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by curi 19y ago
so someone downmodded all of: - a simple, popular comment - a comment suggesting maybe the first one shouldn't have been upmodded so much - a comment backing off Why would you downmod all of them? If you like dislike the first comment, you
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by curi 19y ago
On reflection: your reply is ♫♪♫ to my ears. I ♥ good points... Edit: heh, "thanks grandma" has even more than that. Edit: btw it's funny that i'm still being upmodded
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What kind of site does it make YC if this is how to get karma?
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by curi 19y ago
The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. In particular, you can't make very good predictions about AI before you have a very good understand
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by curi 19y ago
people did view source on hacker news, saw tables, and brought it up. pg didn't make a big deal out of it first.
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by curi 19y ago
pg didn't say that. people just made it up.
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by curi 19y ago
And here's Kuhn denying there is such thing as progress short of finding an ultimate, final, perfect truth: There is another step, or kind of step, which many philosophers of science wish to take and which I refuse. They wish, that is, to
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by curi 19y ago
Fine, it's false . If scientists acted like the Church, we'd have made about as much progress in science as religion. The reason science is able to find truer explanations is that scientists in fact look for them, rather than musing on how
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by curi 19y ago
Page 160 (start of chapter 13): "The preceding pages have carried my schematic description of scientific development as far as it can go in this essay. Nevertheless, they cannot quite provide a conclusion. If this description has at all cau
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by curi 19y ago
That book is mistaken (it goes so far as to deny the possibility of scientific progress), see instead The Fabric of Reality which comments on Kuhn and provides a better theory. http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Impl..
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by curi 19y ago
FYI I didn't downmod you. Anyway, it seems a bit like linking to Revenge of the Nerds (pretend it was modern) and saying: look, people like nerds more now. That kind of popular culture event doesn't seem like hacker news to me. On a similar
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by curi 19y ago
He didn't mean his own death, necessarily Let's consider these claims: - science progresses via funerals of all scientists - science progresses via funerals of Planck's ideological opponents Only the first one can pass for a serious the
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by curi 19y ago
I think you should not preface posts by telling someone they are missing the point. So, we should care because the public cares? What's the public's good reason for caring? We should care because public opinion is notable, whether it has go
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by curi 19y ago
Why should we care what paparazzi think?
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This just in: tmz.com makes Hacker News.
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I don't see how that's fair. What non-scientific fields are more reasonable than, say, physicists? Scientists may not be perfect. But they have certain standards, which make them better. For example, scientists have a tradition of disregard
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by curi 19y ago
That's OK, I didn't want to be a victim anyway :)
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Why post this here?
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Such an unbelievable invention would challenge the laws of physics, a no-no in the rigid world of serious science. The article contains other hints that the scientific community is a bit like the Church a few hundred years ago -- rigidly
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by curi 19y ago
kind of interesting. but i don't think the main point that people think in one of two different ways, is correct. one reason is it's very hard to find a person who thinks well in most areas. partial mappers are much more common than consist
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by curi 19y ago
Oh, no problem.
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Be nice.
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In a general sense, all people learn in the same way, and would do well to remember this. In particular, learning -- creating knowledge -- consists of creating something complex (an idea in your own head) that didn't already exist. How comp
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by curi 19y ago
I think he wants me to learn not to post things that will be downmodded. He probably thinks I didn't see it coming.
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by curi 19y ago
Interestingly, your comment lacks humility. How about quoting to back it up?
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by curi 19y ago
I don't want karma, I want to persuade people of good ideas. I only care about downmods in that they give information about how people are reacting, and I need positive reactions to persuade people. I learn more about how people act if I do
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by curi 19y ago
In the short run, too :) Do you know anywhere better to post? (I have some places, but not enough.) Edit: I do think there are (multiple) solutions. One involves using rhetorical devices so the other person looks bad. But I don't like to do
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by curi 19y ago
So the pattern over many threads is: 1) article says something dumb 2) i say so briefly. i can't very well always explain in detail when no one has even expressed interest 3) someone espouses some dumb and imprecise theory in reply, that va
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by curi 19y ago
The distinction between "theories" which aren't proven true, and facts which are, is false. Nothing is proven true in an ultimate, certain sense. That isn't important. But not because if something seems to work a bunch of times (how many?)

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