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by feoren 1y ago
Because the prevailing narrative (by which I assume you mean "vaccines work and RFK Jr. is a crackpot") is completely obviously true to everyone with a shred of education on the subject, and disagreeing with it is dangerous and st
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by feoren 1y ago
You're interpreting "just as good" to mean "has equal political power", which is very obviously not what Asimov meant. But even if we take that interpretation, you're still wrong: ignorance has much more politi
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by feoren 1y ago
> Maybe it's "just" another sign they're in an alternate universe where even the math is different Unlike physics, there are no conceivable alternate universes with different math. That's what's so cool abou
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by feoren 1y ago
"Qualia" is a meaningless term made up so that philosophers can keep publishing meaningless papers. It's completely unfalsifiable: there is no test you can even theoretically run to determine the existence or nonexistence of
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by feoren 1y ago
Do you really still believe that hypocrisy is something they care about at all? They've never cared about it. Telling a conservative they're being hypocritical is like telling them they're violating Sharia Law. They do not ca
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by feoren 1y ago
Yes: there are no "average gamers". Everybody gets something different out of games, and the beauty of early HL1 online play is that there was something for everyone. Severs that were AWP-only playing sniper-focused maps; servers
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by feoren 1y ago
> Grok is just doing it in the opposite direction. Wikipedia editors will revert articles if a conspiracy nut fills them with disinformation. So if an AI company tweaks its model to lessen the impact of known disinformation to make the m
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by feoren 1y ago
This claim is different from the overwhelmingly accepted scientific consensus, so it's on you to provide evidence. You say the two observers can't disagree on whether the victim falls in in finite time; tens of thousands of Ph.D.
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by feoren 1y ago
Every instrument produces harmonics. It has nothing to do with electrons being waves and interfering with each other. Clarinets produce odd-order harmonics too. Anything you can do with analog electrical engineering you can also do to a dig
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by feoren 1y ago
> One can work quite easily nowadays with exact representations of rational numbers on computer One can also work with exact representations of Pi and sqrt(2). Use a symbolic system like MATLAB or Wolfram Alpha. Yes, if you create dedica
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by feoren 1y ago
We need a Donald Trump Apologist version of the Narcissist's Prayer. He didn't say he was going to do the thing. It's liberal propaganda. Okay, he did say he was going to do the thing, but he's not. It's just postur
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by feoren 1y ago
All models are wrong; some models are useful. I'm not sure I'd say I "believe in" the number 7, either. But the number 7 is very useful. It's reasonable to debate how useful irrational numbers are. That is: there ar
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by feoren 1y ago
I don't know about "trade deficits are good", but trade deficits are basically meaningless in isolation. I have a trade deficit with my local grocery store. Does that mean I'm being taken advantage of? Imagine a small co
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by feoren 1y ago
Computations are finite, but that limit keeps going up. If we picked a number that seemed like "way more than enough" in 1960, it might be less than our phones can do now. If we picked a number from cosmology, what happens if that
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by feoren 1y ago
> Why not pick 10^180 or something as the highest number/states then? Because then we have to find all sorts of limits to all of our proofs, and qualify everything, and waste time proving that our results are under this limit? If we
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by feoren 1y ago
The fact that Turing machines are abstract and infinite is a simplification . Turing machines are an attempt to create the simplest possible model of "computation", without compromising on what "computation" means. It&#
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by feoren 1y ago
> Colonizing Mars is such a dumb idea. A back-of-the-napkin calculation puts humanity's total military expenditure at about $100 trillion (USD adjusted to 2022 $) since 1949. That's not accounting for lives lost, infrastructure
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by feoren 1y ago
What exactly is "missing" in understanding how the Egyptians built the pyramids? Why is it so hard to understand how a population of millions with a ton of unused labor during flood season built a bunch of scaffolding and moved a
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by feoren 1y ago
The biggest problem is that you lose unique prime factorization. With prime factorization, I get a unique representation of every positive integer. Let's consider a way to write positive integers in "base prime", similar to b
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by feoren 1y ago
All models are wrong, but some models are useful. It's not useful to consider 1 prime, so we don't. You're free to invent a new model of math where 1 is prime and see where it takes you; nobody will be offended. This happens
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by feoren 1y ago
>It seems a little inconvenient to require acceptance that empty products equal 1 Only the contrary: it is extremely inconvenient to not allow the product of an empty sequence of numbers to equal 1. The sum of an empty sequence is 0. T
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by feoren 1y ago
Isn't C#'s named arguments basically what you want? You can choose to use the names or not at the time of calling the function. You can name some arguments but not others. Don't many programming languages have this feature?
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by feoren 1y ago
We have computers in our pockets that can perform trillions of calculations per second; we have social media sites capturing terabytes or petabytes of data per second; we have LLMs with trillions of parameters. So it boggles my mind to see
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by feoren 1y ago
Is this an example of "one strawman deserves another"? You know that when GP talked about "presenting a viewpoint", he didn't mean "as an example of a bad idea that nobody should believe". He meant he want
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by feoren 1y ago
> not all viewpoints are presented anymore. Universities used to be billed as a "marketplace of ideas". That's true. Universities no longer present the viewpoint that black people are inferior to whites and deserve to be s
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by feoren 1y ago
So your gripe is that my theoretical argument could be happening in the future, or that you have to change "citizen" to "legal resident", or that you have to change "stop" to "don't", or that you
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by feoren 1y ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-so... Nothing is hyperbole with Trump. "He hasn't
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by feoren 1y ago
The author is silently switching between two definitions of "argument" depending on which point he's trying to make. An argument with a toddler is about whether they should brush their teeth, put their toys away, or stop send
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by feoren 2y ago
Is there a price point where you'd switch between the two tiers for those services? I mean, I guess if they were literally the same cost.
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by feoren 2y ago
You keep using the word "should", but what makes you think these business parasites aren't getting exactly what they want by making their products complete garbage? The CEO caste doesn't care about making good or unique

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