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Great point. They even did a bad job of reading the title. The title wasn't "Language is not essential for thought", the title was "Language is not essential for the cognitive processes * underlying* thought." We
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The cow example is a confusing example; I like the clock example much better. You are in a school building, with hundreds of classrooms, and there is a clock on each wall. All of the clocks are working perfectly, except for one classroom
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The impossibility of solving the Gettier problem meshes nicely with the recent trend to Baysianism and Pragmatism. Instead of holding out for justified true belief and "Bang-Bang" either labeling them True or False, give them deg
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Pick any metric. Human rights? We got rid of slavery. Technology? we mechanized farming, first with steam engines and then with the first practical internal combustion engines, we discovered how to fly. Science? Maxwell wrote his equa
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1 billion people is more than enough. The years 1865-1905 were some of the most amazing years in human history, and there were only ~ 1 billion people on the earth. and all these worries about having too many old people are way overblown.
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Back in the 80's, I read a book about computer programmer productivity...they tracked what programmers were doing, and how much time programmers spend each day doing it. They found that programmers spend 7% of their day walking. The a
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Perplexed!!!!!!! That is exactly the right word. It has no negative connotations like “bewildered” or “stupid” does, so it’s ok for them to self-describe as “perplexed” in a way because it is not self-denigrating like “stupid” is.
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We don't really have a good name for the emotion that this article describes as "feeling Stupid". You know what it feels like to be stupid? It feels like you are really smart! I feels like you already know all you need to k
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Can you make a movie set in the Harry Potter Universe? No, as it is copyrighted. What is that but copyrighting a vibe?
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// You can't hold a patent to a cartoon drawing of a mouse // No, cartoons are protected by copyright, not by patents. And if I'm not mistaken, the original comment which wondered if a general vibe could be in
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Your first plan cannot be "perfect" but that should not be an excuse for not making it "complete"---as complete as you can. If you know you'll have to hire at least 2 engineers, for example, the plan should contain
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// How can anyone hold IP over an abstract vibe? // Same way somebody can hold a patent to a cartoon drawing of a mouse. It's not any individual picture of Mickey Mouse which is (solely) copywrited; even if you dra
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The mice-infested restaurant is a great metaphor for the web....the only problem is that we don't even have a waiter :-) If you have a problem with Facebook there's nobody who comes over to your table and asks you how they can he
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When is being average not easier?
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I'm about as left wing as they come, but I really don't understand why anybody would blame anybody for getting the best price they could...on anything. If you really think that greed is the cause of inflation--well be the change y
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Arbeit macht frei.
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chuckle Wish you the best as well. Hold fast to the one's you love.
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// you're blaming the company // Hmmm....trying to figure out why you think I'm blaming the company. I'm not really--the company is not your friend, and it's not your family, nor should it be. &#x2F
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I wonder why that was? Perhaps she prioritized work over friends and family?
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I've had very similar experience as other commenters have stated W.R.T. calendar queues vs just good-old-fashioned std::priority_queue. Then, one day, my team hired this ancient soviet engineer who looked like he could have been Lenin&
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It means you should not sacrifice your health or relationships with spouse and kids for a company which cares so little about you that you could literally die in your cube and nobody would notice or care.
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Think about all the things at work that you are sooooo worried about, and seem soooo important. Probably for a company who literally wouldn't notice or even care if you just died at your desk.
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Just buy his books man. They'd be a bargain at 10x the price.
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Umm.....you do realize that COVID happened in 2020, right? I.e. right in the middle of the Trump administration? Or is this just another hallucinating LLM weaponized for getting us all upset at each other?
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Maybe change of state is the same thing as time?
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One of the main purposes of meetings is to reinforce the hierarchy. If somebody can drag you away from your desk, and make you listen to them talk interminably, and answer their uncomfortable questions for an hour or two, its pretty in-you
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chuckle there it is. While I was in NYC, my sister was living in a rural town, population of around 100. She was mystified why our governor was making us wash our hands and wear masks. Why, they weren't doing any of that in her to
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Of course, but that's what the opposing party should be doing--just like Democrats were correct to point out all the foibles of Trump. Nobody should just get a free pass.
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When the plague struck, I was living in NY city, in a large apartment building. *Every* *single* *day* one of my neighbors was wheeled out the front doors, feet-first, never to return. Then it was *two* neighbors a day... The hospital beds
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// I've shipped a game with his engine // Do you have a blog post or write-up about the experience? I'd love to know more about what working with both the engine and the man is like--and I suspect there's

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