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I had a look. I recognise Allan Hazlett's name, but that's as much as I can say. Epistemology, PoM and stuff are all fairly interesting but depend a lot on the quality of teaching, in my experience. If you don't want to just
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No: but learning Python and doing compTIA A+ has. I was thinking about doing a Masters focusing on analogy, or shifting over to cognitive studies where I could jump ship to STEMland. But being a poor student makes it too difficult for me to
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>I have to ask: how does one write the "hello world" of philosophy? And please don't cite me a manual. Dubito ergo cogito ergo sum. I'm sure you could write that out in a faintly amusing way using 'import' o
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Disgruntled philosophy grad: not very much, in my estimation. Most of the good ones born in the last five decades have been swallowed by CS, at least in the West. There's lots I'd like to say on the topic, originating from 'p
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This is one of the issues with sci-fi movies for the less metaphorically minded. Or, well, anyone. I find books make the ideas much more portable, which is half the fun of sci-fi in the first place. Things in real life are never exactly wha
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It seems 'evolved' means whatever people want it to mean very early on into these types of discussion. Usually there's a notion floating around of 'more- or less-evolved' that's not very well thought-through. A
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After some digging around gov.uk and looking for the back of an envelope, median income seems to be around £24k, and median rent/mth differs wildly between London (£1500) and the rest of England (~£750); can't seem to find a recen
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I really hope that the other direction gives the desired result.
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Not when applied without wisdom, but it's an excellent predictor of subsets of human behaviour, and a subset of those generalise well enough to satisfactorily explain existing phenomena. Simply because one has to be selective doesn&#x2
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I think book-writing software is one of those areas where 'UX' is crucially important, and if that's your ultimate goal then different kinds of features all get evaluated by the same metric, 'does this pass the idiot tes
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I was hoping that because the statement was so glib and so placed, it would be communicated that I was being tongue-in-cheek; I made it only because the countries I mentioned happen to be so important to Calvinism, which roughly connects to
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I'm sorry if 'low-hanging' comes off as disrespectful - I'm just guessing that aspects of embodiment, once understood, will be capable of fairly trivial description and reap large consecutive rewards. I remember your u&#
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Thank you very much for the link, and nice summary. This looks very interesting, I'm grateful: my learning habits mean I'm liable to playing with second-hand scraps of ideas, and missing out on sources.
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I sense the hand of an editor. Particularly regarding the title. Embodiment seems to be a branch with low-hanging fruit, when it comes to advancing AGI. I think the economic structural problems are important, but it's possible to over-
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I am not entirely sure that legalisation alone increases unhealthy usage. I think people that fit profiles which make substance addiction a significant risk, are mostly the same profiles that don't respect 'the law because it&#x27
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It's peculiar how reports of sensible policy make me feel Portugal is adorned in rubies and roses. Here in the UK the Home Office recently said they have no plans to look at even the classification of cannabis. Despite most local polic
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Some suggestions, assuming this effect is true for other regions: - because the social functions SMM has enabled/filled/replaced are more rich and varied, so longer and more differentiated conversations are more commonplace for a
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Sort of, but in the spirit of Groucho, I wouldn't want to be a member of any in-group that would have me. I avoid Reddit these days, except in specialist subreddits, it feels like wading through a mire, and highly combative. The over-a
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Good point re: citation scores. I like to imagine that people who think critically about data and measurement a lot don't take such things at face value. But maybe not. Univ of St Thomas Houston & Univ of Zagreb seem to be 're
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A field you yourself have omitted is philosophy. Not that I can blame you -- it's seen as inaccessible and/or without progress, and/or subsumed into other fields. There's two things you mentioned I want to touch/spe
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Amateur, though I have read Tononi's book and some of his work: My suspicion is that the answer is to do with how those bits are situated. Environmental complexity (or how it co-varies with ones percepts) seems to lend a lot to the ric
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As far as I'm aware, average book sales per capita have never been higher. The headline of this article is a wonderful example of how news outlets are scare-mongering for clicks. People are reading more, actually, and even those not bu
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Sounds like you need a second container. I went for a full set of black socks and black underwear, and all anomalous socks/underwear that survived the QC process sit on the other side of a piece of cardboard I blu-tac'd to the dra
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Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/505/
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I hope HN doesn't mind tangentially related Dylan Moran skits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlLpCh-lE54
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Regarding your second quote, my assumption is that she is applying the 'Death of the Author' principle to photography. It doesn't matter who the person behind the camera is, it only matters that what is captured and shared is
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Besides the fact that your story resonates with a few of mine, lets be friends; I think there is a lot of mileage in assessing a few facts: the sheer size of elephants, their defenseless young, the complexity of their social relationships,
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I have a sense this person is popular not for the gravity of his thinking... But the attractor function of philosophical-ecological critique for lefties. Particularly those that have a high verbal IQ. If you don't have a good map for t
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Hmmmm. "Hess says they tried to shop around the idea to other neuroscience journals first, to avoid the conflict of interest—but didn’t have much luck, since most editors they spoke to had never heard of algebraic topology". Neuro
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Off-topic: I'm surely not alone in utterly despising this kind of website design? On-topic: If we think the immigration crisis is 'bad' now... It's like comparing a dispute over garden fences to WWII.

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