skummetmaelk

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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Classic suit brain.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Optimization by graduate student descent.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Some people truly live in a different world.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Zizek's take on authoritarianism in a postmodern world applies: > Instead of bringing freedom, the fall of the oppressive authority thus gives rise to new and more severe prohibitions. How are we to account for this paradox? Think o
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
> I think more normal humanoid robots that are covered in a human layer is much more likely. In Westworld the first versions of the hosts were exactly that, and progressed to the more... fleshy... kind later on.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
He was inspired by Westworld.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
The future?
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
> Where have I suggested anything remotely similar. Apologies for taking the analogy too far. > I have compared the EU to USSR because of the similarly unaccountable bureaucracy. This is an opinion that is hard to justify, but whateve
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
It's not cherry picking as there are several long time members who are net beneficiaries. Even if it was cherry picking, how is it irrational to pick counter examples? How does one make rational arguments then? You don't like the
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Countries and nation states are different things. Prior to the development of the nation state and national identity, cultural changes were much smoother across Europe. That doesn't mean that the cultural differences between regions we
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
The EU "may" become tyrannical in 80 years and therefore it's definitely, objectively, better for it not to exist. What kind of logic is that argument based on? BTW Spain and Portugal joined the EU in 1986 and are net monetar
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
> If there is a supreme authority that can compel you to apply laws to your citizens without their explicit approval, then, the state becomes just a shell. We are all empty shells then, given that the state can apply laws to us without o
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
> It's a lot harder for people to spread misinformation online in a country like Estonia without speaking Estonian and keeping up with Estonian affairs. I think even corruption would be harder to swing against officials in a small E
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
> There are more than 200 sovereign countries in the world out of which 27 decided to completely or partially relinquish their own sovereignty to a supra national agency such as the EU. When is this argument going to die? Should all prov
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
It's not true, and the post is missing a /s.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
It would indeed be much better if the EU didn't exist. It's way harder for an alliance of US tech companies to influence small countries than a big block. That's your point, right?
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
But what does Schmidhuber think?
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
What's old is new. It only took Apple 3.5 years to own up to their previous "staingate" display disaster: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/17/apple-mbp-ar-coating-qu...
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
When you have near complete vertical integration there is no reason to handle edge cases. Everything plays well together because you made it all. Until it doesn't, and then it just doesn't work at all.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
I need to divide my 12 into 9 parts. What do I do now?
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
8 hours comes from the worker's movement anyway. 8 hours work, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest. It's clearly only chosen to make a nice slogan. In reality 7-9 appears to be optimal. If you were using decimal time you'd just
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
You joke, but this is how people normally work. Do things in ways easy to lean, but ultimately slow and inefficient.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
What's more complex. Executing a command in the terminal or clicking through 117 nested layers of menus and using regedit to solve your problem?
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Why exactly is it that the quality of a society is measured by how many big companies they have? Does Philip Morris contribute to society or detract from it? Can we dispense with the notion that big companies inherently improve society? Let
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Let's see what the people always screaming about how the EU only cares about fining American tech companies who do nothing wrong will respond to this.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
There must be some way to add a legal mechanism for preventing obvious and egregious loophole exploitation. Why can it not be done?
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Interesting point about the period. I hadn't thought about it before and now I'll never be able to unsee it. To me ellipses really just are the passive aggressive marker > We can do that... We can do that, but it really shouldn
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
People ending their sentences in ellipses are the true passive aggressive ones... Single period is normal, surely.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
The other extreme would also create a very high barrier to being understood at all.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
IMO complex grammar just creates a high barrier to being understood at all, while hiding the complexity in vocabulary allows a more gradual learning curve.

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