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by slibhb 4y ago
The article concludes with: > To disprove the doomers, you have to engage with the specific arguments they put forth. Nope. You can't disprove doomers. All you can do is smile serenely every day that the world doesn't end.
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by slibhb 4y ago
My impression is that Buddhism could hardly be more different than Ancient Greek philosophy. If there's a parallel between Buddhism and some Western tradition, it's to Gnosticism. Or perhaps various Judeo-Christian traditions that
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Nowhere except modern medicine, technology, etc.
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It seems that, shockingly, "people are an evil, ravenous cancer hellbent on destroying their planet" isn't a story that the masses find compelling.
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by slibhb 4y ago
The comment I responded to explicitly questions hierarchies in nature. It suggests that leadership is "perfunctory" and that "with animals it usually comes down to a more mixed hierachy".
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by slibhb 4y ago
I don't think this is true. Humans, like other mammals, have fairly clear hierarchies. What's interesting (and what the article argues) is that these hierarchies aren't based on brute strength or ability to win a fight or agg
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by slibhb 4y ago
I'm a McCarthy fan and I liked The Passenger/Stella Maris. Usually with McCarthy it takes ~50 pages for me to get into his writing. That wasn't the case this time around, both books are quick, easy reads. McCarthy is at his b
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by slibhb 4y ago
I don't totally disagree with you that his behavior was irresponsible but under what law would he be tried?
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by slibhb 4y ago
If you're good at math and know how to program, your major doesn't matter. You'll be fine. And if you're not, it won't be due to your major. Decide based on what interests you most.
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by slibhb 4y ago
It's not a bizarre opinion. Consider substances like weed or alcohol that can ruin lives but usually don't. How should our laws treat these substances? I'm not sure but there's nothing absurd about thinking they should b
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by slibhb 4y ago
> This review ignores the incredibly sordid history of institutionalization in the US and why it's so strongly hated. Many crimes were committed on otherwise innocent people under the guise of curing their mental illnesses. Lobotomi
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by slibhb 4y ago
I don't expect the students to be "bowled over" by a judge. I expect them not to heckle him. You seem to be saying the treatment is justified because the students are smarter than the judge.
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by slibhb 4y ago
I've used ChatGPT once for work to write a regular expression. The expression needed to use unicode properties (like \p{L}, which I didn't know existed). I had googled around and couldn't find the solution. ChatGPT gave me so
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by slibhb 4y ago
You originally wrote: > SHRDLU, confined as it was in its virtual, toy world, could still follow the instructions of its user with absolute precision. It seems clear that, in light of the quote from Winograd, that simply isn't true.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> In a 1991 interview, Winograd said about SHRDLU:[3] > [...] the famous dialogue with SHRDLU where you could pick up a block, and so on, I very carefully worked through, line by line. If you sat down in front of it, and asked it a qu
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by slibhb 4y ago
I think this response is more or less fair. Chomsky has been extremely derisive towards anyone with whom he disagrees. You can see that in the NYT piece but it's been a decades-long pattern where dissenters are automatically morons. Th
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by slibhb 4y ago
If your a priori belief is that every group (however defined) has the same merit then every measure of merit is biased except 1. a coin flip 2. some form of group quotas. Standardized tests are the least-bad way to measure merit. We should
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by slibhb 4y ago
This is mostly unrelated but Audubon was really a terrific artist. I was introduced to his art via a recent movie, American Animals, which is also excellent.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> AI will absolutely change the way software engineering is accomplished. We already use things like Cloud Formation templates to auto-build and scale cloud-based architectures. We have code generators to build microservices. We even hav
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by slibhb 4y ago
> I found that the more I worked with [the chromosomes] the bigger and bigger [they] got, and when I was really working with them I wasn’t outside, I was down there. I was part of the system. I was right down there with them, and everyth
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by slibhb 4y ago
> I find it kind of funny that humans are so confident that our models of reality are correct that we truly think it's more likely there's just hidden "stuff" than there's just something hugely wrong with our ide
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by slibhb 4y ago
Few would dispute whether the owners of the rights can make these changes. The question is whether they should (the answer is no). Given that they have, the proper response is derision.
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Language evolves. Few would defend retaining the “n-word” in contemporary publishing, or any number of other outdated racial slurs which bring the modern reader up short and do not add to the text. But where does sensible pruning give
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Netflix seems pretty sensitive to twitter opinions Do they? They sided with Chappelle. They gave Norm Macdonald a talk show. I think Netflix does a fairly good job trying to cater to everyone, woke and not.
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by slibhb 4y ago
After reasonable accommodations for people who aren't normal has been made, they will still be at a disadvantage. This is necessarily true.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Everything I've posted here is in good faith. You've refused to address my point, which is that normative culture necessarily favors "normal people" and there's nothing that can be done about that. Instead, you&#x27
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by slibhb 4y ago
Blacks, Asians, Jews, Muslims, gays etc still have to "deal with being minorities". Again, you're conflating norms and rights.
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by slibhb 4y ago
No one is talking about rights. Autistic people have the same rights as gay people and black people. What we're talking about are norms. Norms tend to be based on the average person. If you aren't average, you're going to hav
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by slibhb 4y ago
Isn't that inevitable given that the vast majority of people aren't autistic?
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by slibhb 4y ago
Autism is the problem. A secondary problem is narcissistic adults who think their personality quirks make them part of an oppressed minority.

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