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by leto_ii 6y ago
> I read very few books but then "debate" it in my head, try to connect things to other things, life experiences, news, other books. This, I think, is the only meaningful way to read something (at least when it comes to non-fic
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I would say that there are indeed many examples of things that are hard to categorize for humans. Sometimes there isn't even a way to categorize things perfectly (there may be a fuzzy boundary between categories). It is for example rea
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by leto_ii 6y ago
There is no button involved. If you look at a cat (that is within your field of vision in good lighting etc.) you will understand it's a cat. Without mistake. Most certainly you won't mistake it for a square full of static, or for
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Optical illusions indeed highlight limitations in human perception. However, the dress illusion seems to me far less of a problem than mistaking noise for an object. More relevant however is that we humans can understand that we're fac
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I wasn't thinking that there are no roles that can be automated, rather that there are some that can't be. > Specifically in regards to adversarial input, humans are often the weakest link in terms of process security I have ye
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by leto_ii 6y ago
One thing I haven't seen explicitly mentioned is the (probably) intrinsic limitations of AI/ML in classifying/predicting human behavior. For a number of years I have worked on fraud prevention tasks where the goal was to take
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I pretty much agree with all of your points, but I also think there may be a more fundamental issue at play here. ML doesn't actually "understand" things - it can do very sophisticated and accurate pattern matching without ac
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Everything they’ve got they just stole from other entities. Is this true, though?
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by leto_ii 6y ago
How about the parts of North America that are not the US?
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> We are defending western civilization. I've rarely seen this kind of hiperbole on hn. Who is we? What does it mean to defend? What exactly is the connection to Western civilization here? > I would rather China to collapse than
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> it's probably better to attempt to reduce the size of any one concentration of power Agreed. It would be great if power was as decentralised as possible and if individuals would take an active part in their (self-)government.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
There are absences and then there are absences :D Absence of evidence because you haven't tried much/ there's no data yet is not the meaningful kind.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
The old adage applies here: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
The way I understood it, D3 is the easiest one to absorb. Both D2 and D3 do the same thing, but their efficiency is different.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Not saying that the state is a good thing. It's slightly better than a corporation though, because it's under some sort of democratic control. Ideally though, all concentrations of power should be dismantled.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The true opposite would be "industry has to fend for itself without being able to co-opt government to tilt the playing field in its favor". Sure, good point. However I don't think it's possible or desirable to let
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by leto_ii 6y ago
The implication was that concentrations of wealth are not a law of nature, but rather an emergent property of how capitalism is set up to be. This idea is not tautological, just a casual relationship. Regarding the 0-sum aspect, I don'
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Hmm, interesting. Do you have a few references from let's say top five journals that incorporate MMT descriptive aspects? I'm genuinely curious.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> a slight incentive to favour theories that increase government control of industry I think you have this the wrong way around. Mainstream economic theory (the neo-liberal kind) actually leads to the control of government by private cap
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by leto_ii 7y ago
At a glance the article doesn't seem to mention military motivations which are probably gonna be the driving force of lunar exploration.
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> But I think at least some of them are related to the immaturity of the field. I agree. More so, I sometimes feel that in the end the field will break up once things start settling down. Some roles will migrate more towards engineering,
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Indeed, perhaps applied statistics or even data analysis. It has always felt stupid calling myself a data scientist , but the term statistician has certain connotations that are not always relevant for the corporate context.
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by leto_ii 7y ago
What would that pot of money look like if you had to retire in 2020? Do you trust the pension fund people to make the right decisions? What happens if the pension fund collapses because it's run by crooks and morons? I'm not sayin
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by leto_ii 7y ago
The point is, I think, that the very concept of a pension will become meaningless by the time millennials retire. Why would you pay more into something that you don't expect will give anything in return? Not to mention that for a lot o
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by leto_ii 7y ago
I'm also aiming for a fully-owned house + enough incoming money to afford a decent life, probably back in my native country (one of the former communist ones). However I currently live in Amsterdam, where the 47 m2 apartment I inhabit
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> I’m really convinced that as an EU citizen and millennial my retirement is questionable to say the least. Hear, hear! :D I share your condition and concerns.
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by leto_ii 7y ago
I used the expression to correct for bias , which is a collocation coming out of, I would guess, statistics (see for example: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/142875/what-does-to-... ). What I meant was th
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> Do read it. But don’t start with the leaders. Start at the back where the world often appears in a less tidy and more truly thought-provoking form. I think this is a good takeaway. I have been reading The Economist for ~ 10 years, a p
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Even among the chronically ill and the elderly, the number that die in any given year will be dwarfed by that of covid deaths (if the virus burns through the population).
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Some comments on the concluding remarks: > So, roughly speaking, we might say that getting COVID-19 is like packing a year’s worth of risk into a week or two. Sure, but it also means these deaths are piled up on top of everything else. I

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