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by nimbleal 5y ago
I may be a few years behind on terminology (?) but surely sports has everything to do with sex and nothing to do with gender? No one cares what pronouns an athlete uses, how they dress, what roles and behaviours society traditionally assign
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Most religions would say much the same, in fact — if you read the “experts”. So it’s very similar: a laity who believe everything is understood and a priesthood in awe at the mystery.
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Fortunately with GPT3 and the like I’d imagine this approach will soon have had its day. Not that I’m optimistic about whatever will replace it.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Surely the whole of the human experience is, in the end, “informal recollections of past events”? What tells you more about poverty — learning that an individual lives on less than a dollar a day or, say, spending 24 hours without food and
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by nimbleal 5y ago
I posted this but I'm not the author; I don't know if he visits HN or not. I see videos on my desktop — perhaps a browser issue?
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Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata(slackermanz.com)
105 points by nimbleal 5y ago|18 comments
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by nimbleal 5y ago
You could wait until you have the nuts, but that might never happen. If you play too conservatively you risk just leaking blinds until you have nothing left, and because almost everyone goes in on almost every hand, you're playing agai
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by nimbleal 5y ago
I’m not bot-level strength of course but yes, this would be interesting to model/test!
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by nimbleal 5y ago
If you’ve ever played poker where you’re the only serious player at the table and everyone else is very loose you’ll know it’s almost impossible to win. By taking lots of risky bets the other players aren’t doing any favours for themselves
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by nimbleal 5y ago
You’re right, they mostly do have to pay their medical bills but everyday treatments are inexpensive, and seeking professional medical attention is given very high priority. In my (10+ year) experience the average Chinese person is far more
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by nimbleal 5y ago
If the lab theory is true it's a collaborative Chinese-US f** up. So unlikely this is purely driven by anti-Chinese prejudice.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
In China, it's not unusual to go to the hospital for a cold. (I find the lab theory credible & worthy of investigation, just pointing out that in China a hospital visit doesn't imply anything about the severity of symptoms).
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Yes, as I’ve said elsewhere in this thread the strictness of the Chinese lockdown has been exaggerated in the media/Western imagination.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Mainland Chinese citizens are not allowed to travel to Taiwan as individual tourists since July 2019. This was interpreted as an attempt to hurt tourism and so the economy at the time. May have been a factor.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
The strictness of the enforcement in China has been overstated in the media. Strict, but not that strict. Source: here during the Chinese lockdown, have compared notes with those in other cities.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I think the issue is less ultra-pragmatism and more a desire to (quantitively) measure everything to the nth degree. It starts with five year plans at the top and filters down to almost every level of society. Once everything is understood
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Quite so. The idea of a society based fundamentally on positive freedom is intrinsically oxymoronic
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Sure, but when you are considering it theologically (and not historically) you are asking about what theologians/the church teaches and understands, and the internal logic of the bible and church teaching, not what the “actual” truth o
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by nimbleal 6y ago
> In Genesis, it's pretty clear that we're talking about an actual serpent I’m not sure it is clear. If we are talking about an actual serpent, it’s only in the sense that there’s a familiar “just so”-type story which provides
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by nimbleal 6y ago
But Revelation 12 says (the) Satan is one and the same as the devil and “that old serpent” (presumably the serpent in the garden). It’s possible of course that various beings had taken on the role, and the devil was just one of them
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I once made a graphic to illustrate Dante’s universe to scale as best I could (the moon is 1px). Just a bit of fun, not a scholarly work. https://postimg.cc/YLfDrSvW
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by nimbleal 6y ago
> I always assumed they would clear the area of trees first anyways. Why let the wood rot when you can cut it down and use it? The spaces are often so vast that chopping down the wood could delay a project by impractical lengths of time.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Depending on the impounded area they can (in some cases) be worse than fossil fuels for greenhouse gases. https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/not-all-h...
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I’m afraid I don’t have comprehensive notes, but it’s not very complicated or new (perhaps disappointingly). Maintain a lowish bodyfat (10-15% for males, I think 20-30% for females), consume sufficient nutrients (including non-famous ones l
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by nimbleal 6y ago
In my (layman’s) review of related literature, this seems to be the case. I’ve gone through phases of looking into for eg. what might optimise lean mass, testosterone, longevity, decrease cancer risk, sperm count etc. It’s all basically th
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Physical monism. Only one type of “thing” exists and it is physical/material. Contrast with dualism e.g Cartesian substance dualism (body and soul are different substances) or theories like idealism (monist, but only the mental exists)
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Of course, it would just seem that (and this is in answer to another of the replies to my question, too) if you don’t find emergentism persuasive, then you also have to reject the simulation theory (?)
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Is there a consensus (or most popular) theory for how mind/consciousness would work in the simulation theory? How do things in a simulation become subjects of experience?
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I’m surprised, given recent presidential elections in the US and elsewhere, that the advantages of not having an executive that individual citizens can covet hasn’t become more widely appreciated.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I’ve always found this “humans are so stupid” meme a bit hard to fathom. As far as we can tell (so far) humans are by far the most intelligent thing in the universe. By what standard are we “stupid”? It seems to me to be equivalent to sayin

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