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by slibhb 2y ago
The first part of Metaphors We Live By is fascinating. It describes how so much of language is made of dead metaphors. But then you get to stuff like: > We often frame arguments using the metaphor of war and that frames how we think. The
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> There is no right or wrong There's such a thing as too much moralism in geopolitics. There's also such thing as too little.
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It's not zero-sum because companies can grow. People love to complain about CEO compensation but does anyone doubt that having the right person in charge is important? Think about the US presidency: how much money should the US citizen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendra_panoply
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The email could have been pared down significantly. The idea that a programmer might want to solve problems directly rather than manage others should be well known at this point. The company I work for has an "individual contributor&qu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism As far as Sapolsky goes, it's fine to argue that free will is an illusion. But it doesn't follow that we should stop believing in it. Actually, belief in free will
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Makes me wonder what happens if you use this as a prompt for chatgpt.
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I'm a fan of Solzhenitsyn as a writer. The First Circle justly won him the Nobel. But this speech has not aged well. > For one thousand years Russia belonged to such a category, although Western thinking systematically committed the
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by slibhb 2y ago
Avi Loeb is one man clickbait factory.
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What I get out of the depravity isn't of educational value; it's not about understanding what humans are capable of. Rather, it's like a nightmare. Like one of those really dark Goya paintings. I wouldn't hang it on my w
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Strong disagree about the movie. Today it comes across as an art house horror movie. Not particularly gory compared to modern gross-out slasher films (which I rarely watch or like). It's okay to dislike horror movies. But to me, as I w
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I'm don't think you're being fair to Rawls. Rawls does say we should optimize social and economic inequality for the worst-off. But he insists that equality of opportunity and equality under the law come first. Only when thos
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No, Kant specifically says that we don't have to consider consequences. His categorical imperative isn't about consequences. It's concerns whether actions, when univerisalized, contradict themselves. In reality, actions aren&
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HN is fairly ideologically diverse. There is a lot of the stuff you're complaining about but there's plenty of the opposite too. Where I work, the people higher than me (remote or not) work constantly, around the clock, to the poi
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People who behave like this usually have an underlying psychological problem. Obsessive gaming is an avoidance mechanism that allows a person to avoid negative emotion caused by real-life responsibilities and interactions. How best to handl
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I'm "white" but neither side of my family was considered white when they came to the US. Hispanics will become "white," as will Asians (East Asians and Desis). The story of America will continue to be blacks getting
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by slibhb 2y ago
It's funny that, apparently, the picture in question was taken by a male graduate student whose name no one knows (Raymond Gosling). I do think there's an interesting dichotomy in science between wild conjectures and slow, ploddin
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by slibhb 2y ago
I'm happy for you that your public transit is faster than traffic but mine isn't. Via the DC Metro, I have an 8 minute walk + 2 minutes wait for train + 35 minute train ride + 8 minute walk. Compare that to a 15-35 minute drive, d
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by slibhb 2y ago
I gave up with autocomplete pretty quickly. The UX just wasn't there yet (though, to be fair, I was using some third party adapter with sublime). It's just me asking questions/pasting code into a ChatGPT browser window.
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I don't think consciousness will end up mattering very much. It matters a lot to us because we're conscious and it's not totally clear that moral considerations apply to things that aren't conscious. But I think it will
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> The obvious conclusion is that household income is a predictor of both: > - inability to delay gratification, and > - higher academic achievement > This makes sense when you consider that someone growing up in a poor household
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> While it is true in general that simulating a thing is not that thing itself, a simulation may be the same as the thing being simulated in all aspects that matter. What does matter? Does consciousness? It may matter less than is widely
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Simulating something isn't the same thing as being that thing. You can write a computer program that simulates pain. Perhaps even to the point that it convinces people that it feels pain. But, actually, it doesn't have a nervous s
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by slibhb 2y ago
Async/await is clearly a feature in JS, though not for the reason the previous poster mentions. Async/await wasn't part of the language until 2017. If you don't like it, you can just use Promises. If you do that, there a
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I use chatGPT for lots of things besides paying my taxes.
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I don't want to pay someone for software to do my taxes.
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Tax evasion hinges upon intent. If it's a mistake, it's not illegal.
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You can just assume it's right or mostly right and move on with your life. We're not talking about designing spaceships here. Being wrong is allowed. > Reading an inaccurate summary is actually less useful than reading nothing.
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> There's a fundamental problem with all these "summary" tasks, and it's obvious from the disclaimer that's on all these AI products: "AI can be wrong, you must verify this". > A summary for which yo
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It's interesting to think about why many people believe tribes like this should remain "uncontacted". For better or worse, it's revealing of modern values. Also, what is the long term fate of such tribes? Without genes f

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