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by briga 8y ago
A lot of people just want a no-effort cure-all. Things like exercise, meditation, healthy eating--all of which can help with mental health problems--require concentrated effort over a long period of time, and thus are unlikely to be preferr
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by briga 8y ago
Not to mention many of these techniques weren't even invented by DeepMind or Google. If there's any sense in the world these filings will be rejected.
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by briga 8y ago
I'm not sure species identification is the issue here. It doesn't matter if 100 species are at risk or 100,000, I think most people still aren't too concerned about the environment. Maybe for anything to get done there has to
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I bet it's insanely hard to get approval to build highrise luxury condos in London, especially when to do so you have to tear down historical buildings--and practically every building in Central London is historic. This seems like a se
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>It is strange reading this - 330 generations ago, the entire world was communist I'm sorry but this is a fairy tale view of human nature. People have always been selfish and have formed into dominance heirarchies. All you have to d
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by briga 8y ago
Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616566
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by briga 9y ago
Lem has got to be one of the most profound writers in all science fiction--dare I say in all of literature? He's up there with writers like Wells and Asimov. Solaris is deservedly his most famous book, but he has many other books worth
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by briga 9y ago
Minor nitpick: GPS doesn't enable adventure. If anything, having constant GPS guidance takes away from the adventure. Many of my best memories while biking have happened because I got a bit lost and stumbled upon something neat in a pl
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by briga 9y ago
Ants are a good candidate for a second civilization. They live on every continent except Antarctica, they build complex structures, they invented argriculture millions of years before humans did (!), and they live in socially stratified soc
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by briga 9y ago
What's so bad about downtown San Francisco?
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Does this apply to tech workers in the Bay Area? Because it seems like the quality of life should be very high with what they're getting paid.
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Personally I found the book tedious--Searle makes lots on personal attacks on his philosophical rivals, but he does little to actually refute their ideas. He strikes me as someone who is so invested in his ideas that the possibility that he
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by briga 9y ago
The might be a side-effect of the fact that there is no broad consensus about how the brain works.
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The thing with brains is that even if you understand all the building blocks, that really doesn't tell you much about how the brain actually works. Trying to understand the brain from neurons is like trying to understand Microsoft Word
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by briga 9y ago
What a coincidence, they're also getting redesigned to look good in real life. Maybe employers have realized that employees are happier and more productive when they're not in a sterile overlit grey office 8+ hours a day.
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Exactly, the problem is that they kept fixing things that weren't broken and making random illogical UI changes until the program got so over-engineered and bloated that it was a chore to use. The program worked fine, but I guess the t
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by briga 9y ago
If anything I suspect a galactic collision would be a driver of increased star formation, and thus a catalyst for galactic recycling and chemical evolution within that Galaxy. It could even be something that leads to higher rates of biologi
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Spirit – Allen Wheelis (1975)(themindi.blogspot.com)
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Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet. I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me questio
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by briga 9y ago
Is it intentional though? Like the old proverb goes--never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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I think YouTube's recommendation algorithms are complicit in this, and I can imagine an alternative system preventing the divide between popular and unpopular content. Currently if you watch one video your recommendation feed gets floo
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Apparently. I'm just having a conversation. Have a pleasant day.
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It seems like you're missing the forest for the trees here. I would recommend Durant's history of civilization if you would like a detailed account of what these people accomplished. I also encourage you to compare these leaders w
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I don't think you can argue that any of those rulers weakened their societies--unless you completely disregard historical fact. I was just questioning the dogma that having leaders in power for multiple terms is automatically bad. I&#x
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Even the greatest emperor isn't going to fix all of the ills of society. What matters is what they can achieve during their time in power. If tomorrow some all-knowing wise leader were be elected to power in China, do you really think
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by briga 9y ago
I can think of a number of first world nations sufferings from the same issues.
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Off the top of my head: Solon, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Akbar, Charlemange There are many more examples, those are just some that come to mind right away. You can argue whether or not they were "good", but they certainly
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From the outside looking in it seems like Xi has been doing a great job leading China. Are there any serious contenders for Chinese leadership like Navalny in Russia? Not to mention that historically there have been many excellent leaders w
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Give it about 30 years and maybe.
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A lot of the recent successes in ML haven't been based on new breakthroughs in theory. For instance deep neural networks have been studied for decades now. Same with the reinforcement learning algorithms behind advances like AlphaGo. S

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