knight-of-lambd

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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
Title is a bit misleading. It's a provincial bill. It's like state law vs. federal law.
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
How do you know this when the study was cancelled a year early (by a Conservative gov't, no less)
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
In a few hundred years nobody will remember you either: x220 the family man, who lived a complete life and raised wonderful children who went on to live very comfortable lives and have children of their own. "I" am the best witnes
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
Everyone is for due process until a serial killer gets their family. Everyone is for human rights until they see brigands and warlords torturing, raping, and pillaging across the countryside. The world is cruel. Therefore we should value no
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
I would expect such a strong assertion to come with well laid out and persuasive reasoning. Maybe spoil me with relevant data (even second hand). Instead, you reject both premise and conclusion by some extremely weak heuristic, that has tro
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
I disagree from a practical standpoint. Personal infamy is essentially free advertisement, up to a certain limit. As long as Elon isn't perceived as running the company into the ground. He spends a few seconds tweeting and suddenly his
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
In Accelerando, there was a similar plot device. The anisotropies in the CMB (or maybe just minor aberrations) were caused by waste heat from Type IV/V civilizations running gigantic computations (trying to probe/find vulns in the
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
Because a chess engine isn't scanning 400 possibilities, and a Go engine isn't scanning 130k (where'd you even get that number?) possible game states. For example, a brute force search of a 19x19 Go board to a depth of 20 wou
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
For a more solid experiment, there's the BBC prison study: http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org Different conclusions, just as fascinating.
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by knight-of-lambd 8y ago
Well said. I think it's instinctual to want to believe there is some intrinsic, insurmountable difference between us and them (people who do morally repugnant things). At the heart of it, it's tribalism. This quote from Solzhenits
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by knight-of-lambd 9y ago
> Turn off just 1 gene for a disease, and 1). it won’t do anything because you didn’t turn off the other 199, and 2). oh wow that gene was actually used for something else and now you’ve lost the ability to form eyeballs / are born
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by knight-of-lambd 9y ago
> Even more interesting... 1+2+3+4... = -1/12 What.. No. This sum diverges. It does not equal -1/12. Now if you plug -1 into the Riemann zeta function, you get -1/12. One could interpret that to mean the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ..