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by tbabb 10y ago
Intelligence is a perfectly fair criteria by which to judge a candidate, as in most jobs it will have a direct effect on the candidate's ability to perform their duties. If an employer over-weights intelligence to the exclusion of othe
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by tbabb 10y ago
In an economy where work is increasingly automated, those humans who can do things which machines can't are finding themselves more valued. That seems expected, and I am not convinced it is indicative of any problem or unfairness.
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by tbabb 10y ago
For anyone interested/thinks this stuff is cool, the author of Elevated has made a website for experimenting with real time pixel shaders in WebGL: https://www.shadertoy.com/ Some pretty incredible things have been don
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by tbabb 10y ago
Yes.
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by tbabb 10y ago
And this is worse than not being able to find lodging because of shallow, narrow-minded snap judgments people make about your profile picture?
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by tbabb 10y ago
I am saying that AirBnB has no duty to hide which hosts are racist from its customers, and, in fact, highlighting the information is a fair way to combat the problem-- and let customers punish hosts with their business-- without being auth
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by tbabb 10y ago
And why, exactly, should the homeowner's right to make superficial snap judgments about people be protected? Why does AirBnB have some obligation to protect his image, which he brings upon himself with his own choices? Why is his imag
518.
by tbabb 10y ago
I had no idea that people cry this much. It's like pulling back a curtain.
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by tbabb 10y ago
There's plenty of room before we get to the quality of reality. ;)
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by tbabb 10y ago
> Twenty-four hours is not typical. [...] four hours is more common. I'm in the industry, and [citation needed]. Four hours is not remotely typical for a final render frame, especially now that path tracers are the de facto standard
521.
by tbabb 10y ago
Not true.
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by tbabb 10y ago
Observer effect.
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by tbabb 10y ago
I am not sure what your point is. The statistical probability of a human crashing into a stationary object while parking is pretty high. If the statistical probability of the machine crashing into a stationary object while parking is lower
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by tbabb 10y ago
If that's true, I agree; that needs to be fixed.
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by tbabb 10y ago
If the statistical reliability is better than a human driver, then this is good engineering. "Man bumps car into trailer" would not have been a headline, because this happens so often it's completely boring. Notably the cost
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by tbabb 11y ago
Has anyone found a link to a higher res version of that infographic? The orange bubble text is infuriatingly unreadable.
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by tbabb 11y ago
What is the process by which "samples" are drawn from the population of intelligent beings? This is a keystone of the article's argument, but it entirely hand-waved. It is not as if "intelligences" are created in th
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by tbabb 11y ago
This seems to be a really overcomplicated re-stating of Darwin. There is no "lower level" at which to explain it: Things that are good at making copies of themselves will tend to be more prolific. Restating Darwin in terms of ther
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by tbabb 11y ago
I am often disappointed with Nautilus. I find it tends to tout lofty or revolutionary ideas, and frosts them with intellectual prose, but underneath the article is surprisingly vague, content-free, and/or unscientific.
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by tbabb 11y ago
Cursor navigation with 3D touch is very nice, and a long time coming. Tap and hold the keyboard when typing to move the cursor around.
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by tbabb 11y ago
I don't think sponsored results are a big deal, as long as it's transparent, and "pure" results are easily accessible too (and they are). We live in a society where advertising exists. I'm not saying I like advertis
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by tbabb 11y ago
We won't know if that's the case until we fix the glaring, skew-causing problems that are already there.
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by tbabb 11y ago
The overwhelming skew in the CS population suggests that women either believe CS is not accessible to them (which isn't-- or should not be-- true), or that the community is unwelcoming to them (which is a problem in of itself and shoul
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by tbabb 11y ago
If this is Bayes, then what is the prior probability distribution over the values the fine structure constant could take?
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by tbabb 11y ago
What on Earth has that got to do with Bayes' theorem? What's your prior? All you did was re-state the anthropic principle.
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by tbabb 11y ago
The goal is to explain "why is the number this value and not some other value". Unless the number actually takes on multiple values, the anthropic principle has no explanatory power. If there is only one value, the universe can&
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by tbabb 11y ago
> Corporations aren't fundamentally different from the government. Yes, and that is the problem. Both are enormous institutions with tremendous wealth, resources, and power over individuals. A democracy is supposed to check this kin
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by tbabb 11y ago
What kind of a democracy do we live in where we rely on corporations to protect the people from an overreaching government?
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by tbabb 11y ago
Decreased selection pressure on passable eyesight due to the wide, continued availability of corrective lenses?
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by tbabb 11y ago
Agreed. If anything, the poverty that comes with drugs and early pregnancy is closer to economic enslavement.

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