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by soledades 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language#Tool_for_communicatio...
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by soledades 6y ago
I guess if you had everyone rate the relative worth of each year of their lives and the effect of lockdown on that value, the maximizing strategy would be probably be no lockdown. The thing is though that those later years of people’s life
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by soledades 6y ago
How will everybody know what to be angry about??
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by soledades 6y ago
Alternative Option: Turn off watch history, then only the videos you explicitly like will affect your recommendations. Bonus Points: Use extension to turn off recommended panel on side of videos, then you only see recommendations when you g
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by soledades 6y ago
I think this is perceived by many as a potential crucible for democracy in US. They are doing everything they can to not be made vehicles of violent unrest that could upset the peaceful transfer of power.
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by soledades 6y ago
Yeah, gimme some of that gobbledygook.. gobble gobble gobble
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by soledades 6y ago
Wow, A real life libertarian true believer, look at that. I didn't know there was such a thing
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by soledades 6y ago
Two paragraphs above the part I quoted: What about ancient skeletons, then? Steven Pinker cites twenty-one excavations having an average murder rate of 15 percent. But, as before, Pinker's list here is a bit of a mess. Twenty of the t
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by soledades 6y ago
One thing I found very interesting from the book (which is worth a read): The notion humans might have rose to supremacy among the apes, not by brainpower alone, but by a combination of brainpower and mirroring, i.e. our almost magical abi
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by soledades 6y ago
You are misrepresenting Hobbes here to say that he was referring to the absence of a community... Sapiens have always lived in communities. He was referring specifically to humans in the condition in the absence of state power: Hereby it
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by soledades 6y ago
Do you have any tips for reading papers on Kindle? My experience with pdfs is they get pretty shrunk up.
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by soledades 6y ago
So people by definition want AGI because they have problems and AGI can solve them? Lot of assumptions embedded here, making it pretty remote from tautology. (1) People want their problems solved (2) People are indifferent to how their pr
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by soledades 6y ago
This passage from Against the Grain makes for interesting reading right now: The case for the use of fire being the decisive transformation in the fortunes of hominids is convincing. It has been mankind’s oldest and greatest tool for res
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by soledades 6y ago
From the NYT article referenced: "Still, Ms. Barth said there was reason to be optimistic about the fate of the trees. 'They’re meant to resist and even thrive in response to wildfires,' she said. 'If any place is going
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by soledades 6y ago
citation?
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by soledades 6y ago
You're basically saying you're OK with Facebook censoring things for cinematographic reasons. Has anything from the right similarly been censored for cinematographic reasons alone?
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by soledades 6y ago
This is apparently a video of theirs that was removed from Instagram for "Hate Speech" https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/12854428530369085... Mostly just unflattering cuts of Trump talking...
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by soledades 6y ago
Maybe this: https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2019/07/06/what-if-ge... Don't know how to make the shortened archive.is urls. "Dr Wagner suggests that the most efficient way to deliver it w
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by soledades 6y ago
It's a bit more subtle than that, no? GP specifically mentioned early stage startups. The argument is that too high cost of living makes cities less vibrant, not that developers ruin them.
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by soledades 6y ago
What you call misconstruing I call reading between the lines. Edit: and I think remorse is a healthy and useful check on the excess of police violence we've been seeing. I suppose if you think it's all just fine, we're not go
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by soledades 6y ago
Hmm, fair enough. My sense was that "off the cuff side commentary" meant perhaps things said by an instructor during the intermissions, and that the intent was more to prevent them from saying anything they wouldn't be comfor
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by soledades 6y ago
+ Recording a session where public servants vested with the authority of the state are taught how to conduct their job. + Police driving down the road with facial recognition devices scanning the faces of all the private individuals walking
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by soledades 6y ago
I just think it's a little bizarre to feel dystopia creep from checks on police rather than from police checks on civil liberties. edit: or rather, to feel dystopia creep more from the idea of monitoring how police are taught to use su
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by soledades 6y ago
It presumes before the fact that all police killings are justified (Obviously there was a clear and present danger to others!), and holds up remorselessness about killing as a sort of quasi-enlightened state.
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by soledades 6y ago
A sample of what this kind of training can look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwEYhIX4cbM
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by soledades 6y ago
What's already public is pretty harrowing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwEYhIX4cbM
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by soledades 6y ago
"Auditing what they say privately" is begging the question. The parent's point is that the training of police officers should be public. No one is proposing that we record the police trainers when they go out for dinner with
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by soledades 6y ago
Yeah but the r is by various proxies a function of the # of cases, so it is not so simple.
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by soledades 6y ago
Comment was removed (why?), this loads it eventually: https://snew.notabug.io/r/worldnews/comments/h7ghoc/zoom_say...
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by soledades 6y ago
Yet MacOS didn't offer a dark mode until last year...

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