csours

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   by csours 2y ago

   From the outside, a hospital seems like one thing; but it's really nothing at all like retail. Some doctors can bill separately, the pharmacy can bill separately, different departments can bill separately, different diagnostics can bil
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   by csours 2y ago

   > “This stuff is such a black box,” he said. “You never really know how much your drugs cost you.” I tried a course of allergy injections (I didn't notice any effect). I asked how much it would cost - NO ONE KNOWS. They have to subm
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   by csours 2y ago

   These comments make me very sad about scientific literacy. 342 comments and 'control' appears 12 times (before this comment). Without proper control you could also say that weight loss is associated with loss of heart muscle mass.
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   by csours 2y ago

   I feel like some people are reading this post too literally. An infinite number of factors go into developing a personality, this covers a lot of the big ones. --- Lately I've been thinking about the windows of plasticity and why peopl
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   by csours 2y ago

   This is meta communication - communicating about communication. In a complex world it is important to understand when and why communication fails. I feel that it is important to accept that some things are hard to talk about, and it is impo
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   by csours 2y ago

   I think that's a good addition. My main point is that it's not just one signal, and that 'virtue' carries too much emotional and moral freight. Maybe call them Signals of Virtues.
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   by csours 2y ago

   I also am not denying that Trump won. I am saying that acceptance is complicated. Yes people have strong opinions. Denying that strong opinions exist harms communication.
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   by csours 2y ago

   Those are examples of things that are hard for some to accept as bare facts. Person Y won the election Person Y won the election and that is BAD Person Y won the election and that is GOOD It is not a matter of denial, it is a matter of what
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   by csours 2y ago

   Yes, this is exactly why I don't like the term; it does not do a good job of describing intent as seen from the person in question.
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    by csours 2y ago

    Because I don't feel that the confederate battle flag is virtuous. Virtue signaling is done by people in every in-group; when it is done by people my in-group is fighting against Virtue Signaling does not feel like a virtue.
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    by csours 2y ago

    I feel like rational communication requires an overlap in perspective - not the same point of view, but some amount of overlap. Science relies on rational communication between people who disagree, because we can fool ourselves, and we can
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    by csours 2y ago

    > 1993 Geo Metro pricing starts at $1,410 for the Metro XFi Hatchback 2D, which had a starting MSRP of $7,296 when new. The range-topping 1993 Metro LSi Convertible 2D starts at $1,481 today, originally priced from $10,749. https:/
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    by csours 2y ago

    Yeah, lately I've begun asking myself "How much work would you actually need to do to know this or prove this, and what would that work look like"
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    by csours 2y ago

    I believe that we process facts in a narrative. If you look at a bare fact, your mind automatically creates a narrative. Murder rate 1% 22 Angstrom Purple Burglar Alarm That narrative takes place in a framing story. 'Science', amo
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    by csours 2y ago

    My comment from substack: Not criticizing the monocausal theories, but LLMs "do a bunch of stuff with a bunch of data" and if you ask them why they did something in particular, you get a hallucination. To be fair, humans will most
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    by csours 2y ago

    https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-does-the-60-day-ru... https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-85000-protection-government-... > " Any action likely to raise an issue or the perception of
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    by csours 2y ago

    I didn't think very much about trying to find Patel's native page for the interview. It might do better as a submission than the video link
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    by csours 2y ago

    I'm very curious about how bioelectrochemistry might be used, eg [0]. I dream of artificial lichens on silicone wafers making sheets of graphene. 0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589
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    Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video](youtube.com)

    32 points by csours 2y ago|4 comments
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    by csours 2y ago

    For a fictional macro version of the Margulis hypothesis, I'd recommend 'Alien Clay' by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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    by csours 2y ago

    I sometimes imagine what Science Officer Spock would really say to humans to help them understand themselves. Just saying "highly illogical" is not very helpful. (The following is all my imagination, any resemblance to reality is
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    by csours 2y ago

    Technology is not implemented for internal consistency or to make sense, technological implementations are an artifact of history. Of course, at the time it made sense to someone.
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    by csours 2y ago

    There's a lot to be sad and mad about in this, but keeping an engineering journal or logbook is a great idea.
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    by csours 2y ago

    I read the first 3 paragraphs, skimmed, and the last paragraph, and did a keyword search (I should have search for perspective, but that wasn't on my mind). Title is bad no matter what. Edit: Here's another Narrative: The author i
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    by csours 2y ago

    This is a VERY silly article. A better article would have the title: Life is Not A Story, Life is Many Stories. I have but one meager, measly, impoverished point of view, but I can tell multiple stories from my one point of view, because I
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    by csours 2y ago

    Somehow this machine found its way onto The Heart of Gold in a highly improbable chain of events.
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    by csours 2y ago

    I was expecting to find the word Gettier in the text. My comment on that Gettier post: Puttiers: When a junior engineer fixes something, but a different error is returned, so they cannot tell if progress was made or not. https://
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    by csours 2y ago

    Puttiers: When a junior engineer fixes something, but a different error is returned, so they cannot tell if progress was made or not. *** justified: in the sense of deriving from evidence true: because it doesn't make sense to "kn
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    by csours 2y ago

    I'm kind of shocked that anyone would recommend anything after book 4. (Book 4 is the last one I would recommend. As far as I'm concerned you can get everything you need from summaries for everything after that.)
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    by csours 2y ago

    These phone alerts (including Amber Alerts) have the WORST UX. To make the noise stop, you have to hit the "ok" button, but as soon as you hit the "ok" button, they disappear. So if you want to actually read it, you have