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by mjburgess 1y ago
No one in this partisan political thread has explained why the foundation for a programming language has a mission involving 'diversity' of people in any sense. The laywers for the PSF decided that this mission is inconsistent w
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What does 'facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers' mean? Here 'diversity' refers to race/ethnicity. If you don't think so, the PSF do, because its their explicit re
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It's naive to think people interpret the claims literally. Their political interpretation doesn't change if Trump had instead said, "the crime levels are serious and urgent" Emotional valence is communicated at a literal
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Yes, the only explanation for why people endorse political hyperbole is that they know its misinformation and they're doing so for the symbolic power of believing a falsehood. Or, ya know, maybe a rise in the lethality of crime in a so
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The article links to analysis showing as the frequency of violent attacks has decreased (slightly), those which are lethal have increased. https://counciloncj.org/less-frequent-more-deadly/?fbclid=Iw... > In a sampl
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The more formal point you're making here is that the survey data social psychologists work with can be explained by an infinite number of hypothesis, and the "statistical testing" they do is basically pseudoscience. All they
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The whole thing is just "here's a narrow result in psychology" connected to grand theories about contemporary politics which implicate the current administration and its supporters into a reductionist explanatory analysis tha
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If they are studying universal features of human psychology, their analysis should pertain to these features. By wading into contemporary politics and attributing "authoritarian" psychology to people who want to believe, e.g., wha
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It's a shame they detoured from social psychology into politics. The claim that false information has social value, and therefore symbolic value, is easy to substantiate without the partisan political analysis which amounts to, "a
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Any chance you could github your script for public use anyway? It's an interesting self-contained example
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Define any property of interest. Eg., O = "reacting with oxygen" S is a simulation of O iff there is an inferential process, P, by which properties of O can be estimated from P(S) st. S does not implement O Eg., "A video game
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"opening a door" is an observer-relative purpose Yes, you can intepret systems as having a goal and realise that goal using a vareity of different devices. Reality itself doesnt have purposes, there are no goals. "A device th
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> software-defined hardware component that does the same thing No, you cannot. A hard-drive needs to a have a physical hysteresis. An input/output device needs to transmit power, and be powered, by an electrical field. A visual devi
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I have never encountered this physical process. Here I am typing on a keyboard which is powered through an electrical field that is guided by a peice of wire under each key -- whose operation, when mechanically activated, is to induce some
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There are no such things as "computational processes". Any computational description of reality describes vastly different sets of casual relata, nothing which exists in the real world is essentially a computational process -- eve
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> Because simulated fire burns other things in the simulation just as much as “real” fire burns real things. What we mean by a simulation is, by definition , a certain kind of "inference game" we play (eg., with beads and chal
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> this simulation of a brain, which wouldn't think, to a simulation of a fire, which can't burn down a real building > with no clear reason whatsoever as to why It's not clear to me how you can understand that fire has
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"build your own" just means buy a desktop PC and install an O/S
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Pre-banking 30 years of a customer's net revenue is eron-level accounting
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You're assuming people sample unifromly and at random from the population. People connect with similar people, form relationships in similar envioronemnts, so your social group is vastly more specialised than it might seem. Autism comp
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Maybe. Certainly if detractors go to excess then they'll breed resentment from the supporters, and round and round. At the moment though, i think there's lots of people speaking as if it were 2022 and all of that ammunition has no
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I personally don't care about immigration. I have yet ever to be negatively affected by it, and have tended to find immigrants more pleasant than my own citizens. I'm more worried about our aging, obsese, immobile populations who
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It's not an authority argument, its the opposite. A warning about the supposed authority of people who would make that kind of claim. The validation of what i'm saying is little more than a few minutes google away. Some interventi
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This seems helpful, but I think the misattribution of a general "anti-immigrant" sentiment to immigration detractors is part of the problem. Very few detractors in the west have any issues with highly qualified immigrants occupyin
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They are Markov Chains, any one saying otherwise doesn't understand what a Markov chain is
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There's an interview with a UNICEF worker on the ground there which you can watch, he even mentions when the restaurants reopened during the cease-fire
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I'd invite you to watch the interview, all of this is addressed. The israeli placement of 4 aid distribution centres (out of the required and initial 400) has nothing to do with hamas.
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That's an abductive failure to recognise that something is A, and something else is not-A I dont see cases where people recognise the contradiction and then perform it.
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Here's an interview with a UNICEF worker who has spent a great deal of time on the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsAo2j6aih0
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It's incredibly difficult to kill two million people, the easiest -- if not the only practically possible way -- is with mass starvation. Here's an interview with a senior UNICEF worker: https://www.youtube.com/wat

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