afarviral

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by afarviral 2y ago
I've encountered this idea before from people with anti-woke tendencies; that they think woke people are holding them responsible for causing offense as though causing offense is the harm that the woke crowd believes needs to be stoppe
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by afarviral 2y ago
Yes, that is the false-balance logical fallacy... Which seems to be the singularity around which people are circulating in this conversation. That's not to say that popularity of a certain view can't result in the suppression of t
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by afarviral 2y ago
This article talks as if the author is mystified by the concept of boundaries or as if this is a mirky concept. However, I think this has been fairly well layed out by writers on the topic of healthy psychological development. Those who ove
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by afarviral 2y ago
Did you tell the CEO? Tell the prick.
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by afarviral 2y ago
I tend to agree. If you asked about a feature which uses some kind of ML under the hood to deliver that feature you'd different results. I think companies should urgently pull back on mentioning AI at all if they want any credibility a
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by afarviral 2y ago
While I'm thankful for schooling for teaching me a variety of things, occasionally recognizing my passions and helping to hone them, it is amusing the disruptive and annoying things I did with the school computers that ultimately becam
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by afarviral 2y ago
Agreed. There's a really specific form of nostalgia where a matured and adhd-managed person would simply LOVE to do school over again now they see the benefit and realise how absolutely fascinating and achievable learning is. Imagine h
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by afarviral 2y ago
Community gardens, sports, religious or interest groups, collectives, contributing in a large household, early work experience, hobbies/interests. It probably is a fairly finite list because societies have optimized for the individual
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by afarviral 2y ago
I mean ... many people went to school as students for a good 12 years. That's likely tainted experience, less objective perhaps, but nontheless valid experience.
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by afarviral 2y ago
But how to harness "Bugger all" so that it results in educated students? Because my understanding is everyone likes to do stuff.. no one really does nothing, but often unproductive/consumptive things if not channelled.
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by afarviral 2y ago
As someone formerly diagnosed with ADHD I tend to agree with you, but I thought there were studies which found specific genes and brain structures common to many people diagnosed with ADHD, I need to look in to this. On symptoms alone the
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by afarviral 2y ago
I think thats andoando's point, people do things fairly unconsciously so symptoms which align them with a particular diagnosis can be absent for a multitude of reasons. In your case you developed an unconscious habit of frisking your p
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by afarviral 2y ago
ServiceNow is great if your project/architecture people are really great. The mistake is expecting that OOTB features will be enough (with only a few tweaks) or that the product itself will steer you toward best pratices (NOPE!). Its a
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by afarviral 3y ago
What might an observational signature be that supports this hypothesis? Currently, the direct study of black hole interiors is (sadly) impossible.
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by afarviral 3y ago
> purport to explain phenomenon that we have completely adequate scientific explanations for Exactly! I think he is just lining his pockets on this stuff as all the many other pseudoscience and snake oil salesman before him.
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by afarviral 3y ago
Being a kook and holding degrees in science are not mutually exclusive. His theories are intriguing nonsense in the sense that they have little to no evidence to support them. Their deeply conjectural nature is what defines them as kooky.
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by afarviral 3y ago
It's the friendlier syntax. With the same conditional in javascript and python,the python version reads a little more like english. The same can can be said for loops. However, JS is right there in your browser so I would argue its muc
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by afarviral 3y ago
I'm not saying that free speech need be chucked away, but that we should strive to maintain a balance which protects societies from bad actors. Merely misgendering someone isn't necessarily abusive, but a pattern of consistent har
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by afarviral 3y ago
I actually needed to do some compositing work with it, several days after my original post, to get around some limitations of Davinci. It was a little unintuitive but could be a really powerful tool in a compositing pipeline!
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by afarviral 3y ago
That's another great suggestion, and probably a pretty easy contribution to tackle for someone. I'll make a mental note to look in to it next time I'm on holiday.
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by afarviral 3y ago
Kdenlive is great! I just used this recently to create some transitions with transparency. I normally use DaVinci Resolve but I couldn't figure out how to export a video with a straight alpha channel, only premultiplied (it only lets y
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by afarviral 3y ago
I sense that with AGI all the outcomes will be a little less assured, since it is general-purpose. We won't know what hit until it's over. Was it a pandemic? Was it automated-religion? Nuclear weapons seem particularly suited to M
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by afarviral 3y ago
Hmm, indeed
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by afarviral 3y ago
I resonate with the idea of "free speech" in terms of avoiding government oppression, it is a really important and foundational idea. As a catch-all, however, I don't think it works quite so well in the age of social media. I
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by afarviral 3y ago
That makes little intuitive sense to me. Help me understand why increasing the number of entities which possess a potential-weapon is beneficial for humanity? If the US had developed a nuclear armament and no other country had would that tr
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by afarviral 3y ago
There is no clear advantage to multiple corporations or nation states each with the potential to bootstrap and control AGI vs a single corporation with a monopoly. The risk comes from the unknowable ethics of the company's direction. A
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by afarviral 3y ago
Yeah I have a lot of love for DaVinci, and for black magic's decision to maintain a Linux version of the software. Quite funky UX but a solid piece of software overall. It may be the best free closed source video editting program, with
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by afarviral 3y ago
So words and representation are simply unimportant in your view or just a little less important? If so that's essentially what I thought being "woke" was, simply being "awake" (aware of) psycho-socio and socio-econo
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by afarviral 3y ago
The "by any means necessary" method...? I think a society based around the normalization of this level of punishment is distopian. Achieving the lowest opiate addiction rate possible may not be worth it given the probability of wr
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by afarviral 3y ago
Studies typically show reductions in cortisol levels after several weeks or months of regular ashwagandha supplementation

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