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by baxtr 1y ago
This is not how it played out if you talk to Iranians. They will tell you that the theocracy folks were a small minority of the entire resistance and first built a government of unity. Once in charge they started annihilating all other oppo
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by baxtr 1y ago
He wanted a better deal! Don’t you understand?!
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by baxtr 1y ago
Ok wow this is actually frightening. I talked to a friend recently who is a plastic surgeon. He told me about a young pretty girl came in recently with super clear ideas what she wanted to fixed. Turns out she uploaded her pictures to an LL
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by baxtr 1y ago
I read the book too! I really enjoyed it and I think they Popper and Sutherland would go along quite well. Both advocate the principle of putting out a bold conjecture, test, learn, adapt.
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by baxtr 1y ago
What is a good example for which Popper delivers "obviously implausible results"?
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by baxtr 1y ago
Looking at the tech scene though Munich seems more like SF than Hamburg.
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by baxtr 1y ago
> Popper’s falsificationism – this is the old philosophy that the Bayesian revolution is currently dethroning. https://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes These are the kind of statements I’m referring to. Happy to b
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by baxtr 1y ago
Yes, and if you read Popper that’s exactly how he defined rationality / the scientific method: to solve problems of life.
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by baxtr 1y ago
Yes, thx, fixed it.
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by baxtr 1y ago
Probably true.
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by baxtr 1y ago
My main problem with the movement is their emphasis on Bayesianism in conjunction with an almost total neglect of Popperian epistemology. In my opinion, there can’t be a meaningful distinction made between rational and irrational without Po
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by baxtr 1y ago
How can someone so smart become a hype machine? I can’t wrap my head around it. Maybe he had the opportunity to learn from someone he worked closely with?
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by baxtr 1y ago
> End users will continue to use Excel for everything. Wait, I thought AI is killing all these jobs?!
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by baxtr 1y ago
Yes exactly. It doesn’t even need to be the work of an "evil corporation". The button does all the magic…
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by baxtr 1y ago
The last paragraph: >Talk about convergence evidence. Taking the SalesForce report together with the Apple paper, it’s clear the current tech is not to be trusted.
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by baxtr 1y ago
Why "beat"? Why not "augment" or "improve"?
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by baxtr 1y ago
> I’d take a Waymo in a heartbeat. On a personal level I fully understand that. On a societal level I’d say, maybe it’s helpful not to be completely segregated from a certain social class that seems to exist in your town and to be expo
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by baxtr 1y ago
Me scrolling is faster than the speed of light! Nice.
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by baxtr 1y ago
Interesting. Very little about the underlying reasons for this. Maybe it's driven by curiosity/awe for the new experience? Maybe being alone in the car makes a better ride?
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by baxtr 1y ago
https://archive.ph/X2yrx
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The Secrets of the Man Who Made Nvidia the Most Valuable Company(wsj.com)
2 points by baxtr 1y ago|1 comments
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by baxtr 1y ago
> Marie Curie worked here from 1914 until 1934, the year of her death, handling radioactive elements including radium, which she and her husband Pierre Curie had discovered in 1898. For most of her life, she did this with bare, increasi
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by baxtr 1y ago
> Because the attacker’s code executes before the operating system even loads, it opens the door for attackers to install bootkits and undermine OS-level security defenses. Excellent.
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by baxtr 1y ago
Even instagram? I tend to agree with your point but I like insta.
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by baxtr 1y ago
What’s 0.34 Celsius in years? I think it’s at least a decade which isn’t that bad.
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Bad record-keeping 'secret ' to long life(nst.com.my)
2 points by baxtr 1y ago|0 comments
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by baxtr 1y ago
Don’t get me started on Roman Emperors…
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Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules(techcrunch.com)
6 points by baxtr 1y ago|0 comments
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by baxtr 1y ago
After looking a bit into the longevity stuff I’ve come to the conclusion that 80% of the benefits for health come from simple habits: sleep well, move daily, work-out regularly, eat fresh and moderately, and maintain social connections. Tha
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by baxtr 1y ago
Yes, fair enough.

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