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by flir 1y ago
Hmm. Clearance unnecessary: scissor lift.
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by flir 1y ago
"I'm delighted by this picture of some weird cartoon people that are in the same pose as my grandparents" puzzles me deeply, also.
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by flir 1y ago
Depends what you're going for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan_photography#/media/F...
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by flir 1y ago
The analogue equivalent (a slit scan camera) is easier to understand, I think https://www.lomography.com/magazine/283280-making-a-slit-sca... https://petapixel.com/2017/10/18/role-slit-sc
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by flir 1y ago
You realise you're not disagreeing with me, yes?
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by flir 1y ago
It really always astonished me that even here, in a community of people in a domain where logic is necessary there is still this stranglehold of irrational proto-religious, emotion based belief and dogma.
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by flir 1y ago
You are a human and a human is by definition an animal. Yet I don't call you an animal. Your word choice isn't neutral; it leaks information about you.
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by flir 1y ago
>>fellow man >criminals Nice bit of dehumanizing language there.
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by flir 1y ago
What makes you think the arrow of causality doesn't go homelessness->drugs?
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by flir 1y ago
The opposite position gets downvoted too. (By me, for a start). But it's also more likely to be deleted as being out-and-out offensive, so if you're a casual reader maybe you don't see it as much?
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by flir 1y ago
> Does my personal train car have a vehicle on board (probably I’m rich in this scenario)? The back lowers and either a black Trans Am or a trio of red white & blue Minis drive out, depending on personal taste.
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by flir 1y ago
I think it needs to be a cultural expectation. I don't know how we get there, though.
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by flir 1y ago
You can get the same thing if you do user interface testing after you've built the thing. A design system can help there - at the very least, the change can feed back into the next revision of the playbook. Even if you can't fix i
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by flir 1y ago
"the AI did it" is going to be the new "somebody hacked my facebook account" I wish I had a way of ensuring culpability remains with the human who published the text, regardless of who/what authored it.
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by flir 1y ago
Yeah, I thought you got schooled, too.
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by flir 1y ago
It isn't.
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by flir 1y ago
"long enough"? " relative isolation"? "unique" how: genetically? culturally? phenotypically?
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by flir 1y ago
aka "a category that appears self-evident to me". This was my thinking, also. Good cluster of links.
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by flir 1y ago
My school got our hands on a couple of desktops that would dual-boot Risc OS and a Unix by a similar route. Think they were ex-demo machines. (Looking at Wikipedia, I think they might have been R260s running RISC iX on the other partition).
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by flir 1y ago
So define one. A race.
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by flir 1y ago
We are limited by our biology. A dog can't play the harmonica. That doesn't sound like a deep insight, to be honest.
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by flir 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
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by flir 1y ago
Consider genetics as a ceiling. An upper bound. Take the same child, give it an "ideal" upbringing or an abusive upbringing. You're going to get different IQ scores out of the adult. I believe you can see this in the Flynn Ef
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by flir 1y ago
> People with ADHD are horrible at following through and handle rejection poorly The form my GP gave me (after telling me I probably wasn't) sat in my car for six months, untouched. Went private. No regrets.
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by flir 1y ago
Not my experience - the Victorian books I bought cheap as a teenager I wouldn't even attempt to replace these days. Maybe the books I'm interested in held their value for some reason. (Just picked one at random, the exact binding
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by flir 1y ago
I know. "You can't assess which chatbot's more intelligent if I exclude the most obvious method of assessment" isn't a fair test.
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by flir 1y ago
There's a Bruce Sterling book with a throwaway line about the Pentagon going nuts because every time they create an AGI, it immediately converts to Islam.
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by flir 1y ago
You've never spent a couple of bucks on a "try your strength" machine?
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by flir 1y ago
> For example, if you are an ELO 1000 chess player would you yourself be able to tell if Magnus Carlson or another grandmaster were better by playing them individually? Yes, because I'd get them to play each other?
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by flir 1y ago
> I tried to help a couple of friends with better copy for their websites, and quickly realized that they were using inventive phrases to explain their work, phrases that they would not want competitors to get wind of and benefit from; p

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