machinehermiter

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by machinehermiter 5y ago
2 weeks of going to the office and I am convinced the office has no future. It is great for socializing, taking a long time to get food and a drink, running into people randomly that you wouldn't talk to electronically to socialize mor
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I was pretty horrified by it and the way Pence and Romney have been treated is just foolish by conservatives. I think a better example though is Flat Earth ideas. Suppressing people from communicating that the Earth is flat is far more dang
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
So much of the populace has a digital IV drip of constant connection to algorithmic political slogan propaganda machines. If people consume propaganda all day everyday you can't blame them for being highly propagandized. What else can
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I love driving also. I think the saving grace of all this though is the people that will want self driving are the people that are basically addicted to checking their phone and ridiculously dangerous on the road. I don't expect to eve
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
65-70 is my age for this. No kids/grandkids for me so I don't see much value in old age. I have to live now and only have 15-20 good years left. Once that time comes it is time to party. Cigars, weed and rum. A broken down physica
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
That is a great analogy that I had not thought of before and finance is everything to me. I think in the same way we need to accept all regulation in this area will have flaws but flawed regulation is far better than zero regulation.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I think the problem with mythologizing and the fictional nonsense would have grown up around whatever term was originally adopted. AGI though is just the worst. If I am consider to posses general intelligence then why I am so bad at paintin
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I only quit when I notice I am smoking too often. My sweet spot is once a week to relax, listen to some music and take my mind off everything. I also eat pretty clean most the week so eat a good meal the night I smoke. That hits the reset b
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
The problem with the conspiracy theory is Ghislaine Maxwell would have met the same fate. It makes no sense Epstein gets wacked in jail but Maxwell outside of jail does not.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Forget medieval society, this is like 1980. When your information was on paper in file cabinets with thousands of other people it wasn't much better than having nothing at all.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
The incomprehension with his death for me was what he came from in his 40s and his daughter. I was depressed and addicted most of my 20s and Bourdain was like some kind of mythical hero in that regard. You could still be a junkie in your 40
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
For sure. It really has become a more distributed lottery. The people I know who are obsessed with slot machines and buying lottery tickets are the people I know that own dogecoin. This whole thing gets more absurd as USD Coin and Binance U
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
What is worse though is I have bought many products from non-targeted ads because I didn't even know I wanted the item until I randomly ran into. I loved my grandmother but targeted ads always remind me of the junk my grandma would get
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
That is really the shocking thing at this point. 1984 has just been lapped by reality. I think it is already a lost cause. We had the chance a decade ago to collectively show companies doing this is bad business. Instead we collectively did
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I have a few interests that I randomly search for on arXiv.org and try to stay on top of. Sometimes I will just randomly see what has been posted to one of the areas I am interested in as well on arxiv. Then often I end up just googling ref
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Isn't the problem though that this doesn't work without a fiction that we all believe to be non-fiction? You need to create a fiction that is believed in more than any individual differences but it doesn't work if we know it
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
IMO a big problem is we want to feel like we live in this high tech world so we collectively invite surveillance technology into our lives because so little interesting innovations are actually happening. A huge bull market in surveillance
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I still like Excel for certain things but I don't know why you wouldn't just use Pandas instead of this and cut out Excel.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I love synths so much I have basically banned myself from them. I started with Generator in 1999, the precursor to Reaktor. I want to say it was on a 150mhz Pentium. Reaktor is so much fun but when I think of all the time I spent on it, som
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Even as someone who hates kids I can see birth rates as huge problem. No one is deciding though to have kids or not based on the father getting paid time off. I think it is an easier argument that a knowledge worker who has been up all nigh
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I am a Girardian newb but Girard even mentions sporting events in the article. IMO it isn't just sporting events though but violent sporting events that let us exercise the scapegoat mechanism. At least in the US. If your team wins, it
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I think at this point what would work better is explicitly biased journalism but with multiple samples of the same story, in the same context, on the same page even. What doesn't work for me is this pretend "unbiased" highly
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
The Concorde was inflation adjusted $12,900 round trip and failed miserably. It feels like every 10 years we bail out airlines when we hit a bad recession. I would really question how much of a business model there will be for this at this
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I mean I love space but I honestly don't get space tourism. Especially if we compare today to what we should get from JWST. Today basically seems like the ultimate roller coaster/amusement park ride. It just makes me long for the
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
The reason to use R is because someone else has already made an amazing library(usually some kind of academic research) for it that doesn't quite exist for python yet. There is also an aspect that if you are using a technique you don&#
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
IMO so much of age bias is because so many people are in terrible physical shape as they age. If you are visibly in really good shape, I think you get a bias in your favor as an older person. Not really an age bias but a perfectly rational
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I just listened last night on youtube to the talk Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective” Really phenomenal discussion. I felt like my level of ignorance about Africa is pretty incredible and especially from an infrastructure
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I am not sure about this article but Jian-Wei Pan looks to be doing some pretty interesting stuff with photonic devices.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I think much of this is just a language problem leading to endless communication problems and debate. If you are going to say consciousness has degrees then what about degrees of unconsciousness? It doesn't make sense to be more or les
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
It is strange we don't connect flooding the system with liquidity/bailouts and the creation of billionaires. For my personal risk preferences I should mostly be a bond investor but we have basically made that impossible. I have to

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