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by brhsagain 4y ago
The equivalent of the kind of personally edifying extracurricular activity you’re talking about would be actually reading a lot and doing a lot of math, and then just doing well on the SAT using your actual knowledge. If you’re the kind of
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by brhsagain 4y ago
You're right, I misread. That negates my second paragraph. Again though, the article is not complaining about parties being banned, but about the process surrounding that decision: Dealing for months with lawyers and campus investigat
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Wait, I don't think even the article is complaining that students can't host frat parties. It's about students having to deal with months of legal proceedings as a consequence when they potentially break a rule. Your charac
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by brhsagain 4y ago
The current hype around ChatGPT seems to center around asking it to solve small toy problems and being amazed it can do so. Is there a foreseeable path or game plan to get from where we are now, to being able to give ChatGPT access to your
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by brhsagain 4y ago
The actual conservative position, at least my interpretation of it, is something like, the whole point of civilization and being alive is to reach the height of human potential, build great things and make new discoveries. Cultural homogene
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I have a probably really stupid question but I'm going to ask it because I really don't know the answer. What's stopping someone from starting a distributed effort to train an open source ChatGPT model, like Folding@home but
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by brhsagain 4y ago
> The dignity of knowledge work is rooted in our dignity as knowers, a concept from a branch of philosophy about the ethical implications of knowledge and belief. Success in knowledge isn’t about the facts we know, but by how good we ar
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Public comms are always a charade. In fact I’d go so far as to say I think communication in general is just a game where you try to say the right thing and create the right impression. Expecting “genuine feeling” from other people, much le
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by brhsagain 4y ago
See the second word.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
“But I did eat breakfast”
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by brhsagain 4y ago
What do you think I am asking?
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I mean, not to get personal or take this on a tangent, but, I am a longtime reader of your tweets and blog, and you seem to have an actual problem of values with him. You clearly have a direction you'd like society to move in and I fee
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Okay, I'll take a step back and clear the table of about 50% of what you and the other replies seem to be objecting to. I don't think Reddit should be regulated by the government, or laws, or some anti-trust, anti-monopoly thing.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Okay, but idlewords' comment is one of those things that sounds like it is a clever point when it is actually not. "Ha, the big talker who breaks things is talking big and breaking things again!" All right, so if today's
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I get that gloating when your enemies fail is one of life's big pleasures, but would your opinion on the guy change if we lived an alternate universe where Tesla had gotten FSD working?
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by brhsagain 4y ago
A lot of answers here are basically saying, everyone around you is probably not stupid. But I think there is a real possibility that everyone around you really is stupid relative to you, so I'm going to assume sincerity and take the qu
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Prohibition is the go-to example of banning alcohol not working but I think this is blurry thinking. In no other area of policy would you just point to one big example of something not working and thereby declare the whole approach off limi
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by brhsagain 4y ago
You are just telling me what the current state of the law is and how society is currently run. I agree that is the world we live in. I am making a prescriptive argument about how I think we ought to do things. Maybe my argument is weak; I’l
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Sorry, I'll back up a bit. I thought you were arguing that Reddit has the Constitutional/inalienable right to not have its speech compelled by the government. I agree, but I think the motivation behind that right has to be consi
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by brhsagain 4y ago
If we’re going to assert the inalienable right of free speech, then arguably free speech is such an important cornerstone of society that we should think long and hard before letting any company have such influence in that sphere to begin
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I know that that is the current state of the law. I’m not disputing that there is currently no legal framework to force Reddit to allow content. I’m arguing the “ought” rather than the “is” here. I disagree with the philosophical stance tha
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Calling sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc "private sites" is a bit of an intuition pump, even if the terminology is legally correct. You're basically evoking an image of Bob's Diner where a guy runs a restaurant
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by brhsagain 4y ago
In the spirit of hacking the site guidelines: I feel like writing a comment to declare that you're leaving the argument has to be anti-intellectual-curiosity in some nonzero way.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Hmm, okay. I was about to say that there's an interesting question of whether "vulnerability is a kind of strength," but I'm scrolling up and seeing that the original claim was that both weakness and vulnerability are un
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I think there's clearly a difference in perception between crying as a show of strength vs weakness. My intuition is that it's strong if you're crying after "coming back from the battlefield", after a long buildup p
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I dunno. I'm reading through them. I don't see any examples of weakness. On the contrary, every example is a guy crying for a really good damn reason . Even just the category itself kind of makes the point. The original claim way
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by brhsagain 4y ago
It more or less is though. He's saying men can't show weakness. The examples in your page support that: men can only cry precisely when crying isn't a show of weakness.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
The parent page of that, "Manly Tears"... > Boys don't cry. It doesn't matter the circumstances; shedding any tears is the ultimate no-no in terms of what you can and can't do as a man. But sometimes... sometimes
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Sure, but in our present reality those tests and interviews are how we currently gatekeep upper middle class jobs, so it is at least of some practical interest. Also, I think this is a bit overstated. Programmers (and smart people in genera
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by brhsagain 4y ago
> doesn't mean the coding interview is useless or that ChatGPT could actually do the job Aren't these kind of mutually exclusive, at least directionally? If the interview is meaningful you'd expect it to predict job perfor

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