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Brin wrote: >> "You all believe that widely diverse points of view have merit, right?" I wrote "consider" using it in the sense of "to believe" rather than "to evaluate". "Consider"
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This was a common view back then. By 1986, Americans had long been culturally and geographically insulated from other cultures and nations. Post-modern philosophy was in full flower, promoting the idea that no world view nor cultural practi
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> The idea that people in e.g. Asia don't tend to consider outside viewpoints as much as Americans is so absurd I'm not even sure what to say. That is indeed an absurd idea. Fortunately, that's not what he wrote. He wrot
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https://archive.is/qBaiH
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> The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains... That's quite an opening sentence.
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> if you know the truth you can make much better decisions than those who are ignorant There are some fallacious hidden assumptions there. One is that "knowing the truth" equates to better life outcomes. I'd argue that h
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All of your objections are addressed in the article.
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This is such a simple idea that it seems like it shouldn't work. Pretty nifty.
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We all have incoherent or incorrect notions that sometimes we even commit to writing. They do not usually reach the front page of HN, however. I'm rather embarrassed for the author. The problem and the solution discussed is maintaining
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> wouldn't you first try to give those robots a test on Earth? The answer there is "yes, of course" but that's not an answer to the question I asked. The question I'd like to know the answer to is "who is
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We performed this experiment in high school chemistry and it has remained with me as one of my deepest aha moments. It has become fashionable in foodie circles to mock the idea of adding oil to boiling pasta so as to prevent stickiness. The
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> But I'm sure this is being done. By whom?
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Just a quick thought about the name. Microsoft/GitHub's coding assistant is Copilot. If your project gets traction, I'm certain you will receive a cease and desist letter for using the name Design CoPilot.
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I read your comment before I read the article, and it gave me context for this passage: > After extensive tests and analyses, Boeing engineers concluded the helium leaks were the result of slightly degraded seals exposed to toxic propel
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> we didn't allow personal APs for interference reasons For "interference reasons"? Would you mind expanding on that?
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I got that too, but had never seen that permission before. I just went ahead and allowed it. Current best practice is not to ask permissions like that (location, notifications, or programming midi devices) on landing, but to stick them beh
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Does paywallskip scrape archive.is and archive.org?
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https://archive.is/3kNwQ
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Been there. It really depends on what else is going on in your life and why you have low energy. Assuming you have the basics covered, like good sleep, good food and good water (if you don't, that's likely the problem), and your w
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Washington, D.C. has the famous Foggy Bottom . Edit: America has a lot of bottoms, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographical_bottoms Nowhere as grand as Aunt Mary's Bottom but South Dakota
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As a US citizen residing in the EU, I can maybe play the role of an interpretor or anthropological informant. Your idea that the GDPR is just a kind of gotcha, as if the high fines were a kind of disingenuous speed trap, is a reflection of
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What does "upset" mean here? How does this human emotion "upset" apply to the European Union ? Is Uber "upset"?
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The original rationale for criminalizing the possession of child porn was that a crime was inherently committed in its creation, and possession is participation in that crime. I think this is a correct conclusion. I can't see this ra
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Is that in the article? I didn't see that. Where is that from?
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Downvotes? How strange.
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"roflstomping"¿ What does it mean?
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> Experience developing the SR-71 led Kelly Johnson to believe that the U.S. needed even larger, 250,000-ton presses, and in the 1980s the Army studied whether presses of up to 200,000 tons might be useful. But no such presses were ever
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I first learned about these presses several years ago from the YouTube channel Machine Thinking which is excellent and unfortunately infrequent. The linked video has some excellent footage of these beasts in action. "America's
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The English-language term "demo effect" means the same thing. https://quentin.delcourt.be/blog/2020-01-22_demo-effect/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=demo%20effec...
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It's about defending the principle of free speech rather than what someone said. To your point, only reprehensible or unpopular speech must be defended by the principle. As you say, speech that is popular and uncontroversial would not

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