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by dqpb 5y ago
Well, I wasn't saying that there should be specially endowed people, I was asking about the reverse: how can someone who is not informed fact-check someone who is? Or to make it less personal, how can someone fact-check information the
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by dqpb 5y ago
How do you fact check someone who has more expertise than you? How do you fact check a brand new fact?
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by dqpb 5y ago
> The Chinese people is not some herd of sheep without mental faculties. Can Chinese people freely communicate with each other? The ability to do so is critical for unimpaired mental faculties of the collective.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Yes. In my experience developers work much more than they say they do.
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by dqpb 5y ago
The instincts tuned to this dynamic exist at a totally different layer of abstraction.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> either we all start giving away the Thing until it’s no longer a rare commodity, or we invent amazing sex robots with good mobile joint movements and realistic audio sounds. It will always be a rare commodity because sex is costlier fo
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by dqpb 5y ago
This is impressive. Here is the direct link to the demo: https://sketch.metademolab.com/
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by dqpb 5y ago
I have Google announcement fatigue. It's just so pointless to get excited about anything they say they're working on. I wonder how employees feel after spending years working on a new product only to see it tossed aside and forgot
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by dqpb 5y ago
My wife does something similar to me all the time. If she knows that I’m uncertain about a fact, she’ll feign a kind of mistaken certainty in the (true) fact to bait me into taking a bet against it. Then I lose the bet. Same thing in politi
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by dqpb 5y ago
Seriously. They promised us a superintelligence but all we got was a Mormon.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I like this a lot. What are you using for the voice?
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by dqpb 5y ago
> However, when I started to "block" scam sites I became acutely aware of just how many there are. It is like playing endless whack a mole. Someone ought to build a service that indexes websites based on how relevant they are t
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by dqpb 5y ago
Here's an analogy: if I complain that a beachside restaurant has shitty food and you say "yet it continues to have plenty of customers", that doesn't really disprove my point. All it says is we're likely to be stuck
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by dqpb 5y ago
There is a litany of social and governmental problems plaguing California, but I always stayed because it's the climate that feels the most natural to me. What finally drove me out was the seasonal firestorms and rain of ashes.
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by dqpb 5y ago
California is an insulting display of government incompetence.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I’ve saved hundreds of dollars in money transfer fees using crypto.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Wonder why they didn’t do it in Lean?
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by dqpb 5y ago
Here is what I think we need: - an operational model of our economy that includes failure modes, like queue failures - open source software that can easily and reliably represent this model and simulate trajectories - government and
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by dqpb 5y ago
Obviously each one had a problem, but they are categorically different. The problem that <no emergency call could be made> was an OS problem. The problem that <Microsoft Teams could not make an emergency call> was an application
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by dqpb 5y ago
What do you even mean by Crypto? It's like saying "Internet is probably the most brilliant scam in the history of mankind". It's so non-specific it's meaningless.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I am. As a medium of exchange (buying things, sending people money), I only use USDC which is pinned to the US Dollar. For sending money to friends in other countries, it is so much cheaper, faster, and more reliable than the traditional mo
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by dqpb 5y ago
People are jumping all over Microsoft Teams, but the problem is really that any arbitrary app can interfere with emergency calls. That’s fundamentally an OS problem.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> Did this quote annoy / offend you because it is true? No, it annoys me because this is how Trump speaks.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> FSD (Fools Self Driving) Grade-school style nicknaming is the lowest form of rhetoric. It does not support your argument. It makes you sound like an idiot.
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by dqpb 5y ago
It’s probably extra irritating for them.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Well, you know Apple watches can detect you are getting sick, before you experience any symptoms, via changes to your heart rate. A maximally effective suicide AI should also be able to detect that you are a good suicide candidate before yo
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by dqpb 5y ago
> 3) have almost zero regulation; What would shadow government regulation look like?
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by dqpb 5y ago
I expected this to be about winged flight, but was delighted that it’s about legged quadrotors!
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by dqpb 5y ago
I believe in this context, the “gifts” are primarily staple goods that people need to survive. So, reciprocal balance takes on a level of urgency when one party finds themself in need.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I agree, naming is very important. I once tried to have a conversation with a group of colleagues about Coq, and literally the conversation couldn’t move past the name. Now I just use TLA+ or Lean.

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