richmarr

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by richmarr 9y ago
How did you think AI works?
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> I would rather see people hang themselves with their own rope than be told how to tie a noose by others who supposedly know what's best for them. I don't see the relevance of this. I assume you don't literally mean y
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Well, presumably working class people are as able as anyone else to decide what is in their best interest. This is a fallacious argument based on the assumption that people are all engaged and informed, which is not the case, and wor
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> I think there is a large proportion of working class conservative voters There's a difference between having the voters and serving the voters. One might reasonably ask how tax cuts and spending cuts serve working class vote
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by richmarr 9y ago
Cached text version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:67fL4MZ...
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by richmarr 9y ago
Stuff like this is really useful, although does miss some of the key benefits of Lambda-like services... the connection between billing and usage on a per-function basis, the ability to monetise your functions, the ability to scale genuinel
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by richmarr 9y ago
> It's the protestant puritan spirit. Have you watched the documentary "13th"? If so I'd be curious to hear what explains the delta in your opinion. If not, I can recommend it. [Edit to clarify] For the sake of folk
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by richmarr 9y ago
I think you've overstated the extent to which this argument "demolishes" geezerjay's. You're right, there could exist a tier of organisms that do have centrally nervous nociception etc. but don't feel &quot
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by richmarr 9y ago
> It doesn't disprove it, it just demolishes that particular argument. geezerjay made the point that the ability to experience pain is a useful survival trait, so we should expect it to be widespread. Filling in some gaps in your
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by richmarr 9y ago
The argument that the existence of negative stimuli disproves the ubiquity of pain only holds if "response" is a single atomic thing, which it isn't. Animals don't respond in the same way to being prodded in the head as
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by richmarr 9y ago
If it's not a counter to the parent commenter's suggestion that the ability to feel pain is widespread then I don't see the relevance of this line of discussion.
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by richmarr 9y ago
I agree with you, we only have proxies like behaviour and neurological responses.
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by richmarr 9y ago
'I can poke you in the side of the head, therefore fish don't feel pain' Is that your argument?
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by richmarr 9y ago
I think the belief that animals don't feel pain started with Descartes (or was at least popularised by him) because we're "conscious" and they're "not". Since then we've been slowly reverting that bel
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by richmarr 9y ago
With respect, your opinion is anecdotal. These things aren't always obvious, or even visible to respondants at all. I'm not saying there's no effect, just that right now this claimed finding seems contrary to the existing bod
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by richmarr 9y ago
> The only "online crap" explanation I can think of is if the "first born" box was pre-filled and people changed the response for their number of siblings but didn't change the pre-filled response for birth orde
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by richmarr 9y ago
> History has shown us that relying 'prudence of a central banker' is a really bad idea Sorry, no. History shows no such thing. Just because $BAD_THING sometimes happens under $APPROACH doesn't mean that any other approa
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by richmarr 9y ago
Your faith in your engineering staff is beside the point. Bias is human nature. Unless you're actively structuring your processes to exclude or minimise it then you're certainly suffering from it, the only question is how. It&#x27
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Men are worse at understanding the overlap in response to those two variants.
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Seems like you're projecting your preferences onto others. Personally I find things like 'Star Trek' and 'Dr Who' to be enjoyable, but they almost never makes sense... the science seems to be always bent to suit the
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by richmarr 9y ago
Sure but not all goalposts were created equal. We talk about the use of tools because it's a very significant conceptual leap. Once you understand that you can manipulate your environment to accomplish your goals the abilities in your
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by richmarr 9y ago
I see your point, you're tying "fiat" to the act of spontaneous creation at will rather than the lack of a backing commodity, but I don't agree that definition, and even if I did I'm not sure it's as cast-iron
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by richmarr 9y ago
Nitpick... crypto currencies are fiat currencies (if they're currencies at all, rather than commododites) Edit: Fiat just means its value is driven by supply/demand rather than being backed by something like gold.
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by richmarr 9y ago
Now you've diluted your "centralisation culture" comment to "engineers, for whatever reason, will write off certain technology ideas" I can probably agree with it.
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by richmarr 9y ago
The comments you're making are tangential to my point. Not really interested in chasing rabbit-holes today.
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by richmarr 9y ago
Sorry, I disagree with your Wikipedia example. If Wikipedia is decentralised then so is literally any other site with user-generated content/moderation. Wikipedia's technology, policies, financing and infrastructure are all cont
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by richmarr 9y ago
I'm going to restate because I suspect miscommunication here... my point was that an apparent 'centralisation culture' is a result of building centralised tech being typically simpler/cheaper than building decentralised.
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Assume X is usually cheaper/simpler than Y to solve the same problem. Most projects use X, right? That's your 'centralisation culture'.
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We did a study on 700 candidates applying for a graduate role, putting CV sift in parallel with work sample and situational judgement testing. The CV scoring was entirely uncorrelated with who went on to do well (in fact it was slightly neg
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by richmarr 9y ago
Fingerprinting a photo to detect copies is much easier than accurately classify what is and isn't 'pornographic' content. Classification is a harder problem to begin with, and 'pornographic' is a subjective judgemen

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