informationally

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by informationally 5y ago
Yelp is a social network that also happens to have business reviews. So I don't mean a social network, I mean a site specifically focused on reviewing books and other consumer products. I don't mean some rando opening an app and w
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by informationally 5y ago
Correct, how do we even know this guy is an actual doctor? Maybe he's some insane person that enjoys collecting internet points.
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by informationally 5y ago
It's possible to send anonymous tips to reporters. It's not hard. All he's doing with this story is farming fake internet points on Reddit. Getting something off his chest is not changing the systemic causes that made the sit
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by informationally 5y ago
The real question is why have we engineered our environment so unhealthy choices are so easy to make. There are systemic issues here that go beyond individual choices. Social media is also part of the equation and we are now seeing the kind
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by informationally 5y ago
Namebase.io.
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by informationally 5y ago
> We live in a cultural climate that loves machines and where the promise of artificial general intelligence assumes, at least for some, religious proportions. The thought that we can upload ourselves onto machines intrigues many. So why
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by informationally 5y ago
Carmack made a few veiled statements about lack of technical maturity for making immersive 3D environments with low interaction latency.
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by informationally 5y ago
Reviews are meaningless, they have been for a long time now. The right way to do reviews is off site because that is the only way to guarantee impartiality. One of my reviews was removed once because it mentioned the author lacked expertise
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by informationally 5y ago
Ya, the workaround is not relying on a centralized resource.
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by informationally 5y ago
Read a book.
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by informationally 5y ago
Their pivot to Meta indicates that Zuckerberg knows Facebook is dead. The continued survival of the company now depends on whether they can successfully pivot to something else other than a social network. If they can then they might manage
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by informationally 5y ago
There aren't many (useful) posts when I search for "no such thing as artificial intelligence". The first result is an aggregation site that points to this article: https://aitopics.org/doc/news:88D0C200 .
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No such thing as “artifical intelligence”(medium.com)
3 points by informationally 5y ago|2 comments
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Alfred Tarski and the Undefinability of Truth(scihi.org)
2 points by informationally 5y ago|1 comments
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Technopoly – The Surrender of Culture to Technology (2017)(anne-e-currie.medium.com)
1 points by informationally 5y ago|0 comments
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by informationally 5y ago
I wasn't aware that booleans could be instantiated with a constructor. What would be a reason for using the constructor instead of the literals "true" and "false"?
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Rethinking Extinction(aeon.co)
1 points by informationally 5y ago|0 comments
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by informationally 5y ago
Very cool.
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by informationally 5y ago
Periodic reminder about Gell-Mann amnesia. AI systems continue to give the illusion of intelligence while simply performing basic linear algebra. It's fine to call matrix multiplication "intelligence" but it's not really