michael2l

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by michael2l 3y ago
Anybody else suddenly have the urge to play Civilization?
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by michael2l 6y ago
Is it just me or does the article seem to end rather abruptly as if much more was intended and perhaps accidentally left off or just published before completion?
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by michael2l 7y ago
Funny how we want to take an incredibly complex system and boil it down to 1+1=2. We think we're really advanced when we throw in 3rd or 4th step into the math equation. But not surprisingly this sort of reductionism leads to people
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by michael2l 7y ago
I think when it comes to evaluating true novelty we underestimate how much our language does our thinking for us. Which is another reason why novel ideas hide from us so well. To put them into articulated forms that can be carried through
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by michael2l 8y ago
Quite apart from the math and science of deterministic physics and probabilistic quantum physics, there's a broader evolutionary question. Why would we evolve this hallucination that we have free will, if in fact we fundamentally don&#
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by michael2l 10y ago
It's amazing to me how everyone is drinking the koolaid here on him being a fraud. I really don't think Gavin got duped. And I'm pretty sure they had enough private email discussions over the years that there were things th
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by michael2l 11y ago
I dislike this expertise as well, but lets get at what you are saying, that a recruiter should have some sort of programming background to know how concepts actually are used versus the sorts of mixed metaphors one comes up with in the abse
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by michael2l 11y ago
Agreed, at first I thought they were trying to make a point, then it seems to lapse into some sort of cartoonish straw man just-for-entertainment depiction, but then it veers back to a serious conclusion along the lines "and this is wh
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by michael2l 11y ago
A default is a horrible outcome, but "that which can't be paid back won't". It's been pretty clear for a while now that the debt load for the Greek economy is too great and some sort of bankruptcy(default) is requir
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by michael2l 11y ago
I could see myself doing something equally as silly as this if I had the money to burn.
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by michael2l 12y ago
It's all our fault.
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by michael2l 12y ago
I think most people use the concept of being for or against "Freedom" to refer to the opposite sides of the bottom-up versus top-down modes of economic development and governance. Certainly, it's an over-generalization, and
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by michael2l 12y ago
"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." - Boss Tweed quoted recently by Lawrence Lessig While I believe the above statement is fundamentally true I"m still going to vote. For me pers