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by nathias 4y ago
how long until we can uplift ourselves ...
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by nathias 4y ago
"It is not unlikely that they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, for wheels and engines and explosions always delighted them,
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by nathias 4y ago
you could never trust it, now you'll know you can't trust it
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by nathias 4y ago
can't wait until deepfakes completely revolutionizes people's relation to information
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by nathias 4y ago
androids dream of electric sheep
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by nathias 4y ago
I don't get the popularity of the "mobile first" paradigm. I get it as a cost saving measure, but when you try and make UX fit mobile and desktop both will be worse off. > bastion of independent thought was never a thing,
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by nathias 4y ago
creativity is a function of specialized research and work, you can be the most creative when you have the most overview of what already exists and have ideas on how to improve it
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by nathias 4y ago
building an app for plant care, I don't regret it just don't think its viable economically
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by nathias 4y ago
Copilot is a new way for corporations to break copyright while enforcing it for everyone else, this will be the first big use for AI when other corpos follow.
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by nathias 4y ago
complexity isn't bad, redundant complexity is
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by nathias 4y ago
well they wouldn't want people to stop smoking now would they
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by nathias 4y ago
Google
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by nathias 4y ago
imagine Google's boot stamping on a human face — for ever
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by nathias 4y ago
try getting on a Mastercard blacklist and see if you still feel that way
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by nathias 4y ago
We are in a prison surounded by high walls, wire fences and guard towers occupied by watchful guards. Some of us are digging a ditch so we can all escape this hell, and you're standing at the entrance yelling at us that the ditch doesn
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by nathias 4y ago
Most of my problems are being solved by web3. Maybe you have different problems, the kind that facebook can solve.
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by nathias 4y ago
I'm waiting for contact lenses with a good enough resolution to serve as a screen replacement and cyberdecks replace laptops ...
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by nathias 4y ago
They know what they are doing in their immediate context, they follow the rules of their bureacuracies but have no idea nor possible idea of the consequences of their policies. And their being "well-meaning" has a very narrow scop
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by nathias 4y ago
> Back in the 1980s John Searle cast doubt on the computational theory of consciousness with the Chinese Room argument, and today it seems that most philosophers accept its validity. hilarious
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by nathias 4y ago
https://archive.org/details/ByrneOFirstSixBooksOfTheElements...
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by nathias 4y ago
very good points, especially about focus on 'consensus' which seems to be a consequence of US reception of global warming but has become a standard in discourse about science ...
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by nathias 4y ago
how is it useless if I've been using it for 10 years?
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by nathias 4y ago
Nobody should ever feel guilty for other people's crimes, but more importantly - what is a crypto rug compared to the founding of a bank? Crypto can't fail, the question is just what kind of crypto there will be, will there be a
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by nathias 4y ago
So your issue is he's doing philosophy and not doing academic philosophy? Its very refreshing having an author that is actually doing philosophy and not just talking about it or making comparative essays.
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First of all I know what you mean, and I disagree, but this isn't the issue at all. Ontology talkes about being qua being on the largest possible abstraction, so saying that merely making abstraction somehow implies whatever is beyond
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by nathias 4y ago
This is the worst top comment I've seen on hn in a long time. The text isn't about the computational equivalence but about how vastly different aliens and therefore their tech is, and how the effort of translating alien tech into
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by nathias 4y ago
Do you think the tech disappears when Bitcoin goes below some magical threshold?
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by nathias 4y ago
Advertising works in the sense it makes a product's existence known, everything beyond that is advertising of advertising ...
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by nathias 4y ago
I had a linter for text, it kept coloring 'black' as offensive so I uninstalled it.
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by nathias 4y ago
I'm sure its average, but the self-reported IQ might be way higher ...

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