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by feoren 2y ago
By this logic, the most misunderstood English word is "set". Words have multiple definitions; why can't emojis? The "dash / fart / smoking" emoji is a good example: I think it's pretty clear that if s
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by feoren 2y ago
I don't believe climate change will be the downfall of human civilization, but it's not just an alarmist take. There's actual reason to believe it could be. The problem is that it's a potentially self-accelerating proble
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by feoren 2y ago
> Did something I write make you think I was arguing otherwise? At the risk of having boring meta-commentary about comments, I feel like I see people often forgetting that their comments are in the context of a larger conversation and ar
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by feoren 2y ago
How can the company commit crimes without its decision-makers committing crimes? This double-standard we have is ridiculous. Every 1% increase in stock price is always attributed entirely to the wunderkind CEO and he therefore deserves tens
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by feoren 2y ago
Spiders have been a human fear for two million years, but I'm not too worried about them causing our downfall as a species. Just because we're afraid of AI doesn't mean it's actually worth fearing.
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by feoren 2y ago
It's pretty, but it doesn't look cyclic to me. It looks like "throw everything in this pit in the middle, where nothing can leave." The "cycle" part is important in recycling! I actually prefer the U.S. recycli
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by feoren 2y ago
I can't make myself see a swastika even if I look for one. Can we really not use any symbology with 90-degree rotational symmetry but no mirror symmetries, ever again?
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by feoren 2y ago
When we think about making an observation with a telescope, we might think of someone in a crow's nest looking at a far away island, and think: it could be debris, it could be a boat, it could be a smudge on the telescope, it could be
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by feoren 2y ago
Why would you assemble it at L2 instead of assembling it in LEO and then sending it out on its own?
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by feoren 2y ago
Alcoholism, drug addiction, dying on the street on a cold night, lack of proper healthcare, and yes, suicide. I didn't think it'd be controversial to suggest that poverty can kill. And you're taking a strict definition of &qu
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by feoren 2y ago
Both can be true, if growing up with more money is a causal factor in having "better" habits (in terms of wealth generation/retention). I also agree that many rich people could not survive poverty. Both are adapted to their s
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by feoren 2y ago
I think the authors are responding to a claim that AI is doing this: look, we taught them geometry, and now they know calculus! GP is saying that it's not a true zero-shot to have a separate test and training set, because the classes
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by feoren 2y ago
> Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. Spills with the most paper towels are the messiest. Why does everyone think they need paper towels to clean up spills!?
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by feoren 2y ago
I mean, they're literally banning books ... like, that was a major platform issue very recently ... "why does everyone keep blaming the cannibals for all the half-eaten corpses lying around!?" ...
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by feoren 2y ago
I would add: don't try to convince yourself that you actually like this book because it has great reviews or your friends recommended it. Plenty of novels with great reviews are actually trash (IMO, of course, but also in yours, which
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by feoren 2y ago
> I have, once again, failed an interview Can we stop calling it "failing" when a company decides you're not a good fit? If you go on a date and don't get asked for a 2nd, did you fail the date? You're not just w
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by feoren 2y ago
> I don’t talk while I code. You don’t either. That's quite an assumption. You've never heard of pair programming? You've never asked for help on a bug in your code? You've never talked through alternate approaches to
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by feoren 2y ago
In my work, if you literally cannot write any code while also discussing the code, and if you literally cannot express thoughts while also thinking them, then you actually wont exceed at the actual job function, at all. You're not th
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by feoren 2y ago
There's a common mental exercise I see where smart people will engage in armchair economics to explain what "must have" happened in some situation, or the way the word must work. It all sounds very convincing, but the problem
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by feoren 2y ago
> A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it much easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the only verification is email. I do realize they can still change their location that with an emulator. So there
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by feoren 2y ago
I love some of the interpretation of symbol characters. Check these out: - * ($) [$$] {$$$} , I particularly like the asterisk being a starfish -- quite in character for the font. I found myself wishing that the capital letters went in the
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by feoren 2y ago
What is the engine we are missing?
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by feoren 2y ago
ECMO is short term, and you're talking long term. We're not going to cure aging in 10 years. We probably could have an ECMO in every home in 10 years. Of course senescence research must be a part of it. And that research will bene
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by feoren 2y ago
There will always be some probability of dying in a given year. Let's say our futuristic society has solved aging/senescence, and is able to reduce the rate of "random death" by about 1% per year, through technology, med
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by feoren 2y ago
> Excuse me, but I do want to live in a world where death is inevitable and will choose that option at any time. This feels a little like saying "I like death, therefore everyone else must die too." Besides, you'd always b
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by feoren 2y ago
For your analogy to hold, let's assume that everyone on Earth in 1500 A.D. had a strongly vested interested in heavier-than-air flight (as they do with not dying today), and Leonardo da Vinci was completely convinced it was possible. Y
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by feoren 2y ago
Ctrl+F > "telomere" -- 0 results Weird to not mention telomeres in that article. It sounds like basically what they're talking about. We already know about Telomerase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel
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by feoren 2y ago
It absolutely boggles my mind that this is such a controversial viewpoint. We're talking about a machine that can keep people not just alive, but awake, talking, and riding an exercise bike, without working lungs or a heart . It'
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by feoren 2y ago
It's a powerful story, but it's simply not relevant to my argument, and I suspect the reason you think it is relevant is because you've deeply internalized the inevitability of death. Of course you, and we all, have: it'
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by feoren 2y ago
"The overarching problem here is that we have this fear of letting people die" This feels like a crazy thing to hear a physician say. Our acceptance of death as inevitable is a learned helplessness. Modern medicine is not even 100

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