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by honzabe 3y ago
I have read an argument that this does not solve much, because "as commander-in-chief, Trump could (and likely would) simply refuse to order the military to come to the aid of NATO allies in the event of a Russian attack." [1] ht
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Inertia of Evil in Good Faith(notetaker.pages.dev)
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by honzabe 3y ago
For me, social media platforms are on a scale that goes from negative to positive values. The negative side is energy-burning, the positive is energy-adding. One side inspires me. The other makes me feel drained. I have to keep on the posit
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by honzabe 3y ago
It's not like the EU is some separate entity endowed by special stupidity. It's just "us", humans - some of us smart/informed, some of us less so. If you remove your country from the whole, one time you might be out
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by honzabe 3y ago
First, you are right I should not assume anyone's knowledge (or lack thereof). It just popped into my mind as something that could explain the thing that's been puzzling me for months - what are people talking about when they say
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by honzabe 3y ago
I think the word "essentially" is important here. I don't think we can observe how we think. How it appears in consciousness is not necessarily real - it might be just a model constructed ex-post. I do not know that much abou
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by honzabe 3y ago
I think that a lot depends on how you define concepts like "understanding" and "mental model". Imagine that I am building a translation app: one way to do it would be simply a dictionary database where the Czech word &qu
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by honzabe 3y ago
>> LLMs just predict tokens. Out of curiosity, how do you think human intelligence works? I am no expert and I don't claim to know how the human brain works but my layman's mental model of thinking would be basically that: b
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by honzabe 3y ago
> I always hear "Norway is a capitalist country" when their economy is primarily in the hands of the state, more than for example Venezuela. Can you please provide some sources backing up your claim? What metric did you use? Th
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by honzabe 3y ago
It seems that you fail to see the distinction between putting yourself in the position of one who believes and actually adopting the position. You can think of it as intellectual empathy. You being able to put yourself into someone else
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by honzabe 3y ago
> But you do this automatically when you are trying to discern the truth - invalid arguments are to be eliminated. The world would look a lot different if this were something people do "automatically". No, it is laborious and e
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by honzabe 3y ago
Not necessarily. We were doing this in sociology seminars at college and it was not about manipulating the audience at all. It is about stepping out of the opinion you inhabit and trying to look at it from your opponent's perspective.
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by honzabe 3y ago
> our health insurance for our family is provided by our jobs I was not sure how this worked. I knew that the US does not have universal health care (not having it is one of those famous American things) but I assumed that it works on a
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by honzabe 3y ago
I hear something like that from other Americans as well and do not doubt that what you are saying is true, but why is it like that? Isn't the unemployment rate in the US low (around 3.5%) right now? I live in a country where the unempl
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by honzabe 3y ago
>> Unsure of what "hallucinates" means in this case The term "hallucinations" is now commonly used for instances of AI making stuff up - like when I asked ChatGPT (before I had paid account) to recommend 5 books ab
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by honzabe 3y ago
Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4? Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect? My experience - the free version made up a lot of things but still felt very useful - enough to want
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by honzabe 3y ago
I think being smart is more of a state of a person than a property of a person, kind of like health. Genetics plays a role in it (you can be born unhealthy) but so does the environment. I think extreme success in the modern world creates a
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by honzabe 3y ago
>> "You have to see astrology as porn for women", he said. If that is the case, what is the pleasure they get out of it? Porn triggers the pleasure centers that sex triggers... but astrology, what does that trigger? Sense of
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by honzabe 3y ago
I absolutely agree with you, I just want to point out something that affected my viewing habits: that modern tech you mention also enabled "amateurs". I have been watching Grand Tours since I was a kid; watching together with my d
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by honzabe 3y ago
>> everybody uses whatsapp there That claim does not ring true to me. Maybe a few years ago, but now? I don't use whatsapp and I don't know anyone who uses it, except for a group of expats from South America who probably use
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by honzabe 3y ago
I will link to the article that changed my mind on this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo... It was recently discussed here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456233 T
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by honzabe 3y ago
Absolutely - I've been rediscovering books lately. Although it is hard - the years of interneting did a number on my attention span and habits. I used to be a voracious reader when I was a kid. That book I mentioned - the Royal Road to
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by honzabe 3y ago
I think you are right (although I now wish I had not abandoned my old account). However, I have always felt that karma systems are too biased towards old users who had more time to accumulate karma. If only the karma system had some "a
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by honzabe 3y ago
Lately, I feel like I am overwhelmed by content, and yet it is increasingly rare to find something authentic, something that is not either made just as a vehicle for advertising or designed to attract attention and likes on social media. I
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by honzabe 3y ago
https://crisis40.com/english/ I started recently after a little cancer scare shook me up. It is about trying new things, re-starting my life a bit, I think. I plan to write for fun about things that I find interesting
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by honzabe 3y ago
This is really interesting. I would buy a short book describing and explaining this privacy-related stuff the way you write about it. But every time I read something like this, I am puzzled how they can have so much information and yet be s
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by honzabe 3y ago
I don't claim to know all the Europe but I would disagree at least when it comes to countries I know pretty well - Czechia and Spain. Maybe not as great as Tokyo (where I've never been) but pretty decent. Comparing Czechia (where
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by honzabe 3y ago
I do all my grocery shopping online - I have not been to a supermarket in years. I can specify time between 6am and 11pm and have it delivered at that time, for free (there is some minimal amount I have to buy to get free delivery but it i
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by honzabe 3y ago
>> remote is far less effective I think it depends on the type of work, personality of workers and maybe other factors. For example, I used to work in a team where we were each doing separate part of the thing and it was not too benef
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by honzabe 3y ago
> by your definition I think that is commonly shared definition. We distinguish lying from just being wrong. Saying untrue things in good faith, as Gwyneth Paltrow in your example, is not lying.

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