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by summerdown2 7y ago
I don't disagree with you about leadership being hard. But the argument you use to get there is easily rebuttable: > If leading people is so goddamn easy compared to software engineering, why do so few engineers want to move into pe
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by summerdown2 7y ago
> That's only true if AlphaGo never makes a mistake or if AlphaGo will 100% always make the better or equal decision than a human + computer at any given state of the board. Even if AlphaGo makes mistakes, and somewhere on the board
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by summerdown2 7y ago
If you assume society is democratic, however, then knowing the facts matters - even if you end up behaving the same way. It's never a good thing to have a whole set of pressure groups funded by an industry trying to sow doubts about th
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Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor(nature.com)
2 points by summerdown2 7y ago|0 comments
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by summerdown2 7y ago
To me, the two versions here don't seem like 'showing' vs 'telling,' but interior monologue vs exterior view. I prefer the first example, and read it as a window into the character's thoughts. It's very mu
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by summerdown2 7y ago
Brand names for household products came into their own not to differentiate identical products, but rather to differentiate identical-seeming products. I.e.. because of the scandals of adulteration in the Victorian age. http://ww
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by summerdown2 7y ago
I think it's a complaint that has been resolved, and the solution is to work less hard at meditating. To me, it looks like you believe meditation is about achieving and then holding a particular mental state/feeling, and this is i
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by summerdown2 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're implying. You seem to be missing out the bit describing which non-governmental actor can fix this. The first issue is that everyone else thinks only government can solve this. If you say governments can&#x
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by summerdown2 7y ago
Am I the only one to think the article missed a trick here? Yes, it may be that traditional books don't work as well as they might. I do know I frequently read articles and come away with very little to show for the time spent. I think
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by summerdown2 8y ago
Actually, the S&P has delivered 7% after inflation over its history, not 5%, so the returns are even larger than this. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average... The real thing the ar
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by summerdown2 8y ago
It's not that simple at all, otherwise no-one would be talking about it. There are a number of competing effects, but at least one currently unanswered question about basic income is whether people are naturally lazy or naturally entre
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by summerdown2 8y ago
That's assuming the company explains in enough detail how it secures its product for consumers to tell the difference. More likely is that company A has a breach, and consumers who care about security move to company B, which is just a
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by summerdown2 8y ago
Much like Aleister Crowley's joke that explains how Magic works: ”Two strangers sat down opposite each other in a railway carriage. One of the men had on his lap a cardboard box with holes in the top. After some time wondering what mi
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by summerdown2 8y ago
I wonder if it's a similar psychological effect to that seen in the smoke filled room experiments, where someone is sat in a room and smoke starts coming under the door. If they're on their own, they investigate. If the room is fu
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by summerdown2 8y ago
> It would be, by fair, the biggest failure in modern science. So there is reason that alternatives to dark matter are held to a higher standard than dark matter itself, beyond simplicity - which dark matter no longer really is. I don&#x
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by summerdown2 8y ago
> You cannot falsify dark matter, and you cannot prove a negative. Imagine I say there is a 5 headed green deer that weighs 2000 pounds and can speak Gaelic, but it's really good at avoiding being spotted - so good in fact that you
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by summerdown2 8y ago
There's also (4) - a discussion medium with an increasing number of partisan bad actors both at state and corporate level, whose interest is to gum up communication, switch the overton window or foster division by trolling. In my opini
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by summerdown2 8y ago
> It would take 15 to 20 generations of human beings, living their entire lives confined to a prison, to complete this journey. From a link given by a poster in another comment, earlier, you can do it at 1g acceleration for just 12 year
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by summerdown2 8y ago
You're not wrong about science, but I think you're selling Buddhist monks short if you think none of them generate awesome works of philosophy. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna and https:
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by summerdown2 8y ago
Also playwriting. There's a really good book explaining that if you read a play backwards you can work out the causality much better and get a far greater understanding of the play: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Backwards-Fo
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by summerdown2 8y ago
I wonder how this will co-exist with a) Tracking non-facebook users via Facebook icons on web pages, and b) Storing the information of non-users such as photos other people take, phone books other people upload, etc?
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by summerdown2 8y ago
> It's not clear to me why it's not troubling to European citizens for their government to be in charge of what information is and isn't relevant to the public. Whenever I ask people about this, I get the response "we
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by summerdown2 9y ago
People subject to identity theft due to poor control of their data do indeed suffer real world consequences. I wouldn't necessarily want to argue it's a case of life or death - but there's undoubtedly actual harm in some case
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by summerdown2 9y ago
> You can either decide that privacy is a basic right that everyone has and cannot be negotiated away, in which case this law makes sense. > Or you can decide that it's a decision each person makes, and let the market take care o
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by summerdown2 9y ago
Brings to mind this cartoon: https://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20... And, of course, the ultimate spirit of a corporate-bureaucracy themed RPG would probably be Paranoia: https:/&#x2F
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Browser as botnet – or, the coming war on your web browser(medium.com)
4 points by summerdown2 9y ago|0 comments
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by summerdown2 9y ago
Both the photographer and his subjects are the elite. No-one in a top hat would tip it to anyone of a lower status.
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Google’s AI teaches itself chess in 4 hours, then convincingly defeats Stockfish(trove42.com)
2 points by summerdown2 9y ago|0 comments
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by summerdown2 9y ago
I have the same feeling when I hear politicians here in the UK say that they've had to make "tough decisions." Always the part being unsaid is "tough on who?"
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by summerdown2 9y ago
Here's a moral question put the other way round. Do you think libraries are a good thing? We now have the technology to make available the great majority of human knowledge and culture to a vast amount of humanity for free. I'd ca

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