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by ookdatnog 4y ago
The question of whether I'd attempt to decipher the code depends on whether I believe it would be intellectually engaging to do so. In the case of a code, yes, that probably requires that the code encodes something meaningful. But it&#
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
> Why bother understanding anything if it's all just random and and accidental? Sheer curiosity? Why do you feel like your feelings (for example the desire to understand) need cosmic validation?
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My sympathy depends on context. In the society I live in, my sympathy would be very limited, as there is a social security system so these people will not go homeless or starve (though the experience will still be painful to them). In a soc
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I'm also tired of how market fundamentalists always keep comparing their opponents to the Luddites, as if the Luddites were irrational fools with eternal egg on their face for their inability to see the blessings that technological adv
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What exactly do you mean with "improving one's job skills"? What can a janitor do to improve their job skills? Learn to code in their free time? I have no idea what exactly you're suggesting.
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So it comes down to being smart again, which is largely outside of your own conscious control. That means we're back to being lucky again, no?
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You can be lucky and hardworking, and have both of these factors be individually necessary but insufficient contributors to your success. People get weirdly defensive about luck being a major factor in their success, but it always is. It do
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're bringing up FP and Rust here. The idiomatic FP and Rust versions of the code in the article would be similar to the fast version: you use algebraic data types to represent your Shape type (which are just ta
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
That's not at all what I'm arguing. My comment was purely a response to > I think we need an objective rather than a relative definition if we're going to do anything other than move goalposts. I claimed that this is a non
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
You literally kicked off this thread with the statement > It more and more seems like "traditional", conservative societies are more successful on aggregate. Which is a much broader claim than just stating that traditional valu
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Muslims account for about 6% of the general population in France, so I doubt that explains the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_France
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I'm not saying that traditional values don't affect fertility rate. My comment was responding to the claim > It more and more seems like "traditional", conservative societies are more successful on aggregate. Which is
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
Your statement makes no sense. To begin with, the terms "objective" and "relative" are not antonyms. A definition can be both, neither, or either one of the two. And the terms "progressive" and "conservati
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
I'm not sure how you're getting to this enormous generalization. Seems to me that for the past century or so, liberal societies have been the dominant societies on the world stage. Which conservative, traditionalist societies are
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That's very well put and I think you are correct. I wanted to add though that, to me personally, the author's comment doesn't register as "you're not smart" at all. Rather I read it as message along the lines o
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
> aoe2 already has randomised maps, I think that's why you actually get less strategy (in a sense). I'm more of a fan of the in-game, on the spot strategizing that randomized maps force you to do, than the out-of-game meta-stra
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It doesn't lower the skill ceiling, it moves the emphasis on which skills contribute to winning. It's relatively easy to spot when a game has a problem with low skill ceiling: the very best players have difficulty distinguishing t
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
An ordered list of filters would limit the user to providing one input image and producing one output. Using a schematic editor allows for combining multiple inputs and perhaps even producing multiple outputs from one schematic (the gif on
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
It's a serious crime; it's not a violent crime. You don't see the cops busting down doors and charging in with riot shields and shotguns to catch your average white-collar fraudster, even though fraud is also a serious crime.
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> I am not saying anything, just trying to understand people's reaction with the limited information. It seems conflicting to me. I'm not sure how anyone could explain it to you if you have no automatic reaction to what happens
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When I talk about referential transparency in the context of FP, it's honestly of no consequence to me what the history of the term in philosophy is (mind you, I still find it interesting -- I didn't know this and it was nice lear
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Functional and object-oriented aren't two ends of a spectrum, they're orthogonal. Code can be both. To program in a functional style means no more or less than to construct your program by composing referentially transparent funct
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The yard sale model doesn't attempt to model an actual economy. It's a thought experiment to counter causality bias. Human minds tend to be biased towards causal explanations. So if we see huge wealth disparities, we're biase
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I believe there is a meaningful difference between an answer that's wrong and an answer that's nonsense . If I were to multiply those numbers, it's likely that I'd get the wrong outcome because it's a long comput
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Reasoning is meaningfully distinct from what the models do now. You can ask ChatGPT to multiply two smallish natural numbers and often it will give the correct answer. Now look what happens if you ask it to multiply two very large numbers:
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
You misread parent's post. They wrote (emphasis mine): > extreme far right realized they could rephrase their violence as speech And in your post that became: > It's actually the far left that characterizes speech as viol
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Simpler and, I'd wager, wrong. It seems to me that this stems from fundamental limitations of current machine learning tech. As far as I'm aware, not a single neural-net based AI has displayed the ability to do "System 2&quot
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Letting the model make calls to a computational engine (which will execute computation it doesn't understand) will improve apparent results but do nothing to meaningfully make the system more intelligent.
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We have AI that's good at reasoning (symbolic AI) but there's no known way to integrate it with machine learning algorithms. I don't think we're close to AGI because this last barrier of computation/reasoning might
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Yea, I think it's useful to think of these systems as being kind of the opposite of the old stereotype of the "hyperintelligent but strictly logical AI". They've gotten quite strong at "system 1" thinking (in t

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