jibal

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by jibal 28d ago
Intelligence is required to understand that is clueless nonsense.
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by jibal 28d ago
How? By being knowledgeable, intelligent, and intellectually honest.
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by jibal 28d ago
> OpenAI, meanwhile, says its experience with Navier-Stokes could open the door to solving puzzles with more practical relevance. “We are now able to spend millions of dollars on a problem that we really care about and that really matter
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by jibal 29d ago
Well done. Finding a way to look at things so that results that seemed unintuitive seem intuitive can be powerful and satisfying.
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by jibal 1mo ago
The guy's remarkable response makes clear that he's a clueless troll.
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by jibal 1mo ago
> imo, those two links are example of rather low quality weird math discussions, but you can keep your opinion I've seen a lot of bad faith on this site, but none exceeding that.
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by jibal 1mo ago
You haven't thought that through. The regress obviously isn't infinite, and it bottoms out in things that are immediately true by inspection. And seriously, how likely is it that you have stumbled upon a fundamental problem with t
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by jibal 1mo ago
That increases the likelihood that they are right. > support your point with explanation or be ignored :-) Anyone who says "Godel theorems are for systems with basic arithmetic, zfc doesn't include arithmetic, thus are not obje
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by jibal 1mo ago
That is wildly wrong.
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by jibal 1mo ago
Eh? The quote is from Anthropic, not Buzzard.
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by jibal 1mo ago
I'm not a mathematician and I don't see the problem, at all.
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by jibal 1mo ago
No they didn't. The only way to interpret it that way is to only read the title (i.e., be a typical HN denizen) and stop there, not even getting to > On 15 April 2026 Verisign proposed the destruction of the entire 3rd level of the
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by jibal 1mo ago
Sure, but it's also important to reject gradus_ad's "should", which is completely baseless.
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by jibal 1mo ago
Fallacy of composition. It would be factual to say that the USPS is part of the federal government, but then the statement becomes completely irrelevant. And no, the USPS is not in the Constitution. Article I Section 8 gives Congress the po
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by jibal 1mo ago
> Saying a thing over and over doesn't make it true. Even saying it once doesn't make it true. Apply that to everything you have said.
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by jibal 1mo ago
I'm going to need some evidence that Kurzweil was right in 80%+ of his predictions with several more on track.
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by jibal 1mo ago
Oops, the second link should have been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287006
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by jibal 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman P.S. I didn't post this at top level ... it was in response to a silly joke about the Romans which has since been flagged by dang ... apparently my comment was reloc
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by jibal 1mo ago
He doesn't even know what an argument is ... he says "MY argument is this:" and then just makes an assertion, not an argument. Of course there's no logical inconsistency in his raw assertion -- there's no logic of a
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by jibal 1mo ago
"seems" does a lot of work here. But rational analysis tells us that, whatever the relationship is, it's not friendship.
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by jibal 1mo ago
Really? What is the actual probability attached to that word "likely", and what is the data is support of a Bayesian calculation to reach that conclusion? I refer again to rational people. Bush was president of the Zapata Off-Sh
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by jibal 1mo ago
> Software developers really just live in a different world than normal people. They actually don't, which is why the vast majority of software developers would never "raise an eyebrow" to the very well known obviously tru
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by jibal 1mo ago
A prime example is that the Trump regime overthrew all California environmental regulations regarding oil drilling by Sable in the name of national security: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-
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by jibal 1mo ago
George Herbert Walker Bush and Richard Nixon were both in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the day that Kennedy was assassinated. What should rational people make of that? Nothing, other than that people have very poor statistical intuitions ..
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by jibal 1mo ago
Plus sending 318 million books to children.
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by jibal 1mo ago
The self-description I referred to is > I see things with my eyes, experience has taught me that when I cover my eyes I cannot see things, when I close my eyes I cannot see things. That is what seeing is... Some people on this thread cla
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by jibal 1mo ago
A lot of people here are insisting, with no evidence whatsoever, that a lot of other people are deluded, or are in it to make money, or for an ego boost, or to get pity, etc. ad nauseam ... so don't play dumb. Aphantasia, hypophantasia
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by jibal 1mo ago
How could it be just semantics if I and others cannot do what you can? The comment you responded to said "I don’t see anything, but I also wonder if this is semantics, and we are all describing the same phenomena with different langu
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by jibal 1mo ago
> If you accept that drugs/trauma can cause altered states then can't you also accept that some people have the altered state as their default? Indeed, that acknowledgement by the GP undermines his entire argument: > I see t
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by jibal 1mo ago
> Nobody hallucinates or "sees" the object Prove it. > If you quiz someone long enough you can get them to acknowledge they don't see anything "in their head" whatever that means. This is simply false, as nume

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