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by leakydropout 9y ago
"What is it like to be a bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). In it, Nagel argues that materialist
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by leakydropout 9y ago
I just thought these quotes were interestingly contemporary, and could complement the article. The article builds a convincing point for itself (at the cost of a huge complexity), it contains no discernible contradictions to me. It is reaso
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by leakydropout 9y ago
Epiphenomenalism is a mind–body philosophy marked by the belief that basic physical events (sense organs, neural impulses, and muscle contractions) are causal with respect to mental events (thought, consciousness, and cognition). Mental ev
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by leakydropout 9y ago
The disasters that may befall us if we fail to narrow this gap are many. [...] Within prosperous countries, such as the United States, there is a distinct and growing threat that increased automation, coupled with an obsolete and aimless s
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by leakydropout 9y ago
Successful groups are diverse. If groups become gratuitously homogeneous there arises a lack of variance in approach. This lack of variance: - Reduces ability to catch errors. Linus: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
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by leakydropout 9y ago
Netflix is very (in)famous for their culture deck. I could understand they got a little piqued. Assuming you did not read it before the interview, they are looking for: good judgment, communicative, impactful, curious, innovative, courageou
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by leakydropout 9y ago
One I forgot is to work with either algorithms or datasets created by other researchers. Once I send an email asking for access to a certain dataset, describing the idea I had for it, and had a very famous researcher reply that they'd
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by leakydropout 9y ago
High school dropout with AI research cited in Nature. You are going to have a hard road in front of you if you want to seriously make a dent in AI research. ML research is a bit more accessible to outsiders than AI research, because a lot o