tazedsoul

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by tazedsoul 4y ago
It is written in the New Testament scriptures and the book of Revelation. The author wrote, “It's like tech is making each one of us our own little village with a computer priest.” Indeed it is. Make no mistake. We are building a false
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by tazedsoul 4y ago
Something doesn’t have to be necessarily true for it to have a high probability of being true.
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by tazedsoul 4y ago
Penrose would say that logicians can’t compute consciousness, so no wonder they don’t agree with his argument; computers (logicians) literally can’t! That’s Penrose’s very argument, which so few seem to get.
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by tazedsoul 4y ago
Gold
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
Love how people won’t even admit this fact into the conversation. Thank you, sincerely, for bringing this up.
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
This seems to be an anti-ivermectin narrative. Obviously, taking doses meant for horses is foolish. But people are conflating horse dosage ivermectin with human dosage. An anti horse dose narrative is perhaps necessary, but I still don’t se
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
Do we have numbers for ivermectin sales?
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
The article has the number of Ivermectin prescriptions in the last month, but not the number of people seeking emergency care due to Ivermectin. “Clogged up” isn’t quantifiable. Let’s upperbound an average worst-case situation. If every sin
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
Individuals can’t fix this problem. That people don’t understand this yet is not a good sign
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
The problem here is that the police are buying $75k robot dogs. Sure, this one is being used to sniff out COVID. What’s the next version doing? It’s a slippery slope, and given the history of the police in America becoming increasingly mili
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
How’s this relate to Wal-Mart?
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
Those of us in science who are genuinely interested in the truth (of nature, of the world), and not the exercise of justifying some religious-esque dogma of our own unconscious beliefs, seem increasingly outnumbered and outshouted by the or
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by tazedsoul 5y ago
I felt like I was screaming about COVID-19 months before anyone I knew understand what was going on. I feel like I’m screaming about artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, and platitude society.
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
“In the U.S. and other rich countries, welfare states provide even the poorest people with access to housing, food, and other needs, though there are still those who go without because severe mental illness and/or drug addiction keep t
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
Few can see it
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
I shared this with my girlfriend, and she, without being phased even slightly, replied, “Can I tell you a secret? I’ve always known that Venus is alive.”
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
Also, naming things is hard. If the things you are naming are specific concepts, and the conclusions reachable by reasoning about such concepts are highly sensitive; that is highly dependent upon such specificity, then the problem of naming
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
I’m not opposed to naming things after people. That said, I often suspect that the naming conventions and rituals of mathematicians (and sometimes physicists) serve as gatekeeping mechanisms that make life extra difficult for newcomers to a
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
Misleading headline.
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Noam Chomsky on artificial intelligence and extraterrestrials(imagination.ucsd.edu)
2 points by tazedsoul 6y ago|1 comments
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
On a related note, I recently tried floor sleeping. I started on a carpet, which was nice. Then we moved to a place with hardwood floors. Painful. So I bought a Japanese futon. I don’t feel much desire to return to the modern mattress. Sinc
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A joke about the difference between mathematicians and physicists(thingspondered.xyz)
29 points by tazedsoul 6y ago|27 comments
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
A wonderful and amusing anecdote that shows how both types differ. This comes from "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers," a book about the mathematician Paul Erdős.
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
Also, perhaps I’m mistaken, but the majority of Epic Games is owned by Tim Sweeney. Meanwhile, TikTok majority is owned by ByteDance, which I don’t think we can confidently believe is truly a separate, sovereign entity from the CPC. And al
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
There are about 5 times as many TikTok users as Fortnite players. I suppose that is a part of the calculation as well.
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
Remarkable that TikTok is still available on the App Store, despite the risk it poses to national security. I guess Apple and China sleeping together is truly a case of friends with benefits. Maybe Epic Games should please Apple more often?
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
I’d imagine the FBI has more than just the link to these individuals via their drivers licenses being used for verification. Surely, these drivers licenses may have been used fraudulently by a hacker who wishes not to be found out so embarr
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
If a 17 year-old gains access temporarily to a bank vault, while they’re in there it’s not possible they could also cause a nuclear war. The crimes are similar at face value but meaningfully different.
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
Revealing how an algorithm works only provides a false sense of understanding/security. At any time, the algorithm can be modified. Further, mechanisms will be needed to ensure that the published algorithms are actually the deployed al
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by tazedsoul 6y ago
I am glad someone else is bothered by such titles as far as readability goes.

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