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by bnralt 3y ago
Particularly since the report says that dozens of other Grandmasters cheated as well[1], and we’re not even being told who they are. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-rep...
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It's literally impossible for him to cheat in the exact same way. An online cheater tabs out to an engine to see the move and act accordingly. You simply can't do that in an in person match with a crowd of people watching. Hence w
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It wouldn’t be the same behavior, though. No one is able to really come up with a good explanation of how Niemann cheated in a game where he was being watched by a crowd of people. Hence the sex toy theory; one has to come up with some outl
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Looking at the early Wikipedia pages is fairly telling. From the first day that her page is up, Hedy Lamarr had a large section devoted to this invention[1]. But her co-inventor's Wikipedia only made a brief mention of it for the first
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Exactly this. "Sweets" for most people meant deserts You can see a picture of the food pyramid the USDA used to use here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition) Telling people they should be h
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Crackpots true believers also usually claim to be neutral on the subject and say that they're only interested in transparency. Then when you point out the glaring issues with the conspiracy (for instance, pointing out Grusch's cl
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On top of this, we already know the vast majority of people making claims about UFOs (and paranormal activity in general) are cranks and grifters, and that “ufologists” are people with poor judgement that get fooled by these folks. You can
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This is a good point. The government started investing in spaceflight because it was seen as important to defense. In the early 1960's, the best plan for spy satellites were manned space stations (see the planned Manned Orbital Laborat
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While true, it's missing the forest for the trees. NASA spends almost half it's budget on human spaceflight, and there doesn't seem to be any particular goal there beyond "send people into space because we want to send p
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Excellent point. I think something like "Doing diaphragmatic breathing for 5 minutes a day where you try to focus your mind on your breath will give you certain benefits" is a lot more useful than nebulous claims about "medit
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> In other words, if you tried to "do a communism", you'd either be carpet bombed (or more likely have a fascist coup funded against you) by the US, or you'd be made an offer you can't refuse by the Soviet Union.
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Right, people overlook the fact that Stalin was popular among many on the left (Che Guevara gave him a lot of praise). Trotsky, for his part (as well as Lenin) was authoritarian himself. But all of the revolutionaries, including Stalin, wer
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When he was in his 30's he joined up with Trostkyists to fight in Spain, but said he would have preferred to have joined the anarchists. Despite his capabilities as a writer, I wouldn't really turn to him for political advice.
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Yeah, Scott Alexander wrote a whole article about how people should use made up fake statistics instead of simply saying "I don't know"[1]. [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth
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> Meanwhile, Apple has been making a lot of noise about making the Mac a more viable gaming platform, given the exceptionally strong graphics performance (for integrated graphics on a laptop, at least) of the M1 and M2 series chips in th
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I don't even think it's just metaphysics. People in general like to find patterns in the world even where none exist. The LessWrong community is somewhat infamous for abusing statistics. Political predictions sites like 538 have p
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> Also the argument that descendants of slaves in America are better off than their counterparts in Africa is problematic because it assumes that the progress of African nations would have been the same without the devastating effects of
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> So little of the news is actionable, as the article points out. The only remotely actionable news for me is what’s happening in my local community; but the gradual demise of our local newspaper has made that difficult to track. A hyper
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Also interesting that if you read the original Starcraft manual, you'd notice that there were massive retcons as early as Brood War (particularly with the Terrans). Some board games come with pretty hefty manuals, still. Twilight Imper
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> When you said AI (and in my view tech in general) are everywhere, I’m guessing this wasn’t what you meant… That person gave a list of tech they were talking about in their comment immediately afterwards: "speech to text, language
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If the sub is experiencing substantial user growth isn't that an indication that the sub is doing well?
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> I don't know if this is a good metric because Reddit five years ago had 4x as many active users than 9 years ago. It does today, yet most of the top upvoted ones aren't from the last few years. Rather, most seem to be from 2
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> So many people want to moderate a local subreddit for Seattle that we have at least three different ones. The mod teams for each all have strong (and different) political views. But the threat of their community splitting keeps the mod
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> With the result that Reddit lost a popular, interesting feature and a lot of cultural relevance. Looking through /r/IAMA, and I can't say that I'm seeing that. If you look through the top voted AMA's of all ti
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8 years ago a bunch of Reddits went dark to protest the firing of Victoria Taylor. The AMA sub claimed that they wouldn't be able to continue without Victoria's help. Eventually the sub opened back up and things continued as they
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> So might suggest that if you see this is a reddit-specific issue, that might indicate that you have been living in a different sort of bubble. I never said it was a Reddit specific issue, so I'm not sure why you're reading th
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I highly doubt any of the comments here are from people who want to invest in the IPO and think badmouthing mods will help them. Honestly, most of the dislike for the way that mods run Reddit is from simply running into the types of things
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> Most of these closed subreddits polled their userbase and only participated in the blackout if users heavily favored doing so. The vast minority polled the users, from what I can see. None of the subs I visited that went dark had a po
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Right. If the users of the sub want to continue the boycott, they certainly can. If the removed mods are beloved by the community, it's easy for them to open a new subreddit. But I think most people realize that most of the users, who
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Every time I've participated in a small sub where the mod went AWOL it's been just fine. Often much better than your average Reddit sub. You can even see this with smaller active subs that only have one moderator. The sub doesn&#x

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