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by bubble-07 7y ago
Yes, I absolutely agree with your second statement. However, the issue I take with the author is that they say that they are not a programmer, and they're frustrated that they cannot get a programmer to help build a prototype. Being _f
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by bubble-07 7y ago
For all of the political ideologies you listed, we have concrete examples of societies which trend in those directions. Sure, most real societies do not trend toward radical versions of those ideologies, but at least we can each get an okay
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by bubble-07 7y ago
The major red flag is in the "misunderstood genius" part -- 99% of the people I've ever seen with a claim like that haven't interacted with things enough to have been able to truly test their claims. "Genius" i
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by bubble-07 7y ago
What is the first diagram on this page supposed to depict? Seems like a bunch of unrelated topics with random arrows drawn between them. Also, the author seems more than a bit arrogant and deluded: http://settheory.net/life
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by bubble-07 7y ago
Eh, fair enough -- a real experience beats reading about it any day. Literary labyrinths can be fun to explore, though it takes a certain mindset going in. I'd say that pieces like this are not "ingest with morning coffee" pi
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by bubble-07 7y ago
Okayyy, if you say sooo... You don't need to take everything you see on the internet as unnecessarily hostile. Heck, I was just trying to make light of what I saw as an absurd situation.
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by bubble-07 7y ago
I didn't interpret the article that way at all -- I can understand how somebody saying "hey, look at these neat things I found and learned outside!" could be misinterpreted as "self-important wankery" due to the nat
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by bubble-07 7y ago
I find many of the comments on this article hilarious -- Jesus Christ, HN commenters, can't you recognize the irony of complaining that your attention span is too short to read an article about the joys of paying attention to the world
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by bubble-07 8y ago
We tend to prefer simpler theories that still manage to make good predictions. Is it really a surprise that our best theories are simple in light of our aesthetic preferences? The "true laws of physics" could be god-awful, and we
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by bubble-07 8y ago
It doesn't matter if "dark matter is just a hardcoded variable or a hotfix to an existing problem" -- all physics cares about is building a theory of dark matter that can make effective predictions. If a "theory of a sim