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by epgui 3y ago
I don't understand why people don't have a fundamental right to refuse ad exposure in their private life (eg.: obviously you can't refuse to see a billboard on the highway, but you should be able to refuse ads in your home or
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by epgui 3y ago
It’s not about politics, it’s about stability and trust. Same reason I’m hesitant to wire up my home with IoT devices (just a personal example). Nothing to do with politics, I’m just afraid companies will drop support and all the things I i
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by epgui 3y ago
I don’t consider that very rare. Everything else being equal, a celiac customer would be a daily occurrence at almost any restaurant. The prevalence is on the same order of magnitude as peanut allergies.
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by epgui 3y ago
Makes me think of the dual idea that “neural nets can’t be conscious/etc”
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by epgui 3y ago
I'd say that there is some information processing happening in the gut, but I'd also say (in agreement with you) that these other comments border on irrelevant and are for the most part nonsense.
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by epgui 3y ago
This is not that far from my area of expertise and that's mostly nonsense.
697.
by epgui 3y ago
It's not that rare anymore. And while it's true that there's a ton of low-quality evidence for non-celiac gluten sensitivity, I think it's become clear that there's something important there (and more research is
698.
by epgui 3y ago
There have been thousands of breakthroughs in the field. The pace of research and progress is incredible.
699.
by epgui 3y ago
That's not wrong, but it's so obvious that I'm wondering what you're trying to say?
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by epgui 3y ago
That’s like saying the problem with rulers is that the real world doesn’t have straight lines. Or the problem with cleaning your room is that in the real world entropy only ever increases.
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by epgui 3y ago
They don’t. Or at least not inherently, if by “lisp” one is primarily referring to s-expressions.
702.
by epgui 3y ago
“Here is the fruit of my labour and love, which I give to you at no cost.” “How dare you do it this way!”
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by epgui 3y ago
> I don’t think you can claim it’s baggage free. Did I?
704.
by epgui 3y ago
All languages have some amount of historical baggage, but I'm not sure what you're referring to here. If anything, Haskell gets a lot of eyerolls for its slow moving pace and for trying to build a language from mathematical first
705.
by epgui 3y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding something, but I would use a programming language I liked even if one of the main contributors was the worst human on earth. I don't understand why people have to make technical stuff personal.
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by epgui 3y ago
What they do is not even close to proper science, FWIW.
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by epgui 3y ago
As an actual scientist, I would also not call what “data scientists” do “science”.
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by epgui 3y ago
Sigh. (From Canada.)
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by epgui 3y ago
It’s very different than bitcoin prices. The speculative aspect of stock prices is a reflection of the time-value of money / discounted future cash flows. This concept does not exist for bitcoin pricing.
710.
by epgui 3y ago
I think I’m very pro-worker/pro-littleguy/pro-union but I don’t think this makes sense at all.
711.
by epgui 3y ago
All other things being equal, I think slower thinking or decision-making is probably a very good thing. I mean it depends on what the goal and situation is, but I strongly believe that in general , fast thinking prioritizes heuristics over
712.
by epgui 3y ago
> on a topic you know to be controversial in society What else could you reasonably expect? Unanimity without discussion?
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by epgui 3y ago
I think a lot of people are just... either epistemologically confused, or unreasonable, or a bit of both.
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by epgui 3y ago
Why does the foundation need to be unique? It seems intuitive to me that they must not be unique.
715.
by epgui 3y ago
I think you’re missing a “not” somewhere in there…
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by epgui 3y ago
I like the term “information pollution”.
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by epgui 3y ago
I completely disagree, and I think this is an example of human-exceptionalism bias.
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by epgui 3y ago
I agree with some of these points, but none of them are claims I made in the context of this discussion, so I’m not sure why you’re even arguing about those. It’s irrelevant.
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by epgui 3y ago
I completely disagree, but I don’t have the energy to argue or explain.
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by epgui 3y ago
I see what you’re trying to do with the comparison, but it’s not really the same. In your example, the two things are separated by at a minimum one layer of emergence: your example is more like saying biology is just chemistry. In maths and

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