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by retsibsi 7y ago
> I'm saying it is possible that 1000 coin flips could come up heads in a row and doing so isn't proof of cheating. Unlikely, but possible. FWIW, I think the '1000 coin flips' thing was an exaggerated analogy used to
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by retsibsi 7y ago
Twitter is basically an excuse to make pithy, sweeping pronouncements rather than nuanced or detailed arguments. An essay on this topic might be interesting and useful, but as a 16-word tweet it's just empty. "Don't publish i
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by retsibsi 7y ago
The book is an essay collection, so I think he's saying each essay from the book is available on the 'essays' section of his website.
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by retsibsi 7y ago
> given a sufficient body of work, you could churn out fiction in the style of famous deceased authors by having the machine do the bulk of the work then having a small team go in and edit the work to make it fully coherent and an enjoya
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Edit: any explanation for the downvote? Maybe the list was overkill, but I was responding to someone who accused another of being 'disingenuous, ignorant, or lazy', then presented very weak evidence for a claim that was supposed t
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I was tempted to reply with a link to the wiki article for survivorship bias, but that would come across snarkier than I intend. Seriously though, this is a bit like taking advice on financial risk-taking from a startup billionaire.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I'm in Australia, so if you're not then we might have a completely different range to choose from. (Hopefully your dumbphone market is better than ours!) But for what it's worth: - My previous phone was a Nokia 3310. It was t
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I just left a top-level comment, but this is an old topic now so I don't know if you'll see it -- I wanted to thank you for making this and releasing it for free; it really helped me to find the kind of calm concentration that usu
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I just spent, I'm not sure, maybe an hour and a half listening to it ('Trees', to be specific) while reading. I usually struggle to concentrate for extended periods, but this really seemed to help. Ju
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Appeal to nature doesn’t imply that it’s the optimal thing to do. It doesn't, but it's not meaningless either. It can be a useful heuristic, for example when trying to judge what conditions are better for the animals involved
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Where's the inconsistency? Presumably the socialist environmentalists you refer to want both reduced consumption of products that harm the environment and a massive decrease in inequality. So they don't want 'only the 1%&
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by retsibsi 8y ago
You are obviously better informed than me, but if the problem is so easy to solve, and they were already using the relevant tool, why was it still a problem? Are you arguing that they failed through incompetence, or that they were lying&#x2
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but PhotoDNA seems to be a tool for identifying reposts and edits of already known illegal images -- those that have previously been found and had their hashes entered into the database. So if Tumblr had a
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I believe they're using some automated filtering (see e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/tumblr-porn-ai-adult-content/ ). I assume it's easier to train an AI to recognise pornography generally, rather than
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I've noticed a similar, but less extreme strategy that a lot of polished speakers seem to use: they'll insert large gaps every now and then, but not in the places you'd expect. Rather than doing it between two different ideas
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> It mostly means thinking before I speak rather than as I speak Beyond the first volley of a conversation, I don't think I could do this while really listening to the other person.
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NSW Electoral Commission confirms iVote contains critical Scytl crypto defect(itnews.com.au)
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by retsibsi 8y ago
If you're comfortable sharing, what did you do to get out of that state?
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Am I autistic? I wouldn't assume so, unless you have other reasons to think so. I'm not diagnosed autistic, and I wouldn't self-diagnose either, though I do think I'm on the autistic side of 'normal' for s
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by retsibsi 8y ago
You think you're safe with your 30,000 tools -- yet all of your crypto funds are in bitcoin? Centraliser. I spread my wealth across 30,000 different currencies.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I have a similar experience -- I was going to say that my intelligence seems to vary inversely with my level of social anxiety, but I don't think it's quite that consistent. Sometimes my intellect really seems to shut down for no
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> The question presupposes that avoiding war would avoid "brutal violence, intense prolonged suffering, anguish and grief" later. In many cases, that's not the case. Instead, the decline can bring with it violence, intense
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by retsibsi 8y ago
The post is all about the need for a decadent nation to 'refresh' itself. It toys with the idea of 'a really conscious and socially adept mechanism to force a people to renew themselves', before concluding that (sadly) m
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Sometimes, as sad as it is to imagine, I think you need a good war to refresh a country... Please think about this in concrete terms. Not just the abstract concept 'war', but the specific instances of brutal violence, intense
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by retsibsi 8y ago
That's not the full story, though. The legitimacy of our social structures is based in large part on claims of meritocracy and (imperfectly, but relatively) equal opportunity. Vast inequalities in hereditary wealth make this a very obv
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Yeah but it makes a lot more sense in some contexts than others. Like, if you're talking about a religion or a political affiliation, membership in that group is defined by some common beliefs or values. (Obviously people routinely g
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by retsibsi 8y ago
That doesn't follow, even if he meant what he said entirely literally.[1] An analogy: many recipes have one or two ingredients that contribute most of the flavour -- but you can't optimize a chocolate cake for tastiness by forgett
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by retsibsi 8y ago
The alternative seems quite self-obsessed, too. When people who have hurt others, and then reformed, say that they have no regrets because everything that happened made them the person they are today, that is a big red flag to me (unless &#
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> ... right up until they suffer a personal financial loss. Then it is up to the government to make them whole.... I'm very much not a libertarian (or anarchist, or anything in that vicinity) but this is unfair. We all have to work
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by retsibsi 8y ago
In the case of housing and transport, it's easy to see why prices can be very different in different parts of the world: cheaper housing basically just means that not as many people (relative to the number of houses available) are will

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