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by pegasus 6y ago
The exact opposite of tax avoidance is tax evasion? I think not. Tax evasion is legally tax avoidance that has been proven to be illegal. What about tax avoidance that hasn't yet been proven so, or maybe the charge has been thrown o
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by pegasus 6y ago
I doubt that cardinals came before ordinals. To me, at least at first glance, they both seem equally conceptually primitive. As far as efficiency, this should be the task of the compiler. We shouldn't have to start counting with the &
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by pegasus 6y ago
It's only an ordinal because we've confused ourselves into saying it can be. It's the same situation as with starting to count from zero in most programming languages, and from the wikipedia page for "0th", it app
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by pegasus 6y ago
For skeptical downvoters: http://darwinian-medicine.com/the-perfect-eyesight-of-hunter...
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by pegasus 6y ago
I imagine hunter-gatherers, whose life depended on their eyesight acuity, would be find it easier to spot than most modern humans do.
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by pegasus 6y ago
I have the same feeling that antropomorphizing robots these way is a dangerous direction to head in. We are intentionally confusing ourselves into thinking they are something other than they are.
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by pegasus 6y ago
They could have just used off-the-shelf components for the first iteration.
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by pegasus 6y ago
For me Command-click doesn't work, but Option-click does.
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by pegasus 6y ago
Of course it causes misunderstanding (and so is not useful after all), because "racism" simply means something else. Use the word "complicit" maybe, but redefining words at a whim is counterproductive. Dangerous even, in
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by pegasus 6y ago
They don't.
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by pegasus 6y ago
Yes, I'm aware of the criticism and it might be that only a few of his speculations find ground in reality, or even none at all. Still, these dismissals are unfair and rouhghly equivalent to saying that for example, Darwin's &quo
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by pegasus 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Mind
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by pegasus 6y ago
See my reply on a sibling comment. Also, it's one of very few popular books that goes deep on the subject of Goedel's Theorem and the limit discoveries in logic and computability. A subject that in my view deserves to be more in
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by pegasus 6y ago
Of course. He talks about research on quantum effects in microtubules, for example. Of how the concepts of computability and consciousness relate, how quantum physics drags in this concept of consciousness into science hitherto imagined pur
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by pegasus 6y ago
It's not dressing up as science, though. I understand that for someone who appreciates science, but not philosophy, the book turning out as straddling those two fields might be a letdown. But that's not the authors fault since tho
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by pegasus 6y ago
Those are indeed fascinating, but what could be more interesting than the relation between consciousness and the Universe? Maybe you're preference is for the more solid ground of confirmed science, which is understandable, maybe you di
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by pegasus 6y ago
Yeah, of course you're doing him a disservice. Maybe try reading it a second time (and third too, why not), with more patience. It definitely doesn't boil down to what you just said.
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by pegasus 6y ago
At least they know what's good for them!
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by pegasus 6y ago
The funny thing is, that horrible coal mining that technology liberated us from was part and parcel of the Industrial Revolution. Thank you technology, for saving us from the fallout of technology! Good thing this time there's no fallo
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by pegasus 6y ago
3500 sounds about right, if we consider only Eurasia. Otherwise, it could be farther back, but possibly not that much further, according to the wikipedia entry for Mitochondiral Eve (look for "most recent common ancestor"): &quot
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by pegasus 6y ago
It's not. Do you speak spanish? Apparently in spanish the word is common.
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by pegasus 6y ago
I found it a useful reminder. The ranking algo made sure it wasn't distracting. And it's a good idea to use the correct term when it's available.
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by pegasus 6y ago
Once decentralization becomes more widespread, it can impact politics too. Look at "liquid democracy" initiatives in South America for example.
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by pegasus 6y ago
This model is already being built: check out platforms like the internet computer & holochain for example.
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by pegasus 6y ago
Look into hemisync/holosync/binaural beats. They create a beat in the music by pulsing a tiny delay between left and right channel. That pulse was shown to bring the brain wave frequence in sync with itself. I find the effect eas
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by pegasus 6y ago
Physically too. But it's a question of perspective: glass half-empty or half-full. Are planetary systems plentiful? It seems so, as a ratio of all star systems - as far as we know at least. Definitely not, as a ratio of the total vo
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by pegasus 6y ago
The article commented in this thread is one such example: neural networks were put to actual real-world use by western companies. Another example is the attempt of USSR to build something like the internet before the current one was though
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by pegasus 6y ago
Is it a strawman though? It's all tied together, the fixation with using our technological prowess to increase yield at all costs leads to these types of solutions: monocultures, GMO crops, weather engineering. Even though our underst
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by pegasus 6y ago
Sure. But a lot of pro-GMO thinking is also quite glib ("we've modified crops for thousands of years so what's the problem?"). I think mostly what's behind anti-GMO attitudes is the fear of unknown and unintended co
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by pegasus 6y ago
The same accusation of shallowness can be leveled at the opposite camp. Including your comment. Yes, GMO is a refinement of crop modification techniques humans have employed throughout history. So the argument is that since those were &quot

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