therobots927

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by therobots927 3y ago
Quite the opposite. I'm saying that a sense of self is not necessary for consciousness. And that many people write off simple objects as having consciousness when really what they mean as that those objects don't have a sense of s
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by therobots927 3y ago
this really is getting at something important. however the question I would pose is, if the thermostat is conscious, does it have a sense of self, i.e. an identifiable boundary between itself and the world around it? I would say not. My und
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by therobots927 3y ago
I worked for a startup where I repeatedly asked basic questions to estimate the value of my shares. I never got a straight answer. So I applied to a FAANG and got in. When I was onboarding the FAANG asked what my shares I was leaving behind
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by therobots927 3y ago
I explicitely said I'm mostly interested in practical applications, and your example has e999 in it. Thank you for the PDF. I'll take a look at it, but it's really not helping the Bayesian case to start with an example like t
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by therobots927 3y ago
Could you explain what the difference is between the two following segments in your comment: "[frequentist confidence intervals] don't really tell us anything about the probability that the statistic of interest for our population
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by therobots927 3y ago
The central limit theorem lets us calculate confidence intervals around population statistics regardless of the underlying distribution. If you're talking about working with small datasets, or speculating about the probability of event
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by therobots927 3y ago
How so? What’s an example of that?
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by therobots927 3y ago
I’m really not a fan of Bayesian philosophy. The concept of a prior is kind of preposterous. It’s used consistently to make arguments that basically go “if you assume a prior it proves a probability of zero/1”. The concept of belief is
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by therobots927 3y ago
Just wondering, why order =, material, and carbon that way instead of material, =, carbon?
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by therobots927 3y ago
How exactly is it manipulative?
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by therobots927 3y ago
Well I'm putting weight on it because other people do. The unfortunate thing about the tech industry is that there is no Bar exam and most education is gained from experience so you can't just filter on the quality of the school t
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by therobots927 3y ago
I generally agree and I think 10 years should be the standard with some exceptions made. Do you mean 10 years of full time experience? What about someone with three years of internship experience in college and 7 years of full time experien
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by therobots927 3y ago
How about this, you’re a senior if a company promotes you to senior or hires you as a senior. And then you have to contend with the reality that the senior role is easier to achieve at some companies because it’s cheaper to give someone a t