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by hans1729 4y ago
I’m not sure how to word my excitement about the progress we see in AI research in the last years. If you haven’t read it, give Tim Urbans classic piece a slice of your attention: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/art
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by hans1729 4y ago
And machine learning. And JavaScript/Python. Things that win always do one of these: - reduce complexity - decrease friction - improve results either qualitatively or quantitatively SQL is not dead or dying by any means. Its just not t
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by hans1729 4y ago
intelligence := ability to build models [only exists relative to $domain, but training the brain to perform well in one domain translates to enhanced capability in others; see link between iq and affinity to music etc.]. the speed of cognit
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by hans1729 4y ago
>People have their reasons for why they choose to focus on some things and not others. You're saying that like those "reasons" are properties of the personality of their beholders. They are not, it's coping mechanisms
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by hans1729 4y ago
> it then makes sense (and is good) for principled people to trust their judgement, even if it makes them an outcast. I don't get this. Being judgemental always seemed immature to me. Being curious and trying to understand why in
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by hans1729 4y ago
> Going into debt at the lowest interest rate you'll ever be offered to buy a leveraged asset that's likely to increase in price and reduce the overhead you pay on your largest expense, housing, and hedge against the risk of re
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by hans1729 4y ago
I did not miss those people, but my wording was loaded and so the point got lost in translation. I implicitly captured them under b) "[...] it's dumb to buy estates where the price is set by people and institutions that have n ti
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by hans1729 4y ago
I mean, it's not really a burst, we're just hearing the hissing noise of the obvious leak. The true demand from people with the intend to actually live in the estates has been constantly decreasing since around 2000; the real sala
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by hans1729 4y ago
>the real question is whether current moderation practices in Twitter are blocking us from meaningful discussion And that question is another one than "does twitter censor climate change-discussions?", right? My point was: yes,
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by hans1729 4y ago
Except for when the church decided what’s culturally appropriate and what’s not. Eerily reminding of the content moderation teams in SV, isnt it? Improving signal quality != fire walling signals as a whole.
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by hans1729 4y ago
I never mentioned censorship, which is a loaded and mostly useless (because agonizing and polarizing) term. I talked about flow of information . Science isn’t done on twitter, and twitter is not for scientists or those able and willing to
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by hans1729 4y ago
Are you saying that restricting the flow of information does not ... checks comment restrict our flow of information?
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by hans1729 4y ago
>Do people find this stuff compelling? Rank speculation and confident assertion with minimal substantive backing? For me, it’s just playing with models, exploring ideas and representations in human-language space, which is fun, complex,
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by hans1729 4y ago
Your comment implies that you categorically deny correlations between social security and psychological development and well-being. Intellectually, I find this provoking, see maslows pyramid. Would you please give your audience and your com
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by hans1729 4y ago
Semantics; social nurture is embedded into Maslow pyramid, not the other way around. The issue with poverty and lack of social security doesn’t arise from a lack of expectations if the lack of expectations, at its core, arises from poverty
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by hans1729 5y ago
Unfortunately, you don’t have to go out and look for it though. Twitter was not supposed to be a worse RSS-feed, so if that’s your use case, nice, but that scope is ignorant to the reality of its market-fit.
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by hans1729 5y ago
Now I don’t know what to do, thanks.
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by hans1729 5y ago
Write a tinder-simulator so guys in their early 20s can practice chatting with women in vitro using sentiment analysis. Had the idea yesterday, but lack the spare time to actually make it happen :D
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by hans1729 5y ago
Game theory 101. You want to build a good/better world? Then don't be shit. Don't contribute to shit dynamics. Build a sustainable culture where people listen to each other. I'll never get how this isn't ingrained t
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by hans1729 5y ago
Here is my model: The root problem is: the 90% of people who are not inherently driven by curiosity want to contribute/validate their viewpoint/seek peer confirmation. This, left alone, leads to nothing good, which is why we came
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by hans1729 5y ago
The earlier they make their experiences, the earlier they can develop a mature response to abusive stimuli - if taught about the nature of those stimuli . I'm not advocating for giving developing brains blind access to predatory produ
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by hans1729 5y ago
This is sarcasm, right? A music genre is categorically toxic? What? They will see TikToks anyway, at latest on the devices of their peers. The only sane course of action is to teach them how to deal with it, not to ignore the consequences o
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by hans1729 5y ago
> I would like to say that we can teach kids to have a healthy relationship with the internet and social media but sites like TicTok are engineered to be as addictive as possible so that would be naïve of me to say. I don't think s
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by hans1729 5y ago
>Why not? Because it sets them on a track of social disconnect and isolation. No therapist in their right mind would support that path. The adequate response is culture . Teach your children how to cultivate their own attention. Teach t
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by hans1729 5y ago
Then just don’t use those apps? I don’t, and nobody above 30 in my circle does. No need stay in caves, just adapt some culture.
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by hans1729 5y ago
If you can't scroll, you can usually permanently block the overlay with either uBlock origin or ad guard, depending on your browser. Reload the page - cookie banner will never appear again, overlay will never appear again, website is v
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by hans1729 5y ago
Usually, these banners can be bypassed by using reader-view. If the website doesn't support reader-view, it's hostile trash anyway in 99% of the time. And if the website does support reader-view, not using it is insane anyway. So
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by hans1729 5y ago
Because we let institutions run wild and don't have auto-expiration dates for laws/measurements that restrict civil liberties. I elaborated further on this elsewhere in the thread, maybe that helps clearing things up.
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by hans1729 5y ago
Since Sinovac is basically useless (about half as effective against the original virus, much less vs delta and omicron), China seems to come to the conclusion that letting Omicron run through would have worse consequences than the lockdowns
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by hans1729 5y ago
Highjacking your comment to add a functional answer to ops question: because the reward incentives in open source environments are simply not aligned with the required workload. Prove me wrong, go coordinate a deep ux-strategy in git issues

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