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by psyc 4y ago
I just want to reiterate this point because I feel like people of a certain level of sophistication miss it all the time. Knowing which side of a conflict you’re on isn’t hypocrisy. I don’t want my adversary to have weapons. I don’t mind me
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by psyc 4y ago
“Women are people, just like men are people.” - yes, obviously. “Women are people, who are just like men.” - Noooop!
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by psyc 4y ago
I was about to write the same thing. When I saw the title, my first thought was "because Tolkein would have had that happen over his dead body, and that's kind of the whole point." I thought this was common knowledge, especia
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by psyc 4y ago
That’s a lot of signatories. Is pearl clutching a part of AI-Researcher culture?
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by psyc 4y ago
Arguing by “no agreed upon definition” is a transparent rhetorical bludgeon. Famously used to shut down discussion about hipsters many years ago. I hope most people will see through it.
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by psyc 4y ago
AKA Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
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by psyc 4y ago
I regularly use it for a sample of what Google and Bing are intentionally omitting.
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by psyc 4y ago
I’m good at conversation and getting to know people and I had no success with online dating (as opposed to acceptable success with serendipitous dating). I always thought it was because it’s hard to integrate them into your life. They’ve co
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by psyc 4y ago
Reading HN almost always makes me want to read HN less, but you’re right. I have no idea what most of this thread is on about. I’m hoping it’s just my age (40s). Almost nothing in this thread resembles any subset of my total sex life.
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by psyc 4y ago
I don't know by exactly which route I'm going to reach delivery of X project, but I know that I know how to navigate.
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by psyc 4y ago
This idea is often repeated (even in this thread). It sounds good, but I still haven't the slightest iota of an idea how you get from recursive strange-loopy self reflection to the experienced sensory field (sometimes "qualia&quot
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by psyc 4y ago
Heck, there could be five. [Dwight Shrute: “That’s a very real possibility.”]
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by psyc 4y ago
My comment has nothing to do with the letter. It’s about people using a false idea of what Musk’s position on speech is to score easy points.
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by psyc 4y ago
The purpose of Twitter is speech. People like Musk argue it is analogous to a public space. Twitter users don't work for Twitter and are not subordinates of Twitter. Do you also imagine that Musk believes service people ought to be all
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by psyc 4y ago
The other thread is full of this nonsense. You give the impression that you believe that free speech absolutists think you ought to be allowed to walk up to your CEO and tell him to go fuck himself, without retaliation. What other things wo
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by psyc 4y ago
Are you telling us that kids these days don't have boyfriends and girlfriends? Just fuck buddies? The biological phenomenon of falling in love evolved out of the species in one generation? I don't believe it.
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by psyc 4y ago
They could judge through the lens of 500 crypto projects and the response would be the same. If I know a company sells via multi-level marketing, do I really need to wait around to hear what the product is? Really?
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by psyc 4y ago
So have I. And that’s why this tiresome perennial argument will never die. You’ve either worked with one and seen fit to give them due credit, or only the first, or neither. And yes the ones I’ve worked with have also been helpful, humble,
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by psyc 4y ago
Internally, salary ranges at MS are quite narrow by job and level. Particularly since they're more compressed toward zero than at the FAANGs and Unicorns. Why would they invite trouble by not simply publishing those?
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by psyc 4y ago
It's only trivial if you already know it's prime. Determining that is non-trivial enough that a tractable deterministic algorithm wasn't devised until 2002, and its time complexity is thought to be the sixth power of log(n
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by psyc 4y ago
It’s normal when they’re used as adjectives. Less so as nouns.
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by psyc 4y ago
That’s how I took it as well.
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by psyc 4y ago
The first time I disrobed at a nudist colony was literally an altered state of consciousness. I was conditioned unwaveringly from before my earliest memory to never, ever, ever, ever expose myself to anyone but doctors and lovers, on pain o
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by psyc 4y ago
I'm an American and I chose Germany without a moment's deliberation. Then I read your post to see if there were factors to favor the US, but all I see are points for Germany. As for the money, I don't know your personal situa
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by psyc 4y ago
Oh dear god I can't afford an Elder Scrolls lore rabbit hole today Fortunately this thread will just be bike shedding about the definition of metaphysics so [close tab]
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by psyc 4y ago
Absolutely this. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any work of nonfiction that equals it. I had cursory familiarity with C in ‘94. I got this book in ‘97. I don’t even recall learning C because it was as if I just skimmed back and forth thro
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by psyc 4y ago
I won't lie to someone's face but I've deliberately misled gatekeepers hundreds of times in order to grab the opportunity to deliver excellent work. People are judgy and scared, and we all know the exchange rate between fal
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by psyc 4y ago
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Spotify-Connect... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Turn-off-Spotify-Co... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Clos
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by psyc 4y ago
I find the web interface completely unusable. It's hard to pinpoint why it's terrible. It's just bad at every step of normal use, and sluggish as something slow. I only have two problems with the ios app, but they're ann
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by psyc 4y ago
At least science is caught up now on what anime artists have known for 100 years.

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