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by pengstrom 4y ago
Or course, and their decisions are free to be scrutinized.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Well, this is politics so I fail to see the difference.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Exactly, this seems like such an obvious solution. What is the (non-ideological) catch?
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by pengstrom 4y ago
I can assure you I do, and I can't turn it off.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Unfortunately, the current conservative/nationalistic government has been trying to get it shut down. They use the guide of "tough on crime" of course, but they have been opposing money for people of lesser means for a long,
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Yes, the industrial revolution made labor competitive enough to bargain. The computer, internet and now AI revolutions have chipped away at this since the 70s. Power and wealth accumulation has never been higher. See e.g. https:/&#x2F
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by pengstrom 4y ago
The older I get and the more systems I encounter, the more I'm convinced everything is in a state of failing. The question is only how long before it becomes noticable.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
This is why you put a little bell on the cat's collar. That way it can't really sneak up undetected.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
I assume this is to differentiate with 'Ø'
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Of course, as with all human cultural endeavours. The images published are also selected by human aesthetics and interest, so valuable novel information is still being propagated.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Anyone from OpenAI here? My account was suddenly deactivated, which was unexpected and tragic. No tech in a long time has brought me this much joy. I've tried reaching out to support with no luck for a while.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Ideas are subject to selection pressures too, no?
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by pengstrom 4y ago
The corresponding Swedish term is "burknyheter" (canned news) I believe. For slow seasons, news are pulled from the can.
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A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence(twitter.com)
2 points by pengstrom 4y ago|0 comments
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Is it not more efficient for the larger ships to over provision on nuclear?
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Why is it an "unnatural" rise? How do we distinguish it from a natural rise?
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The Philosophy of Linear Algebra (2021)(sigfyg.medium.com)
106 points by pengstrom 4y ago|33 comments
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Ask HN: Place to post music and revive constructive feedback?
4 points by pengstrom 4y ago|2 comments
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Wow haven't been to reddit in ages, surprised it's so (subjectively) bad. Has it gotten worse or was I a fool before? It's cringeworthy
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by pengstrom 4y ago
The first subject of skepticism must always be yourself. Science is the enterprise to stop fooling ourselves. Scepticism without it is meaningless.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
The live action movie is widely regarded as a cinematic and adaptive dumpster fire. Panned by fans, critics and audiences
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by pengstrom 4y ago
Any guesses on which subreddit is described? Sounds interesting.
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by pengstrom 4y ago
How is speech not a behavior? Self-censoring is crudely how civilisation works. We accept some restraints on our biological urges for the safety and order collective society provides.
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by pengstrom 5y ago
They are the results of human design though. We have to aspire for more than bias laundering, otherwise we risk the biases multiply
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by pengstrom 5y ago
I guess because the differences between the neoclassical homo economics and the biomachine homo sapiens become relevant when scared? The approximation of people as rational actors falls apart.
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by pengstrom 5y ago
This seems unnecessarily elitist. I mean, I would be glad if I could get away with just discussing theory and ideas, but reality and practical matters gets in the way. We vote for people, we evaluate people from events.
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by pengstrom 5y ago
When I asked my current employer why they chose it, they simply responded that it attracts the "right" people. From a business perspective, any language is arbitrary. What matters is having clever people around to solve problems.
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by pengstrom 5y ago
Good use of the contrapositive rule. If A => B then also ¬B => A¬
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by pengstrom 5y ago
It seems intuitive that perception and memory are one and the same. How we perceive and how we recall is intrinsically bound to the neuron superstructure. Changes in one affects the other. The mind really is an interconnected prediction mac
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by pengstrom 5y ago
I recently discovered the roper schemes. Infinite rope, indestructible terrain, one crate per turn. Short turns. You swing madly fast, trying to pick up the crate before engaging another player. Recommended.

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