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by protonfish 6y ago
It's so unfortunate because he is such a brilliant mathematician and physicist. To hear him spew this pseudo-scientific nonsense makes me embarrassed for him.
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by protonfish 6y ago
I find this argument unconvincing and harmful. The "will be exploited by few against the many" could be applied to any and all technologies. Our social systems have problems, and should be improved, but this has nothing to do with
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by protonfish 6y ago
Yet another reason artificial sweeteners are not health food.
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by protonfish 6y ago
I think that's unfair because I don't see that git even has a UI - it's designed to be a command-line API. The thousands of terrible GUIs out there are so bad that using the command line directly is still the best UI. (I thin
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by protonfish 6y ago
Then they wouldn't be Platonists, would they? Wait, do people here even understand what Platonism means? Rejection of evidence is a key tenet of that philosophy. This is why the other school of thought is called Empiricists - because t
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by protonfish 6y ago
A problem with "logic" is that there is no one, true system. There are many possible logics and at a certain level of complexity they are more or less equivalent (a Turing machine, for example) It's a just a system of symbols
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by protonfish 6y ago
And writers explain nature using words.
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by protonfish 6y ago
Unfortunately Platonists don't believe in evidence so this won't convince them that their religious beliefs are wrong.
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by protonfish 6y ago
2 things I can think of right off the bat are that changing schedules can be done per-person, per-industry, etc. and doesn't have to be forced upon everyone whether it's good for them or not. Another reason is the technical diffic
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by protonfish 6y ago
It possible that they are using the best current tech and what is fashionable right now is actually garbage that would never work for a high volume, easily maintainable site.
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by protonfish 6y ago
At first I wasn't going to reply because you are clearly not discussing in good faith (you neglected to address my evidence to the contrary or the flaw in your reasoning but instead focused on my random afterthought.) But others might
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by protonfish 6y ago
Having worked on customer-tracking systems for several companies and seen executive strategy first hand and compiled reports to assess the effectiveness of these types of programs I have witnessed clear evidence that what you are saying is
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by protonfish 6y ago
Please don't use weak/strong to denote type systems. Those terms are highly subjective and even non-technical people would quickly form an opinion about which is better. (Strong is good, weak is bad.) Static/dynamic is more a
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by protonfish 6y ago
This is the ACLU position https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-... It doesn't sound like they are against them at all.
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by protonfish 6y ago
That does not sound like a good solution to the problem of powerful bad actors using social media to spread conflict and misinformation. In fact, it is not a solution at all. I don't understand this attitude of defeatism. Clearly how t
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by protonfish 6y ago
According to your own beliefs, your statement above can't be true. But one thing about it is certain: It is not objective interesting to me in the slightest.
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by protonfish 6y ago
That is ridiculous. Nobody is asking FB to takes sides on the Reade vs Biden issue. We are asking them to remove QAnon level insanity.
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by protonfish 6y ago
Agreed there is no guaranteed way to only allow truth. However, there are many easy ways to remove utter nonsense. Maybe we should start with that and see how it goes.
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by protonfish 6y ago
I agree that I don't trust anyone to tell me what is true, but there is a base level of fact-checking that is beneficial: Remove anything that is completely fabricated and makes claims without a single shred of evidence. There is absol
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by protonfish 6y ago
This is already how it works for a lot of channels except the funding comes through Patreon. This is strong evidence that viewer sponsorship works yet YouTube is just missing out on their cut.
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by protonfish 6y ago
I recently had a major struggle with it's inability to export to CMYK. I eventually found a way to get my graphics into CMYK by exporting to PDF plus an assortment or ad-hoc scripts for conversion. That seems like a real deal-breaker f
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by protonfish 7y ago
Exactly my point - that viewing magic in math is more akin to religion than science.
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by protonfish 7y ago
But that's what they they were designed for. The first "numbers" were arguably clay tokens meant to represent goods in storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_numeral_sys... Numbers were
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by protonfish 7y ago
That's not how I see it. Mathematics is not science, even though science has found practical uses for certain types of math. Pure math does not require observation of the real world for proof, only consistency with itself. As a system
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by protonfish 7y ago
It seems to me that it should be straightforward to objectively measure hiring practices by correlating different interview questions and techniques with subsequent job performance (compared to a control.) Has this been done? If so, I'
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by protonfish 7y ago
Except we can't ship them into space.
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by protonfish 7y ago
Right now I am working with a React app that is even more striking - how little it does with so much code. Though I am starting to see the trick. Keep making wrappers that only reference other wrappers.
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by protonfish 7y ago
It makes sense that a company with a business model based on mining and selling personal data would not find mobile web to be acceptable - too many privacy and security protections that can be eschewed on native. For the same reasons, consu
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by protonfish 7y ago
The first time I read this, I was ready to be convinced and left disappointed. His entire argument is based on avoiding "the pernicious three dots." What's so pernicious about them? They are short, clear, unambiguous, easy to
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by protonfish 7y ago
That's a question I asked myself about 10 years ago, so I made one. Is it perfect? Probably not, but I have strived to make it as rational and rigorous as I could. http://behaviorallogic.com/foundations/

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