p_j_w

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by p_j_w 3y ago
Maybe they give a shit about the community?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
GP is not appealing to authority, he/she is advising caution based on the fact that HN is not largely made up of medical professionals.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>I think we'd lose something if we weren't able to throw out potentially dumb ideas and have other smart people shoot them down and tell us why we're wrong. The issue you'll run into here is there aren't enough p
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Does he just say the world is ending all the time, or is what he's saying true? These two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>You are lucky. I’ve personally had a lot of failures. Or perhaps you're unlucky. LEDs on the whole have longer lives than incandescent bulbs do.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I wonder how GP would feel about his neighbor operating a meth lab.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
You run into another problem here: those other psychedelics may also cause the same changes.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
If your understanding of the scientific method and critical inquiry amounts to "if you have some belief I don't like then anecdotes are useful" then you need to level up your understanding of the scientific method and critica
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>25% died (overdose on drugs), and 21% returned to the streets. How many of those 25% would've died on the street? Do you have any numbers to put that into context? A 54% reduction in homeless on the streets sounds like a great star
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by p_j_w 3y ago
It seems awfully convenient that you get to dismiss all of the evidence that goes against what you'd like to believe with a simple wave of your hand.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>this is a naive, academic view Academic maybe, but that's a hell of a lot better than one person who thinks their personal anecdote is more powerful than scientific evidence.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
And yet, in spite of being offended by it, your life would actually be better for them getting free housing.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>I had this same issue pre-Elon It didn't happen to me once before he started charging money for blue checkmarks. >You have to go into your settings Too late, app deleted.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I give it about 6 months before old.reddit goes away.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Twitter is a better experience than ever for the users The fact that I was getting notifications on my phone to look at a tweet from a Blue Checkmark that I didn't follow says otherwise.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Video games and movies are part of the real world.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Alternatively, grow them yourself.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Why else would "they" spend all those resources? Why the assumption that it takes a significant amount of their resources to run our simulation?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Hard disagree. Unless they manage to get a computer as good as a brain, they're going to need all the sensor help they can get.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Why rule out geoengineering? If there was a viable geoengineering technology available, we'd be using it right now. Assuming that something will pop up is wishful thinking.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
More importantly, Teslas are lacking a brain.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
It's not technically gambling, but it's every bit as insidious and preys on the exact same elements of human nature, except we allow it to happen to children.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Were you an Electrical Engineering major, too?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>The company that developed or acquired all of modern wireless comms tech, and thus gets paid very high license fees for everything that includes anything that talks to anything else over the air. This isn't a great summary of Qualc
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Less aggressive doesn't mean not aggressive. It's a comparison. They're far less aggressive than most any other animal that could give you a bad day is. I'd rather run into a wild elephant than a wild wolf, lion, hippo,
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Their use of it is limited to a small area south of LA. Mostly for farming. Which they shouldn't be doing there anyway. People say this all the time, but where else do you propose this be done? Where's the empty land that can
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by p_j_w 3y ago
The proper way to regulate is to disallow certain functions in an AI. Doing it that way wouldn't kneecap the competition to OpenAI, though, where requiring a license does.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Given that your writing supports the notion that he knew exactly why you said what you said, it seems like he can parse the context of your writing just fine.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines, which was very important because we didn’t have any other kind of rendering engine and looking at artificial images can be pleasing. If this were true then the Impressionism mo
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by p_j_w 3y ago
One can't, but one can make it illegal for the government to use any product that relies on any sort of social media "fire hose." There can be specific requirements that LEOs are only allowed to use the publicly available web

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