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by toasterlovin 1y ago
I don’t think we disagree. I’m not taking issue with scientists having jargon, which I agree is good and necessary (though I think the less analytical academic disciplines, not being rooted in fact, have come to bear many similarities to st
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My preferred argument against the AI doom hypothesis is exactly this: it has 8 or so independent prerequisites with unknown probabilities. Since you multiply the probabilities of each prerequisite to get the overall probability, you end u
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> social group
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> The key takeaway from the article is that if you have a group leader who cuts you off from other people, that's a red flag Even better: a social group with a lot of invented lingo is a red flag that you can see before you get isol
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> the typical outside view that rationalism itself is a cult and Eliezer Yudkowsky is a cult leader, both of which I consider absurd notions Cults are a whole biome of personalities. The prophet does not need to be the same person as the
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Dead reckoning is a great analogy for coming to conclusions based on reason alone. Always useful to check in with reality.
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Until Apple forced other chip makers to respond, nobody else was making high end phone processors. And their A series processors are competitive with and have transistor counts comparable to most mobile and desktop PC processors (and have f
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> Apple Silicon is simply not that special in the grand scheme of things Apple Silicon might not be that special from an architecture perspective (although treating integrated GPUs as appropriate for workloads other than low end laptops
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Right, it’s exactly the opposite. What is the AI skeptic version of MIRI, for instance?
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Notably when I was checking the Current Events Portal for a while, most coverage of the Israel/Hamas war was sourced from Al Jazeera and it definitely felt biased. Checking it just now, it appears to be more balanced now.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Silicon Valley is filled with people who moved there to start businesses. Portland is filled with people who moved there for a better quality of life.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
As I said: > Somewhat of a tangent I was just using your comment as a launching point for a thought I've had rattling around in my mind for a while. You mentioned some people having an inclination toward what is old and Eastern. Tha
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> "it's old, and it's eastern" Somewhat of a tangent, but an interesting thought if one is inclined toward the old and Eastern: Christianity is old and Eastern. And yet you can find a Christian community practicing ve
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I don't know enough to argue the merits of your point, so instead I'll just point to Hindu nationalism in present day India.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> that need to justify one’s beliefs, provides a drive that monotheists have and polytheists lack FYI, before the monotheists fully suppressed the polytheists in the Roman Empire, it was the polytheists who were suppressing the monotheis
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> Yet the paucity of yhwh names. Many of the biblical names ending in "ah" are YHWH names. This includes many of the prophets. So Elijah, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Micaiah, Isaiah, for instance are all "ah" ending names th
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Also: * Communal living * Sacred texts & knowledge * Doomsday predictions * Guru/prophet lives on the largesse of followers It's rich for a group that claims to reason based on priors to completely ignore that they possess all
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Famously, Mr. Market deals in what things cost, not what they are worth.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
The thing is, we do actually have a tech industry and other countries largely do not . It’s like arguing that industrialized nations are only wealthier than agricultural nations if you include manufacturing. Thats the whole point!
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I'm not sure that a US government bond has a meaningfully different risk profile than an aggregate investment in US equity markets.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
FYI, you can view the NEC for free. You have to have an account and it’s a janky web view of a PDF, which is suboptimal, but it is free.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
FWIW, Amazon's search algorithm is actually extremely simple: rankings are based on what people buy after searching for a particular term. To use your examples, the reason why Amazon is showing power strips when you search for "su
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> I know a person that was taken away by extended family as a child because the father had anger management issues. Yeah, but the default was for them to be raised by their nuclear family.
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If nuclear families were not of fundamental importance, you would not see “mother” and “father” universally conserved across all languages as the first words that people learn. This is like the thing with the two fish who don’t know what wa
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Look, I don’t know what to tell you. Dictionaries contain the meanings of words and terms as commonly used. If you look up “nuclear family,” the meaning comports entirely with how I have been using the term. I’m sorry that’s inconvenient fo
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
See my other comment in this thread about anthropologists dichotomizing societies based on nuclear vs extended families. In short, it’s orthogonal to the issue.
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It is. I think you’re bringing a lot of baggage to the term. In common usage (verified on my phone dictionary), it simply means a couple and their dependent children. It doesn’t require that they live separately from extended family. It doe
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I think you’re actually confused about the term, see my responses elsewhere in this thread.
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No, that’s baggage that people are bringing to the conversation. It merely means a couple and their dependent children. Whether or not they live separately from extended family has no bearing on the term.
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> if your father and the clan's patriarch give you conflicting orders, who do you obey? Good question, here’s one for you: if your father and a police officer give you conflicting orders, who do you obey? The existence of a layer ca

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