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by benched 13y ago
I guarantee you other animals are first-class conscious. I can't prove it to you, but that's a problem with epistemology, not a problem with the other animals.
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by benched 13y ago
What was it that triggered such a verbose non-discussion of a non-controversy in this thread?
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by benched 13y ago
Super-importantly, incentive pay increases extra-linearly, at least in the MSFT reward game. So, e.g. in your 7th year you might be getting drastically more in bonus pay than in your 2nd year. Much more than you might expect just from rai
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by benched 13y ago
The latter move is still the former move.
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by benched 13y ago
$400k is performing well at a BigCo for about a decade. I banked $100k in 4 years at MSFT, and I was not frugal. Surviving, let alone excelling in a large software company for 10 years is a demanding, sustained effort. In what way is it
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by benched 13y ago
He didn't begin life as a Yahoo employee. What are you even trying to say?
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by benched 13y ago
I think it's important in the context of this topic not to try to solve everything, or make the perfect the enemy of the good. Like, getting people indoors and off of the streets is a great, high-priority goal, and if the will can be m
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by benched 13y ago
I love how, despite the lessons of the inner-city projects, there's still this automatic urge to try to reduce the quality of life of the imaginary occupants as much as possible, right out of the gate.
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by benched 13y ago
I'm having trouble thinking of questions where the answers would have information content. For example, you could ask whether your entire chain of command and half the team are planning on leaving within a year, but the answer you get
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by benched 13y ago
No. Things can only be wrong if they're in the past. In the present, they're anointed by the status quo effect: if it is the status quo, then it is the best of all possible worlds by reason of many armchair economics-based argumen
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by benched 13y ago
There is probably no Spolskyism that I disagree with more. And yet, I don't really disagree with what he said in context. The context is within a business where the opportunity cost could make it not worth it. If the only concern is
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by benched 13y ago
If the algorithm gets aroused, return positive, otherwise return negative. Bam, patent.
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by benched 13y ago
I don't agree that because a metaphorical 'decision' is a part of a development, that it isn't inevitable.
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by benched 13y ago
All I see here is a couple of people arguing that playing dirty should be compatible with being prestigious, and to that end suggesting that pushing ethical boundaries is literally synonymous with success. And since 'we' subscribe
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by benched 13y ago
I must suck at socializing a lot worse than I thought I did.
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by benched 13y ago
Programming is one of the most exciting, flow-inducing, mentally stimulating, mathematically and logically enlightening, rewarding activities I do. Programming is one of the most mind-numbing, soul-sucking, procrastination-inducing, lonely,
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by benched 13y ago
And I experienced something like the reverse of this, while I was on FB. Seeing my friends being mealy-mouthed and trite continually, because they were on a public platform visible to everybody they ever met in their life, made me involun
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by benched 13y ago
Wow. I could not have stated better exactly how I feel about my career, and what I perceive to be my prospects after 15 years of being 'performance review successful' in this industry. And to those who can't resist giving uns
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by benched 13y ago
I have to disagree about the country part. I didn't hear her trying to halo at all (whether or not that's an effect) - I heard her saying that that's her culture, her influences, and her inspiration. Plus, you really cannot t
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by benched 13y ago
Well, there is that deep well of unjustified fear and hatred I've stored up in my heart. I wasn't going to mention it, because I was worried it might undermine my credibility.
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by benched 13y ago
Whether it is possible to proactively mitigate a circumstance has no bearing on whether the circumstance exists . I met plenty of people through sports and work. The Freeze is a local, cultural ambient background of social norms. It's
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by benched 13y ago
Yes, this is what I was getting at. That if I don't already have well-developed meanings for all of those verbs in this context, they look like they were pulled out of thin air. They might as well be interchangeable - I don't even
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by benched 13y ago
I note that the parent is mainly talking about the people, and you're mainly talking about other things, except to admit that the people are 'a bit' (I would say profoundly ) passive. Believe me, I love the scenery and the s
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by benched 13y ago
Seattle 8 years. Sadly I have to agree wholeheartedly with this, because I've been unable to find much contrary evidence. The 'Freeze', which is deservedly famous, is very, very real, no matter how many people try to minimize
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by benched 13y ago
Yes, exactly. It's like a sneaky way of asking if physics is deterministic, alluding to the paradoxical relation between determinism and free will.
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by benched 13y ago
Actual inter-level causation is not needed for the characters to experience events as they do in the story. The rules that imply that all levels would unfold identically are low-level. Human narrative events that alias as inter-level causat
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by benched 13y ago
The sequences are well worth a read. They're kind of like an overview of modern philosophy in very plain language, very little jargon. Then, just participate in the comments and discussion forum as you feel. It takes very little time t
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by benched 13y ago
It is not universally believed that intelligence is ineffable. The most cursory Googling turns up lots of serviceable definitions articulated by smart people. Unfortunately, it is just complex enough to let people argue about it forever.
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by benched 13y ago
All I'm learning from this thread is that some people see infinite regression where others see tautology. edit: what I mean: Person 1: "What if we're just measuring the color of the sky? What if we're just measuring blue
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by benched 13y ago
We're talking about the brain. The brain can change itself from the inside just by willing it. Much more can you change the brain using purposefully designed external stimuli. The brain is like a FPGA, part of which implements a FPGA p

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