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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
The word "meme" was invented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He's public facing, but his origins are academic. The word caught on because it's a good word that conveyed a novel idea. One could say that it meme
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
In his code after "and now we apply flow fields and try to move these points", the code is errant. It will produce errors if you try to run it. The variable "m" in draw() should be changed to "points". The vari
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
You're disappointed by the discovery of a new brain structure? This seems like a wonderful discovery to me.
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
The compelling reason for me is the mirror test, and what you can infer from it. The tiniest bit of self-awareness lets you pass the mirror test, as toddlers demonstrate. Apes pass, elephants pass, and magpies pass. Monkeys fail. What'
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
I disagree. Ants are highly social, but few would ascribe them self awareness. They pursue social objectives using instinct. But pack animals? Maybe. We don't have an answer to how our own self awareness works, so we're largely wo
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
It's not an assumption. Self awareness has been scientifically tested in many species, most prominently by using the mirror test: testing if an animal can recognize itself in a mirror by observing if its behavior changes after surrept
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
Not sure exactly what you mean, but Einstein developed relativity largely through thought experiments. And relativity has been verified by real experiments.
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
To make a target race to score higher, fill the test with things the target race tends to be disproportionally familiar with (owing to culture, relative affluence, etc.) To bump up the average Black score, for instance, fill the test with w
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
When both a viewpoint and an opponent are fabricated, you have a Hollow Man argument. https://fs.blog/2020/05/bad-arguments/
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
You don't describe your product or service on the site. As such, this is spam for a vague mailing list.
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
Horrifying. Is there a news story on the stabbing?
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
It's not a slur. Some slurs are also filtered, and I'm suggesting we ignore this petty and generally positive censorship. A more effective approach for anti-CCP activists would be to spam a short, compelling sentence regarding one
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
"In this case, we’ve reinstated the app and have communicated with the developer to ensure the app remains compliant with our policies." Treating the developer with suspicion, after they clumsily and callously trampled over him. I
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
First, you need to re-read what I wrote. I didn't call it a slur. I called it a hateful meme. It's precisely that, because it is driven by hate -- you will understand this if you talk to people who deeply hate communism, such as i
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
You posit a false dilemma: * Accept suppression of intelligent dissent. * Allow all speech, including unintelligent and hateful speech. This is evidently false, given: 1) Intelligent, well-reasoned dissent against a platform is permitted on
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
There are two parties that decide what constitutes an intelligent, well-reasoned critique. The first party is the owner(s) of a platform. For any owner, there is incentive to preserve power, but there is also incentive to not act as an oppr
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by exo-pla-net 6y ago
YouTube filtering slurs and hateful memes is not surprising. They would target anything that gets spammed and reduces the quality of discourse (such as it is on YouTube). I see no evidence that China is getting any special treatment here. I
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by exo-pla-net 7y ago
"dropped his head" != "dropped dead"
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by exo-pla-net 7y ago
Fearmongering. Our current understanding of physics precludes 5G from having any effect on the human body. 5G is not ionizing: this is a matter of physical reality. And non-ionizing electromagnetic waves lacks the energy to do anything inte
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by exo-pla-net 7y ago
Precisely this is being done, today, in China. A facial recognition AI keeps track of your location and activities. If you jaywalk, it immediately deducts money from your bank account.
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by exo-pla-net 8y ago
See the progression of voice recognition. The answer is, yes, a BCI is still useful and will still be used, even if it makes errors. It will of course grow more useful and become more embedded into our lives, as it gets more accurate.