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by cgmg 9y ago
What reason do you have to doubt his account? I'm honestly curious. To quote: He does not have a history being dramatic, emotional, manipulative. He does not have a history of having crazy outbursts and attention seeking behaviors. He
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by cgmg 9y ago
Failing to protect their child from sustained sexual abuse reflects heavily on the character of his parents.
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by cgmg 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that being kicked out of your home at 19 because you wouldn't attend church for seven hours is a legitimate grievance.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> If you're unfamiliar with the situation, my parents are fundamentalist Christians who kicked me out of their house and cut me off financially when I was 19 because I refused to attend seven hours of church a week. They seem reason
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by cgmg 9y ago
Umm... did you read Bill's letter in its entirety? > I'd also like to address my family, if you can call them that. I despise everything they stand for and I truly hate them, in a non-emotional, dispassionate and what I believe
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Wow, 1 economist back in 1891 considered it a fallacy. Good to know you only have the ability to read two sentences.
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by cgmg 9y ago
I just don't see a reason to modify important program functionality for the sake of a joke. There are so many other ways to show a sense of humor without doing that.
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by cgmg 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by cgmg 9y ago
"If something is the right thing to do, it is the right thing to do. As someone pointed out... US provides farm subsidies."
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by cgmg 9y ago
What makes you think that US farm subsidies are a good idea?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Not that we should cannibalize our working (!) people-moving infrastructure for something worse. > Cannibalize What's wrong with cannibalizing a system that's fundamentally broken?
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Despite the UAT, 2 hidden layers are more powerful than 1(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
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by cgmg 9y ago
> If you really think regulations are made to protect someone other than the poor or middle classes I've got a bridge in Alaska to sell you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture > The whole point
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by cgmg 9y ago
> The weird obsession Your comment is basically an ad hominem. Maybe, just maybe , they genuinely believe these regulations do more harm than good. No need to fetch your tinfoil hat.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> we're surrounded by mountains of evidence exactly to the contrary Where can we find such evidence, as opposed to anecdotes?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Is he wrong?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Why aren't we p-zombies one might ask? Because we are agents in the world and not being good agents means death, so we have to feel to exist. > P-zombies don't fear death. Even if one existed, it would not have the drive t
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by cgmg 9y ago
> I took your comment as genuine, not some bullshit attempt to deflect through focus on some minute detail. Hope I am not wrong. Yeah, who cares about pesky details, am I right?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> born and raised in michigan, lived all over the state. I hope i die here. You really think this adds "a lot of context and information" to his message? You must be joking. It's a knee-jerk reply consisting of two short
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by cgmg 9y ago
> this is just showing how you can utilize Magic game mechanics to create a Turing Machine I believe that is the point.
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by cgmg 9y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentient Uh, no. I'm pretty sure we qualify as sentient.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Your analogy is ridiculous. In what way is polluting a river like hosting a social network on your own servers?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> I didn't down-vote you but I suspect people reacted negatively because the implication is you have to stop learning after college. How on earth does their comment imply that ?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why? On what basis?
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by cgmg 9y ago
I wouldn't say Germany is the most liberal democracy, but it certainly isn't an 'illiberal democracy' in the sense that is commonly used.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Not sure what you mean by 'unpredictable but learnable'. Can you clarify?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Then again, all code is 'just' a bunch of RAM instructions, which can be implemented in any (Turing-complete) language. That doesn't tell us anything about how elegant or expressive it is.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> For example, imagine a television displaying nothing but static on its screen. Such a thing would quickly engage the curiosity of a purely novelty-seeking agent, because a square of randomly flickering visual noise is, by definition, t
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by cgmg 9y ago
Is it really? Creating abstractions for resource allocation seems quite useful from an evolutionary and societal perspective.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> The crash, when it comes (and it will) will be catastrophic. Your statement is unfalsifiable and meaningless. When will the crash come?

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