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by bangkoksbest 3y ago
The distinction between debit and credit card is not really what is at play here, but rather, whether Visa or MasterCard is accepted. A Visa credit card or a US Visa debit are both Visa, so if a place doesn't accept Visa it won't
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by bangkoksbest 3y ago
For example, the largest supermarket chain (Albert Heijn) usually won't take credit cards, with the exception of certain cities and contexts (train stations) where there are more foreigners.
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
Yeah, it reads so bizarrely to me... How are we confusing biological human (or other animal) sentience in some embodied creature with queries as a service to some model instance. I cannot see anything that remotely makes these two contexts
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
We are in agreement. Your definition of system properties that do not derive simply from the sum of the elements is what the article is really talking about. That's closer to the physicist meaning.
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
What are you talking about? I read the article, there is literally no implied metaphysics about deeper emergence in the article at all.
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
The ACLU is a legal organization about civil liberties. It is not a political campaign trying to convince moms to vote for them.
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
"Emergent" as used here is akin to how physicists use the word. "Emergent" as you interpret it (with the implication of something deeper) is more akin to how philosophers use the word. Almost every discussion I've r
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
First off... The authors of articles doesn't come up with the title. If you want to gripe about the headline writer, fine, but it's not relevant to the substance of the article that was actually written. I don't see the title
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
That is not the focus of the article at all. The very first paragraph starts with a sympathetic quote of Da Vinci's. The third paragraph approvingly suggests his drawings were foreshadowing Munch and Bacon's art. Almost every othe
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
Ah yes, the current craze of Da Vinci art exhibitions that show him humanising unconventional subjects. It's very important to be aware of this craze!
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
What are you talking about? This is completely unrelated whining to what the article actually talks about, which is Da Vinci's artistic interest in humanising the traditionally "grotesque". Very far from discrediting. You&#
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
Exactly. It's not just syntax and semantics, but also pragmatics. Human users imbue meaning into the language they use through the pragmatics of their communicative acts within a context, and this is not something our programmed softwa
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
I also immediately thought of Borges on reading the link's title. When I was learning Spanish in adulthood, I decided for practice to re-translate this Borges story back into Spanish, having never read it in the original. Incredibly ch
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
"On the other hand, if “superiority” is taken to encompass things like scoring higher than others on an IQ test, then every submission to Intelligence would flout the guidelines." Or one better. IQ is pseudoscience. "Biologic
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by bangkoksbest 4y ago
The meaning of words arises from the pragmatic context of their use: the speaker's intentions, the shared social and linguistic conventions, illocution, etc AI, and especially the abstract and disembodied software artefacts that make u
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
The only Gaddis book I've read is A Frolic of His Own . It is essentially nothing but dialogue among upper class lawyers (& associated ilk), and I won't pretend it's a page-turner, but my word, it was masterfully crafted
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
I saw him once on a whim at a New Years Eve gig without knowing anything about him, and was very impressed how good of a live show he puts on. Very fun and even a bit goofy, yet also having a careful mastery over both the instruments and th
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Or maybe the Turing test is the right test but interpreted more literally: it is passed when the society that invented it genuinely believes it to have been passed. Hammering out the specific criteria ahead of time will only lead to frustra
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
More is different. Reductionism does not actually explain qualitative behavior.
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
I want to add double emphasis on this. Christianity before and without the Greek philosophical influence is primarily a religion of itinerant ascetics and martyrs (without the abstract ideals added, almost all of the story in the Gospels bo
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Liberalism is marked by comparison to abstract ideals. Whether and to what degree other areas of the world do worse in comparison to those ideals is not usually going to be something of paramount concern. This idealisation and universalisat
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Uhhh China has centuries of history of peasant movements rising up in improvised make-shift revolts. I don't think you understand how real revolution was for people in China. It was absolutely not a LARP. Just looking from 1850 to Mao,
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
As a former Antifa-kid (I don't go to punk shows anymore as 30 something, unfortunately), it's pretty surreal how off base and delusional this is. Antifa is primarily made of: i) dweeb grad students who have read too much Left &qu
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
That was Socrates' point. He was asking questions to expose how brittle the claims of knowledge and certainty were. I do find it strange that Wittgenstein—a man who considered Kierkegaard (who wrote an entire book on irony and Socrates
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Kuhn's thesis doesn't have a lot space for the sociology of science to have this kind of influence. Of the classical theses of scientific progress, this comes closer to Lakatos' thesis of research programs.[0][1] [0] https:&
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
It's a legitimate practice in science to speculate. Having heard the Harvard guy explain more fully the Oumuamua thing, it's struck me as perfectly fine activity for some scientist to look into. His hypothesis is almost certainly
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Brussels is increasingly English-speaking in general, and folks who work in the train areas in particular have to be fully fluent in French, Dutch and English, where the latter is just the default communication choice if you detect someone
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
It's not a coincidence that the left side (more positive to philosophy) and Born (whose quotes are more neutral) are also continental European, while the three critical examples (can add in Krauss, Hawking, and many others) come from A
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
But she's the Commission President—an executive position for a very complex and powerful international institution. If she were an MEP, then fine, I could accept that an MEP does not have anywhere the representative power such that the
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Who could possibly care about that? She's attending meetings and events in professional and political capacity as the Commission President, it's not personal holiday time. The climate cannot possibly suffer some meaningfully negat

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