A similar anticipatory mechanism exists for thirst quenching. We feel a decrease in thirst the moment we drink water but in reality it takes tens of minutes for the osmotic landscape to change with that newly ingested water.[1] I also think

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