jamesrom

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by jamesrom 4y ago
> Why can't I stick something in my curry to see if it needs more spice? Spoons exist though.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I’d like to steelman this. Let me know if this adequately summarises your arguments: 1. Steelmanning is a practice in arrogance and egotism because it makes the assumption you already know all of your interlocutor’s arguments. 2. Some argum
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by jamesrom 4y ago
The meaning of the term is not in dispute, but your interpretation of it is. I’m not asking a rhetorical question. I’m genuinely interested in your answer: why do you think steelmanning doesn't involve asking and listening?
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by jamesrom 4y ago
I kind of disagree, if the argument devolves into a meta-argument about logical fallacies it was destined to fail at any rate.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
To better understand your point, I'd like to know what you think steelmanning is. Can I ask, why do you think steelmanning doesn't involve asking and listening? (see how easy it can be)
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by jamesrom 4y ago
Exactly this. Gelmann pulls a quote out of context and omits the core of the argument as to _why_ it is extremely plausible. Alexander doesn't just leave that statement hanging, he cites other instances where this exact thing has occur
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by jamesrom 4y ago
> but in doing so he was swallowing whole a “strawman” about pharmaceutical companies and public health officials. Joshua and the author are just squabbling about the definition of "extremely plausible".
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by jamesrom 4y ago
1. You gotta start somewhere. Keep laughing at noobs though. 2. It says this person is new, and doesn’t have connections or inroads to get capital from “a big multi-manager”. 3. Sounds about right, but I disagree that the only way to go out
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by jamesrom 4y ago
It sounds like you just admitted that it wasn't boring and irrelevant.
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by jamesrom 4y ago
And why is it _never_ the reason given by the censors? When topics are banned, some banal comment about verifiability or some other non-descript reason is given. It's never "we believe this is causing too much drama and might esca
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by jamesrom 5y ago
The goal of AGI is to build a human interface for computation. Human level intelligence isn't.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
People pointing out correlation != causation are missing the point. CORRELATION AN IMPORTANT FACTOR HERE. Say you are caring for a population of elderly people and you need to triage who to give more stability support (say carers, walking a
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by jamesrom 5y ago
You can hedge short positions. Ekaros is saying that traders shouldn't rely on things like circuit breakers or rollbacks to save them when they make a bet with too much on the line.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
At least he contributed something to the conversation. There's no need to be rude.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
I know someone who wrote a small app to control a LIFX globe in a similar fashion. When the next tram was 5-10 minutes away, it would light up green indicating now would be a good time to walk out the door. (data fetched from tramtracker.co
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by jamesrom 5y ago
Sure it is, there's even a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_indifference
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by jamesrom 5y ago
Without knowing where this number came from, I could imagine that his reasoning is that there's 4 main theories that are well-reasoned and he estimates they are all as equally likely.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
“Can” is a very long way from “will”. But “impossible” is even further. That’s my point.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
No, correct way around. Rollout of renewables to the scale that nuclear can achieve in 5-20 years is practically impossible. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
I can’t tell if you’re being serious. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mundangerous
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by jamesrom 5y ago
Alternate title: climate dictates where crops are grown
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by jamesrom 5y ago
Would you mind doing this again, but for 30 minutes for comparison?
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by jamesrom 5y ago
You don't need to read any further than the headline to know the interests behind this story.
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by jamesrom 5y ago
I find it weird that people can't see how that attitude is exactly why it's a rollercoaster...
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by jamesrom 5y ago
Adding data to a blockchain doesn't use extra energy... As in, probably in the order of posting it to HN. The next block will be mined whether or not your amulet is in it. More likely however is that the code you used to generate this
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by jamesrom 5y ago
It appears to be the 1000 packages with the highest PageRank, as pulled from https://anvaka.github.io/npmrank/ So it's safe to say that this package has the most transitive dependencies in npm.
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by jamesrom 6y ago
If you didn't need a GUI, you wouldn't need this document.
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by jamesrom 6y ago
The inventor of of BitTorrent invents an alternative of proof of work. And implements it. The only reason this hasn't got more upvotes is because most people can't discern the difference between "another random crypto" a
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by jamesrom 6y ago
Probably cheaper to just buy one XCH then...
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by jamesrom 6y ago
The sick joke is we have far more clean energy than we would ever need. We don’t need to live half our existence in “low power mode”, if we just made some simple rational decisions.

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