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by spupe 4y ago
The jump from 1080p to 4k is extremely noticeable to most people. At standard scaling you also get way more screen real estate, which is definitely a plus. I also think most people would easily pass a blind test and recognise which monitor
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by spupe 4y ago
I have to say that while I disagree with your overall point - for example, I think the paralysis of the political system is derived from oligarchic economic control of the political process, rather than the distraction created by this cultu
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by spupe 4y ago
Are you suggesting that the average person should read Supreme Court decisions? And furthermore, are you implying that there are fundamental mistakes in the reasoning of Roe v Wade that emerged just now, 50 years later? Both seem unreasonab
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by spupe 4y ago
She should be championed as a hero. I hope the scientific publishing industry collapses as soon as possible.
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by spupe 4y ago
Neuroimaging has always had an issue with interpretability and susceptibility to statistical artifacts. I fear that moving to another black box is only going to complicate matters.
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by spupe 4y ago
> Nope. I dare you to do it. Or at least intelligently articulate the model architectures for doing so. It is obvious that we can in principle try to detect this. People are already attempting to do so [1][2]. I would be very surprised i
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by spupe 4y ago
I believe him, although his argument is rather weak. It's true that it would be prohibitive to run speech recognition at all times, but what if Google would choose to do so when detecting a particular pattern, like you are meeting a sp
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by spupe 4y ago
I think expanding our personal Overton windows, as the author suggests, is an extremely important skill in life. Social media has fragmented our mental experiences, and if you don't step out of your echo chamber, it will definitely fee
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by spupe 4y ago
Thanks for the write-up. I would like to hear more about your experience in switching jobs so fast. When you started looking for a new position, did you try to maximize pay, or did you feel that you could really stay at each of these compan
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by spupe 4y ago
> You are literally evaluating psychoanalysis as a scientific theory in this response - which is exactly what I pointed out we should avoid doing if we want to understand its value. Lots of types of thought and culture do not have scient
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by spupe 4y ago
Because it's not easy to monetize a Reddit post. If you attract people to click on your garbage article, you can display ads and extract value. Meanwhile if you post the same bullshit on Reddit, you get nothing. This is not to say that
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by spupe 4y ago
For the average mental disorder, it is equally as effective to be treated with psychoanalysis compared with any other psychological treatment [1], although it is notoriously one of the longer and most expensive forms of therapy. So, your hy
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by spupe 4y ago
But we know several ways in which this way of thinking is incorrect. First, it is based on revelation, or the direct experience of one analyst with a handful of patients. We know that we cannot achieve any meaningful scientific conclusion f
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by spupe 4y ago
In some places, remote learning can be far superior to locally available education. I love the Khan Academy and I hope they are successful in this project too.
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by spupe 4y ago
> By the time the service was shut down, CNN+ had garnered around 150,000 subscriptions in a little over two weeks from launch. This is baffling. Regular CNN has ~540,000 daily viewers, with less than 130,000 of those being younger than
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by spupe 4y ago
A lot of opinions and unverifiable statements (this and this company is X years ahead of everyone), and the whole piece is essentially about one person's job market. Skip
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by spupe 4y ago
Look, this started with a claim that Twitter moderation policies are blocking us from addressing climate change. Then a separate claim, that any sort of moderation is harmful, was made and I challenged it. Now you are coming with a third po
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by spupe 4y ago
Filtering can improve the signal-to-noise ratio dramatically. We have always had some moderation/editing on books, newspapers, scientific papers and many other forums of meaningful exchange for centuries, and we progressed just fine. I
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by spupe 4y ago
That information is of public interest, because Musk is a public figure that constantly talks about climate change.
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by spupe 4y ago
Are you saying that we cannot properly address climate change because of... checks notes Twitter's moderation policies?
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by spupe 4y ago
The nomenclature is just wild... So concrete monoliths in architecture translate to high-contrast, colorful, fluffy graphic design? I actually like the examples he has shown, looks a bit retro and futuristic at the same time.
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by spupe 4y ago
I take issue with this kind of argument, because it implies that because we don't know everything that can happen in the future, we should not use nuclear power. We already know the costs of producing energy with coal and oil: thousand
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by spupe 4y ago
Somehow I'm more skeptical about their claim that electronics can withstand 30,000G than that they can make this launcher work. Very interesting approach anyway.
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by spupe 4y ago
Wind energy is currently responsible for about 15% of the energy produced in Europe. So relying on wind is absolutely impractical even if we invest 10x more than we do, and you would have to prepare for days with low wind availability in th
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by spupe 4y ago
The way it is going, future generations will be left with much worse problems that a few tons of nuclear waste.
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by spupe 4y ago
And if there is no wind or sun for an extended period of time, I guess we just shut down our factories then? The fact that the Greens have been flexible in some elements of their politics doesn't mean they are committed to a realpoliti
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by spupe 4y ago
What about prolonged weather crises that may affect supply for weeks on end? And how would that affect working hours in factories? How much of a GDP hit are we going to take by using "flexible consumption"? There is no way to run
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by spupe 4y ago
> Bolsonaro's rise was partly due to the popularity of populist fellow-travelers like Trump, whose own rise (as per this thread) goes beyond social media. And surely the fall of Lula da Silva's government had something to do wi
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by spupe 4y ago
I disagree. If we find a particular architecture is good for Chess, and another for image generation, then so be it. We would still have solved important problems. We are seeing both general and specific approaches improving rapidly. I don&
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by spupe 4y ago
But what about the rest of the world? Brazil was growing economically and lowering poverty in that decade, and still saw a far right wing government emerge through social media. France opposed the wars, didn't bailout anyone, and now t

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