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by dlkf 5y ago
The article omits what I always considered the best argument against utilitarianism. It's basically a cutting-off-the-branch-you're-sitting-on argument, and it's due to Bernard Williams. 1. Utilitarianism asks me to choose to
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I agree with everything you say, and I agree that the proposed revision in that section is a lot better than the original. I just disagree with the claim that the fact that they're closed on Tuesdays is unimportant. It's extremely
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> So no matter what, I'm still checking all the days for closing times. The proposed format makes this process faster and easier. Once you have read the closing time of one day, you can immediately infer the closing time of all days
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Why is this being downvoted? This is such a good point.
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Mostly good advice, particularly regarding the use of visuals. But this is flat-out wrong: > The TUE CLOSED is the most dominant element - the info that is least important and most negative is the focal point. This is among the most im
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by dlkf 5y ago
Agreed, the use of stats is so terrible. I love this one: "43% report driving more once they go electric." So the people who buy these things end up using them? How is this an indictment of electric cars? It's rather unfortun
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The Cartesian begins with a hidden assumption - let's call it the internalist assumption - that in order for me to know that "here is one hand," there needs to be no possibility that we are in a simulated world (for if it&#x2
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No book influenced my attitude toward philosophy more than Wittgenstein's Blue Book. Here are a couple gems: > The questions, "What is length?", "What is meaning?", "What is the number one?" etc., produ
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There is an interesting discussion to be had about the experimental design. The intervention was essentially: "the subject managed to fall asleep, and then woke up in the N1 stage." This assignment is not "random" in the
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> Increasing productivity never lays people off, unless the people were originally being unproductive. This is either trivial or underdetermined. It depends on how you define "unproductive": - If you define "unproductive&q
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You're saying my basset hound is inbred? I don't buy it.
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> In this paper, I claim bullshitting is a social practice. I will argue that in particular speech communities people are encouraged to play the language game of bullshitting, and when it is played well it can bolster their identity. Thi
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The ancients had vastly a better take on free will (ie it is a completely incoherent notion) than the moderns.
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> The best bookshops do not necessarily sell used books (with reference to the «ageing population»). Fair point. There are some cool new bookstores. I had used book shops in mind because to me they really offer something that the interne
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The best bookshops don't get written about by the Financial Times. They are found in small and mid-sized jurisdictions (often university towns) where the of ageing population is getting rid of books faster than the younger population i
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We have a tendency to attribute "good design" to the conspicuous—the latest apple gadget, the unicorn startup with alegria art and custom fonts, etc. But this isn't good product design, it's marketing. It's an attem
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Humans use language to accomplish tasks in their environment - establishing relationships, making deals, coaxing others, etc. By contrast, all neural language models do is predict the next word as a function of the previous word. So far, th
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Real curious to hear how Peter Wilson has disproven the first law of thermodynamics, but unfortunately this clickbait bullshit is paywalled.
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> for people with lower incomes Income being Pareto distributed, we can faithfully translate this as "for the majority of people."
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That tracks. A few months after I quit, I asked my Dad (who quit in the late eighties) when the cravings go away for good. He laughed and said "they don't."
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Linked on the page is an opinion poll [0] with responses from some prominent mathematicians (including Shor, Conway and Knuth). I thought it was really interesting to hear their thoughts on the problem. [0] http://www.cs.umd.edu&
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by dlkf 5y ago
Commenters, please stop generalizing from your own anecdotes and then representing the generalization as a universal truth. Some examples from the thread: - "there is no reason to spend the time looking at what people have done on GitH
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I felt that this was well written. Do you have a better definition of source code that is: - Accessible to the general public (it's a BBC article) - One sentence long (you will lose readers if this becomes a cs101 lecture) - Articulate
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Some data science blogs I enjoy: - https://erikbern.com/ - https://davefernig.com/ - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
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I'm surprised at how much money is being spent micro-optimizing the superficial and contingent aspects of intelligent behaviour. It's as though you've got a toddler who has no idea how to play piano, and instead of trying to
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> Responsibility, punishment, "do better next time" et cetera, are not only recovered when you reach for a serious answer to what free will is. It's actually better recovered than with magical free will! And we've fou
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> These differences are - obviously, I might add - very important. And they have nothing to do with magical free will. So why continue to use an unrelated term that has so much baggage? Why not just tackle these issues individually, on t
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The point of disagreement here probably boils down to the perceived significance of what you're calling "free will" in your final sentence (as opposed to "magical supernatural free will"). On my view it is literally
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> A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. This isn't _new_, this "chorus" has existed for so long that it used to be referred to exclusively as a "khoros." Secondly, i

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