elmomle

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by elmomle 5y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. There's a feedback loop at work whereby more open-minded people tend to self-select out of organized religion over time because of wariness over issues of dogma. This of course means
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by elmomle 5y ago
In theory, the answer is that reputational risk disincentivizes this behavior. In practice, markets these days are pumped so full of easy money in need of somewhere to go that that seems a fairly remote concern. As to "is this all a
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by elmomle 5y ago
"A group of friends who enjoy each others' company ought to build something together." I just want to highlight this sentiment, it seems deeply correct to me. I also think that learning or creating with others is a surefire
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by elmomle 5y ago
Do you believe Grosskreutz would have been in his right to kill Rittenhouse after Rittenhouse shot him? If not, why not?
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by elmomle 5y ago
It isn't the users, it's the platform and underlying philosophy of the business. They are factory-farming humans' attention; it's no wonder the result is dystopian.
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by elmomle 5y ago
In my case, I alone use my devices--nobody else uses my phone or computer, and no other devices are linked to my Google account. As to trending videos, I don't think I can fairly dismiss that conclusively, but all I can say is that it
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by elmomle 5y ago
"Protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States". Seems like fighting hate crime falls pretty squarely inside of that mission.
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by elmomle 5y ago
I don't buy it. I have multiple times been served articles on my Google news feed about specific topics (e.g. dishwasher efficiency) that are orthogonal from my typical interests and that I had only ever discussed offline and never el
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by elmomle 5y ago
While satirical discourses can make for fun reading, they often obscure the complexity of the issue at hand and need to be taken with a heaping pile of salt. Here is a counter-analogy to the one advanced in this letter: Imagine a world whe
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by elmomle 5y ago
Anecdotes are irrelevant when discussing large-scale statistical trends.
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For anybody who thinks that prisoners perhaps deserve to have their organs harvested (a comment to that effect popped up and then promptly disappeared here), there are at least two things worth considering: 1. As is clearly stated in the ar
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by elmomle 5y ago
Thank you!
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by elmomle 5y ago
Excellent and informative article--and a good bit of brand-building, I might say :-). One thing I'd love to see more writing about is prototyping and iterative development in these contexts--deep NNs are notoriously hard to get "
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by elmomle 5y ago
Could you provide some good examples of predatory reporting from Slate Star Codex? I don't doubt you, just genuinely curious.
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by elmomle 5y ago
As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." When over a trillion dollars of value is on the line, history tells us that people will general
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by elmomle 5y ago
I assume the author means creators of typeset, though I'm unaware of this usage and it's amusing to imagine a bunch of poets quixotically and inexplicably employed in fine metalworking for an exquisite clock :D
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by elmomle 5y ago
How certain are you that TikTok only gathers data of any kind when you, the user, ask it to?
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by elmomle 5y ago
I have to assume security issues with shipping large quantities of fuel to bases by ground had something to do with it, though presumably the adopted solution was an extravagantly wasteful one driven by a culture of budgetary excess.
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by elmomle 5y ago
When we remove subsidies and start pricing in the negative externalities (water, soil, carbon) of raising animals for meat, the calculus will certainly be different. It may well be different enough to make lab-grown meat the more cost-effe
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by elmomle 5y ago
War on drugs is not an appropriate analogy here. A better analogy would be a known addictive, but legal, product being subject to tighter regulation to reduce its overall appeal and social harm--e.g. tobacco.
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by elmomle 5y ago
Overall it's an interesting review, but saying that 99% of Afghanis want Sharia Law and citing an unsourced claim in a blog post is poor writing and undermines the author's credibility, which is unfortunate. Edit: The cited blog
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by elmomle 5y ago
There are actions you can take to reduce your negative impact. For example, you reduce your ecological footprint by reducing or eliminating meat from your diet. In the net it reduces the amount of farmland your existence requires--rememb
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by elmomle 5y ago
Not to discredit cows, but I wanted to insert an anecdatum about my cat: she was terrified of leaving my apartment, which I found out once when a friend carried her outside and let the door close. The cat ran to the door and immediately st
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by elmomle 5y ago
Or perhaps the underlying business/product model is inherently flawed in a way that's bad for society, all patches have proven woefully insufficient in mitigating that, and Facebook have been intentionally concealing this.
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by elmomle 5y ago
The implication is that a black person would be more likely to recognize the inherent flaw in automatically interpreting "X" as "10", and in all honestly that's probably true. It isn't a matter of testing, it&
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by elmomle 5y ago
Let's not throw baby out with bathwater. This kind of thinking has been so harmful for social cohesion, and we need a cohesive society if we're going to have a prayer of handling the worst problems we've ever faced as a spec
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by elmomle 5y ago
Science isn't politics and the truth about scientific issues isn't political, but misinformation about issues in which there exists a scientific consensus is very definitely political.
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by elmomle 5y ago
Agreed. When you are trying to communicate in an empathic/emotional way and the other party does not understand how to do this and defends themselves in an intellectual/unemotional way, your emotional need is profoundly unmet. T
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by elmomle 5y ago
A lot of the most famous New Hollywood directors (Lucas, Coppola, Scorsese) did go to college, and among famous film directors they were more or less the first to have done so. In that context, Friedkin was an outlier. Since the 70s it wo
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by elmomle 5y ago
The sequences we're discussing aren't really random, though. Presumably the chance of viability with such a sequence incorporated, though still low, is much higher than if it were a truly random sequence.

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