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> In other words, we have made great strides in teaching AI "physics" or "recognition", but we have made very little progress in teaching it metaphysics (categories, in this case) because half the people working on th
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Increasing video coverage doesn't simply mean people are more likely to be imprisoned; it can also be used to prove innocence as well. Here's an example of a guy who was able to prove his innocence because he was captured on tape
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Good point. This BBC article said that a man was sentenced to two year in prison for having a copy of it on his computer[1]. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-60051861
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The job of talking heads is entertainment, not any practical value. I'd say the same is mostly true for the news media at large, as well as bloggers, commentators, humanities theorists, and other professional thinkers.
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I tried Vim mode in XCode. When I move by paragraph, XCode crashes when it gets to the bottom of the screen. I understand that XCode Vim mode is lacking a lot of the functionality of Vim, coming nowhere close to even the free XVim plugin. B
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That's the one.
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There are a number of foods that are supposedly only being amazing within a certain geographic location, but the best ones I've had were far outside if that location. The best shrimp poboy I had was in Tampa; nothing I could find in Ne
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There were even two other "people stuck inside simulated reality" SciFi films released within two months of The Matrix (Existenz and The Thirteenth Floor).
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Other discussion sites that have a "vote to the top" system similar to Hacker News usually get _flooded_ with low effort humor posts, to the point where it's hard to find any actual interesting comments on the subject. It&#x2
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Interesting point. There's a whole category of writings called pseudepigrapha because scholars generally agree that they're not written by the people they're claimed to have been written by. If I wrote a play now and sold it
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Memory is very fallible, and if you can't remember the source I'd suggest it's quite possible you're not accurately remembering the information as well. Even in cases where someone's memory is entirely accurate, wit
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I agree about gwern.net, that's actually one of the first things that popped into my mind. A lot of personal sites from academia still follow this approach as well (see Don Knuth's page[1], for example). In the early days of the w
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> Personal websites of the day were structured much like blogs would be, with a single index page listing all the articles in reverse-chronological order (or for the lazy/unconcerned with bandwidth, a big honking text file with new
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Blogs are already part of the view count trap and constant output dopamine hit provider worlds. Social media is just further down the trend line. In the early days of websites people often just had articles organized by topic on their websi
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It seems easier because Mars proponents often focus on the technological challenges (which are indeed great, if not insurmountable), while ignoring the human challenges. The challenges from human nature are going to exist on Mars just as mu
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Around here at least, most of the cool local places around here are in the suburbs. That's where you find 99% of the "ethnic" supermarkets (Polish market, Japanese market, Chinese markets, Korean markets, Indian markets, etc.
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Indeed. Just like you can be against waste in public schools, but if you start marching around with signs that say "Defund Schools" you shouldn't be surprised if people take your sign at face value and don't want to asso
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I'm confused. You said you believe Paul "preached a celestial being, not a human," but you think that his branch of Christianity completely invented the idea of a human Jesus just a few years after his death? It's not ju
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Right, that's my point. These disparate factions disagree on almost everything. You're claim is that the sole exception is that they unanimously agreed with the creation of a fake founding figure, and everyone was willing to keep
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> to me it's dogmatic bias to build your whole theory on the letters of one person. It's not built entirely on the letters of one person. Anyone who's studied early Christianity knows that there's a large variety of e
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Eh? The crucifixion is supposed to have happened circa 30 AD, the Pauline letters (where Christianity is already fairly established) are from circa 50 AD. Even if we pretend it spread very rapidly and was only 10 years old in 50 AD, that&#x
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That theory doesn't match with the evidence we have at all. The Pauline letters (the ones considered authentic) show us that there were many early leaders, some of whom clashed with Paul, as well as many different factions of Christian
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That theory doesn't fit any of the evidence, though. What we see in the first few decades of the movement is group that's come from a common source and is starting to split off as they argue over in what light their leader should
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Sure, but Jesus mythicism is a fringe belief who's popularity exists almost entirely within the more activist atheist crowd, while just about no serious historian finds any validity in the theory. I agree that no atheist should have st
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Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. In order to find yourself insolvent, you not only need to have losses in the principle greater than your gains, but you also need to have people trying to pull out enough money tha
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Someone is making these value judgements. There's a reason why certain projects get funded while others don't. If someone has no idea what research will yield results, and has no preference for what research gets funded, that&#x27
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And even whether or not it's important is hard to say. Whether the experiments being done were important or completely unimportant, we'd get the same thing - hyped up results from NASA talking about how these things were a big dea
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> almost all of these Mars robots seem to do useful science well beyond the end of the stated mission How are we defining "useful science" here? They all do some kind of scientific investigations, but it's hard to say if i
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What's interesting is that once someone gets past a certain age, people almost universally agree that it's OK to confine them against their wishes if they are unable to take car of themselves. You don't hear many people sayin
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I brought up Saturn V's to give people a sense of the mass we're talking about, not because I thought the probes would be actual Saturn V's (and I don't think we'll be sending 1.5 million of them to a single star).

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