mjburgess

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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Yes. Though i think you're committing the gentic fallacy here, which is the core fallacy at the heart of idealism and much 19th C. german philosophy. The properties of the origin of somethign imply nothing about the properties of the p
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
The link is called causation, and it is not simpler to assume its absence. It seems simpler only because no one ever works through the full consequences, because the project of doing so always fails very quickly or terminates in an inexplic
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Yes, it's called idealism. And the whole field of it is a pile of fallacies of ambiguity that can take years to see and treat with caution.
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
> Consciousness the the fundamental reality; it is the only thing we know for sure. These statements conflate, as idealists do, epistemology and ontology. What we know "for sure" has no bearing on what's real. These are en
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
Yes, its quite different for primary education
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Teaching requires simulating the thought process and emotional state of learners. And then modelling the appropriate thought process to them, repairing their misunderstanding, and managing their cognitive load and other emotions. Outside of
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by mjburgess 5mo ago
I think this is true, but i imagine there's a workflow solution to this which isnt to drop AI. Eg., treating AI code generated as immediately legacy, with tight encapsulation boundaries, well-defined interfaces etc. And integrating in
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
Inability to see that the perceived difficulty in using a system is due to your own mismatched mental-model/needs/scenario -- so inventing one which is overfit to your own needs/model at this specific moment, which fails to g
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
Sure, it will become a more elite creative and technical skill.
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
Yes, see my comment below. Memo -> meeting, book -> podcast / audiobook, newspaper article -> 10min youtube video, even, meme -> yt-short/tiktok People are naturally motivated to watch, listen, and interact with other
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
So you prefer writing. Either way, writing is dying. It's dying because speaking and meeting can now be transmitted as easily. This itself should, empirically, demonstrate the point. The podcast killed the book, the meeting killed the
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
Well, OP can learn from the experience or turn it into a hill to die on. Learning doesn't imply you were ever wrong, only that something you did produced an unintended result -- people are themselves problems to navigate around, not p
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
You're assuming malign motivations, I'm assuming misplaced ones. It seems more likely to me the manager tried to read it and struggled, then generated something of equivalent size or larger. I'm taking it the generated docume
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
On your last sentence: The very first sentences should clear warnings not to modify the document, and read it entirely. That the contents of the document are short (<5min of reading) and extremely important. That a lot of effort has gone
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by mjburgess 6mo ago
Perhaps you should ask the manager why he passed it through AI. It might be that with precision, readability is lost. It's a tradeoff: the more compressed your language is, and hence the more precise, the more cognitive effort you requ
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
I'm referring to the ending of the published version, which is quite different than v1, which ends abburptly, in particular the sections before and after: > “She steps back from him. She flexes what could be wings.” > “In ideatic
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
If the take is religion is itself the weapon and the depiction given is mere evidence of that, OK, that's at least avoids the ending being totally awful. HOWEVER The book spends much of its time saying the transcendent cannot even be r
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
I dislike the ending, at least of v2. In it, the author basically gives a fleshed out (christian, neoplatonist) metaphysics to the world he's created which basically amounts to: heaven exists, humans win against the devil, etc. And the
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
"Upgrades" havent been a thing for nearly a decade. By the time you want to upgrade a machine part (c. 5yr+ for modern machines), you'd want to upgrade every thing, and its cheap to do so. It isnt 2005 any more where RAM&#x2F
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
> adversary that is trying to trick me
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by mjburgess 7mo ago
The first anthropomorphization of AI which is actually useful.
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by mjburgess 8mo ago
Only in very rare circumstances where the obvious answer and their procedural work dont align. When making an operational decision that affects the direction of the business, morality is almost always a concern -- even at the level of &quot
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by mjburgess 8mo ago
You would also need to control for the degree to which people had a stake in the outcome (ie., virtue signalling). Since executives have to make decisions where choosing the moral option may impose an economic (or operational) cost, this re
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by mjburgess 8mo ago
Iran's principle strategy is to impose severe economic consequences on the US and its allies, to tip the balance of resolve in their favour. This is easy for them to do, because closing vital shipping lanes and attacking energy infrast
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by mjburgess 8mo ago
Or not. Or what is in the flourishing of all living things, and especially in our species of ape, is evil. That only what is called "good" is the accident of there being a boundary up against you to stop you; or the imposition of
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by mjburgess 8mo ago
The existence of "experiments" to choose from in the first place is already theory-given. As soon as you've formulated a space of such experiments to explore, almost all your theory work is done.
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Children are pensions, that's why poorer nations have lots of children because lots are needed to look after people in their old age. Thus, many of these comments on HN and elsewhere, "make the nation better", only have led -
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
A switch statement is how you do ad-hoc polymorphism in C -- i dont thinks an own against C developers to point that out. If they wanted to adopt the C++ style that immediately requires the entire machinery of OOP, which is an incredibly he

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