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811.
by deciplex 12y ago
He, ah, also only shows three graphs in his post despite referring to four. He just shows one of them twice. This whole article is just a bag of fail.
812.
by deciplex 12y ago
I read the data a little differently, too. I read it as "in two of the four cases, the cases are identical, because it's the same damn graph".
813.
by deciplex 12y ago
> I define a good parent as one that is able to care for a child physically and emotionally. A sociopath, at best, will be able to put food on the table, but they will never be able to show genuine affection. They don't have to show
814.
by deciplex 12y ago
> If giving people in poverty money was the fix, we would be done. No, we wouldn't, because we don't do that. > The system right now incentivizes people to stay in poverty. The "cliff effect", where government bene
815.
by deciplex 12y ago
I'm not sure why learning English and working abroad is supposed to curb depression? What does one have to do with the other? The article just sort of jumped from "depression" to "working abroad" without really esta
816.
by deciplex 12y ago
You logic can be applied to anything: any behavior meant to be observed by others would become an attempt to show off status. It has little explanatory power.
817.
by deciplex 12y ago
I find it amusing that people speak of terraforming - making planets more habitable for humans - when making humans more durable is actually a lot more feasible by comparison, not to mention solves a lot of other problems at the same time.
818.
by deciplex 12y ago
> I'd argue that if an employer cares about... I see this argument a lot and it does have some merit, but it ignores the fact there might be an idiot hiring manager standing between you and the job you want. Just because a company m
819.
by deciplex 12y ago
> Bigger, more muscular bodies require more fuel, so bigger men starve to death more frequently than smaller men during bad years, which all the data we have on pre-political peoples suggest were not infrequent. Take a group of ten males
820.
by deciplex 12y ago
Yep, that's why you meant "due to the higher cost of forging bronze weapons".
821.
by deciplex 12y ago
> Another member of the research team, a biological anthropologist, hypothesizes that somehow, only a few men accumulated lots of wealth and power, leaving nothing for others. This line cracked me up. Yes, "somehow" indeed. Qui
822.
by deciplex 12y ago
Did it? Even if you get actionable information from torture - a very big 'if' mind you - you're also going to get a bunch of specious bullshit that you'll waste time following up. If you arrive at the truth at all, which
823.
by deciplex 12y ago
> In many circumstances the unreliable information provided by torture is the best you can get. This seems equivalent to saying 'it is better to have ten wrong hypotheses than none'. Do you see the error? Even if one of the hyp
824.
by deciplex 12y ago
He doesn't appear to be offering any opinions on Java, or any other framework, language, etc., at all.
825.
by deciplex 12y ago
I interviewed with Google last year and the interviewer did two of the four things listed in killface's post. I actually do not agree with killface that those four things are necessarily bad (programmers should at least be able to make
826.
by deciplex 12y ago
The problem is that loud, wrong assholes tend to be be highly skilled at manipulative strategies e.g. Gish Gallop, etc. In fact, it's selected for. And you can't always counter disingenuous debate with honest debate - you just hav
827.
by deciplex 12y ago
The human and the p-zombie are distinguishable because one is in the zombie universe and one isn't. For the purposes of the experiment, you're not supposed to be able to tell which universe is which by observation of the universe
828.
by deciplex 12y ago
This isn't really germane to the p-zombie thought experiment, but: Indistinguishability does entail identity. If I have a sphere of iron X, and a sphere of iron Y which is atom-for-atom, electron-for-electron, subatomic-particle-for-
829.
by deciplex 12y ago
The TL;DR argument against philosophical zombies is more like: if consciousness is non-causal (the consequence if p-zombies can exist), then the answer to the question "Why do I think I'm conscious" can not in any way make
830.
by deciplex 12y ago
> Do you believe that it would be possible, in principle, to build a robot that looked and acted extremely similar to a human being? It could carry on conversations, make decisions, defend itself against antagonists, etc. in a similar ma
831.
by deciplex 12y ago
That might be what they do , but I doubt it is fully intentional, since this is a remarkably stupid "game plan" which makes little financial sense. In the case of SimCity they have murdered what was once a popular and highly-prof
832.
by deciplex 12y ago
It was a blessing in disguise when EA started Origin and stopped selling their shovelware on Steam. Now I don't need to worry about accidentally purchasing one of their games!
833.
by deciplex 12y ago
> For a fun (philosophical) remark, if the robots are to become our overlords, it may be a bad idea trying to regulate them! Google "Roko's basilisk" for more details Eh... not everyone should look up Roko's basilisk.
834.
by deciplex 12y ago
Reminder that Dropbox was mentioned, by name, in NSA documents released two years ago as the next target they intended to subvert. Also reminder that not long after that they named Condoleeza Rice, celebrated apologist for warrantless w
835.
by deciplex 12y ago
Great apes in the wild are generally having a hard time getting along, with humans crowding them out of a lot of their historical territory. I would hope our species doesn't end up like that. Likewise, great apes in zoos definitely h
836.
by deciplex 12y ago
Since we can understand theoretical physics, giving up trying to understand it would not be rational, at least not in every case. You'd need to somehow derive the utility you expect to gain from understanding a thing and then compare t
837.
by deciplex 12y ago
I'm replying to the part of your post that you edited out, after I edited out the part of my post that your edited-out part was addressing :) Yes, you're right. I overreacted, a lot . So I removed it. But, I stand by the sentimen
838.
by deciplex 12y ago
I at least have a theoretical way of holding my government to account. It isn't much, but it beats trying to hold a corporation to account in a world where it is not bound by laws, or barely bound by laws.
839.
by deciplex 12y ago
Will you need to heat your house in the first place, in 100 years?
840.
by deciplex 12y ago
This. It goes for fracking as well, where there are significant and real externalities wrought by these new methods of extracting resources from Earth. Companies largely aren't being made to pay them. It's true that the market doe

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