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by feoren 3y ago
> Even psychopaths don't want to end up disgraced or in jail. So maybe it's the lack of punishment we dole out to these kinds of people. You're describing effective regulatory oversight. That is a manual control on capital
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by feoren 3y ago
> I think you'll find discussions significantly more straightforward if you don't make up the other person's side of the conversation You never specified your "obvious" definition, so I had to reverse engineer it
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by feoren 3y ago
So your definition seems to be that it's part of your body if it was built via instructions in your inherited DNA? So tattoos are not part of your body, nor are the gut bacteria you were mostly born with (or their ancestors) and withou
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by feoren 3y ago
> the unglamorous stuff that needs doing. You're thinking of picking up the trash, driving trucks, fixing toilets, and assembling wheelbarrows. That pays shit: the things that "need doing" are mostly just not done , and w
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by feoren 3y ago
> Does this mean the Jeep is now part of my body? Of course not. Why is that "of course not"? Is your arm part of your body? Your hair? A wig? A pacemaker? A well-fitted mechanical exoskeleton that you use without thinking abou
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by feoren 3y ago
> If I could implant a chip in my brain, and if people could control my brain with that chip, I would probably never allow it. But when that chip is outside of my brain in a device I keep in my pocket, why am I more willing to allow othe
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by feoren 3y ago
I have a pretty good nest egg. I owned a home for years before it occurred to me that I could spend <$1000 on a piano to put in my own home. That piano brings me joy every single day. I'm sure there are lots of other thousand-dollar
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by feoren 3y ago
Not GP, but: yes, exactly. The old story about the Mexican fisherman and the American businessman on holiday. How else would we get billionaires? These people work to the bone on wealth accumulation far beyond a fortune that they could ever
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by feoren 3y ago
I love this reasoning about the espresso machine because it highlights how easy it is to label humans as being irrational when you're just focused on one or two dimensions (cost), but it turns out that humans are generally very rationa
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by feoren 3y ago
No, it is not possible to approximate the median in the general case . The linked paper does no such thing. Their algorithm can be completely defeated by carefully tailored inputs. They only ever test them against very well-behaved random
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by feoren 3y ago
I think my quoted passage says everything it needs to say (emphasis mine): > which apply to all mental disorders , including anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcoholism, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, and even schizophrenia All m
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by feoren 3y ago
Jupiter is a masterpiece. Mars is fine. Honestly the rest of the Planets Suite is kind of a pass unless you're studying music. Of course Jupiter is the one they remix ("arrange"?) in Bluey.
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by feoren 3y ago
> And fine for small kids I think, who wouldn't understand things like Bluey You are vastly underestimating what small children can understand.
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by feoren 3y ago
This is a culture difference. The U.S. seems peculiarly against this compared to most of the rest of the world. It seems especially acceptable for kids most places. We may have to accept that we're the weird ones on this. It's jus
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by feoren 3y ago
Daniel Tiger is so much more difficult to watch as an adult, but I have to give it credit for its potty training episode: that was a huge help when trying to potty train our 2.5-year-old. So I definitely agree that a targeted application
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by feoren 3y ago
Sure can, right after you give me concrete evidential examples that refute the Time Cube guy. The reason people don't bother to refute bullshit-on-their-face claims is because it takes 20x more effort to refute a bullshit claim than to
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by feoren 3y ago
> Palmer also sheds light on the new treatment pathways this theory opens up--which apply to all mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcoholism, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, and even schizophrenia. Becau
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by feoren 3y ago
> Streaming calculation of the exact median with no storage at all is non-trivial at best in the general case It's not "non-trivial" it's impossible . I'm not sure why people think median can be approximated at
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by feoren 3y ago
"Business leaders" are almost universally short-sighted, narrow-minded parasites focused on trying to fatten up their own division so they can suck more of its blood for 2 or 3 years before the next Musical Chairs game when they&#
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by feoren 3y ago
> It doesn’t fundamentally obviate the need to collect a high quality dataset from somewhere else. You'd think this would be obvious: there's only so much worth you can "mine" out of any given data set. We've pro
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by feoren 3y ago
I'd go so far as to say all apparently exponential curves are actually sigmoid, but the asymptote of the sigmoid often increases itself (in another, longer-term sigmoid). But I don't think we're anywhere near the carrying c
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by feoren 3y ago
If everyone in the world were using 100 passwords, you'd need space for 800 billion passwords, which is 39.5 bits of entropy. Assuming an alphabet of 74 characters (lower + upper + digits + a few symbols), you'd need a little over
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by feoren 3y ago
This is strange, because the example they give about "correlation does not imply causation" being a "frisco" outing you as a non-scientist is very much not supported by the Slate article they claim to have gotten it from
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by feoren 3y ago
> tonal harmony (aka the music of dead German men) You mean the basis for 99.9% of all the music anyone alive today in the Americas or Europe has ever heard? And probably 80% to 90%+ of all music in the rest of the world too?
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by feoren 3y ago
> You could just as well say “let’s divide the frequency range between x and 2x by 10 instead of 12”. Or we do something between x and 3x instead. We just don’t. The reasons for this are much much more complicated than "we just do
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by feoren 3y ago
> it gets easier to sight-read a jazz piece from a fake book There's a reason they call these "fake books". The purpose is to get close enough that you've effectively re-created the music without hitting all the exact
627.
by feoren 3y ago
That's not reading. That's guessing. Look up the "three cueing system" for reading. It's a workaround for bad readers. You're saying that people can read music, unless the music does something unexpected, and t
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, it would, and then you'd never hear about competitions in that game because it doesn't support ultra high-level play.
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by feoren 3y ago
There's a site explicitly to discuss some of these kinds of ideas: https://www.halfbakery.com/
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by feoren 3y ago
> I think your issue might just be with understanding how version control is supposed to work. This has nothing to do with how it's "supposed to" work, and all to do with the standards and constraints we're putting on

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