ryanklee

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by ryanklee 3y ago
What a moron. Elon Musk might be the most manifest, gigantic, destructive example of dunning kruger that we've ever had to suffer through.
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Thousands of years of thinking about these issues, decades coming to hard grips with how little we understand, and LLMs drop like an atom bomb waking up every idiot on the planet who has naive things to say about consciousness. What's
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by ryanklee 4y ago
The usage in that case is a term of art. So silly. Again, no one uses the word complex to mean many (except in very narrow circumstances when the new definition that no one uses has to be indicated explicitly in order to prevent confusion g
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by ryanklee 4y ago
No one uses the word complex to mean many. Further, sometimes 1 thing is overloaded in difficult-to-understand ways, and so there should be more things, not fewer. Sometimes there are many things that should be 1 thing. There isn't jus
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Longer Poms are (often) receommended for people with ADHD because starting tasks is a massive, dangerous hurdle. Stopping more frequently means starting more frequently. Longer Poms help.
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by ryanklee 4y ago
If all you are doing is programming of the everyday industry sort, none. You can have a fruitful interesting career from frontend to back without thinking about formal math at all. If you want to start specializing in graphics or designing
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by ryanklee 4y ago
> > it wouldn't be so incredibly difficult to determine. > Never said it was easy. My point is that this process of determination happens over time and in a non-linear fashion, so the corpus contains tons of noise around any g
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by ryanklee 4y ago
- If factuality were just a matter of simplicity, it wouldn't be so incredibly difficult to determine. - The corpus of written language is full of ambiguity and contradictory statements. - A lie makes it's way half way around the
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by ryanklee 4y ago
What children do or do not want is an unreliable signal of what is good for their long-term well being. Being paid changes the dynamic in a deep way from being a hobby. It opens up the floodgates of manipulation and abuse. How is it at all
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by ryanklee 4y ago
I believe the parent comment's point would be better formulated as: We make an exception for child actors but do so thoughtlessly; if we applied the same lines of moral reasoning that leads us to prevent children from working elsewhere
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by ryanklee 4y ago
I promote exercise as an excellent way to combat and prevent anxiety/depression/etc., but calling it a silver bullet is just wrong. Some people can do all the right things and still feel like absolute shit at the end of the day. T
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Could not stress this point more. OP's therapist should be all over these issues, offering different tools, strategies, frameworks, etc. Good therapy actively solves problems. If your therapist is not doing this, fire them immediately
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by ryanklee 4y ago
No, I mean toxoplasmosis. Your original comment seemed to imply you had a personal experience that lent credence to the study's result.
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by ryanklee 4y ago
You had it?
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by ryanklee 4y ago
If you identify them.
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by ryanklee 4y ago
If it's true that toxoplasmosis is is present in 1/3 - 1/2 of the population, I immediately find any specific findings like this dubious since the scale of confounding factors must be enormous. Yes, they controlled for some,
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by ryanklee 4y ago
No, you do not need to take the good with the bad. People ought to start drawing better lines and turning individuals away when they display such characteristics. Refer them to therapy, not the boardroom or the podium or any other seat of p
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Placebo is a baseline effect. It's a hurdle to clear to show efficacy above the minimum any substance can meet. I've heard this argument before, i.e., placebo is an effect therefore why not, but I cannot understand why time and mo
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Sorry, but I don't see how this is a clarifying response. Research, composition, and communication are a big chunk of what ChatGPT is good at assisting. I don't know enough to claim that it /is/ the general case, but it&
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Hmmm, I suppose I'm interested in what you mean by bullshit. Just because AI makes something easier to do, doesn't mean the work is bullshit. Lots of research, composition, and communication work becomes much easier to do with an
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by ryanklee 4y ago
You can act in good faith and contribute to negative outcomes. This is what I mean when I say that Lex F is naive. He thinks he's doing a good thing and he's doing it in a big way, but it's a bad thing and it has big, bad con
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by ryanklee 4y ago
I understand. But they are naive, misguided, conflicted, and stuffed with money. There is no evidence that giving platforms to hucksters, Nazis, racists, or conspiracy theorists moves any conversation forward in any helpful manner. But ther
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Not really sure how you see me arguing anything whatsoever. My only statement is how I'm displeased with a group of podcaster personalities. That's not an ad hominem, that's me saying Lex F and Joe Rogan are features of an un
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by ryanklee 4y ago
I'm so sick of this cohort. They are obvious smugglers of bunk and loose thinking by bad actors. Sincerity is a paper thin cover and it's starting to rain.
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by ryanklee 4y ago
If you believe that it's not a responsibility for a school to teach ethical behavior, then you have a very narrow view of ethics. Cooperation, sharing, boundaries, transactionalism, turn-taking, equity, etc., are all ethics. Any instit
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by ryanklee 4y ago
How does a study examining a narrow band of learning bear on gross volume of learning? It doesn't at all follow in an obvious way that opportunity cost generalizes like you seem to suggest. It's been observed that as people age,
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Again, my point is not that children are faster at learning any given thing, but the total volume of learning is much greater. Further, how is it possible for you to evaluate the quality of personal growth independently from all the nonover
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by ryanklee 4y ago
That is a very narrow and counterintuitive view of personal growth. What utility function underlies it? Personhood is vast and mysterious. It commonly encompasses engagements with many domains that compete for one's time. Often, the v
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by ryanklee 4y ago
Most of my own life is dedicated to growth both domestically and in my career. I can tell you that I don't learn even close to the rate my own children do.
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by ryanklee 4y ago
My children (8, 4) have daily chores, responsibilities, time for free play, time for screen time, and yet they manage to learn musical instruments, read books multiple hours a day, their vocabularies, linguistic creativity, and personalitie

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