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by mxkopy 4y ago
Engaging trolls gives them only more power. But for the sake of hope in good faith, I can try. Evangelicals could resort to extreme measures (violence, unwanted proselytization, bad faith arguments, etc.) If you ask them to shut up, they&#x
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You are welcome to use Vim, or Notepad. Google Docs had always needed an internet connection to work, why aren't you complaining about that? To compare a service product to a piece of paper is asinine and deluded.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
...what? I'm genuinely confused, who are the bandits in this analogy?
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I'm no historian but I don't think Newton was collaborating with any black people. Even if he was, you can't ignore the fact that the dominant academic institutions of today evolved from imperialist and white ones (e.g. the R
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by mxkopy 5y ago
There is something to be said about the whiteness inherent in academia and trying to reduce that. But I think advancements in that area have more to do with linguistics and "UX" than the actual content. This is just another case o
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by mxkopy 5y ago
If the thoughts have any interaction at all between each other, we would be able to leverage that to understand those higher-level thoughts to the degree that they affect the ones on our level. As an analogy, we can project an N dimensional
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I think there is some sort of threshold analogous to Turing-completeness (it probably is just Turing-completeness) when it comes to intelligence, in that information is eventually accessible to any system that passes it. If there is a spe
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by mxkopy 5y ago
My intuition was this: Take a sequence of operations (AND, OR, NOT) and assign each unique term a prime, then multiply each term by some other prime raised to their respective position in the sequence. Call the result the 'output'
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by mxkopy 5y ago
That article was incredibly good, especially the digression on determinism with Einstein, Born and Pauli. I feel like synchronicity just boils down to the pigeonhole principle.
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I love this. There is something eerie about concrete results in computation and math that makes it hard for me to sleep at night. It's like we're discovering the speed of light in a non-physical universe, placing limits and bounda
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by mxkopy 5y ago
It may be the case that if we do this, the universe in the long term will become increasingly hostile to our inhabitation. Maybe our wants, pleasures, ideas of how the universe should be, don't make any sense in the context of physical
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>There is also the interesting consequences of that in human-disfavored species who evolve to survive in distributed ways despite, or even possibly using our intelligence and tactics in their favor (cockroaches, rodents, viruses, parasit
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by mxkopy 5y ago
There are a million other words they could have chosen. I'm harsh on this word because it's emblematic of the problem mindset. Programme at the very least implies some sort of coherence. It's clear to me they think that indiv
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>We should encourage self-empowerment. If there are local laborers who can clean up after a natural disaster, we should empower them to help their community Usually, though, this empowerment is just giving them money. >Instead of send
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I think at some point other limitations come into play that prevent it being an arms race. It would be quite funny, but unfeasible, for most of the male's physical development to go to their reproductive organs. At some point it would
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>If the whole generation is selecting one way, then they are influencing the next generation greatly reducing the randomness of the outcome Consider...the selection of the Nth generation, if it significantly affects the N+1th generation.
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>male or female, but that the distinction exists at all and is so widespread. Fair enough. I do find it interesting that even in plants that have N different sexes, their life cycles are still often dimorphic. Maybe the most fundamental
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I don't know how you think that programme means anything other than a centralized decision making process. It doesn't matter if you put "population wide selective breeding of the exact same traits" - it actually matters
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>that one means anything that results in reproduction gets passed on No, it doesn't. Just because you reproduce does not mean your genes will get passed down more than a generation, especially if there is a method of reproduction th
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I think it has to be all completely historical. In some species the male is the suitor, in others, the female is; and there are - or used to be, sadly - enough species for every linear combination of both possibilities. If I know anything a
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I think there is an independent pressure towards aggression and physical size, considering the violence inherent in the animal world. So you get multidimensional optimization of a single quantity - become too aggressive and your sperm won
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>In some cases, the female genital tract prevented the penis from fully inflating, and was full of pockets where sperm went to die. I think this is what they mean. Not offspring dying per se, but still an evolutionary pressure
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>programme It's not a programme, that would make it eugenics, which it's not - there are no centralized decisions, there is no hiearchy with beings at the top saying "we want this trait but not this one." You would ha
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by mxkopy 5y ago
I guess I am just confused by what you mean by generational woes. Do you mean the difficulty in coming of age in general? Or more specific woes that have to do with modernity?
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by mxkopy 5y ago
There is also the reverse, males can be selecting for traits that make it easier to propagate their genes... that's how I read the result. The more 'endowed'/aggressive the male is, the more complex the vagina becomes to
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by mxkopy 5y ago
Yeah OP reads kinda...weird. If natural mating processes are the source of 'generational woes'...we live in a really dark world
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>This parenting style is growing in popularity and I don't think it's a surprise that we now see an epidemic of kids with mental health problems. Mmm, let's ignore the profound changes in society, as well as the life-alter
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>That's unnecessarily combative. Are you arguing that refusing to brush your teeth is a reasonable position? If all you did was explain to them the importance of healthy teeth, then denton-scratch is justified, all you're sayin
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by mxkopy 5y ago
If you truly want a life that involves running from the police, constantly wondering if your death is around the corner, having no sense of community/family etc. then there are places in society where you can do that productively (e.g.
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by mxkopy 5y ago
>Uh, no that's not what I did. ...I'm not sure you can shake off Nobel prize-winning research like that and retain any credibility. >In this case there isn't. I think you didn't count some of those infinite possibi

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