arthur_pryor

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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
i was just saying i personally found type declarations useful as the couple of small groovy codebases i worked on progressed over the short period (maybe a year?) i worked on them. thinking about how i might declare types made me decompose
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> I observe this in myself: my favorite language to code in is Groovy - a dynamic, scripting language with all kinds of fancy tricks. But my favorite language to decode is Java. Because it is so simple, boring, there is almost nothing cl
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
sorry, this is not how morality works in my worldview. "someone else willing to do it" is nowhere near sufficient to imply "morally acceptable for me to do it". "someone's gonna get paid, might as well be me&q
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
how wasteful would your work have to be before the personal satisfaction wasn't enough to outweigh the drain on society as a whole? i'm genuinely asking, because i'm genuinely curious. i'm lucky enough to get paid decen
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
interesting, i don't think i'd ever heard of this project, but this could be useful if using winamp ever becomes untenable for me (or if i need something better for playing music on mac or linux than vlc, or if i get bored with wi
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
i still use winamp on my main desktop. on my work mac, i tend to use VLC. i do not like itunes. it's been a long time since i've needed to listen to music on a *nix machine. i typically have my rockboxed ipod handy anyway. plu
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
this reply probably doesn't matter since this thread is a few days old, but here goes anyway: > I encounter professors all the time who think that it’s fine for a student to say “I’m With Her” in class but not for a student to say “
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
parent specifically addressed this question: > variance within demographics is much larger than variance of the mean between demographics. So if you hire people based on them being part of a “good” demographic, you will end up with worse
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> One of my recent rejections came after being asked "A hammer and a nail cost $1.10, and the hammer costs a dollar more than the nail. How much does the nail cost?" this just got me to see if i can still work through a basic h
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
ok, first, i appreciate your more fleshed out argument here. > The problem is that while it is easy to cook up such what-if thought experiments, it is not easy to quantify the result into a mathematical model of moral social utility. tha
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> A utilitarian would say that is a equal outcome to everyone having equal measures of happiness. lots of people (myself included) would strongly posit that utilitarianism is a thoroughly incomplete foundation for a moral framework. to b
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
this discovery will likely have little impact on the taste of what's being consumed, or the subjective quality of the trip. the bad taste is the result of either a) the flesh of the mushrooms, or b) (in the case of isolated psilocybin)
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> While I agree with the thrust of the argument, if I'm reading it correctly, that damaging extremists are probably not worthy of tolerance, I find the chipping-away at fundamental values to be disquieting. Pushing the argument furt
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
can you cite any evidence from the article to support that claim? the closest thing i can see to that is this statement: > This is why “white separatism” is, in practice, just a rebranding of white supremacy; white separatists never see
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
same way you bring any hiring discrimination case: you get eyewitness testimony, you subpoena emails, you do the very squirrelly job of trying to figure out whether there was discriminatory intent, etc. if a heuristic was used that discri
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
thanks for providing an existing real-world example i can use as a point of comparison when thinking about AI regulation in general!
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
i'm totally out of my depth when it comes to practical experience with the things you're trying to do in that project (the closest i've come is dealing with medical device validation protocols at my previous software dev job)
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
i disagree. for instance, algorithms and heuristics that are used in screening candidates should be subject to fair hiring laws (even if only indirectly, as a result of the existing legal framework). algorithms and heuristics for dealing
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> In those two stories, regulation is unenforceable or downright dangerous. Having a private, self-regulating industry group like FINRA might work. Especially if they own the vast majority of patents on anything related to AI. [mild spoi
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> 3) those officers should not be officers anymore AND they should be held to some level of personal responsibility for their actions yes. that. that seems so obvious, but it also never seems to be the way things actually play out.
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
the specific people who are most hurt by bad law enforcement also tend to have the least power to "get some new servants." so who's fault is that? usually not the victim. or at least the most direct victim, since obviously,
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
to say that music theory lies outside the realm of science is not the same as saying that a machine can never produce pleasing and/or artistically valid music (or art in general) "on its own" (assuming that you believe it&#x2
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
> The problem is the busts probably aren't worth preserving sculpturally (they're competent, but not evocative), and part of the perceived "art value" is being made of a weird material. > I'll use risky termin
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
way to at least try to engage with the issue. best of luck.
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
yeah, i get you, and i'm not saying i'd necessarily do better. though i'd hope i would[0]. but just because you acted in a way that others would find relatable, or because others might act in the same way, doesn't make
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by arthur_pryor 10y ago
not that those rating systems can't be gamed, but yeah, this would definitely be better than the current situation of criminalized prostitution. esp if prostitutes could leave reviews of clients. i imagine there'd be less scammi
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by arthur_pryor 10y ago
actually, they are selling something for that... https://www.drugs.com/movantik.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naloxegol
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by arthur_pryor 10y ago
i upvoted both this comment and the comment to which it was replying. i agree with this: > Intelligence does not imply sentience. Sentience does not imply human needs, desires or morals. "easy" might be a bit strong, but i gene
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by arthur_pryor 10y ago
is this statement implying that you don't believe in federal disaster relief for local emergencies?
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by arthur_pryor 10y ago
also, how do you know a test didn't fail locally on a developer's machine, causing them to fix work in progress? IME, test failures are only tracked on dev/stage/prod deployed systems.

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