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by mikkergp 4y ago
What is the conclusive evidence against drinking 8 glasses of water a day?
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Weird take in a forum for an industry built on “disruption”
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For sure
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As someone who doesn't feel a particular attachment to popular culture (I don't hate pop music, I love a good hook, but I don't always find popularity to be a good signal for anything) articles like this are strange to me. In
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Honestly I don’t think I have anything to contribute to this idea that doesn’t devolve into a philosophical question or can humans be selfless or is it selfish to want to help people. But I would be curious to meet someone who was truly se
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And those people are not making software.
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Given that the GOP in Texas made the declaration that “homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice” part of their platform, It’s probably nice for people to know which companies are at least not echoing that, even if it’s not full throate
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I wonder if there are actually any classrooms in America where gender identity or sexual orientation aren't discussed. Particularly in grade school. Particularly in a place like Florida. Edit: actually if you’re up for a serious dis
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It’s not as high as I’d like, but I’ll take it.
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First you say 'news' but then you say 'news/content'. I assume you mean like political parties and left/right politics, and not any topic that's political, since discussions of personal privacy and contro
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It is ironic that software development has been one of the most politically active activities in existence, and yet somehow imagined as apolitical.
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> I disagree with the suggestion that changing the color(s) of the logos and icons hinder the user's ability to find the app. I actually disagree. There are lots of inputs my brain is using other than the specific logo when I'
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Again they could, but they would not be following the example set by leadership.
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One way conceptualize many companies is that they're just the id of senior execs measuring their genitalia against one other, why shouldn't workers get to participate?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It seems like it's getting worse, now apparently it's blocking anything that is unreviewed
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While I don’t disagree with anything you said, I think it’s more a supply and demand thing. Many(most?) people seem to value certainty over truth, in fact some people seem to think one is an indicator of the other and uncertainty is a form
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Isn’t this what caused the Great Depression?
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If the current inflation is caused by external forces like the war in Russia causing gas prices to increase dramatically and impact everything, are we likely to see a period of deflation in a year or two?
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> The corporation does not exist for that and is a conduit for revenue exclusively As god decreed. Was that on the 5th day? I lost count. Corporations are human creations and as such are malleable.
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He might be hedging on "eventually"
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The thing that almost has me quitting reddit is that the mobile browser basically blocks you from viewing anything nsfw, which would be fine, if the definition of nsfw wasn't so broad as to cover like 1/4 of the front page. Also,
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm not disputing the fact that there is ageism, as I'm sure there are thousands of examples of it, but there's so much demand and so many different companies. I've worked with plenty of over-50's. Maybe there&#x2
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I just tried that, it works, but weirdest thing to me was always that it doesn't alphabetize within the two groupings, but i guess the top and bottom are just seperations, not really groupings? Can you make the categories more explici
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is very likely not what people do when they talk, I don’t know your background so maybe you know this but I was astounded during a class on sensation and perception how different the underlying mechanisms to a sense like seeing were di
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Knowing that gravity is much more complex than “the thing that causes an apple to fall to the earth” doesn’t not make gravity the thing that causes an apple to fall to the earth.
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This is an interesting point because I both believe that philosophically machines will never be sentient and yet I do believe the technology will advance to the point where we can’t tell the difference. Which raises some Epistemological qu
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Ok I engaged in the last LaMDA thread but now I have some new (rhetorical) questions. 1. How much data is LaMDA trained on? Humans learn with relatively little linguistic data from relatively few sources. It seems like LaMDA is trained
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> How long before we have a religion where you ask the chat bot for daily guidance? A bit tangential, but QAnon doesn’t really feel this far from this idea.
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> Regarding consciousness: we don't know how consciousness is implemented in the brain, that's true, but we might be able to implement it quite easily in a computer. Do we know that consciousness exists? Have we been able to s
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Itching for a fight? I don’t think I need data because my argument is a=b because a=b. People who do t think they need to change don’t think they need to change. People who do think they need to change do think they need to change. I’m

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