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Self-presentation in interracial setting: Competence downshift by White liberals(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The implication here then is that a stupefying proportion of Canadians have "lousy critical thinking skills", because even an associate professor of marketing from the article was, quote: [...] initially taken in. "I wa
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Labels are incredibly simplistic and reductive. Try to compress the entire written works of Shakespeare into a single word. You can, though it would not do his command of the language justice. Moreover there is the problem of ensuring that
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The cross-product is not to be confused with the Cartesian product, which is related to the (in this case unfortunately named) "cross join" in SQL. Cross products operate in ℝ³, while Cartesian products are just defined over sets.
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> There's at least one other practical advantage as well, that of "chunking". > When we have a grasp of relevant, powerful structures underlying our world, we can "chunk" along them to reason more quickly. Thi
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That's right, and you see this directly reflected in the "types" of the transition functions for DFAs and NFAs, respectively [0] [1]: δ : Q × E ⟶ Q δ : Q × E ⟶ P(Q) ... where Q denotes the set of the automaton&#x
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Determinism, in that given some set of inputs you only ever receive one output. Non-determinism, in that given some set of inputs it's possible to receive a collection (a list) of possible outputs. With lists you can express things lik
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See for instance the MonadIO typeclass from Haskell [0]. Constraining against this typeclass allows one to write monadic code / do-notation that works with any monad, so long as that monad supports the execution of IO statements. Now
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> Clearly professors or scholars in Women's studies / gender studies Good riddance. The standards for scholarship in these fields are laughable; see how Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work accepted for publication a for
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I would agree in cases where the desired effect is distinct from the side effect. However, for social media in particular, the desired effect is the side effect, which is the surveillance.
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The people want to be surveilled. This is their choice, which has been revealed billions of times since the dawn of the modern social media era. As a result I have zero pity, and the public can reap what it has sown. Privacy advocates, cyph
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> I just think it's weird insisting that someone that looks like a man, talks like a man, acts like a man is actually a woman So suppose that someone looks like, talks like, and acts like a man, but nonetheless feels with certainty
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Absurd. It's literally impossible, by definition, for gay white males to enact racist policy or otherwise act in ways harmful to minorities. "Gay" and "racist" are mutually exclusive terms, again by definition.
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> If you want to define "god" as a definition for abstract concepts, I can't stop you, although I doubt many would agree. This is extremely ignorant. God has been likened to an intellect since the days of the Neoplatonists
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> Someone who consistently identifies themself in a certain way is, at least ever so slightly, more likely to behave that way. Do you ever extend such benefit of the doubt to bible thumping creationists? Because the typical progressive c
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> None of this answers a related question - when Claude claims to feel spiritual bliss, does it actually feel this? Given that we are already past the event horizon and nearing a technological singularity, it should merely be a matter of
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⁵And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their
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> semantic drift and inaccurate (or even lacking) definitions for the word "god," which is probably better understood in modern English as "mind" or "mental construct" or "the abstract" (as contras
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> What a wildly random series of sentences that never bother making an actual point. What a dismissive and lazy thought terminating cliche with literally zero informational content whatsoever. > Personally, while I'd rather peopl
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No, my point is that the concept of identity is nonsense. Show me a proof of the existence of an "identity" and I will furnish you proof of the soul and god.
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> Some of the worst behavior ive seen in my life has been done by devout catholics. Those same "devout Catholics" can also be found identifying as secular "progressives" or whatever other word is trendy and evokes imp
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> I’m suspicious whenever someone says, “I’m an (adjective) (noun).” Why did you need to say, “I’m a great tennis player,” “I’m a deep thinker,” or “I’m a generous person”? Instead, why not simply play tennis, regardless of how great you
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> I am struggle to express myself in response to this, possibly because I'm at the bar, but I reeeaaally want to respond... so hold my beer and please forgive me for this long comment. I'm going to not only assume that you are
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> We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Not sure if wishful thinking trying to LARP-mani
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Depends on the language. Recently I got stuck on some issues with line-based processing of stream input with Haskell conduits and resorted to ChatGPT out of desperation. It wasn't of much use to me either, and then I ran out of free ti
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I am at least 99th percentile on typeracer. I wonder how much of these alleged LLM speedups are from people with low WPM and/or vim fluency.
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> They can't choose it, they didn't (necessarily) identify as it in the first place. On a postmodern basis: if enough people believe in that narrative, it becomes reified as the truth, which is socially constructed. Therefore i
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Then they should choose not to identify with a word that is defined by "social ownership of the means of production," [0] whose main proponent advocates that there is "only one way, [...] and that way is revolutionary terror.
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> Speaking of the effects of technology on individuals and society as a whole, Marshall McLuhan wrote that every augmentation is also an amputation. To clarify, what's being referenced here is probably the fourth chapter of McLuhan&
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More on chaos magick and sigil casting 101: https://archive.org/details/the-psychonaut-field-manual

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