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by avazhi 2y ago
You're missing the point. Everything you said could be true, but it does no good for Nature or any other ostensibly neutral and apolitical scientific organisations to make express political endorsements. Scientists and others who regul
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by avazhi 2y ago
“If science and academia become ideological endeavours,” he says, “it’s going to be hard for them to survive.”” The irony of this closing sentence being about 5 paragraphs below a paragraph praising Harris and bashing Trump was noticed by,
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by avazhi 2y ago
I was not prior to reading the piece (I'd never heard of him). My initial point stands, especially when it comes to convincing people with no dog in the fight (like me), but I can understand how it's at least partly tongue in chee
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by avazhi 2y ago
Sorry, just to be clear: I assume Zed is trying to convince me and other non-corporations of a particular position. I don’t think Zed is trying to influence any corporations directly, and he’d probably say any attempt to so is a lost cause,
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by avazhi 2y ago
I agree it’s a legitimate point and a debate worth having, but rule 1 of any genuine attempt at persuading others is to avoid alienating the very audience you want to persuade (in this case by coming across as jealous and vindictive and thu
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by avazhi 2y ago
Regardless of its veracity, that was a painful read. I’m sure Zed could convey his disgust far more forcefully than by repeatedly engaging in prepubescent (and intellectually lazy) sarcasm that itself is a straw man of what Apple’s and Micr
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by avazhi 2y ago
More blatant Clickbait garbage by the unreadable Ars Technica. No, the carriers did not say anything of the sort - they said locking the phones keeps the price of handsets low, and that customers like cheap handsets.
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by avazhi 2y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-... I appreciate their ethos and I've used the site many times (and donated!), but clearly it's at the point where Kahle et al just aren't equi
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by avazhi 2y ago
“Persuasion is at the core of norm creation” Nope. Norms, or ‘social facts,’ are primarily a function of the culture within which one is raised. Persuasion has nothing to do with it - children have no previous positions to alter. And very r
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by avazhi 2y ago
It’s impossible to overstate how crude and useless blood flow MRI studies are, at least relative to the hype they receive. Spoiler alert: brains require a lot of blood, constantly, just to not die. Looking at blood flow on an MRI to determi
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by avazhi 2y ago
Pretty sure the guy you’re replying to was half-joking, but adding the words ‘machine learning’ in the first sentence would have cleared this up pretty simply and wouldn’t have resulted in dumbing down anything.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Why should the developer do that? So Google won’t lose users? So uBlock Origin won’t lose users? In the end there are alternatives, like using Firefox. Saying the developer ‘should’ do something when you admit that something is worse than w
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by avazhi 2y ago
You’re right. And if you can’t understand why almost everyone will read ‘furi’ as furry and not ‘fury’, then you’ve got a phonics problem.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Unfortunate name.
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by avazhi 2y ago
I love how neither this Nature article nor the actual study shed any new light on this area. We've known about this for decades; we've also known that it isn't just down to metabolic rate changes for... decades.
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by avazhi 2y ago
“ Ah, the guy who referred to muslims as "cockroaches" and advocated for their extermination” Religious affiliation, as opposed to race or nationality, is a conscious and deliberate choice. If you choose to hitch a ride on a hatef
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by avazhi 2y ago
No it’s not.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Centuries, if not millennia (at least). It’s possible future AI advances speed that up, but isn’t imminent regardless.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Also in a less snarky vein: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/14scx6y/to_all... I’m not a singularity truther and personally I think we are more likely to be centuries rather than decades awa
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by avazhi 2y ago
Happy for you to cite some thinkers who are on record as saying it’s impossible. I’ll wait.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Sure. In many cases {A} isn’t a subset of anything else, though, and is merely what we might call standalone bullshit, and unfortunately it’s pretty prevalent these days.
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by avazhi 2y ago
You and I will never agree on this. I do not share your empathy, either in its scope or its depth. It’s that simple. You think it’s the State’s job to protect certain people, whereas I would prefer that those people didn’t exist. While I wo
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by avazhi 2y ago
How is that ironic? Time travel doesn’t exist and - as far as we understand physics currently - isn’t possible. I don’t think any serious man would suggest that AGI is impossible; the debate really centres around the time horizon for AGI an
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by avazhi 2y ago
“Answer truthfully. You all believe that widely diverse points of view have merit, right?" Nope.
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by avazhi 2y ago
"unlikely to ever come to fruition" is more baseless than suggesting AGI is imminent. I'm not an AGI optimist myself, but I'd be very surprised if a time traveller told me that mankind won't have AGI by, say, 2250.
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by avazhi 2y ago
It is long established but if you are a clickbait website trying to drive traffic to your ads, why should you care? Inc is one step above 'obvious AI generated drivel' for me. It's literally just regurgitated popscience and 2
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by avazhi 2y ago
It’s already stigmatised - have you seen the quintessential meth addict/crack whores that hang around gambling/gaming joints? There has to be a lower class. Not all but most of the people who inhabit it are just where they belong.
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by avazhi 2y ago
That's not alchemy. When we are successfully turning base metals into gold, hit me up.
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by avazhi 2y ago
If you are comparing AI to alchemy, a subject that after thousands of years still isn’t delivering on its promises (even with the assistance of modern technological magic), then surely you can see how that’s something of a self-own.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Holy shit Sequoia is the biggest dumpster fire OS I think I've ever seen Apple release on the Mac. They would have been better off just skipping a year instead of releasing... whatever the hell this even is. Every time Apple shits the

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