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by naasking 1y ago
> As a human I don't think telling someone to be more empathetic means you intend for them to also guide people astray. Focus is a pretty important feature of cognition with major implications for our performance, and we don't
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by naasking 1y ago
Understanding another person's perspective is not necessary to determine whether they are correct. Empathy can be important for fostering social harmony, but it's also true that it can obstruct clear thinking and slow progress.
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by naasking 1y ago
> If you are looking at human psychology? Looking at existing data in new ways is essentially p-hacking. I agree that the type of analysis is important, as is the type and quality of the data you're analyzing. You can p-hack in cosm
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by naasking 1y ago
> I'm more reminded of Tom Scott's talk at the Royal Institution "There is no Algorithm for Truth"[0]. Isn't there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...
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by naasking 1y ago
This is a big feature of the Nordic model, but it's not uncommon in other legal frameworks either.
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by naasking 1y ago
> It's not a sentiment, it's a reality that we have to deal with. And I think you missed the main point of my reply: that people often think we need more data, but cleverness and ingenuity can often find a way to make meaningfu
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by naasking 1y ago
> We're normally data-limited. This is a common sentiment but is probably not entirely true. A great example is cosmology. Yes, more data would make some work easier, but astrophysicists and cosmologists have shown that you can gath
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by naasking 1y ago
> It is a major source of complaining for languages like python or javascript Dynamically typed languages have more difficulties with autocomplete in general, Bolt is statically typed so you shouldn't automatically assume the same d
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by naasking 1y ago
There are all sorts of adjacent reasons too, like human trafficking and prostitution. It's probably similar reasons to why landlords are so aggressive about renters not doing any sex work, because even indirectly receiving proceeds fro
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by naasking 1y ago
Biochemistry is one plausible example. Deep Mind made hug strides in protein folding satisfying the simulation part, and in vitro experiments can be automated to a significant degree. Automation is never about eliminating all human labour,
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by naasking 1y ago
I doubt it's moralizing reasons, it's probably because once you disseminate porn, you become a vehicle for child porn, which is a legal and PR disaster.
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by naasking 1y ago
> I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available. The g
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by naasking 1y ago
> Yep the article shows a photo of a neatly kept room, the reality would be a bare mattress on the floor, piles of dirty clothes, trash, and hoarded posessions. This is exactly the kind of fact-free demonization the article described as
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by naasking 1y ago
> Imagine a field where experiments take days to complete, and reviewing the results and doing deep thought work to figure out the next experiment takes maybe an hour or two for an expert. With automation, one AI can presumably do a whol
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by naasking 1y ago
> The user intent is usually to get to what they are looking for as quickly as possible. Yes, and returning 30,000 results matching the "a" they just typed is not going to do that. "Getting the desired result fastest"
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by naasking 1y ago
> In electronics, I think we'd use a latch, so it switches high, and stays high despite input change. RC circuits are more typical, you want to filter out high frequency pulses (indicative of bouncing) and only keep the settled&#x2F
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by naasking 1y ago
I recently used Google's Gemini to review and debug some code that was performing some runtime code generation in .NET. It pointed out some issues I was aware of, some cases I hadn't considered but would have eventually hit with s
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by naasking 1y ago
It's not clear that "infinite precision" is a meaningful thing. All inputs and outputs even to analog systems will only ever have finite precision.
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by naasking 1y ago
> That is how you make a big server crawl with just 100 users, regardless of the programming language of the backend. This is a myth, servers and round trips can be way faster than most people seem to believe: https://www.yout
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by naasking 1y ago
> If it were possible to measure the phase of a photon after a beam splitter in a nondestructive way "Non-destructive measurement" is an oxymoron. It's not a real measurement if it doesn't destroy the coherence of ent
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by naasking 1y ago
> Depends on what the commenter means by app state. Anything bookmarkable - like search results - should be in the URL, but "state" should not (I consider things like partially filled in forms, shopping carts, etc to be state).
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by naasking 1y ago
> htmx is supposed to let you write semantic HTML, but it's obviously not semantic HTML/HTTP to respond HTTP 200 to incorrect user input. It's perfectly semantic HTML, it just doesn't have to be semantic HTTP (as in,
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by naasking 1y ago
> I would never consider running Nix on my daily Desktop machine (I'm using Arch BTW). It's more work and hassle than it's worth it. How much of this is really just unlearning what you have learned, and needing to internal
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by naasking 1y ago
I don't think this "standard explanation" is as standard as it is sometimes portrayed: https://youtu.be/XcY3ZtgYis0?si=9TyD5-7B00WTLzOH
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by naasking 1y ago
Entanglement doesn't violate locality, it's measurement that does that. And that's because we don't have a rigourous handle on what measurement actually is, and why we call it "the measurement problem"!
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by naasking 1y ago
Calling it a disaster seems like an exaggeration, the article literally says UK's PISA scores for reading have not changed. In fact, the experts cited in the article don't even seem to suggest moving away from phonics, but to give
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by naasking 1y ago
Economies of scale haven't even begun to kick in for sodium batteries.
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by naasking 1y ago
I'm not indicting anything, I'm simply pointing out that there are a lot of assumptions that SPAs are the only or best way to have a great user experience, that server interactions are slow, that DOM updates are slow, and that API
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by naasking 1y ago
> How would you implement Google Maps as a SSR app? -- same question for ArcGIS, Figma, an arcade game, or a Zoom clone. It's a serious question -- do you think that would be possible for any of those? Yes: https://www.yo
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by naasking 1y ago
I think you're neglecting to account for a big risk. If the house retains or increases in value, the bank can just take the house to recoup what you owe them of you can no longer pay the mortgage due to ill health, accidents, etc. What

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