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by baddox 6y ago
I think what both of his sentiments are missing is that we should try to shape society such that the good beliefs are also the conventional ones, instead of praising people for having unconventional beliefs for its own sake.
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Again, it’s not saying those things are bad. It’s saying those things enjoy a special status.
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> Are we protecting ourselves from false arguments? In some cases I do think we can and should protect ourselves from arguments for intolerance.
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The infographic is very clearly not saying that any of those bullet points are bad or racist or only the domain of white people. It’s saying that those bullet points are things which enjoy a special status and approval in society.
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> It's safe for them to express their opinions, because the source of their opinions is whatever it's currently acceptable to believe. The premise is not sound. Not everyone who has a conventionally accepted idea has that idea
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I think there are a lot of people who wouldn’t break a window to steal from a house but who would steal from a house if they found the door key.
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Three years ago I interviewed in house (after several hours of phone screens) at an SF tech company that has since gone public. The position was for a senior software engineer doing mostly backend Rails stuff. The biggest portion of the in-
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Not even just the backend! Frontend interactivity itself can be very complicated, and it generally is not fully specified by design (do your design specs come with state machines?) A few things that are often missing from a Figma/simil
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Absolutely. It’s broken. Given that Apple mentioned explicit support for or cooperation with Docker for the new ARM Macs, I think there’s a decent chance it will actually perform better.
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How do you virtualize Linux on an Intel Mac without it being terrible? Docker has been essentially broken for years. I’m actually looking forward to the ARM Macs because Apple mentioned they’re cooperating with Docker which I suspect could
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Docker is also essentially completely broken on MacOS and has been for years. The performance penalty on anything doing I/O is like 5x, and it tends to completely hammer my CPU. There are tons of internet discussions, so it appears to
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That lack of a chain of reasoning just doesn’t feel any more significant to me than the fact that a human can also not endlessly regress upwards explaining every bit of knowledge they have or every reason they made a decision. Likewise the
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> Every deep learning system has tacit knowledge: it knows a chair when it sees one but can't explain how it knows. A traditional computer program that can find the derivative of sin(x) also can not explain how it knows.
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You can’t make a Turing machine which can solve the halting problem or an algorithm which can determine whether any given mathematical statement is true.
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The more analogous claim would be "it's impossible to flap two arm-like appendages quickly and achieve flight," and the burden of proof would indeed be on you for making that claim. (Of course, in that case it would be easy t
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What is "a body" other than inputs and outputs to interface with the environment, and perhaps a mechanism of perceiving the environment and remembering what was perceived?
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> it would be practically impossible for people to write programs that articulate and incorporate that knowledge without machine learning That could be true, but I think that's a different argument. That's more like claiming th
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To claim otherwise is to claim that there is some barrier beyond which scientific inquiry is not allowed to cross or is incapable of crossing. The epistemological status of such a claim is roughly equivalent to explaining something about th
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> Life in general and your brain in particular may very well be more than "just chemistry". We really don't know. That claim has roughly the same epistemological status as Last Thursdayism ("the world was created last
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "binary logic," but there is the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle which states that a "universal computer" (essentially a working quantum computer) can simulate all physical proc
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That's certainly not the case. We can and absolutely have proven things to be impossible.
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There is almost certainly no perfect solution. I think everyone is in agreement there. "If you want to provide government aid to poor communities then by all means do it" is major progress over complete resignedness. > Well..
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I don't have the experience to suggest specifics, but I think more government aid programs targeted to Native American communities is a good start. I don't pretend that there's some way of perfectly undoing the land distribut
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> It does because you're relying on racial identity to determine who pays and who receives rather than who stole and who was stolen from. I did not say or imply this.
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I think it's reasonable to infer that "hearing" in this context doesn't literally mean only the act of perceiving sound. It's clearly referring to listening in good faith.
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Are you saying that, unlike other injustices where we as a society generally approve of at least attempting to correct the injustice, this particular injustice is unique, and we shouldn't even attempt to remediate? Or do you oppose all
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> What happened in the past, good or bad, is unchangeable. The only way forward is a colorblind approach as building specific policies around race simply encourage further racial division and entrenchment. Of course that's definitel
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> If we decide that White land is a racist concept, which it is, how can we not apply that same reasoning to everyone else I think there's a pretty obvious difference between referring to land in historical North America as "Na
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This map contains a lot of overlapping and very rounded regions that I think convey that it's rough areas of settlement rather than some internationally-recognized partition of the land.
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But that's still very nearly the opposite sort of business model as Quibi. Youtubers generally start out with very little investment and build their audiences manually through grassroots interest. I don't know of anyone who has ra

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