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by ouid 5y ago
Yes, by the argument just provided :). Oh alright, but it's not really as interesting as all that. False implications in the logical context are commonly referred to as logical fallacies. Wikipedia has a (non-exhaustive) list of those.
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by ouid 5y ago
This conversation isn't formal enough to be meaningful. If you want to talk meaningfully about how "facts" are used, you need to be able to invoke any notion at all of propositions and implications. It doesn't matter if
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by ouid 5y ago
I'm not making detailed arguments about what your sarcasm filter should be, but if this comment isn't detected as sarcasm, you should turn a knob somewhere.
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by ouid 5y ago
I think the holes on your sarcasm filter might be too large.
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by ouid 5y ago
Absolutely not! The only way that you can believe this is if you a) consider the preservation of human civilization to be approximately equal, in terms of significance to your decision making, to living a more comfortable life personally. I
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by ouid 5y ago
Additionally, most of the arguments about AB dying in the near future have little to do wiht the thing that MS actually bought, which is IP, and everything to do with how AB as a company has handled that IP. If you think Microsoft is better
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by ouid 5y ago
I can think of 3 ways that the NYT intends to profit off of this. 1) embed a link to times puzzles into the boilerplate "share" feature. 2) embed enticing pictures of other puzzles that the NYT owns in the actual game page itsel
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by ouid 5y ago
I would love to know more about it, I know about as little as it's possible to know about emacs while having also used it. If you have anything more guided than me just doing a google search, please share!
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by ouid 5y ago
What I would like, as a productivity tool, is a coarse to do list + contexts. Contexts here means, essentially, snapshots of virtual machines with all of the tools open that I was using, along with some structure for shared ddata, probably
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by ouid 5y ago
If the concern is hospitals being overwhelmed for long periods of time, then there's really no reason not to just let them get overwhelmed all the way. They can return to normal working conditions earlier, and people can get important
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by ouid 5y ago
Now someone make an adversarial twitter bot.
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by ouid 5y ago
Planes and submarines treat down as special because down is genuinely special. We would have some other abstraction if this were not the case.
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by ouid 5y ago
Is this an objection or just a corrolary?
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by ouid 5y ago
I agree, and the premise of going in on a programming contest with a team is presumably that you are all capable of solving some problem on your own. I was merely arguing that there is value to be had in numbers greater than 1, but not numb
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by ouid 5y ago
The premise of directing humanity's resources to avoid existential risk is indeed a very noble pursuit. Which is why I suspect it's been coopted by the climate deniers. It's a form of SEO in which the people who have coopted
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by ouid 5y ago
So the argument is that the probability of humanity achieving galactic sustainability is independent of humanity achieving local near term sustainability? This argument needs to take a better statistics class.
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by ouid 5y ago
It's the most common thing in the world to the average set of ideas held by a group of people with some expected set of ideas for a particular member. With the aggregate result that groups are punished for including people with ideas i
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by ouid 5y ago
Wait, people use longtermism to argue that man-made climate change isn't important?
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by ouid 5y ago
I think the opitmal number of people working on a problem is somewhere between 1 and 2. The amount of communication required obviously scales very poorly, but in principle, having to explain your process to someone else functions well. I pr
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by ouid 5y ago
The question is not if they compete, but how much. It's not a zero sum game, because both parties are better off for having played.
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by ouid 5y ago
It sounds like you didn't understand the argument.
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by ouid 5y ago
The problem here is that your definition of the product is far too coarse. You can only really talk about competition for products which are truly equivalent. For an extreme example of why too coarse a definition of the product might yield
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by ouid 5y ago
I think that there's a reasonable definition of "healthy sleep schedule" in "any sleep schedule you can maintain without an alarm clock (and also maybe stimulants).
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by ouid 5y ago
Inflation isn't a limit on UBI either...
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by ouid 5y ago
Look, UBI isn't for living comfortably. UBI is just a knob for producing more negotiating power for laborers. It's the means to quit a job and look for a new one. It's not about living a happy work free life. That doesn'
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by ouid 5y ago
I'm confused. Ostensibly the tradeoff for crypto is that only you know the secret factors that allow you to spend money, but there is no possibility of reversing a fraudulent transaction. If you give the keys to someone else, you lose
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by ouid 5y ago
The point of making a brand with a reputation of shit that lasts can never be repeat business. I love my stand mixer, and in 300 years, when I need a new one, the company it was bought from won't exist anymore. Hell, it barely exists t
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by ouid 5y ago
Absolutely not, Microsoft owns your operating system on your general computer. At least you could argue that I am, in some sense, willingly entering the ecosystem by buying an xbox. Blizzard and Minecraft are primarily PC games.
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by ouid 5y ago
I feel like this buries the lede a little, Microsoft is acquiring Blizzard for 70 billion dollars.
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by ouid 5y ago
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