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by chmsky00 5y ago
You become a doomsayer by appealing to “think of the children” and their anxiety. Children have been stressed by disease, poverty, nation state politics… prove it is avoidable before making it a problem. Of course the environment doomsayers
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It makes sense; before formal language humans still had to intuit “how much” food, water, sleep, would maintain life. I sometimes wonder if romantic era language forced on the species by warlords is actually responsible for a lot of our cog
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by chmsky00 5y ago
I wonder how he’d speak of a supposedly even better educated society stealing the future of the next due to circular validation of our waste filled industrialism.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
You should familiarize yourself with his actual research career and not just his popular political commentary. He also advocates for science based social policy all the time.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It’s not “unknown” to technologists. How it all works is very unknown to the average parent. This thread seems to think the government needs to function with the logic of this thread in mind. Pretty entitled to believe you’re the only persp
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Indeed, degree programs as we know them have a shady history where they were often just nonsense credentials the general public was too ignorant to invalidate, but they were secular, and gained popularity as religions has faded. There’s a l
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by chmsky00 5y ago
The whole undocumented code being useless is weird to me. I can determine the intended logic regardless of class or function names, and parameters labels. I’ve repurposed a lot of code that was labeled as being for one thing but the logic w
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Assuming there is a gold standard for intelligence, acting as if we can replicate what it took a universe millions of years to stumble into, by etching into silicon some algorithms that have meaning to us specifically, then seeing that as a
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by chmsky00 5y ago
My take is beyond economic activity to enable the biological survival of the species, our economics are historically built on gossip and political whimsy. I suspect there are many fewer rules needed than we’ve been lead to believe. We like
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It would be nice if the era of economic theory were to end. Herbert Weisberg argues in Willful Ignorance (paraphrasing for brevity; read and come to your own conclusions) we’re using statistical and probabilistic tools in economics that wer
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by chmsky00 5y ago
This is absolute nonsense. It’s accepted in science we select for biological traits like scent, and social standing; intelligence being a key component of a persons social standing. Even when people find someone attractive it doesn’t mean t
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Actually, humans doing nothing would be the best thing for the environment Industrial energy consumption feedback loops will occur in any system we attempt to build to curb the issue Any machines, chemicals, processes, vehicles, etc, that n
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by chmsky00 5y ago
You ignore all the dumb ideas that came before Feynman. Falsify a theory specifically. Hand waving it away with gatekeeping weak. IMO Biology explains consciousness fine. Reinforcement of sensory data given repeat exposure leaves agency mem
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Supply and demand took a back seat to hoarding assets to prop up investor value. Taken literally the government is engaged in class warfare by forcing the public to engage in labor for private enterprise to prosper. America is effectively a
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Cherry picked articles aren’t going to paint a nuanced portrait. Google is right there and I suggest you do the legwork forming your own opinions. I’ve merely stated my own and take the position I’m not trying to influence you. Coming here
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by chmsky00 5y ago
I take a physics perspective first view of reality, and see Chomsky’s work as a field theory of linguistics. Trade to support biological life is one thing, and is something I feel should be unencumbered by servicing memes like “Jeff Bezos i
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by chmsky00 5y ago
My bad; he wrote the Senate not “government”, should protect the opulent minority. Aristocratic protectionism is built into the American political system. https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/8793/what-did-
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Yeah they can because social laws are not beholden to the kind of logic used in science. Laws are thought ending semantic games invented by aristocrats to manipulate the masses. Read James Madison; government exists to protect the opulent m
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Engineer to solve the problem. Not banter online. My problem is people take a slogan like best practices and copy-paste in every new framework because it’s de facto best practice. If the business is one of 1,000 todo apps, sure copy paste.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
He should probably remove the writings online where he literally posted exactly as I claimed. It’s almost as if he’s the sort of person who will take whatever position fits his immediate need. If Thiel was a genius he’d be more than another
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by chmsky00 5y ago
I mean much of the economy is an MLM for elites. The elites of Claire’s Boutique aren’t letting employees design novel items. Adam Smith wrote hundreds of years ago that division of labor, taken to extremes, would lead to dumber humans than
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Those things provide jobs and revenue streams for companies. That’s why it exists. Our free speech society relies heavily on sticking to jobs, economics, and service to industrialists.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
He wrote how the masses need babysitters. Even if that’s so, my problem is he thinks he should be one of the babysitters. That’s what elected officials are for. All I owe Peter Thiel is letting him live his life. If he wants to co-opt the a
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? Did they write less code or contribute less bug fixes? Is the pay based upon output or businesses ability to manufacture consent in workers? Americans are
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by chmsky00 5y ago
“Best practices” smells like such a marketing term it should be tossed in the bin. It’s poetic language that has nothing to do with specific problems. What people usually mean when it comes to engineering is “be safe, reliable, and correct.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Different pay for the same work. “Meritocracy” in action. Since humans had to intuit quantities (food, etc), time (seasons), before formal language in order to survive, I’m pretty convinced logic and reason are our stronger innate abilities
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Researching elastic structures led me to the energy industry which led me to government role in the history of energy, which led me to government propaganda research documents; it was all gifted to advertising and marketing programs in univ
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Like all frameworks, which are barebones libraries wrapped in opinionated organization, KDE/QT can be a lot when you need a simple UI. I’ve used Nuklear to make simple, portable, UIs: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-U
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Yep. Science is three things; space, time, field effects. Human gossip is societies field effect. A thing may be true but politics is obfuscating the importance.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
The goal is to reduce network effects. As poetic as free speech is, the 1700s were a different time. Hard to SWAT a rando a town away let alone a country. Now a nation state can instigate localized terrorism. Thomas Jefferson understood law

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