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by epgui 3y ago
Came here with the same question!
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by epgui 3y ago
Consider whether the stuff you’re thinking about is “politics” or merely “stupidity” or “malice” (or some combination of these). I see no need to mix up the words.
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by epgui 3y ago
It’s not the good side of politics, it’s how it’s defined in textbooks.
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by epgui 3y ago
Politics would be less of a shit show if people had intro textbook level knowledge about political science and/or didn’t approach it like a sport.
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by epgui 3y ago
Nods in agreement
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by epgui 3y ago
Politics is what happens when you have limited resources and you need to decide where to allocate them. Politics are everywhere humans are.
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by epgui 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but it sounds like you're making a general statement from a very specific and personal situation?
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by epgui 3y ago
> better I don't mean to be pedantic or flippant, but it really depends how you measure. By any measure of correctness, a Casio calculator manufactured in the 1980s has superior intelligence to a human. I would just say "differ
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by epgui 3y ago
I don't mean to suggest that humans have little cognition, what I mean is that something can be intelligent and conscious even if it behaves in a decidedly non-human way. Animals have their own kinds of intelligence, and they are all c
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by epgui 3y ago
IMHO, while anthropomorphizing AI is an error, it's only an error in the same sense that anthropomorphizing a cat or a dog or a cow is an error. People tend to think MUCH too narrowly about the parameters of "intelligence" an
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by epgui 3y ago
> I can't point to anything specifically incorrect about this reporting. Then your comment is a genetic fallacy. You're highlighting a potential motive or potential for bias, but without anything substantive to say.
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by epgui 3y ago
The point I’m making is that evidence of “how the world is” has no bearing on “how the world should be”. Facts don’t give rise to values, the two are independent.
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by epgui 3y ago
Talk about a great example of David Hume’s “is-ought problem”.
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by epgui 3y ago
I mean, you can see it that way, or you can realize that paying the mafia protection money actually is a fantastic way to keep both of your legs in working order.
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by epgui 3y ago
While I wholeheartedly agree with you, I suspect explaining that to an older judge would be difficult.
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by epgui 3y ago
I'll always support efforts at making education more accessible, but 90$ is pretty cheap for a textbook of this size. And it's a hardcover! And it's available to read for free online, in its entirety, on the author's web
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by epgui 3y ago
I briefly got super excited because I thought this was about the Province of New Brunswick, in Canada... :( Still cool I suppose! :)
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by epgui 3y ago
Obviously I don't have a solution to offer anyone, but this is one of my motivations for wanting to learn more about things like category theory, type theory, functional programming... It's not directly about getting skills that w
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by epgui 3y ago
Thanks for your response! I'm a little confused by it though... Maybe I am misunderstanding what you're telling me. I would definitely consider a parser implemented with parser combinators to be "handwritten". The main d
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by epgui 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why are parser combinators not the choice approach for something like this? Is it mainly a performance thing? PS— this is super exciting!
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by epgui 3y ago
You can’t just “go somewhere else” your way out of social networks the same way you can with things and places that have linear impact/presence.
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by epgui 3y ago
The hardest thing about learning clojure is unlearning other languages… It sounds like you’re just still going through that.
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by epgui 3y ago
I know you’re probably going to think this answer is crazy or stupid, but you don’t need a web framework in clojure. In fact you don’t need all the libraries that many languages need.
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by epgui 3y ago
I can say assuredly that toxicity and politicization (IRL, not just on wiki) also makes the vast majority (>99%) of science experts refrain from trying to engage with the public. The experts that do engage tend to be outliers, which some
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by epgui 3y ago
> it assumes that everyone likes the same things and feels the same way I don't think this is about feelings. (But it just might be in a small minority of cases IMO, and if it's the case for you, then all the power to you.) In
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by epgui 3y ago
It’s possible to make a more charitable reading of their comment as being on topic.
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by epgui 3y ago
What are you talking about? It’s a Google Scholar link.
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by epgui 3y ago
Nobody here, including me, has suggested that ads should be illegal.
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by epgui 3y ago
I'm not responding to anyone else's argument, so it can't be a strawman; it's a comment de novo.
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by epgui 3y ago
I can tell you that's not exactly what I want.

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