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by prmph 11mo ago
I have dabbled in those tools. Still did not change my opinion.
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by prmph 11mo ago
You might laugh, but in years of serious development, I have not come across a better git UI tool than SourceTree. If I want to be hard-core, I'd use the original git CLI. SourceTree is unmatched in how it makes using git so much more
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by prmph 11mo ago
> Crick had a much more productive scientific career post structure than did Watson... But we are not talking their later work. The issue under discussion is their DNA structure work, and for that Watson wa the main one in their collabor
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by prmph 11mo ago
Watson was the main man, that's why we say "Watson and Crick" and not "Crick and Watson". Why did she not get along with Watson, I wonder?
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by prmph 11mo ago
The European/Asian wars of the 20th century (ironically started by people who thought of themselves as superior races) wiped out ten of millions of lives and an untold amount of wealth. It led to the collapse of entire empires and nati
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by prmph 11mo ago
This is exactly what I've been trying to put across; you said it better than I could have. I guess those so rabidly claiming that people are no allowed to study connection between race and "intelligence" are too dense to see
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by prmph 11mo ago
> Wrong values, wrong incentives > Of course they are intellectually capable of laying asphalt, but they end up spending it on salaries. > Only one decided it was important for their families and grandchildren to pour said asphalt.
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by prmph 11mo ago
Hmmm, let's see. How many people died in wars in the 20th century? How many of them did NOT originate in Europe and Asia? How much of climate change that has fouled up the earth we depend is NOT attributable to economic activity in the
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by prmph 11mo ago
I thought we were beyond this argument, no? There are so many things with all the implications here it's hard to know where to start. You do realize that picking a certain concept "intelligence", defining it to include certai
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by prmph 11mo ago
> In general, it can be expected that people who really shift the scientific status quo will score low on agreeableness. We are not talking about disagreeableness that causes someone to pursue an unconventional path to discovery. We are
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by prmph 11mo ago
All these excuses for a blatant case of cheating... > she didn't realize its significance or implication. That does not change the fact that they plagiarized and cheated. They could have collaborated with her and/or credited he
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by prmph 11mo ago
I'm not sure your argument is making any sense. Are you saying the reason roads are bad in some parts of Africa is that the people there are too dumb to know how to repair the roads? That their problem is figuring out how to mix and po
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King Charles officially strips Andrew of HRH style and prince title(theguardian.com)
5 points by prmph 11mo ago|2 comments
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by prmph 11mo ago
You're still missing the point. The comment you're responding to is talking about specialized models
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by prmph 11mo ago
There's a difference between being able to do something and being motivated to do it.
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by prmph 11mo ago
I see what you did there. But, maybe more inequality does indeed increase the waistlines of economists, as they they find more fodder for paid "analysis".
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by prmph 11mo ago
> It's quite uncontroversial I think that consciousness has no special impact in physics, there's no physical experiment that is affected by a consciousness being present or not. Electrons don't behave differently if a hum
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Putin fears another coup as Russia begins to buckle(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by prmph 11mo ago|0 comments
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by prmph 11mo ago
Extreme wealth inequality means extreme power inequality. Do you really think a world with extreme power inequality is anything good?
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by prmph 11mo ago
> There's nothing about consciousness that breaks any known law of physics today, so the only logical position is to suppose that consciousness is explainable by current physics Quite the claim to make
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by prmph 11mo ago
Why is this post buried, I wonder? It's in the 263th position, alongside posts from 4 days ago, and keep rapidly going down. Really weird.
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Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists(theguardian.com)
88 points by prmph 11mo ago|227 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
You make some interesting points, but: > Similarly, if we can compute consciousness on a chip, then the chip obviously contains that consciousness. This is like claiming that neurons are conscious, which as far as we can tell, they are n
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by prmph 1y ago
You really think the reason we revere Nobel Prize winners is because they are good at interpolating?
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by prmph 1y ago
> plenty of them have all kinds of defects, Defects that have not rendered them unconscious, as long as they still are alive. You seem not to see the circularity of your argument. I gave you an example to show that robustness against adv
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by prmph 1y ago
Exactly, I guess this starts to get into philosophical questions around identity real quick. To me, two such whirlwinds are identical but not the same. They are the same only if they are guaranteed to have the same value for every conceivab
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by prmph 1y ago
I'm not talking about "identical" consciousnesses. I mean the same consciousness. The same consciousness cannot split into two, can it? Either it is (and continues to be) the same consciousness, or it is not. If it were the
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by prmph 1y ago
> "quite robust against disturbances." does not mean that the essential thing gives rise to consciousness is only approximate. To give an example from software, you can write software is robust against bad input, attempts to cr
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by prmph 1y ago
> If you simulated a human brain by the atom, That is what we don't know is possible. You don't even know what physics or particles are as yet undiscovered. And from what we even know currently, atoms are too coarse to form the
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by prmph 1y ago
There are many aspects to this that people like yourself miss, but I think we need satisfactory answers to them (or at least rigorous explorations of them) before we can make headway in these sorts of discussion. Imagine we assume that A.I.

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