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by laretluval 7y ago
What is the evidence for this claim?
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by laretluval 7y ago
There are more gorillas out there and they are easier to access and study
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by laretluval 7y ago
I’ve read the peer-reviewed literature. There are mild problems in rats given enormous doses, and maybe it raises your blood pressure a bit. No worse than caffeine overall.
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by laretluval 7y ago
Nicotine is a wonderful stimulant with minimal health risks. The problem with smoking is the smoke.
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by laretluval 7y ago
Can’t say I’ve ever thought of Twitter as a way to avoid mimetic traps.
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by laretluval 7y ago
There’s a great recording by James Earl Jones. https://youtu.be/51rYn4bDdaY
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by laretluval 7y ago
This is not a presentation format that inspires confidence that this is not crackpottery
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by laretluval 7y ago
The point of the article is that we need a science to address the plain fact that the behavior of modern AI and machine learning systems, especially neural networks, is unpredictable and incomprehensible given the current state of knowledge
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by laretluval 7y ago
Here's another article, with more pictures and examples. https://www.math3ma.com/blog/the-yoneda-lemma
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by laretluval 7y ago
How long ago do you have to arrive in a place to be “indigenous”?
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by laretluval 8y ago
Almost enough.
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by laretluval 8y ago
China lacks many old buildings because historically things were built from wood, not stone, and wood burns.
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by laretluval 8y ago
> kids are great at memorizing stuff Some are good at it, some are not. This curriculum is aimed at equalizing things for those who are not.
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by laretluval 8y ago
If the answer were yes they would phrase it as a statement, not a question.
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by laretluval 8y ago
Correlation or causation?
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by laretluval 8y ago
It's time for a Butlerian Jihad
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by laretluval 8y ago
Next step is smarter ad blockers. Where is this arms race headed?
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by laretluval 8y ago
More precisely. For two systems offering the same functionality, the one that does so using less software should be preferred, because software of any nontrivial complexity is irreducibly buggy.
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by laretluval 8y ago
Tautological.
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by laretluval 8y ago
I hope people are beginning to understand that the presence of software in any system is a liability.
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by laretluval 8y ago
You might find the information bottleneck interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0004057
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by laretluval 8y ago
Indeed, his results are neither strictly binary nor strictly discrete.
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by laretluval 8y ago
If I thought indenting was lowering the quality of programming I would comment about it too. If the last decade or so has shown anything it is that people are tired of the standard operating procedures of legacy media. Maybe the idea that t
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by laretluval 8y ago
Every individual article will have some bias. But GP is complaining that the entire editorial staff seems to share a bias, indeed a single agenda, meaning that there is a lack of rigorous discussion.
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by laretluval 8y ago
Was excited when I thought this had something to do with stop codons
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by laretluval 8y ago
Seems pretty subjective to me. For example, "This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
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by laretluval 8y ago
Human rights is ill-defined, certainly less well-defined than anonymity. Saying the project serves human rights effectively means the project serves whoever gets to define what is a human right.
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by laretluval 8y ago
EDIT: Correction, I was misinformed. Daily Stormer was not outed from Tor: https://www.fastcompany.com/40455652/the-tor-project-wont-ce...
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by laretluval 8y ago
Step 4: Increased h-index Step 5: You get tenure and more grants
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by laretluval 8y ago
I'll wait for the registered replication before assimilating this into my model of reality.

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