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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science community should change its peer-review process to ensure that researchers disclose any possible negative societal consequences of their work in papers, or risk rejection.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I will not be convinced into believing a PhD represents less than what it does. They are absolutely fundamental to the retention, collection, understanding, and dispersion of knowledge. Otherwise intellectual understanding goes in circles.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Since when did Wikipedia become the authority on what a PhD represents? That's a little freaking ironic if you don't mind me saying. A PhD represents it's own authority by virtue of being awarded by the tiny fraction of peopl
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> We don't have moral discussions about the discovery of a new law of physics or a mathematical lemma. Abstraction affects mental functionality. It forms expectations by designing a language in which the present can be expected to b
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> Science and Engineering are inextricably linked in this discussion. Of course they are, but this article is very specifically about the role of the scientist. Not the engineer. Will negative disclosure cause problems for engineers? I
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Doctorate of philosophy. The Ph in PhD actually means something. It's not some kitschy decoration.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
This article is not about what could happen in the future. This article is about what does happen now, and is stigmatized against being disclosed due of fear of personal reprecussions. That was never the point of academia. These institution
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Some people already experience societal consequences and they have yet to be academically discovered. That's the point of this article. Not future prediction of what could happen. What is happening, and is presently an unknown.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Expect of others? No. But are such questions important? Very.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
There is a big difference between computer science and computer engineering. Science is about understanding. Engineering is about using that understanding for building.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Well, hopefully that friend can learn how to see everything they do as amazing internally, when they want to. Everyone needs that sometimes in life. Comes down to self belief, self expectations, hopes, dreams. I don't know what your ma
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Being labeled mentally ill can feel like it's gas lighting, especially if oneself knows their self to be just as rational and competent as anyone else. Mental illness is often a matter of circumstance. Of course people who are homeless
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Trying to determine which one you are doing is hard problem, because, relying on incomplete information. I believe it's best to be internally positive about your own decision making, and let what is not you take over when it does. Some
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
That goes down to base values. Questioning ones that fundamentally don't align, but you never actually know, because you only see your own side. You can think you see the other side, but that often is incorrect. Those things are built
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
The circular thing with dictionaries - that makes sense. I've always seen dictionaries as infinite. Shakespeare invented words. Computational definitions of symbols, mathematics, etc are different. I don't really see it as circula
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
My former PhD advisor said something along the lines of 'the incompleteness of natural language', this being one of the hardest problems he's been aware of. This is him: https://www.cs.stevens.edu/~naumann&#x2
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Memory Beliefs Drive the Memory Bias on Value-Based Decisions(nature.com)
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Was watching Sherlock Holmes recently. 'Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off of it.' - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Thank you. Time is something I'm learning to both be able to see as something to keep in mind from a practical perspective, but also, something I can seem to let go of. It's very challenging, sometimes - but it seems essential to
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
That's the one I intended, thank you!
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Can't there be room for both awarenesses in a single mind?
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For as much as reality is patterned, and can be comprehend 'absolutely' in a pragmatic, utilitarian sense - there's also another side to awareness (or many, I can never be sure). Imagine that everything that has to do with &#
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Yup. That's why.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I find it both chilling and lovely. Because on one hand, life, endless adventure, full of surprises, insights, new understandings and experiences, feelings, etc. On the other, absolute, fundamental, loneliness (sophistry?) of our own nature
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
It's easy to get them flipped around. Inside of mind versus the outside. Axiom of choice, choosing the right thoughts to have versus to speak. If you don't understand, you don't want to. It's a perpetual type of terror t
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Human thinking models itself. Logic is just one way of avoiding the insanity of how crazy the experience of life can actually be. Relevance logic though, clever.
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It's pain to learn one must take care to avoid confusing math with everything else. Unexpectedly, sure. Safe languages...sentimentality. Thought processes... everything it can be compared against. Here be dragons, tedious caution requi
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"Proofs of programs are too boring for the social process of mathematics to work." - Richard Demillo, Richard Lipton, and Alan Perlis, 1979 "... So don't rely on social processes for verification" - David Dill, 1999
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
We always lack some awareness. Knowing the difference is sometimes not knowing.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
It's hard to unthink a thought when it's transcribed online. > If Kyogen was asked 3 times, would he change his answer? Probably depends on some stuff I don't have the awareness yet for.

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