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by skulk 5y ago
Not a curator (I upvote posts on /new but not sure if curator means more than that) I come to /new when I feel like leaving comments; the chance that my comment will be the first that many people see definitely makes me think a bi
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by skulk 5y ago
Probably something related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem The amount of brainpower needed today to _prove_ that a smart contract does exactly what is intended doesn't scale to a whole fina
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by skulk 5y ago
Under affirmative action is a hypothesis: that it reduces inequality among communities. Has the application of affirmative action been measured and compared to its outcomes? It's been a thing for about 50 years now, so I'd like to
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by skulk 5y ago
What do you think about the system on the subcontinent? I'm not sure how it's done in Bangladesh, but in India your higher education is basically decided by your score on a few objective measures which are orders of magnitude more
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by skulk 5y ago
> gear which did not lend itself easily to such conditions could you expand on this a bit? I don't see how software vs hardware could impact this, doesn't it all just go through an amplifier to your headphones at the end?
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by skulk 5y ago
> if I could have something even quite crude it would be revolutionary How crude are you willing to go? Check out M-x artist-mode, which comes with emacs. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode (this is mostly a
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by skulk 5y ago
$2, or $0.25, what exactly is being paid for here? A promise that they'll verify that it's indeed me before I sign a document?
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by skulk 5y ago
I don't think we have any real observations that rule out the Matrix theory (e.g. existence of a "creator"), so I think it does. I'm not sure how parsimony plays into this; I do think MUH[0] is the most parsimonious TOE.
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by skulk 5y ago
The idea of a fundamental difference between the result of "performed" and "un-performed" computation always leads me to imagining the null universe, where nothing gets computed ever but all math "exists" as we
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by skulk 5y ago
After you pass a certain threshold, it makes zero sense to trust your assets to code that _you, personally_ haven't 100% authoritatively verified to be bug-free. Traditional financial institutions don't work like this; if there&#x
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by skulk 5y ago
Why stop at a computer, why not extend the argument to a full simulation of a human brain? What if I sat in my room for 3 million years simulating 3 seconds of a human body including the brain? Assuming that my simulation is faithful, who&#
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by skulk 5y ago
Maybe electromagnetic signals can disambiguate the two phenomena?
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by skulk 5y ago
Does everyone ignore the fact that you need to take an antibiotic with Ivermectin or any other 3CL protease inhibitor? That itself should be enough of a reason to get the mRNA vaccine over taking a 3CL protease inhibitor for prophylaxis.
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by skulk 5y ago
So you think you have COVID. You're feeling mild symptoms that match the descriptions. Do you (a) take a 3CL protease inhibitor or (b) time travel 6 months into the past and take a mRNA vaccine? https://jamanetwork.com/
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by skulk 5y ago
Are you forgetting about the guidelines around social distancing, masking, hand washing, not congregating around stale air? They haven't gone anywhere since vaccines became mainstream. It seems you're deliberately ignoring all of
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by skulk 5y ago
IMO using your resources to store a copy of all the articles (and even serve them if you can) is a pretty solid donation to the cause.
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by skulk 5y ago
It already exists, the two ideas just haven't been been combined yet. I'm imagining a decentralized platform with StackOverflow-style reputation (higher score = more power) tracked in a blockchain.
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by skulk 5y ago
According to the table, it seems that happened ~2,800,000 years ago.
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by skulk 5y ago
The diversity in the emacs ecosystem has a hand in this I think. There are so many different ways to switch buffers: vanilla, Ido, Helm, Ivy, and all of the other ones I haven't heard about. This kind of diversity is unseen in other co
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by skulk 5y ago
How much does ethics even matter in this specific case? If they develop this technology and use it in a "maximally ethical" way, whatever that is, what is stopping the next person to get their hands on it from using it unethically
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by skulk 5y ago
I think the point is that this slush pile needs to be automated as well before the hype around GPT-3 is realized.
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by skulk 5y ago
From the self harm angle: if you can provide meaningful evidence that use of [social media] results in negatives that far outweigh the positives in virtually every case (this is true of smoking), then this tax makes sense. This isn't e
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by skulk 5y ago
Sufficient self harm at scale is societal harm. > vice taxes for added sugar At face value, this doesn't seem like a bad idea. I've heard about cities in the US that have a tax on large sugary drinks. > not doing cardio work
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by skulk 5y ago
This is not a good argument against vice taxes because there is a clear distinction between activities that are demonstrably self-harming (smoking) and otherwise (using a vibrator). If you want to presuppose a fundamentalist regime, then go
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by skulk 5y ago
> What is the argument against it? I've discussed this with libertarians and the best argument I've heard is that the incentive to manage negative externalities comes from private ownership. If the factory down the road is poll
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by skulk 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVxdD_qwJ8 Check this song out, it gives practical advice for carrying out burglaries. People have screamed and kicked but YouTube won't remove the song.
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by skulk 5y ago
> Or make me choose between a job or some unnecessary medical treatment. the goal posts on vaccine metrics or herd immunity are constantly moved You know what goalpost doesn't move? Not having ICUs at full capacity with people who c
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by skulk 5y ago
I just thought it would be funny if someone watched The Wire, internalized its message (which is pretty succinctly put in the GGP comment) and forgot its name. It felt more substantive than commenting "oh, that's the Wire!"
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by skulk 5y ago
I think HBO made a 5-season show about this, quite popular, had a name like "the string" or "rope" or something.
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by skulk 5y ago
"Induce" is a tricky word; does it imply the target has agency? I think the line is drawn when you strip the target of agency. Does offering a large amount of money constitute stripping a target of agency? It may depend on how you

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