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by heurist 11y ago
It seems to be more about not perpetrating destructive cultural values. Tech elite use the natural curiosity of tech lovers for their own benefit, sometimes subversively. Is that good or bad? Depends on whether the tech lover cares or not.
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by heurist 11y ago
Can anyone suggest more resources on designing ML systems? Books, papers, talks... This was fascinating.
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by heurist 11y ago
> Why spin your wheels redoing someone else's work, when you can push into new territory? Verification of results?
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by heurist 11y ago
My two take-home experiences (one right out of college, one a couple years later) were fun, interesting, and much more laid-back than what you described. I would say if a company is placing such strict requirements on you and it is not a pl
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by heurist 11y ago
But it's a small step from that to something that can kill humans. Weaponizers would easily reuse the technology you create.
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by heurist 11y ago
Fair enough :)
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by heurist 11y ago
You need two eyes for depth perception. Neither individually can tell you location, your mind figures that out by combining inputs. If you move your arms and feel something near you, you still don't know where it is until your mind rel
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by heurist 11y ago
The important point here is learning to think for yourself. I've been going through that process over the past year and from my perspective as a 25 year old male, the author is spot on.
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by heurist 11y ago
Most, not all... The real problem is vetting the "how" and dissemination of information. A non-academic might have no idea how to present their findings through journals or conferences, even if their ideas are well-formed and vali
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by heurist 11y ago
> I have no faith in the basement dwelling loner making significant contributions to AI. Why not? There's a strong history of individuals outside of academia making large contributions to science.
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by heurist 12y ago
I don't enjoy CAH either. I have had some incredibly funny people in my life before and was able to play off their antics to have genuinely fun and creative conversations. CAH is that without the creativity (which is where the fun come
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by heurist 12y ago
This would be too hard for me to maintain, but I'm sure it will bring benefits for as long as it can be sustained. The content we expose ourselves to definitely affects our subconscious thoughts. However, I instead prefer to envelop my
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by heurist 12y ago
Art and engineering to me are different paths to get to the same place. Art is very free-form, flow-based, and seemingly arbitrary but which contains deeper meaning and structure that often comes out subconsciously (when done well) while wo
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by heurist 12y ago
Since you studied it - what do you look for in great poetry?
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by heurist 12y ago
I totally agree, small amounts are great and I wouldn't have any of my ideas if I hadn't spent so much time learning and connecting random facts via the internet. It's hard for me to limit myself, though. Since I'm a sof
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by heurist 12y ago
Thank you! That really means a lot to me, I don't get to discuss these ideas often.
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by heurist 12y ago
Unwavering compassion and rehabilitation. The way their existence unfolded meant they had no choice but to commit a crime. All the systems around them shaped them into doing that as much as they shaped me into the person typing this message
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by heurist 12y ago
Kind of annoying to read honestly, but I agree with his message and experience. I grew up on the internet and don't know how to happily fit into the world as a young adult. Have had deep depression and social anxiety for more than a de
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by heurist 12y ago
That's interesting if true. The faster YC companies fail, the faster YC can bring in new startups. The odds of success for a fresh company are probably better than the odds of success for a failing company, and if so then they have an
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by heurist 12y ago
I've been dealing with this kind of existential anxiety myself lately. Nothing anyone does matters on a universal scale, and I realized that was only painful because I had expectations for myself that were incongruent with reality. It&
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by heurist 12y ago
Has your creativity changed since starting adderall?
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by heurist 12y ago
I'm certainly stubborn, but I'm not the only stubborn one here. Unless you're a biologist I probably know at least as much about genetics as you, so we're working from the same level of knowledge. Look up epigenetics. Th
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by heurist 12y ago
I'd think of it more as a binary search. Big jumps first, small jumps when you're honing in on something that works.
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by heurist 12y ago
The differences between twins who grew up together and were exposed to the same environmental effects were subtle, not necessarily so for the difference between a person and a prediction based on their genome. The comparisons of predictions
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by heurist 12y ago
I'm not saying faces aren't determined by hereditary factors, only that there are also other factors. Almost all of the 'identical' twins I've seen had subtle differences.
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by heurist 12y ago
Agreed. It seems like nutrition, illness/disease, and random developmental quirks would all drastically affect the actual shape of a human's face between birth and adulthood. You might be able to predict a range of faces to accoun
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by heurist 12y ago
>The best available evidence appears to show that there is more serotonin being released and used during depressive episodes, not less, the authors say. During my brief stint on an SSRI I felt as numb as I ever had in the depths of depre
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by heurist 12y ago
Could it also be that a slight adjustment in any area indirectly triggers adjustments in areas that are related to depression? It seems like even a small difference in the balance of all the complicated systems in the brain could potentiall
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by heurist 12y ago
I recently learned that anxiety can cause ADHD drugs to negatively affect focus. ADHD can cause anxiety on its own, so you might want to look into anti-anxiety medication before trying to use stimulants if you're going down the pill ro
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by heurist 12y ago
If you developed as a mosquito you wouldn't have your mind, you would have the mosquito's mind - you would be the mosquito, not a human as a mosquito. You can't be and cannot have been anything other than what you are, whic

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