jmoss20

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by jmoss20 6y ago
1. Citation? I seriously doubt punishments like this one have any effect on general traffic-law compliance. (IIRC, similar research has always showed weak penalties + high/consistent enforcement was the most effective.) 2. "foster
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by jmoss20 6y ago
Surely you notice those two points conflict? 1. The judge must understand that the (justice) system is flawed, it's his/her job to bring about justice anyway. 2. The judge must believe the (foster care) system is flawless, it&#x27
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by jmoss20 6y ago
...observed patterns a priori?
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by jmoss20 6y ago
Sure, fine. But let's put that aside. Like GP pointed out, the year-over-year numbers show undercounting . So what's going on? Either hospitals aren't actually over-counting. Or they are, and COVID is still undercounted. O
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by jmoss20 6y ago
If they were the same extreme, then it would be impossible to be expensive and terrible. Unfortunately...
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by jmoss20 6y ago
Hm. I take your point, but I'm not sure the analogy works. Maybe better: "Old" (pick a date) cars had a manual transmission. Compared to automatic transmissions, you might consider that user hostile. But back then no one knew
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by jmoss20 6y ago
Fair enough! But the point stands, no? I pointed out emacs' age to note how users expectations of editors have evolved over that time. Certainly there is older software -- but is there any other user-facing software that has survived s
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by jmoss20 6y ago
I don't think emacs is "user-hostile" on purpose. You have to keep in mind, it's nearly 45 years old. This is almost unprecedented in computing. Today's users expect different things than users did in the 70s (who e
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by jmoss20 7y ago
There have been a few of those samples. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...
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by jmoss20 7y ago
Even without it though, yes: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?ref_src=t...
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by jmoss20 7y ago
I always read the second incompleteness theorem as important /because/ of the connection to truth. I think we (many, anyway) want to believe something like Leibniz' principle of sufficient reason: that every true statement ha
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by jmoss20 7y ago
Oh please. Who else in the history of (say) physics would you expect to be the biggest detractors of new physics? Botanists? Cantor works as an example. Who was it that eventually adopted his ideas? Experts aren't infallible, but th
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by jmoss20 7y ago
You're overlooking the strong reasons why OpenAI might want everyone on the same page. (Code reuse, accumulation of expertise, specialization of infrastructure, ...).
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by jmoss20 7y ago
but surely people mean something when they say "unbiased", right? (I'll take a stab at it: something like "conveyed without the intention to deceive me, especially politically/financially/etc...") I get
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by jmoss20 7y ago
Even if the correlation is real, what I'm getting at is that it isn't causal. Good grammar probably makes for a good bet on more trustworthiness, but I'm wondering when/how that bet is going to be wrong (and it is, if i
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by jmoss20 7y ago
Right -- it's ultimately a trust problem, and we're in an unfortunate negative feedback loop here. Bots aside, what we post on the internet (and believe in general) is a function of the information we consume. That information is
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by jmoss20 7y ago
Look at it this way: programs are a list of procedural rules, combined with input to yield output. Computers are physical objects that take that input, follow the rules (the program), and produce the output. Humans (via intelligence) can
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by jmoss20 8y ago
Sure, agency and personal responsibilities are important values. But if you were the lawmaker here, would you remove the sin tax? Empirically, you should be pretty confident that removing the tax will cause deaths, illnesses, etc. to go up
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by jmoss20 8y ago
From the article: > Bay Area real estate agents say the market has remained strong in certain areas — especially for starter homes listed at or below the region’s median sale price.
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by jmoss20 8y ago
That's a slightly different sense of community though -- there are things that local (geographically) communities can provide that online communities simply can't. Some of those things are probably pretty important.
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by jmoss20 8y ago
> "... may feel like loneliness." Isn't the feeling the whole point? It's a bit strange to claim that, even though some people might feel lonely, they aren't /actually/. Lonely is a word that refers to
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by jmoss20 8y ago
This would be true if both time and marks were not zero-sum.
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by jmoss20 8y ago
> "... the idea that the optimum is not an extreme." I'd put this as "not an extreme" /on any of the axes that we're considering/. Life has an awful lot of dimensions -- if you imagine a very high
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by jmoss20 8y ago
I would certainly hope they wouldn't dumb down their rules...for the sake of the computer system?
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by jmoss20 8y ago
+1 for Game Maker, what an awesome educational tool. You could start with building blocks, Scratch style, then move over to code when you needed a little more power -- with a 1-1 relationship between lines of code and the blocks (IIRC), an
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by jmoss20 9y ago
Philosophy teaches you that? How? Most working philosophers do not hold this view. ( https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl )
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by jmoss20 9y ago
I don't think that's a very accurate view of the field. If modern analytical philosophy values anything, it's logic (especially the formal variety), and I can think of at least a few dominant views in the last few decades th
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by jmoss20 9y ago
I've always been curious how philosophy ended up with such a bad rap here. My pet theory is that a lot of the "philosophy" that comes onto the popular radar is terrible (and imo barely philosophy at all -- but that may be a
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by jmoss20 9y ago
Comparing fields this way is a bit apples to oranges (getting "very far" in CS is quite different than in English Lit, which is quite different than Philosophy, etc.) -- these fields all have very different goals. That said, in ph
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by jmoss20 9y ago
This line of thinking is similar to: "I never took an academic/theoretical computer science course, but I'm able to write code that solves most problems just by thinking, discussing, and occasionally StackOverflow." That

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