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by smogcutter 2y ago
That’s orthogonal to the point though, which is about the social value of private chats etc. Not whether they’re truly technologically “private”.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Yes, you’ve rediscovered the curriculum of a journalism 101 class.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
In fairness, that misconception doesn’t just spring from imagination. Prop weapons generally are heavy, because they need to be thick to have blunt edges.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
> Similar to a photocopy or resale of a book I mean, right there is the attempted rhetorical trick that gives the game away. A photocopy is completely unlike resale of a used book, and is only considered “fair use” under specific, practi
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Naively, doesn’t it seem likely that pancakes and panquecas are unrelated “false friends”? Pancakes are “cakes” made in a pan. It’s not a Latin-derived word, so the only way they could be related is if panquecas is a loan word that took o
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by smogcutter 2y ago
> But if people can't choose for themselves then 100% of the time they die. This is only true for a certain set of cases, and in those cases people generally can choose for themselves.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
In Rao’s model, the sociopaths and losers share an understanding that the organization exists for the benefit of the sociopaths, they just respond to it differently. It’s only the clueless who are bamboozled. So idk if it’s a great lens for
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by smogcutter 2y ago
In the case of animal farm, it’s not so much that the dogs are more intelligent than the other animals as that Napoleon takes advantage of their disposition to unshakeable loyalty and need for a master. Likewise, unfortunately, in life. If
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Aside from the hundred and one obvious reasons that’s a pointlessly complex solution that would cause it’s own problems, if you think about it for even a moment I bet you can come up with some ways for a pocket camera and video game to be d
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by smogcutter 2y ago
The application process parent is talking about is Medicaid, not Medicare. Medicare is pretty ironclad, because the recipients are elderly and vote. Medicaid recipients tend to be marginalized and high need, so they’re used as a punching ba
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by smogcutter 2y ago
If you frame changing vocabulary as a shibboleth that point of view is inevitable, but that doesn’t make it accurate. This is a view of other people on the same spectrum as accusing them of “virtue signaling”, and is equally worth ignoring.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
There are also rotoscoping and analysis projectors designed to hold on a frame.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
I think it’s worth drawing a distinction between guilt, which can be positive, and shame, almost never. Guilt is feeling badly because you know you’ve done wrong. Shame is feeling badly because other people know you’ve done wrong.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Thats just called imagination. Do you think that when other people picture something it literally replaced their vision?
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Correct, it’s like a mirrored fan blade and rotates continuously. Ironically, with mirror reflex system what you see through the finder are precisely the moments not captured on film. Very quick events, muzzle flashes for example, can be
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Well, sure. But very few formal educational settings are purely active/unguided. Unfortunately passive/direct is much more common. To me though the more interesting result isn’t really about pedagogy, it’s that people’s (undergrad
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Interestingly, there have been studies that show that students lectured to feel like they’ve learned more, and self-report that they have, while students learning the same material in self-guided labs report feeling like they’ve learned l
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by smogcutter 2y ago
But if people generally believe the folk version of the law, does it really help to be technically in the clear? You can still easily find yourself in an really unpleasant and pointless confrontation.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
This is where conversations about anarchism often break down. Forgetting the language about everyone being for themselves, parent’s question boils down to “what happens when people don’t cooperate?”. The answer to that can’t be “people will
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Go try some violence and get back to us.
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by smogcutter 2y ago
You’re missing the point. Of course there are (enormous, life-ruining) mistakes, but that’s not it. With software, generally the only people with the means to demonstrate the software is flawed are the people in control of the software and
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by smogcutter 2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036.amp
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by smogcutter 2y ago
> being a wholesome person is largely orthogonal to being a good king Tolkien would disagree. So strongly in fact that he wrote an entire fantasy series about it!
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Developing that automaticity with a physical skill also unlocks the brain to do other parts that are conscious. After a game, Lebron James can explain what happened in a play moment by moment for every player on the floor, and everything
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Not sure why this is posted here, but the concept seems accurate enough. The discussion of attention in premodern society makes me think of Oedipus : a chance meeting between strangers on the road ends in violence, and this is taken as at
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by smogcutter 2y ago
> But to the LLM, the token with the highest probability will be the most likely correct answer This is precisely what people are identifying as problematic
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by smogcutter 2y ago
I don’t care if my wife knows my location either. She’s my partner, not my parent. Thankfully, I’m not a teen trying to develop a sense of autonomy and self reliance independent of my wife’s supervision. As other posters have pointed out, n
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Meanwhile in Orange County, County supervisor Andrew Do has apparently stolen millions in Covid relief funds via the “Viet America Society”, a do-nothing nonprofit nominally run by his daughter. https://laist.com/news/p
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by smogcutter 2y ago
I also distantly remembered this example from something in school and found a reference. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cultures-reason If you’re actually interested, it’s a little different than what OP was told&
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Most mistakes aren’t accidents, plenty of accidents aren’t mistakes.

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