mordymoop

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by mordymoop 8y ago
Maybe. On the other hand, the human animal has a powerful capacity to decide that whatever it’s doing is the good and right and normal thing to be doing. After a month you’re just as likely to be completely acclimated as you are to be suici
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by mordymoop 8y ago
> which is wrong for google to behave this way, as the focus of university is to produce _new_ research, and a business's focus is to produce sustainable service for profit. Google should have a graduation mechanism for a product th
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by mordymoop 8y ago
Are we still talking about this? Within months of the book’s release, readers had found many examples where his data selections had been incomplete. To the extent that the main points were invalidated or made far less convincing. When you i
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by mordymoop 8y ago
This is entirely fair. I sometimes wonder if there might be some alternate or future timeline where octopi have evolved to be individually much smarter than humans but have no real technological accomplishments because their species is indi
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by mordymoop 8y ago
Granted, but none of this implies that homo sapiens has reached some pinnacle of possible intelligence.
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by mordymoop 8y ago
There is a well-developed theory for the measurement of intelligence. And even if there wasn't, even a child can rank-order the intelligence of different animals, or different humans that they personally know. It's true that tryin
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by mordymoop 8y ago
But humans are the dumbest possible animal capable of creating a technological civilization. If we weren't, then our dumber ancestors would have done so.
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by mordymoop 9y ago
I'm gonna start pushing for calling it "hive programming".
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by mordymoop 9y ago
Weird that they so often write "screen" when they mean "social media". My eyes were glued to screens growing up. TV, PC, GameBoy, consoles. But his is only happening now.
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by mordymoop 9y ago
Price is already back above $10,000. Calm down, folks. It's a volatile asset. Stop writing news articles about fluctuations.
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by mordymoop 9y ago
Oh, I thought I was already shadowbanned, didn't realize anybody would see this.