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by retsibsi 7y ago
> a one sided narrative containing information that they know is false What specifically are you accusing Hossenfelder of lying about? I read your linked comment[0] and the Hossenfelder transcript[1], and your characterisation of a lot o
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by retsibsi 7y ago
I think it depends a lot on how it's done, and what the speaker's genuine feelings are. If someone holds me in contempt, they're not going to magically make me feel okay about their negative feedback by going through the moti
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Unmatched offers could still provide some information.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> The available data disagrees with you on this: > https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1238041 That article doesn't seem relevant. 'Poverty impedes cognitive function' is entirely compatible with &#x27
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> The easy way would be to pick out a limited subset of votes and require voters to produce the receipts for them. It's not ideal since this makes the system more complicated for voters and voters are forced to use fake ballots if y
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by retsibsi 7y ago
How do you explain presidential campaigns costing billions of dollars[0] in the first place? (And that's just one slice of the pie, when we take into account not only all the other election campaigns, but other sources of propaganda, l
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by retsibsi 7y ago
That makes sense, thanks.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Not trying to be a smartarse, but isn't that what comments are for? If they aid your comprehension, there's a reasonable chance they'll also help someone else in the future.
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I know this sort of criticism can be annoying, but despite commenting on HN I would surely qualify as a 'lay reader' in this context, and I have a strong preference for authors taking care to either tell the whole truth or flag th
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by retsibsi 7y ago
What do you mean by 'in private' here? The criticism in your other comment seems to be based on things that he said at a public or at least semi-public event.
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For me Eliot's genius lay in her attitude to her characters, and so I assume to real people: she saw through their facades and was happy to drily point out their flaws and even mock them; but she clearly had a genuine affection for the
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Fair points, thanks. (The question was only semi-rhetorical, as I'm only an observer rather than an insider, so I appreciate the genuine answer.)
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But in many areas there was less competition by orders of magnitude, right?
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Some of this might depend on expectations. Perhaps she was a surprisingly well-drawn character by the standards of FPS NPCs, without breaking the mould completely -- like any comparable character, she was player-focused and very two-dimensi
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Maybe I made a mistake, but I think this can be solved really simply just by taking each option in turn, assuming it is correct and looking for an inconsistency. 1 can't be right because it both affirms and contradicts 2. 2 can't
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Isn't Twitter properly chronological with 'Latest Tweets' turned on? For a while that setting would frequently reset to the non-chronological default, but at the moment it seems to be sticky. (I mostly use Twitter in a web br
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> The alignment problem? The problem of ensuring that the AI's values are aligned with ours. One big fear is that an AI will very effectively pursue the goals we give it, but unless we define those goals (and/or the method by w
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by retsibsi 7y ago
How would you define 'conscious' in an empirically testable way? I'm not being a smartarse here, I'm sincerely curious -- because it seems that you're confident that non-biological consciousness is impossible, and a
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Maybe this is just my innate pedantry talking, but I think the opposite pathology is common too: some people are great at writing convincing but illogical/weakly-supported arguments that only fail when broken down and looked at in a gr
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by retsibsi 7y ago
It's a big claim, and potentially misleading even if technically true. There could plausibly be a higher accident rate, but lower serious injury and fatality rates. (Due to lower-speed collisions, and reduced likelihood of being knocke
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> seller should modulate buying ads with a random stream of bits, such that the impulse response (of linearized approximation in tangent space for sales / advertising dollar) can be estimated Could you unpack this a bit? (I'm n
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Combined with the quote you posted in response to my comment, this does make the article (which didn't load for me) seem confusing. One one hand the fifth hitman 'eventually told the police', but on the other hand 'he to
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Thanks. I clicked the article but got an error. (Probably fixable by whitelisting in noscript, but I didn't feel like doing that.)
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by retsibsi 7y ago
The version I heard was that the fifth hitman contacted the victim-to-be, who agreed to fake his own death. That plan was foiled, leading to everyone in the chain getting caught. I have no idea if this is actually true, though; I think my s
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Thanks! Cosmicomics rings a bell as something I'd considered reading but never got around to, and those mini-synopses on the Wikipedia page are pretty enticing.
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Thanks! Not something I would have naturally gravitated to, but I think I might enjoy them.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean that as a criticism, and your message was pretty clear. I just thought that some people (possibly me, if I hadn't already read the book) might be unnecessarily put off by that final phrase.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Invisible cities was too visual for me (I have a weak visual imagination, so I can't appreciate books that rely too heavily on images), but I really liked If On A Winter's Night a Traveler, and this quote reminds me that I want to
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by retsibsi 7y ago
I think it's even enjoyable by people who would be put off by the phrase 'alarmingly postmodern'. It's playful and weird and meta, sure, but it's not difficult (or purely an excuse for Calvino to show off), and th
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by retsibsi 7y ago
You're still ignoring the point everyone is trying to make: whatever set of evidence you have, however strongly it points to someone's guilt, there are always possible alternative explanations. 100% certainty is a requirement th

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