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by atticora 3y ago
If double negatives cancelled regress we'd drown in mediocrity. (Failure is a feature.) If a double positive cancelled progress we would stand next to the giants rather than on their shoulders.
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by atticora 3y ago
It has become a taboo to speak of group differences in intelligence, as this article bravely does. Instead it has become more acceptable to assume that deviations from equality are due to power imbalances that arise from practices of oppres
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by atticora 3y ago
> I'm too busy burning my oxygen to figure it out Your mitochondria are doing that so your brain doesn't have to spend attention on it. And its not very clear whether they are "you" or your symbiotes.
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Psychologist describes Nomophobia: “no mobile phone phobia"(forbes.com)
2 points by atticora 3y ago|1 comments
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Cowen: Is it wrong to own a cat that you let outside? Prum: Yes. [2021](conversationswithtyler.com)
1 points by atticora 3y ago|3 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
> In normal conversation I've got a part of my brain monitoring and thinking "no don't say that, you'll look weird" I was born without one of those and have had to reverse engineer one by gauging the you-look-wei
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by atticora 3y ago
It was disappointing to read that this is not due to Covid-19 acting as a black monolith to advance the evolution of the simians.
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Spotlight on scientific censorship: A virtual collection(hxstem.substack.com)
3 points by atticora 3y ago|0 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
See also the 240Z restoration in progress by @mymechanics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13vXFj37RI&list=PLN0SuqPcbL... I'm in awe of the level of detail and the casual ability to just fabricate anything. And th
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Analysis: What is the source of Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2)?(rootclaim.com)
3 points by atticora 3y ago|0 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
Air gapping for network security, tree edition.
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by atticora 3y ago
In this case I know the rancher and the processor, and they both can confirm that these cattle are purely grass fed. Since this was a dry year, that cost a painful amount of alfalfa in addition to forage, which contributed a lot to the pric
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by atticora 3y ago
> There's a reason it was called the enlightenment, it was always about seeing how things should be, not how things are. And I probably broadly agree with you about that "should be". But when someone does not agree with us
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by atticora 3y ago
I'd like to believe that there is a sense in which `voluntary` is more natural than `coercion`, but haven't found one. I'm a political extremist when it comes to preferring voluntary over coercion. But how is that more natura
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by atticora 3y ago
I'm in favor of human moral development through means such as free speech. But "a sound fundamental philosophical justification" doesn't appear to have any meaning, or rather can mean anything to anyone. It can envelop h
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by atticora 3y ago
I'm more of a free speech partisan that most people, but I don't understand the claim that it is a natural right in some sense. Is it more or less natural than the impulse of other people to suppress speech? I believe that protec
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by atticora 3y ago
The demand for beef has gone up faster than inflation lately. I've bought half of a cow in the southwest US for the last few years: 2021: $950 2022: $1250 2023: $1950 That's going to work out to around $10/pound of
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by atticora 3y ago
That's a good start Joe, keep going. The scope of the president's pardon power is breathtaking. ([T]he power [of clemency] flows from the Constitution alone, not from any legislative enactments, and . . . it cannot be modified
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by atticora 3y ago
There's a Jeep color named "Impact Orange", now here's notoriously flammable type of car named "Blazer". I'd have thought that they would avoid names that evoke things that can go horribly wrong with thei
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by atticora 3y ago
The argument was that they were wearing the logos to support the other employees, and thus it was employment related. But another employee could make the same claim about a MAGA hat. Uniforms could become a political battleground overnight.
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by atticora 3y ago
https://archive.ph/gpTuA
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In nursing homes, VR is a hit. Is that a good thing?(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by atticora 3y ago|4 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
LLMs will be a big change here for the past and future. They make past plagiarism cheap to discover. They make future plagiarism cheap to hide, simply by re-generating the same thought after embedding. So more accountability going backwards
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by atticora 3y ago
> When adjusted for body mass, we burn 20% more energy per day than chimps and bonobos, 40% more than gorillas, and 60% more than orangutans, Pontzer and colleagues reported in Nature in 2016. Maybe we could insert select orangutan genes
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by atticora 3y ago
Can you get anything useful from a meta query like "List the top ten associations in this data by descending order of surprisingness."?
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by atticora 3y ago
I've spent many years of my career building business reports at a pace that reminds me of digging a canal with a teaspoon, compared to this massive excavator. This isn't John Henry versus the steam drill, it's more like Bambi
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by atticora 3y ago
> Tesla's Autopilot and its Autosteer feature could be why Tesla is so crash-prone. It isn't obvious that the mortality rate in a crash involving an autopilot is similar to that without one. It could be considerably higher or l
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by atticora 3y ago
It would be nice to have an international standard color to signify that "this agent is not under human control". It could be used for self-driving cars, LLM generated text, a symbol for diffusion generated images, etc. When direc
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by atticora 3y ago
A /bestcomments variation with curating features like following and muting.
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by atticora 3y ago
> What would "integration tests" (that you don't write) look then in your opinion? In our local lingo, an integration test is one that also exercises the front-end, while hitting a fully functional back-end. So you could t

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