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by proc0 3y ago
Well, isn't nationalism a kind of religion, in that it binds people together through shared practices, traditions, and objectives? I think secularism's blind spot is how to bind people together, and in adopting it, the West has re
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by proc0 3y ago
It's deceptively complex. What looks like buttons and sliders ends up having a lot of interactivity that is underestimated. Then there is the complexity of both the software and hardware stack, from different displays and devices to a
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by proc0 3y ago
There are at least animation libs with methods to access the render loop, and then there is canvas api and maybe wasm.js? Not sure that is necessary for just exposing better abstractions to use directly instead of simplified languages with
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by proc0 3y ago
Text editor is probably not the best example. I'm thinking of the typical web app with "data lifecycle" as the article calls it, where there is rich interactivity and content is updated frequently based on interactions. In th
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by proc0 3y ago
That's mainly my point. The browser is the game engine, the web app is a game running it, but the way UI interactivity, components, etc, are abstracted in such a way that the tools end up creating a lot of problems instead of solving t
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by proc0 3y ago
Interesting and requires some more thought but initially it seems that the necessary low entropy of the conscious observer is left out. > In other words, if an observer knew all information regarding a system, there would be only one mic
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by proc0 3y ago
I can't help but feel web dev is reinventing the wheel when it comes to UI. It's basically game, there is a game loop, and all the actors/components may need updating on every frame. I'm not saying websites should be don
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by proc0 3y ago
Watch YT videos to get yourself into the right mindset, i.e. for math there is 3Blue1Brown that has excellent primers. There is virtually a channel for every subject matter and while they don't go into details, generally speaking, they
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by proc0 3y ago
It's a different product because it's coupled with the hardware.
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With a little savviness most of it has workarounds, and at least for custom pc builds it's still the easiest OS to deal with. I do wish there were more OS options with support for latest hardware without needing to manually deal with d
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by proc0 3y ago
Fair point. I guess nobody knows yet, and it's also worth a shot. In the context of AI alignment, I don't see strong evidence to suggest deep neural nets, transformers, and LLMs have any of the fundamental features of intelligence
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by proc0 3y ago
That's true, although it's much less substantiated because we have no idea what form that would take and how much effort is needed to get there. So far we have no evidence that LLMs, transformers or any other NN architecture have
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by proc0 3y ago
If anyone has played Talos Principle 2 (recommended for HN), the central plot is basically accelerationists vs. doomers... except it takes place after humans have gone extinct and only machines survived since AGI was one of humanity's
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by proc0 3y ago
The potential miscalculation is thinking deep neural nets will scale to AGI. There are also a lot of misnomers in the area, even the term "AI", is claiming systems are intelligent, but that word implies intelligibility or human le
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Can't Product Engineers be code first? I have noticed every company I've been at there is an overemphasis on delivering direct value to the customer and neglecting the engineering of the product, which is an ironic outcome. Codeba
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by proc0 3y ago
That the Allies shouldn't attack Germany because there would be too many civilian casualties. Same with Japan.
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by proc0 3y ago
That's pivoting from the experience of one person to comparing deaths in numbers. If we talk about the ratio we'll then need to include a bunch of other factors to explain it because it's not as simple as comparing experience
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by proc0 3y ago
Yeah it's a silly take, tbh. To clarify I just mean that's the reason people pay attention. That's why there's the colonizer narrative going on that fuels a lot of teh protests. But yeah it's more complicated than j
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by proc0 3y ago
Yeah, that's pretty bad, but it lacks the terror and the brutality. Many people survive accidents of that magnitude and recover sooner or later. I cannot imagine being taken hostage, seeing your family members tortured and killed in fr
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by proc0 3y ago
Nobody said that about the Germans during WW2, so I guess the disagreement is how bad the Hamas guys are. And also we can't let them prove themselves to be as bad as the Nazis (if we start comparing numbers), it's about preventin
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by proc0 3y ago
It's because on the surface it's an interracial conflict (it's not really, I guess, but that is the perception for most), and lots of people are obsessed over racial dynamics and analyzing history through that lens. There are
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by proc0 3y ago
Provoking an overreaction was the intention... and yet that is not factored into the criticism.
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> The videos of destruction and death in Gaza are far more horrific than corresponding videos in Israel Maybe you haven't seen enough of what happened in 10/7 then. I would rather get hit by a bomb then tortured to death in the
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by proc0 3y ago
Fair point, there is a difference between types of work. My perspective is that the vast majority of it is not only undesirable by nature but also necessary. Even fulfilling jobs are still work and most people would rather just have more fr
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by proc0 3y ago
I admit it is reductionist but it's also true. Even in your example, not many are preparing a nice meal for themselves from scratch. Even farmers who would have the cows to slaughter and the vegetables to harvest still need to buy thei
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by proc0 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I think building your life around a car is not a good idea. It's of course the most common thing to do especially in the U.S.. but once you get a car, in order to maximize its value you have to maximize its u
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by proc0 3y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment, however the main point I think is short-sighted. Work is inescapable, a requirement of life. Denying this leads to a poor quality of life at the societal level. Put simply, work is the effort to lower ent
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by proc0 3y ago
How about HTML 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Being a skeptic is not a problem in science until the hypothesis includes the end of the world. Nobody cares if someone questions fluid dynamics, airplanes still fly and boats still float, but climate change is not something that we want to
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How can you claim some hypothesis is true if the predictions are wrong? At the very least the hypothesis should be adjusted to try and include why the predictions have failed. I'm not saying there isn't evidence, but the details d

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