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by istinetz 4y ago
It's not fool-proof, you can very easily circumvent that check. Just generate texts with high perplexity.
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by istinetz 4y ago
Vox Populi is my jam. It's ridiculous that a handful of dedicated fans can improve an AAA game so much.
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by istinetz 4y ago
You can definitely give AI agents 'personality' - preference towards certain tactics, different play style, built in weaknesses. In the context of Civ, you could have each civ leader have unique personality, and that would add a l
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by istinetz 4y ago
Lmao no. Eastern Europe is definitely more right wing than the US on the social axis, and this is probably also true for westies.
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by istinetz 4y ago
This article is extremely biased drivel. "72% voted yes (of which some were bots)". Guess what, some of the other 28% were also bots. The entire article is like this - extremely one sided, just cover any possible argument that Mus
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by istinetz 4y ago
FTX, a crypto exchange, imploded spectacularly over the last week. The owner posted several threads on Twitter, in each round of the drama. After it came out that he essentially stole $10 billion from the exchange to bail out his hedge fund
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by istinetz 4y ago
>But if VISA disappeared, there'd be hell to pay. Would it, though? I'll just get a mastercard. 5$, a trip to the bank, ezpz. Or pay for stuff via Revolut. Or cash. There'd be a bit of chaos, for like 2 weeks. Invoices wi
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by istinetz 4y ago
Be that as it may, they are super ban happy, and regularly exceed what is necessary. Particularly with regards to politics. And also, whether they're justified or not, it doesn't really matter to he point. ACX's proposal =&
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by istinetz 4y ago
>Each sub-reddit has it's own moderation team that decides what's acceptable and then you opt-in. This is pretty close to what ACX is proposing. No, it really isn't. Differences: 1) Reddit is super ban happy, and there is
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by istinetz 4y ago
I'm not even sure how you can get it to work on time series...
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by istinetz 4y ago
>In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that moderation is absolutely required for any "public square". No. You want moderation, because you don't want people saying The Bad Things™, but it's not an absolute pro
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by istinetz 4y ago
Okay, humble suggestion - remove yourself from the public square, but don't destroy it for me. That way, you get to not hear racist stuff, and I get to not have my morality chosen by random americans.
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by istinetz 4y ago
This reminds me of a short story Kurt Vonnegut mentioned in a novel of his: >“You know — “ said Eliot, “Kilgore Trout once wrote a whole book about a country that was devoted to fighting odors. That was the national purpose. There wasn’t
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by istinetz 4y ago
>I priced out some relatively minor kitchen/bathroom renovation work in 2018 ... today the quote for the same work is well over $300k. Lmao what. 300k for minor renovations? Is it a minor renovation on the international space stati
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by istinetz 4y ago
>The only relevant factor for predicting chess skill at any level seems to be hours spent on deliberate practice, see for example: https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1106 This is wildly implausible, and indeed the paper ma
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by istinetz 4y ago
there is a lot of studies in that topic. Even wikipedia agrees: >Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%,[6] with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[7] IQ
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by istinetz 4y ago
>psuedoscientific yeah, animal breeding and crop selection work, but it couldn't possibly work on humans
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by istinetz 4y ago
>I suck at anything beyond basis probability theory math-wise, but I don’t believe it’s anything to do with inherent ability (or at least not mostly). Math is just boring. You're generalizing your circumstances.
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by istinetz 4y ago
>the industry has always been pretty terrible at hiring and promoting women, and the way we handle recognition is part of that By highschool, you have as large of a gap in boys and girls enrolling in computer science AP classes and extra
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by istinetz 4y ago
Really? What equally dumb things are believed by 40% of women and 20% of men (as per the article) and are a constant topic of conversation? I'm really struggling to think of any.
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by istinetz 4y ago
>I dunno, I'm willing to believe the timing of birth can influence a child's development That's a post-hoc justification for an obviously ridiculous belief. 1) Astrology makes much stronger claims. "Today, you will be
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by istinetz 4y ago
nowadays, you can just ask about astrology. It's both obviously wrong and socially acceptable to believe in. It filters a solid 30% of the population, at least in my country.
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Ask HN: YouTube channels for being a better Python developer?
1 points by istinetz 4y ago|2 comments
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by istinetz 4y ago
you know, I think turning off their internet for a while might be a better solution inventing ai robot-servants so you can wirehead alone more efficiently is not an utopia
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by istinetz 4y ago
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/quizzes#:~:text=definition...
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by istinetz 4y ago
>Hasn't the technology progressed to the point that quizzes could be integrated right into the video player? Coursera does this right now. It's very useful.
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by istinetz 4y ago
What do you mean, "even Nature"? They have no incentive to downplay the omnipresence of microplastics
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by istinetz 4y ago
>I think OP is really talking about a lack of meaning, control, and social connection in our lives. That is indeed a much more defensible thesis. But to do anything meaningful, you need to eat a bunch of frogs - to build a rocket, you ne
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by istinetz 4y ago
yep, this is the diagnosis I got as well. Unfortunately, adhd drugs are legal, but not mainstream or easy to come by in Eastern Europe.
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by istinetz 4y ago
>It's the biggest lie of them all that some behaviors are higher than other. Disagree. >You higher could be pretty low for someone else. Like yourself in a couple of years. Possible, but I can console my future self with the fact

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