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by psyc 10y ago
I know it's fun to be envious of rich people, but I grew up in poverty, and so far I've earned myself 5 years to focus full time on my stuff. I know it's a little harder, maybe, but all I had to do was go to work first. Most
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by psyc 10y ago
The unlikely predecessor of Grand Theft Auto.
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by psyc 10y ago
I read 194-209. I think their approach is fantastic, and it's rare to see such careful thought on this subject. However... nothing struck me as being incompatible with an information IO model?
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by psyc 10y ago
I just wanted to back you up, because I have a funny feeling you'll be criticized (common for frontierspeople) and I was thinking a lot about this very thing just yesterday. I've been a computer scientist for 25 years, and I'
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by psyc 10y ago
The premise about computation being observer-relative overestimates how much meaning we read into a system, and underestimates how much we read out of it. When two 1kg bags of sand land on a lever and counterbalance the one 2kg bag at the o
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by psyc 10y ago
I learned OpenGL during an LSD trip. My subjective experience was that the information just went in without any resistance. I've since written a lot of OpenGL code, and I can run it all and see that it objectively works. Of course, I&#
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by psyc 10y ago
Seems even more probable that the controversy exists because it's a two-way feedback effect.
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by psyc 10y ago
Really? I'd say there's a need to implement ever stronger successors to the likes of Tor, Ethereum, and Bitcoin, until people finally stop hand-wringing over taking action about "abuses", because it's clearly mathem
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by psyc 10y ago
People disagreeing doesn't automatically make it subjective. It would be an amazing coincidence if every language and framework happened to be exactly as well-designed as every other, even though they were designed by different people
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by psyc 10y ago
Yeah, it's more insidious than that. I've been a heavy Reddit user for 7 years. The situation on most subreddits is now basically all comments being moderator-approved at a fine level of detail. They just do it after the comme
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by psyc 10y ago
Utilitarian outcome is not the only basis for policy, especially in a society that has individual liberty as a core value. If it was, we could have a much more draconian society than we do. We don't ban things everywhere we find a stat
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by psyc 10y ago
Factorio is about mining, industrializing, polluting, and slaughtering the locals. It's probably in my top 3 of all time. I have exactly zero need for my fictional entertainment to reflect the values that I align with IRL.
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by psyc 10y ago
https://twitter.com/thinkpiecebot
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by psyc 10y ago
Comments superficially like yours are sometimes true, but in this context what you're saying is not relevant. Yelp could delete reviews if they felt like it. However, the 1st amendment does protect both the consumers and Yelp from th
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by psyc 10y ago
I use Reddit heavily, and subscribe to a wide variety of different sized subs. AskReddit is the only one I'm aware of that's still remotely anything-goes. Every other sub is so heavily modded that I have no expectation of any give
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by psyc 10y ago
The other YouTube popularization that regularly irks me is when people beam about how "there are lots of different sized infinities", without explaining that when mathematicians use the word "size" and "infinity&quo
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by psyc 10y ago
I think that if you ever leave the house at all, you can play no matter what else you're doing. Today, I went to an appointment, and there was a Pokemon in front of the building. I went to the store - there were 3 outside. I went to a
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by psyc 10y ago
This is called Idealism. I wouldn't go so far as to say I "believe in it", but I often think its implications should be explored much more. Unfortunately, hardly anyone takes it "seriously" enough.
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by psyc 10y ago
You may or may not be "right" in this particular case, but in general it's stupid to assume philosophers in the HN audience won't be drawn out to comment on such an article.
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by psyc 10y ago
Maybe politicians should have to pass a semi-"objective" process that is like the ideal for university admissions. They have to demonstrate (in a formal way, not by spending millions to broadcast their message to the people) that
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by psyc 10y ago
For me, the major impact of procgen is not the effort or cost, but the translation of skillset. I can handle gigantic, difficult algorithm design problems, and still maintain engagement and happiness. If I have to do even rudimentary art or
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by psyc 10y ago
There are similarities in the general quality of the mental state. The BIG difference is that ketamine is dissociative. Perceptions on LSD and shrooms are still strongly correlated with real sensory input. You're hyperconscious of your
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by psyc 10y ago
No. Intersex means born with genitalia that aren't formed in a way that's clearly identifiable as either male or female, but rather somewhere developmentally in between.
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by psyc 10y ago
>Let's be honest though, did anyone actually like megatextures? Phrased this way, this question makes no sense to me. Perhaps you mean specifically the art in Rage. Virtual texture memory strictly increases the capacity for detail
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by psyc 10y ago
I have always used lined note pads at work, for meeting notes and task lists. At home, I've always used large, letter-sized books of drawing paper. I have about 10 of these filled with diagrams and notes, mostly for 3D engines and game