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by mihaic 2y ago
Sure, I understand the merit of it being displayed properly, that's something worthwhile. But at the same time, if it's an actively used script, don't you think current users should consider changing its conventions? My point
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Honestly, given the particularities of Tibetan, I'm surprised it didn't adapt to the digital world. So while I'd congratulate the LibreOffice developers for improving their software, as least in displaying legacy text, I woul
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by mihaic 2y ago
Not sure, didn't Hegel say that there should be a synthesis step at some point? My view is that there should never be a synthesis when using these principles as tools, as both conflicting principles need to always maintain opposites. S
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by mihaic 2y ago
What I meant to say was that when people encounter contradictory statements like "always inline one-time functions" and "breakdown functions into easy to understand blocks", they try to only pick one single rule, even if
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by mihaic 2y ago
When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory
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by mihaic 2y ago
Genetic continuity, sure. But I can't see any cultural continuity at all. Why do you see one?
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Please tell me how I'm wrong with arguments. Was anyone in the Mesopotamian area interested about cuneiform tablets a century ago? Where locals doing any archeological digs at Ur or Uruk?
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Most of these third world countries also have some artefacts on their soil as well. Do they need literally all of them, and you'd have to visit the globe to see international artefacts? The most famous ones, like the Rosetta Stone, onl
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by mihaic 2y ago
> These museums didn't just pop into place for the artifacts to reside in; they were built to show off their spoils. You have a very cynical and skewed view of things. These museums were built specifically for the public good, to sh
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> Should we give everything back to them, a culture that seems hellbent on destroying everything they don’t like? Not sure if I was unclear, but my thinking is that: no, nothing should be given back from the British Museum.
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by mihaic 2y ago
While these discussions are always loaded with sentimental intepretation, and complex questions of what "rightful owner" after hundreds or thousands of years even means, I think more of an emphasis should be put on impact for the
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by mihaic 2y ago
People have a wide spectrum of inherent behaviors. I don't think you'd expect any medium to simultaneously amplify all of them. So if some behaviors are amplified more than other, isn't that equivalent to considering that a m
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by mihaic 2y ago
I think you mean: "Whatabout other predatory industries where people fall in a slippery slope to destroy their lives? As long as a solution only addresses some of these industries, should we even consider it?"
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by mihaic 2y ago
The US payments market is a symphony of abusive practices that gouge everyone. Besides Visa and Mastercard, you have the chargeback cards that basically make things cheaper for the rich. Merchants have even figured out how to get in on the
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by mihaic 2y ago
I recently went through Joseph Needham's Science and Civilization in China, and in the second volume he skimmed a bit too quickly through Xunzi. As a western analogy, my overall impression was of a Chinese Plato, broad and nuanced in m
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by mihaic 2y ago
Was this message composed by a chatbot? It feels exactly like Linkedin clickbait.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Put a Nobel prize winner on the proverbial trolley tracks, and there are 10-20 close family and friends I'd choose to save before them. Universalism is more fair, but it's suicidal for a culture to think like this.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Some of us don't agree with you, and think humans are unique. Do you think it's natural that we'll be forced to give up on a future we want for our children for an unknown scenario in which we have no part in?
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by mihaic 2y ago
This is not evolution. This literally is intelligent design.
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You're right, sorry, I mixed up the models while testing.
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The example for "strawnberrystrawberry" (so the word concatenated with itself) was counted by O1 to have 4 r's.
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by mihaic 2y ago
I mean, given that o1-preview takes sometimes a minute to answer, I'd imagine that they could append the prompt "Write a program and run it as well" to double check itself. It seems like they just don't trust themselves
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What I found very strange was that ChatGPT fails to answer how many "r"'s there are in "strawberrystrawberry" (said 4 instead of 6), but when I explicitly asked it to write a program to count them, it wrote perfect
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by mihaic 2y ago
How are you realistically able to do this though? It's not like they can't order batches to some neutral-country intermediary and then ship them from there.
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> Weren’t they already selling pagers to Hezbollah? I don't have info about those specific models, but this is pagers and not rockets. If someone makes an order for 5000 units I can't image you'd have an expectation to do
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by mihaic 2y ago
Have you read the entire sentence that was from? It listed pretty much what you said as an option until more information is gathered. Sometimes even people's culture/principles keeps them from seeing the truth. I honestly don&#x27
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Sure, put the blame on the individual instead of acknowledging that the lies we were fed in our youth held us back.
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> But also perhaps not conflating “success” with morally positive outcomes. The reason why I would conflate them is that success had a positive social implication. You get respect if you're successful. In order to separate these con
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I've seen what you describe often, people that are simply bitter and spew hate. But does jealousy and bitterness invalidate their point of view? I've founded two start-ups in my life, both still generating revenue and still alive
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Have you considered that the sour grapes attitude actually comes from an understanding of the world, and how everything has been turned only into profit maximization? And that the nitpicking is merely a failure to express that understanding

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