chordalkeyboard

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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> I think the difference is effectively negligible. The difference is categorical, humans are responsible whether they are held to account or not. An automated system effectively dissipates this responsibility over a system such that it
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
the difference is that the person in control would be attesting to their state of mind, versus the person out of control attesting to their understanding of the relevant circumstances.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
"Good artists copy, great artists steal" -Picasso All art is derivative.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
The chance of a machine being held accountable is zero as the concept is inapplicable.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
D&G are a bad place to start with philosophy. I recommend watching these lectures by the late Professor Rick Roderick for a more accessible introduction: http://rickroderick.org/101-socrates-and-the-life-of-inquiry...
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> They won't even help the U.S government make autonomous weapons. This is a good thing.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
inflation is not scale-independent, the first goods to be bid up are the ones purchased by the people who receive the freshly minted funds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the...
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> What about quinoa made it associated with rich yuppies? poor people use wheat etc.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> I also grew up in a dysfunctional family environment (toxic parent relationship, some narcissistic/borderline traits in them) and have been struggling with the consequences of that on my development and mental health. I know what
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> I'm thinking of the union busting efforts of the railroad and mining companies in the late 1800s and early 1900s where the corporations straight up murdered folks. my favorite examples of corporate union busting from that era all
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
feeling older than your body's age in calendar years is a symptom of ptsd (not in every case) (yes I feel older and yes in my case it is a symptom of ptsd)
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
Can you explain or share what research is being done on getting machines to understand the meaning and intent of the data and prompts they are given?
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
here is a website which addresses this: https://defetter.com
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I'd be interested in the citations, I thought your post was a joke (although I didn't downvote).
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
semantic pedantry here: "bodybuilder" refers to a sport/discipline where they literally do lift for looks or aesthetics; not performance.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> It's incredibly rare for someone to be "perfect" genetically speaking its actually impossible because the only objective measure of gene quality is the performance of the organism and the performance of the organism dep
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> We discriminate like that based on genetics now. It's just that it comes from random chance at birth rather than human modification, but really what's the difference? What are you alluding to here?
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Does it make sense, in a world like the one in Gattaca, for a person that is part of a discriminated class, to go into space, instead of trying to change the society around him to be less discriminatory? Yes, it absolutely makes sense
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Therefore the statistical estimates issued by genetic experts have to be true; otherwise, there is simply no story to tell. (from your first link) The movie obliquely addresses this when Vincent experiences a non-fatal heart attack on
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
it depends on a number of factors including the individual's age and health, and the environment. Skin infections are a possibility.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
The article alleges that eggs are not free from killing because only females lay eggs and therefore half the chickens hatched to produce egg-laying chickens are killed because they are male.
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The Japanese Turn Pessimistic About the International Order(scholars-stage.org)
3 points by chordalkeyboard 4y ago|0 comments
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
it is impossible to have journalism without an agenda.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Truth might as well be synonymous with common consensus, it has nothing to do with facts. this isn't what normal people mean when they say 'truth', usually they mean what you're referring to as 'facts.' &g
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The truth changes according to what the majority believes is true at a given point in time. benchmarking 'truth' to majority opinion is quite problematic. For one thing, you'd be asserting that a minority in possession o
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Unlimited companies prove my point. They’re rare. And they’re overwhelmingly levered. if you say so, but your point is hard to grasp because here are examples of people owning capital without a liability shield. And plenty of liability
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
it seems as though you are making a semantic claim around the word 'equity' which is fine but you also seem to be simultaneously claiming that people would either make/take loans or operate the business themselves. I almost d
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
as an investor, it is your responsibility to be informed as to what people are doing with your money. the entire purpose of liability limitations is to make it so people don't need to do that because all they have risked is money.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
they shield the shareholders from criminal and civil liability for the actions of their employees. if the shareholder committed a liable act personally then the existence of an LLC would not shield them. The LLC/corporation shields t
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> It simply makes equity impossible. Instead, you have proprietors who get loans--all investment is debt. this is not true. investors are merely incentivized to be more careful about who they trust with their money.

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