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by evv555 4y ago
>How does members of the HN crowd try to combat this? I think what can be lost in these conversations is the differentiation of a cognitive capacity and the drives to use that capacity. What are the conditions that have lead to your dri
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by evv555 4y ago
>More branding than reality, since we accomplished their projects later — transmuting elements and detecting the aether. Arguably this was accomplished using the work of alchemists. Ontologies tend to progress through stages of differen
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by evv555 4y ago
partially ordered sets / hierarchal structures of entities and relationships
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by evv555 4y ago
>nest hierarchy of biology Which itself is a derivative of the "great chain of being" ontology which tried to explain the continuous gradation of structures in the world. Ideas like "missing link" appear within this
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by evv555 4y ago
I think he does. Something like survivors of "Atlantis" spread through the world and taught local hunter gatherer groups in the ways of civilization and megalithic architecture.
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by evv555 4y ago
>Stuff like Gobeki Tepe, however, is pretty interesting and seems to shatter our understanding of how human civilization started. He stacks alot of speculative but interesting claims on top of each other so it's not an all or nothin
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by evv555 4y ago
I don't agree that this is an accurate characterization of Crichton's perspective.
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by evv555 4y ago
Was he a climate denier or a critic of the emerging scientism in the climate change debate? There are unintended consequences to arriving at the right conclusion(climate change is real) for the wrong reasons. It undermines societies abili
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by evv555 4y ago
>Yes. Not to mince words, as others frequently do, but that's basically what's happening. Any data to show this is happening? From what I have seen, the primary benefactors of diversity initiatives come from the upper crusts o
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by evv555 4y ago
Part of what parent is describing is pushing configurations down to the agents from a centrally managed admin panel. I think this works well for basic system metrics but not for anything off the beaten path requiring integrations and scrip
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by evv555 4y ago
How much of intelligence relies on axiomatic logic systems(natural or artificial)? Neural networks are more like a traversal of probability fields that are neither purely internally consistent or purely complete.
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by evv555 4y ago
This isn't a useful stat for answering the question
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by evv555 4y ago
How common is this in Canada? This doesn't sound like a representative anecdote. This sounds like a vacuously true statement as they say in statistics.
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by evv555 4y ago
That's roughly the size of Jupiter at a distance roughly 7 times that of the moon from Earth. At those distances you could probably see features of the star the same way we see craters on the moon.
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by evv555 4y ago
Makes me wonder how much of the day sky is taken up by the star during daytime. Would be quite the view at that distance.
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by evv555 4y ago
Integrating wireguard routes into your local network and overriding DNS with trusted endpoints. These are common enough needs these days to be considered ordinary.
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by evv555 4y ago
Personally I believe in climate change but how are data points like this supposed to prove/disprove? Only ~12000 years ago there was a shift from the ice age and rapid flooding. Probably not man made and very recent. All evidence po
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by evv555 4y ago
The trend of people forming deep tribal identity around political affiliations and institutions. Speech then is first and foremost performative signaling of your in-group affiliation to the good group or the evil group. At least that&#x2
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by evv555 4y ago
>But people have this weird way of taking things they like and not only rejecting criticism but making it their whole identity. Joe can do no wrong and if people dislike him it's because they don't "get it" and they a
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by evv555 4y ago
The technological progress of the modern era is a product of the Renaissance movement beginning in the 14th/15th century. A transformations that cuts through culture, society, and technology. Social changes like the emergence of scie
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by evv555 4y ago
Is this brutalist though? Concrete elements are brutalist in the context of buildings because they're the exposed functional component of the building. This is just geometric shapes made out of concrete. I like brutalism but I think
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by evv555 4y ago
Depending on how hard you're pushing yourself this is commonly known as "greasing the groove" and is often used to get passed performance plateaus. The key is to never train to failure, increase the total volume of fresh&#x2
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by evv555 4y ago
>It's a continuous variable, not a Boolean. My take on this: It's a multi-dimensional ordinal variable across the permutation of all possible domain combinations in which you can develop domain experience and synthetic thinking
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by evv555 4y ago
People were making equivalent accusations of vaporware when the dot com bubble burst but 20 years later and many winners have emerged from that era in addition to new ones.
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by evv555 4y ago
>The Stock Market, S&P 500, is down 20% year-to-date (6-months). A more apples to apples comparison would be comparing crypto market to tech stocks. In which case yes there are valid comparisons.
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by evv555 4y ago
Looking forward to the feel-good girl power articles about Nazi Germany.
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by evv555 4y ago
Whoever wrote this article? Obviously, are you asking a rhetorical question?
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by evv555 4y ago
>This seems to be a mix of Charles Taylor and some kind of High Times letter to the editor. . >The author then confuses Taylor's "postmodern" with more common definitions here A synthesis of "postmodern" count
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by evv555 5y ago
peertube
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by evv555 5y ago
>But again, a few anecdotes of stupids doing stupid and hatefuls doing hateful, doesn’t qualify as a “bloodthirsty mob with no regard for innocent civilians and children”. I just don't feel like catologing every red flag instance on

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