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by slibhb 5mo ago
Recently the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road workers) went on strike. The NYT has covered it, including this interesting fact: > For instance, if an engineer drives a diesel train at the start of a shift but is asked to switch to an electric
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by slibhb 5mo ago
Your premise doesn't imply your conclusion. A "Nazi ideologue" is someone who believes/promotes Nazi ideology. Not someone who seeks to use Nazism to promote his own philosophy.
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by slibhb 5mo ago
Heidegger became a Nazi -- literally, he joined the party -- but he was not a "Nazi ideologue" for any reasonable definition of "ideologue". And the idea that Hannah Arendt needs "defenders" because she had an
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by slibhb 5mo ago
> I see this happening in the enterprise. People delegate work to some LLM; work isn't always bad, sometimes it's even acceptable. But it's not their work, and as a result, the author doesn't know or understand it bet
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by slibhb 5mo ago
Inequality isn't a big problem. Those who claim it is seem to think that the existence of really rich people causes the existence of really poor people. That is not the case. It's natural that things are less equal now that we&#x2
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by slibhb 5mo ago
Most homeless people aren't mentally ill. But those "huddling in the rain" mostly are, or are at least addicts. Non-mentally I'll homeless people are rarely "street people". They live in a car or with friends o
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by slibhb 5mo ago
I don't know that AIs aren't conscious but it seems unlikely. Consciousness evolved under certain conditions and confers clear benefits. It would pretty weird if it magically "emerged" in any complex enough system or i
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by slibhb 6mo ago
> LLMs still do not pass the turing test as it is commonly understood. Ask the right questions, and it becomes apparent very quickly which party is the machine and which is the human. Hell, there are enough people on here that can probab
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by slibhb 6mo ago
> If we eventually (we're not there yet, I think) create a true intelligent AI it will probably be a long time before people will accept that creating an intelligent being probably means it should have 'rights' as well. In
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by slibhb 6mo ago
His argument here (that I found most convincing) was children with hydranencephaly. Many of them have very little cortex but still seem to experience a roughly normal range of emotions in appropriate context.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I read an interesting book about consciousness recently: The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms. Solms argues, I think convincingly, that consciousness fundamentally has to do with emotions and not cognition. Consciousness is not produced by the c
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I was writing about Arab Islamism. I don't have strong views about Pakistan or Indonesia, though I have negative opinions about Islamism across the board. One reason I'm skeptical of Arab democracy is that Arab nationalism is we
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Fundamentalists tend not to be pragmatists.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Which Arab regimes, today, are "US installed"? Iraq is the only plausible answer. As far as stability, I don't know. My view is that Arab democracies are unstable because they will elect Islamists. Dictatorship/monarchy
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Virtually all Arabs hate Israel but Arab governments are more varied. The modern Egyptian state is oriented toward close partnership with the US, and a large part of that was peace with Israel post '73. So yes, the UAE could align with
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I feel like this is personal for you and you can't discuss it objectively. Drivers are...not great. But as a general rule they follow the laws (albeit with frequent lapses). Cyclists do not follow the rules to the point where no one ex
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Drivers generally follow the rules. It's considered bad form when they don't, and they're occasionally ticketed. This doesn't apply to bikers. No one even expects them to follow the rules. I'm not anti-bike. I bike
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I agree with your analysis but I just want to point out that, as a general rule, cyclists do not follow traffic laws. They don't stop at stop signs/red lights. They weave in and out of traffic. They often bike the wrong way down o
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by slibhb 6mo ago
People said the exact same thing about computers .
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Yes, and textile factories involved people "forgetting" how to weave. Whitehead: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" It remains to be s
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Regardless of exactly how it started, the constant negativity you see everywhere (including HN...) has become a self-perpetuating social contagion. Notice that it mainly affects the English-speaking world, which hints that it spreads and su
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by slibhb 6mo ago
> Do actual climate scientists claim we're getting more, and stronger, hurricanes now than we did before? The general line is that climate change has probably increased the amount of rainfall associated with hurricanes, possibly the
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Hurricanes do more dollars in damage because we're richer and there's more capital near the coast. The idea that climate change caused hurricanes which spread insects is not impossible but seems unlikely. I don't think the st
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Just chiming in to say I don't care at all about accessibility and I find it bewildering that every thread sharing some project has a comment like this.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Whether something is possible to enforce seems like a sliding scale. We can totally imagine a world where a calorie cap is possible to enforce. In such a world, would it be reasonable?
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Liberalism has led us to almost unbelievable prosperity. The fact that it has some downsides does not suggest that we have to "go back to the drawing board"
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by slibhb 6mo ago
I don't agree. If a poem is moving, it's moving. It doesn't matter who wrote it. I understand these are fundamental questions about aesthetics that people differ over. But that's how it works for me. However, ultimately,
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by slibhb 6mo ago
> Like, in terms of art, it's discarded (art is about humans) If a work of art is good, then it's good. It doesn't matter if it came from a human, a neanderthal, AI, or monkeys randomly typing.
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by slibhb 6mo ago
Would a calorie cap be reasonable?
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by slibhb 6mo ago
The post you're linking to is making a simple error. Consumers wants cheap, temporary clothes...so they can buy clothes more often. That's a legitimate preference (though not one I share). As far as rent goes, it has gone up in re

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