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by havelhovel 4y ago
> can you explain your reasoning as to why a language model would never be able to match a human's ability to explain its reasoning? It’s a language model, not a reasoning model. A lot of its training data happens to be logical, so
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by havelhovel 4y ago
> do HN readers just think a human isn't such a complex entity? I've never gotten a positive comment score for arguing that women aren't just optimizing for wealth, height, and appearance in a partner.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
That the people in your life have led you to believe that a man’s romantic value comes from his appearance or relative income is only evidence that you need to meet better people. The reality is that women who feel that way are never going
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Probably the same amount of demand as for snarky tech workers.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
The parent comment was arguing that women choose to be with men who earn more than them. This was in no way a data point for wage inequality, which you seem to be implying.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Nothing about this article indicates that anyone thinks apes are “less evolved” than humans. Finding similarities between branches of the evolutionary tree is a common way to build knowledge about shared ancestors. We do the same within our
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by havelhovel 4y ago
From the article: “‘when we told participants a bit about what the apes were doing before, it did improve their understanding significantly but only by about 5 percent,’ she noted. ‘So it seems like the gestures themselves are really meanin
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by havelhovel 4y ago
But her husband is short! She’s just shorter. Most women are shorter than most men. No one is being gas lit. This article isn’t asking women to find men who are shorter than them. It’s just saying that height offers no real advantages in th
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Not sure where you’re going with this. The author is a woman. It’s sort of missing the point of an article claiming heightism is culturally based to ask products of that culture what they think as though it’s a rebuttal.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Same boat as you. Now we just have to hope LastPass deleted our information when we asked them to.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Since you're asking if scale should influence our attitude, consider the following sentence: "I could have called an ambulance for my severely injured neighbor, but I gave up when I checked the numbers and saw that 70 million peop
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by havelhovel 4y ago
I don't understand the pushback this article is getting. If someone is murdered it's news, even though there might be war or genocide going on somewhere else in the world. I don't think anyone in the comment section has said
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by havelhovel 4y ago
They aren't dismissing the argument. They're saying pretty plainly that both things can be bad, and therefore both can be addressed simultaneously. Taking the stance that animal welfare activists can't care about anything els
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Suggesting we calibrate our reaction based off other examples of animal suffering isn’t an objective take. Some people don’t want any animals to suffer by human hands. Some people are opposed to animal trials in their entirety. Some people
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by havelhovel 4y ago
The point stands that no one forced that developer or team to build a product on a platform that requires a 30% fee.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
There’s nothing natural about a domesticated species being spread around the world and allowed to roam free while simultaneously receiving care and protection from humans.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Since you didn’t name the species, it’s hard to say whether they’re common or not, or verify that their populations remain stable while an ever increasing number of cats are given an unrestricted license to kill anything that moves if it ha
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Generally speaking, that chain depended on each generation producing more than one offspring to avoid the risk you’ve described.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
> Working on cars isn't noisy. That is not my experience at any mechanic's shop ever! And even without all the fancy tools, my neighbor was banging on their engine for hours just last weekend. Maybe they don't know what th
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Since you only responded to one sentence in my comment, it appears as though you've missed the point. You certainly haven't convinced me I'm wrong.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Is it really fair and just, though? Is it fair, for example, for a business financed with Silicon Valley money, leveraging Californian infrastructure, enjoying US legal protections, to offer Americans a wage that only meets the needs of dev
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by havelhovel 4y ago
My personal opinion of The Verge writers is that they are mostly liberal arts majors LARPing as tech experts to make ends meet. The general resentment for the ascendancy of tech is palpable. Maybe someone in their 18th Century English lit c
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by havelhovel 4y ago
A big source of my frustration with Spotify has been that the setting is per device, defaults to being on, and is often re-enabled during updates. I wish my account settings could be universal and permanent, considering it’s a cloud-based
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by havelhovel 4y ago
Parent doesn’t have a point because they’re rejecting the reality of height discrimination and the language that perpetuates it. Pretending like this isn’t a thing isn’t constructive, and reinforces the original point that this wouldn’t be
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by havelhovel 4y ago
And no one claimed this was representative of the world at large, although I must be cheeky and note there’s currently more evidence in favor than against since you haven’t provided anything to the contrary.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
That would involve living in denial or becoming a hermit since these perceptions are often verbalized unprompted.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
If you’re short you have bigger issues than finding a life partner (as I agree height is not the ultimate reason one can’t find love). Studies have shown height affects career advancement and is more significant than race for earnings. One
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by havelhovel 4y ago
What a remarkably insensitive and dismissive take on someone providing primary sources to bolster their case.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
You’re responding to a comment discussing the CBA of getting a mortgage vs paying all cash, not buying a house vs renting.
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by havelhovel 4y ago
> the whole point of having a hobby is to become skilled at some esoteric thing Hobbies are activities done for pleasure, nothing more.

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