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by drdeca 1y ago
I wouldn’t claim to not notice ads. Especially ads that interrupt videos. I remember quite a few of them. But, even the ones that are initially a little amusing become annoying with repetition, and what initially seemed mildly amusing inste
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by drdeca 1y ago
Are you sure? That’s almost the opposite of what I heard, which was that “gender” being used to refer to -inity arose as a euphemism to avoid using the word “sex”, because the word “sex” came to be more associated with specifically “sex-act
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by drdeca 1y ago
I dare you to formulate a version of quantum mechanics without it. Quantum mechanics makes very good predictions.
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It was “Club Penguin”. The forum was primarily about the “Penguin Client Library” (or “Penguin Client System”, I think they went back and forth about the name?), which allowed writing PHP scripts to interact with the game servers. Why PHP?
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by drdeca 1y ago
The test I use to determine that there exist qualia is “looking”. Now, whether there is a test I can do to confirm that there is any that anything(/anyone) other than me experiences, is another question. (I don’t see how there could
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by drdeca 1y ago
Regarding gatekeeping, there was one webforum I used to visit when I was a kid, which I think approached this in an interesting way. Most of the boards were available to the public, general users could post in them (other than the one that
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by drdeca 1y ago
I don’t think Elon is particularly principled on the topic of free speech, seeing the way he blocked those outgoing links to competitors a while ago. Regarding the auto moderation of that word, what does happen when a post gets auto moderat
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by drdeca 1y ago
The word “word”, as usually used, is not a term which is defined to only apply to things which have definitions. Generally one can describe how people use a word. (Though, see “semantic primes”; there has to be some cycles in what words are
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by drdeca 1y ago
I described fitness of genes, yes. Previously it seemed like you were saying that an individual of a species had low(zero) fitness if that individual doesn’t reproduce. Further, you seemed to imply that this was the relevant measure, seemin
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by drdeca 1y ago
> does that mean your genetic trait is already there in the first place Yes? > if its already there in the first place there must be something that start it now right, which basically counter your argument What?
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by drdeca 1y ago
Fitness of what? If you mean the genes, then a gene may have more copies made of it if it causes some of its carriers to assist other carriers of the same genes in ways that help them produce, rather than reproducing individually.
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by drdeca 1y ago
When you say that the definition I gave of bias is biased (in the sense I defined), what direction does it have a tendency to be wrong in? I assume by “wrong” you mean “not matching how people use the word”? To clarify, when I said “identif
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by drdeca 1y ago
Well, it means your metric is flawed/imperfect. That doesn’t imply that it’s feasible to perfectly specify what you actually want. What we want of course is for the machine to do what we mean.
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by drdeca 1y ago
How are you defining “bias”? The definition I’ve found useful (outside of the “the constant term contribution”) is “a tendency to be wrong in an identifiable direction”. But that doesn’t seem to be the definition you are using. So, what do
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by drdeca 1y ago
Hm, I’m not sure how much an issue Rice’s theorem should be for Gödel machines. Just because there’s no general decision procedure doesn’t mean you can’t have a sometimes-says-idk decision procedure along with a process of producing program
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I’ve found them somewhat useful? Not for big things, and not for code for work. But for small personal projects? Yes, helpful.
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My understanding is that part of the issue with string theory is that the computations are extremely difficult. Like, yes, the landscape is very large, but it’s also very difficult to, even picking one particular option, it is very hard to
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by drdeca 1y ago
You seem to be using the word “scam” in an unusual way. What do you mean by it?
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by drdeca 1y ago
Ruling is done by rulers, and the people who have lots of power are the powerful people. Money can be exchanged for goods and services. If we have no way to determine whether two accounts are held by the same person, so that influence can o
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by drdeca 1y ago
I don’t understand this name. I see “signal” (which seems more related to an application of Fourier transforms?) and “domino”? I don’t get the “domino” part. In any case, it is way longer.
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by drdeca 1y ago
You complained about the high verbosity.
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> while not actually performing any valuable task whatsoever for that money. Like with complaints about landlords not producing any value, I think this is an overstatement? Rather, in both cases, the income they bring in is typically sub
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4 isn’t prime. You could probably use the binary expansion to group the dots? So, 1 is • 2 is •• 3 is _• •_• 5 is _• •_• •_• 7 is ____• _•_____• •_•___•_• 11 is ____• _•_____• •_•___•_• •_•___•_• And so on. (So, 2n is re
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by drdeca 1y ago
I don't see how Gödel's theorems at all shows that "the introduction of the idea of the truth erodes the truth". Gödel's incompleteness theorems are mostly about provability anyway, which is a distinct concept from
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by drdeca 1y ago
From https://np.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1ax4cnt/how_do_i_dis... I find a suggestion that if you use Ctrl+Shift+P to open the keyboard shortcuts menu, and then search for "suggest", there w
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by drdeca 1y ago
Well, I think one should be able to come up with a way of doing so on the fly just from knowing that the square root function is monotonically increasing, and knowing binary search? Of course, doing it another way might be more efficient.
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by drdeca 1y ago
Huh? While I essentially never have need to compute a square root by hand (unless it is a perfect square of course), shouldn’t one know how one would?
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by drdeca 1y ago
It sounds to me like you are maybe agreeing with me but thought that I was expressing the opposite of what I did, and so are phrasing it as if it were disagreement? Or maybe you are just agreeing, and did understand that my point was that I
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by drdeca 1y ago
If one merely presses a button (the same button, not choosing what button to push based on context), I don’t see what it is that one has contributed? One of those tippy bird toys can press a button.
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Yes, https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

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