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by burrows 5y ago
> Weirdly, I think your second bit (solving from first principles) is much closer to the truth of how human brains work than "copy-paste?" Which harmonizes quite well with my first point? I suppose we just disagree about this.
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by burrows 5y ago
Well maybe I’d say that by “our”, I mean the people who self-describe as “fans” of at least one of those teams, or people who have been to a live match featuring at least one of those teams in the last five years, or something like this.
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by burrows 5y ago
> But for me that's a lot like "a car going faster than a person running." Yeah, I’d love to have car-like locomotive capability built in to my bio-machine. Or, maybe I wouldn’t, I dunno what all the consequences would be.
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by burrows 5y ago
Human newborns can’t autonomously do shit either.
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by burrows 5y ago
> This is basically the only thing the computers can definitely outdo you, the human, on. They really can't think as good as you. Can you give some intuition about “thinking”? Is “thinking” what I do when playing chess? In my case
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by burrows 5y ago
Armchair counterintelligence!
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by burrows 5y ago
Any test for determining whether I’m doing a “good job” at dropping ideas that contradict evidence?
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by burrows 5y ago
> You know how stupid the other side is, yeah you probably look around that stupid yourself Any other techniques for dealing with this? To get a better measurement of my own intelligence I think about my “dumb friend”, and then try to re
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by burrows 5y ago
> it is absurd that the law places any limits whatsoever on the act of examining how an artifact you legally own functions. You’re just smuggling in your own implicit definition of “legally own”. As you’ve pointed out, “ownership” is a l
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by burrows 5y ago
> so having stronger public investments in media could be helpful to stop this pervasive divisiveness. Completely unsubstantiated nonsense claim. > China has the opposite configuration where the state controls all information and you&
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by burrows 5y ago
“Theft” is a legal phenomena so let’s not get ahead of ourselves and declare the relevant digital assets as “stolen”.
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by burrows 5y ago
So, cash out right now?
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by burrows 5y ago
Can we please get an engineer from this asshat crypto company to tell us about the bug and how mgmt handled it internally? Do it for the lulz
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by burrows 5y ago
What timescale are you thinking on, 75 years or 15000 years?
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by burrows 5y ago
> the return of an empowerment is spread among the group of supporters who funded the empowerment But, workers by definition don’t fund companies.
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by burrows 5y ago
Okay, then how are you determining the increase in value?
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by burrows 5y ago
> I certainly don't need to justify my reasoning for using Facebook or Instagram to you, but I assure you there are some things which are easier when you have an account. Of course, every deal with the devil offers something in the
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by burrows 5y ago
You’ve substituted “exploit” with “generate”. What is the technical definition of “generate”?
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by burrows 5y ago
You’ve just replaced the word “empower” with “exploit”. Do you have some technical definition for the word “exploit”?
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by burrows 5y ago
> A certain fringe of the population will eat any propaganda unthinkingly, domestic or foreign. But if a majority was so uncritical, democracies would have collapsed a long time ago. Like the millions of people who unironically watch CNN
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by burrows 5y ago
> Trucking is an industry that while it does have good jobs for people, it is just a pure cost for literally everybody. Everybody except the truckers themselves would benefit from lower trucking cost. Right, this is exactly the neolibera
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by burrows 5y ago
Is “<insert-working-class-job> nostalgia” an everywhere thing, or limited to America?
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by burrows 5y ago
How about just not going to Chernobyl rather than repurposing some old scuba and WW2 chemical defense gear into a hazmat suit?
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by burrows 5y ago
Seems duplicitous to suggest that a web browser provides something like an anonymizing client.
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by burrows 5y ago
I find this story extremely compelling. (Is it True?) > Because they slaughtered 97% of all life, by accident. And isn’t this also true of humans? We’re not killing other species (and their “habitats”) on purpose, it’s a side effect of
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by burrows 5y ago
> Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read AFAIK Google (via GMail) reads emails from/to “normal people”. Is Google not a “powerful adversary”?
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by burrows 5y ago
You’re just banally pointing out that different applications have different correctness requirements.
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by burrows 5y ago
(I know basically zero about city planning, although I have lived in cities for a decade) The “roadway” itself is another fixed resource, I think? So, either the street gets a bike lane or another vehicle lane, but not both because there i
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by burrows 5y ago
Currently, bus passes in Cleveland, Boston, NYC (cities I’ve lived in) are only ~$100/month.
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by burrows 5y ago
> What a weird take. Agreed, like looking at the case inside out. > Bike lanes do not take away the possibility for those less able to use a car, they strictly add options. But, that is true only if the bike lanes are “free to build a

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