md224

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by md224 7y ago
I'm pretty conflicted on this topic. On the one hand, I've heard that authoritarianism is soul-crushing and I've been raised to believe that individual freedom is paramount. On the other hand: https://en.wikipedia.
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by md224 7y ago
I believe that the web could be so much more if competition between platforms was somehow decoupled from competition between UIs. It would be incredible if every social network had a marketplace of competing UIs, allowing for rapid front-en
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by md224 7y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but my guess is that their example was an attempt to raise the same question that I have: how do we know the values (?) of the a-type and b-type variables weren't modified within the fun
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by md224 7y ago
> The type of the function completely determines the operation. Really? I must be misunderstanding what you mean by "operation", or maybe this is the part of functional programming that hasn't clicked for me yet... my unde
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by md224 7y ago
It seems to me like the point of churches (or any spiritual organization) is to make it easy to find a local community of people who share one's ethical values and metaphysical beliefs. Of course, someone could always just make a post
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by md224 7y ago
Sorry, but could you (or someone else) explain what you mean here? I'd really like to understand this. Are you referring to UU or atheists? What group considers rationality to be a personal choice, and in what sense?
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by md224 7y ago
If you remove the link to sex, then what's the difference between gender and personality? My understanding is that gender is a social construct that maps behavior onto biology... if you sever that link, then you're left with behav
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by md224 7y ago
> In fact, many teens are going out of their way to make their photos look worse. Huji Cam, which make your images look as if they were taken with an old-school throwaway camera, has been downloaded more than 16 million times. “Adding gr
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by md224 7y ago
Whenever I see this topic come up, I think back to the climactic speech in the movie Good Will Hunting, the one where Chuckie excoriates Will for wanting to put down roots in the community he grew up in. He concludes: "It'd be an
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by md224 7y ago
> A steadily growing number of fireballs are recorded at the American Meteor Society every year. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid#Fireball It's not clear to me if this is because the frequency is
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by md224 7y ago
Good point, though I'll note that streaming games, high-res video, and remote terminals are already available (at least via high-speed ethernet connections), so the "next generation" would be higher quality or wider availabil
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by md224 7y ago
Is it? I wasn't aware of this so I did some googling and found this study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-011-0016-x This doesn't seem like pseudoscience to me, but I don't really
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by md224 7y ago
> next-gen media What does this mean? Something beyond video? VR?
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by md224 8y ago
It's interesting that you mention Holmes, because I think there's an alternate interpretation of Anna Delvey (and Holmes) that answers your question: they didn't see themselves as scammers, but rather as geniuses, and they we
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by md224 8y ago
This is an interesting essay, but as someone who agrees with Brentano that intentionality is the mark of the mental, I have to disagree with the second half of this passage: > Our own consciousness is also usually consciousness of some
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by md224 8y ago
> I don't find dualism satisfying either; it is not a testable theory. I understand the sentiment here, but I also think we should be careful when it comes to the assumption that the truth -- whatever it happens to be -- will be a t
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by md224 8y ago
> I absolutely loathe Twitter threads I love Twitter threads because if they’re done right (which is a big if, admittedly) then they’re equivalent to an annotatable essay: each fragment of the thread can be replied to individually. The d
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by md224 8y ago
> Seems I just can't get enough of "talking with people on the internet." Are we sure this is a bad thing? Socializing with other people is a key component of well-being... could it be good for us even if it's online?
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by md224 8y ago
True, but then they'd need to be reading your mind to know that you were thinking about it. The plot thickens... Also, if this controller needs to do external things to influence what you think about, rather than just controlling your
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by md224 8y ago
If one is having a panic attack regarding free will, it might be helpful to remember that if you're able to speak the words "I have no control", then you've proven yourself wrong: you just exerted control over your vocal
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by md224 8y ago
I've felt for a long time that Singularitarians are looking in the wrong place. They see accelerated technological development and assume that the endpoint will be an artificial brain in a box. What they fail to see is that these inven
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by md224 8y ago
> Kurzweil really, really, really does not want to die. So strange, considering that non-existence is the one thing that every conscious being is guaranteed to never experience. Why run from something that can never catch you?
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by md224 8y ago
Agree about the age issue... it does change the equation, especially if these companies are targeting their advertising toward younger kids. I also appreciate that you brought up the issue of freedom. Dependencies do require freedom to be s
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by md224 8y ago
We should be clear what the actual object of this "epidemic" is. It isn't really about vaping. It's about Nicotine. And this fight is just one battle in a larger war: the societal struggle to define the proper moral dime
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The Sine Map: An experiment in iterated chaos(beta.observablehq.com)
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by md224 8y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'm curious about the other side of this: what were the red flags you found, and why do you consider them red flags? I find that open-mindedness can be as simple as questioning and r
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by md224 8y ago
Side question: there's no way to get low-level access to the WiFi adapter in a MacBook Pro, right? It would be nice if I could do SDR stuff with the radio antenna that came with my computer... though I'm guessing it's not the
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by md224 8y ago
Noah Smith's perspective on the necessity of a federal approach to homelessness: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-21/ending... Key graf: > About 3.5 million Americans will experience
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by md224 8y ago
Here's the account creation page for the largest US pod: https://diasp.org/users/sign_up
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by md224 8y ago
No, the issue with meth -- from my understanding of it, as I've never tried it -- is that it is the epitome of the phrase "too much of a good thing."

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