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by n4r9 1y ago
That would be sweet. The sad truth is that a big company can coast on unhealthy exploitative behaviours for many years; perhaps decades.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Is the cost of food and housing going down?
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by n4r9 1y ago
I'm fine with leaving it like it is and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just saying that a tangential post has a better chance of staying alive if it's thoughtful.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Yeah, it makes sense from the Christian perspective. But it falls flat when the person giving testimony doesn't believe in the afterlife. It's as if they think atheists are just being performative.
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by n4r9 1y ago
P.S. AFAICT your comment boils down to "I'm being inconsiderate because I think you're idiots". If so, at least you're honest, though you struggle to speak plainly.
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by n4r9 1y ago
In my opinion it's a shallow and tangential post. If you're going to comment on aesthetics over substance, at least caveat your comments with that and do it thoughtfully.
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by n4r9 1y ago
There are lots of replies to this already but I think it's worth simply copying out the relevant parts of the conclusion: > Although our analyses are limited to a single Egyptian individual who ... may not be representative of the g
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by n4r9 1y ago
Do you never take a step back and wonder whether all this talk about "seriousness" is just a deflection?
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by n4r9 1y ago
There's a great John Stuart Mill quotation from On Liberty related to this. In the UK it used to be the case that you were barred from testifying in court if you declared yourself an atheist. > Under pretence that atheists must be l
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by n4r9 1y ago
So... what are you trying to gain by using hyperbole?
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by n4r9 1y ago
The people you refer to as "devotees" who "can't stand hearing a bad word" strike me as ordinary users whose personal experience simply contradicts your claims. The absolutism of those claims played a part. If you s
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by n4r9 1y ago
I looked at your first two links and it's not really clear whether those roles would be line-managing doctors or lawyers.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Technology is a catalyser. It has a knack of turning things from "already a problem" to "now a catastrophe".
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by n4r9 1y ago
I wasn't trying to start an argument. You complained about negative reactions to your posts. I highlighted some aspects of your language and tone that provoke those negative reactions. You then became defensive and tried to belittle me
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by n4r9 1y ago
All this stuff about "taking you seriously" is basic emotional manipulation. It adds nothing to the argument and serves no purpose than to try to make me feel inferior. Same thing when you compare me to a five year old. You dress
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by n4r9 1y ago
Yes; from what I've seen, you can be hostile, presumptuous, belitting, and confrontational. What you just posted is a good example. There's just no need for the section starting "not at least...". It's an intimidati
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by n4r9 1y ago
I simply gave some pointers on how to use less aggressive language. If you perceived a hidden insult, I'd encourage you to reflect whether that comes from the same place that the aggressive language does.
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by n4r9 1y ago
I think if you resort less to absolutist phrasing and knee-jerk insults, you might have more fulfilling interactions with other users. Perhaps that's not really what you're looking for when you post. It's difficult to underst
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by n4r9 1y ago
> the spin matrices were built to deal with three spatial axes If I understand correctly, it kinda happened the other way around. First the Pauli matrices were introduced to explain unexpected degrees of freedom in experimental observati
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by n4r9 1y ago
I reckon the negative reactions are at least partly down to your wording, e.g. > there is no good work > total lack of discipline > impossible to build This level of absolutism is problematic for a couple of reasons. Firstly it&#x2
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by n4r9 1y ago
Although I agree that "scam" is extreme, the commercial side was sullied in the early 2010s by D-Wave selling what they described as "quantum computers" for $10m and spinning up a bunch of misleading PR. Of course you ex
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by n4r9 1y ago
For quantum computing, as a rule of thumb I generally look to what Scott Aaronson says. And as you suggest, while some cool stuff is being done both in industry and academia, we are nowhere near general quantum computers. I haven't che
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by n4r9 1y ago
My guess is that - like all competent people - the US Navy staff is fighting a constant battle against short-term managerialism. Occasionally stuff will slip through because of time and financial pressures. I can practically imagine the con
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by n4r9 1y ago
Let's not forget he was literally fired as CEO on the basis of not being candid to the board, with suggestions that he'd outright lied to them.
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by n4r9 1y ago
I read Altman's "Gentle Signularity" post when it was published. I didn't see mention of the environment. So I assumed the linked article was referencing some other statement Altman had made.
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by n4r9 1y ago
> He suggests we ignore the warming planet because AI will solve that niggling issue in due course. Bloody hell. Does he really? If so that perfectly encapsulates what scares me about his approach.
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by n4r9 1y ago
https://archive.is/P6HpU
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by n4r9 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Though on a lighter personal note I'd definitely struggle to drink 6 shots of gin (or tequila for that matter) in the same day. Awful stuff!
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by n4r9 1y ago
Maybe I'm misreading it (or it's just wrong) but this NHS webpage very clearly states that a "Pint of higher-strength lager/beer/cider (ABV 5.2%)" has 3 units: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/
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by n4r9 1y ago
I agree it's a fair amount of booze. Especially at 1.5oz per shot. In the UK a single is officially more like 1oz, so 6 UK shots is 4 US shots.

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