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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
so capitalism gets the credit for technological advancement but not the blame for environmental degradation?
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
the article is about a study claiming that prokaryotes and eukaryotes emerged independently of each other. they're both still around, so "out competed" is a strange description.
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
i don't think you're thinking through the incentives-- with higher labor costs the employer has an incentive to take steps to make the job less hazardous.
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
> If this fine remains, and Meta pays out to the affected parties, these kids could end up rewarded with thousands of dollars for just for having a Facebook or Instagram account. Which creates some bizarre incentives, minors get rewarded
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
unless you assume endless progress, fast pace of progress will get you quicker to the plateau.
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
like the difference between someone who intended to have 3 drinks, but once they're 2 drinks in it makes them want to have 3 more drinks, and the familiar alcoholic.
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
maybe you're looking for an excuse to ignore what's being said.
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
from the article > My hypothesis > Developers deal with two broad categories of work. > - Describing the logic of the problem they are solving using language constructs like if, loop, var etc. > - Working with computers to run t
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by pasquinelli 2mo ago
i believe they used a modified version of hypercard for myst. their earlier games, like _cosmic osmo_, used vanilla hypercard.
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
how did you even come to know about this story no one cares about?
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
there are some people doing anything you can imagine
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
i'm puzzled by the choice to have an llm judge the images.
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
> I'd be happier if you'd thrown in some concession like "I admit data is sometimes bad quality". "be reasonable, meet them halfway."
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
stench ill
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
yeah but what you're saying is unclear. for instance, when you say because they have to, not because they need to... "have to" and "need to" mean the same thing, so i'm left with the choice of concluding your p
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
i mean their job is transporting people.
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
l must be named 1 because I is taken
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
is that meant as a response?
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
can you go a little more into that? i myself am not an accountant; what is zitron being dishonest about?
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
> A lot of people prefer to see things in black and white because it's easier on the brain. people also tend to sheild their sacred cows with gestures toward nuance. maybe i'm misreading you, but it sounds like your criticism o
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by pasquinelli 3mo ago
it's not that they're bad at logic in general, it's that the "protecting the children" part gets them emotionally reactive, which bypasses logic. same thing happens when you tell a man who's emotionally reactiv
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
why do you think it was a bad choice?
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
beyond not caring. that little factoid would turn a lot of people into xenophobes.
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
a cabal isn't a social club.
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
here's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentiment My legacy—What will it be? Flowers in spring, The cuckoo in summer, And the crimson maples Of autumn...
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
gasoline
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
kind of the flip side of pascal's "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." if someone does have the time to make the letter short, it'll take longer to read (where "read" means to g
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
interesting how that logic only applies about half the time.
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
> Yeah, it's kind of mind boggling that Ted Chiang (of all people!) can't imagine intelligence without a body. the subject is consciousness, not intelligence.
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by pasquinelli 4mo ago
usually people romanticize china when they're comparing it to the united states. are chat apps in the US not infiltrated or run by america?

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