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by observation 9y ago
Good point. I'm embarrassed it didn't occur to me before.
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by observation 9y ago
Libertarianism.org (and most political received wisdom) doesn't know about Moravec's Paradox and its implications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox Everything they said was invalid. Premise w
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by observation 9y ago
I realize this contradicts a core CompSci idea of bad data in, bad data out, but if I recall right then at the higher levels of rationality like neural networks we have similar counterintuitive results.
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by observation 9y ago
I don't disagree with anything you've said, but my point remains. Some people are inadvertently dying because of a political consensus view. I think this occurs in every political system though. The only route out is to adopt some
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by observation 9y ago
Some foggy thoughts. To me it's all contingent on whether your brain is healthy, functioning properly, ideally at an optimum. People who talk of Life Extension say that improving 'healthspan' and lifespan are connected. Proba
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by observation 9y ago
This could be wrong, I am not a biological scientist. I suspect in practice this is a non-issue, a kind of fake argument we like to make because it sounds right. I think genetic improvements don't give massive improvements in a single
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by observation 9y ago
I believe that it is a reality that people die through the side affects of political hegemony. I used to be a Jehovah's Witness and am familiar with those outside the religion criticizing it because it frequently occurs that their chil
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by observation 9y ago
He is claiming becoming more right wing makes somebody less likely to understand statistics. Personally I think leftists, rightists and centrists are terrible at grokking stats because the human brain can't handle multifaceted realitie
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by observation 9y ago
Thanks for writing this Sam. I'd add that contrary to intuition, sometimes bad ideas might be required to get to good ones. Sometimes if you're wrong in an interesting way it opens up somewhere that has been overlooked by the othe
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by observation 9y ago
I'm okay with this. Hollywood isn't producing interesting content and hasn't done for quite a while now.
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by observation 9y ago
Haven't heard much on neural lace.
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by observation 9y ago
We know they're capable of passing complex information onto each other. What "a bad man's face" looks like for instance, I'm sure some of HN has seen the documentaries on their abilities. I wonder if they choose nes
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by observation 9y ago
Is that what has happened in polygamist groups?
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by observation 9y ago
> annnnnnnd.... I'll let you know when I find another one. Recommend the BIFL (buy it for life) community on Reddit.
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by observation 9y ago
> WikiLeaks does work with an objective of embarassing American interests. I think it's a contrarian media organization. I recall when the conservatives were all "kill this guy" during the Bush administration, now they the
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by observation 9y ago
> An analogy I quite like is to imagine we're trying to solve a math problem. The correct answer to this problem is 0. Suppose that the center opinion on Y was correct. Then there would be no need for 'search'. Leftist and
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by observation 9y ago
> HRC even had social media employees manipulating their algos and data to her advantage This is definitely true. If those autocompletes weren't biased then I must be blind.
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by observation 9y ago
It's not hard to list the sizes specific to different countries but that research is usually left to customers. It's also annoying when their international shipping policy is "Free Shipping" which usually means $30-$50 f
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by observation 9y ago
I don't know if it is true, but it's not obviously false. Military uses huge numbers of powerful diesel engines and the US military is larger than most of the rest combined.
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by observation 9y ago
Congratulations!
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by observation 9y ago
Ireland with the UK as runner up.
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by observation 9y ago
For what it is worth I'd be categorized as far right and I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. There are a lot of failure modes in politics and the widely held feeling that if only we nipped the 'extremes' at ei
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by observation 9y ago
Have you met any tankies. They do advocate for millions of class enemies to be killed. Personally I feel, and I know many people disagree, that parallels between today and '30s are overrated. While history can rhythm, the modern left a
54.
by observation 9y ago
Its targets would be based on class.
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by observation 9y ago
I notice that each time websites ban or delist far right websites, that the temperature jumps a notch, often with accompanying antisemitism on more mainstream sites or subreddits. It's nice that Google and Reddit's staff are feeli
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by observation 9y ago
I'd rate Dan and Scott highly as rulers, and I've been banned before. I have some qualms about some systematic things, but it's a broad philosophical dispute and not the running of HN. In governance - there is no way to &#x27
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by observation 9y ago
The automation of vehicles is taken to strongly imply robotic devices elsewhere in society. Apart from more sophisticated robot hoovers, lawn mowers I don't think that is necessarily so. Hoovers and mowers are safe because they are sm
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by observation 9y ago
Some thoughts. I suspect that when a government is unable to scale its ability to govern, the statistics become dopey. This doesn't imply a conspiracy necessarily. It could be for instance that if people stop reporting crime, that eith
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by observation 9y ago
I know that, and think it immoral myself. I want to see better ways for people to 'opt out', because otherwise they will begin making demands that put other people's options in jeopardy.
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by observation 9y ago
We are talking about something very big. It's bad enough this is an emotive political subject, but it's also a complex one. If I can continue to harp on my 'dust mote' fable. The life expectancy was 64 under the previous

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