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by tock 6mo ago
> Can you justify that claim? Can you? > Feynman is a good example of that. "Do you call yourself an agnostic or an atheist? Feynman: An atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am ab
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by tock 6mo ago
Every society has had gods at some point in the past. Why didn't every society improve then? And China's growth has been very recent(after the 80s). And birth rates have absolutely collapsed across the world. It's not some un
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by tock 6mo ago
They were scientific in spite of being religious. Not because of it. > that I don't think are matched by atheism at its best There are plenty of scientists including Feynman and Hawkings. These are unrelated things.
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by tock 6mo ago
Large sections of China, Japan, etc are atheists. Why do you think it hasn't worked?
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by tock 6mo ago
Counterpoint: I know plenty of very religious families with multiple kids who are deeply unhappy. In my experience friends and family are the primary contributor to happiness. Provided they are good people. Else its a train wreck. It doesn&
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by tock 6mo ago
Interesting. You save 200 euros(in germany) but lose significant CPU performance. As long as its not a chromebook its usable.
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by tock 6mo ago
It's surprisingly fine. Not the fastest though.
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by tock 6mo ago
What is a cheaper but good enough alternative in your opinion?
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by tock 6mo ago
Its $600 in the states. $500 if you are a student. What is a cheaper but good enough alternative in your opinion?
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by tock 6mo ago
The Neo changes things. Only $600.
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by tock 6mo ago
Yeah poor people don't have sex. Neither do middle aged people. Lmao.
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by tock 6mo ago
It's conditioning. We cannot be happy idle because society deems idleness as bad. Just like people cannot be happy with a balding hairline because society has deemed it to be ugly. If the trend changes in a century and balding is sudde
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by tock 6mo ago
Ah I believe codex has similar issues. Terrible code quality but goes to show it doesn't really matter in the end.
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by tock 6mo ago
Huh what moronic failure did Anthropic do? Every Claude Code user I know loves it.
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by tock 6mo ago
It's entry-level obscenely rich club.
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by tock 7mo ago
What do you think is a valid doomer warning that came true? Or do you think literally everything that is pessimistic is doomerism?
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by tock 7mo ago
I disagree that being born to rich parents == you have better genetics. It's mostly privilege. And just being born in America is one of the biggest privileges wrt career and wealth.
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by tock 7mo ago
> Where do unintelligent people exist in your society? Everywhere? Both in rich and poor households. > For example can’t redo early childhood. So if that impacts your ability then it’s been impacted. Ah I thought the argument was more
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by tock 7mo ago
On average more educated? Yes. More intelligent? Nah I see no data. Given the same access to resources I expect the kid from a poor family and a kid from a rich family to perform similarly.
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by tock 7mo ago
How is China bad? Their education system did take them from absolute poverty to #2 superpower in a few decades.
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by tock 7mo ago
Raw test scores are a good idea in many countries because it reduces scope for corruption + gives even the poorest kids a chance. Though I would argue there needs to be multiple chances a year and not just 1.
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by tock 7mo ago
> potentially more intelligent than the poorest group It's easy to think this but its not true. There is just a ton of privilege involved in life. There are groups in India who purely tutor slum kids to the top IITs(the JEE exams in
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by tock 7mo ago
1. There are far worse places to work than China :) 2. I was comparing everyone against EU. NA included.
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by tock 7mo ago
Not surprised because most people in the world only have time to work/commute/sleep. Stuff like hobbies, sabbaticals, vacations, etc are quite rare. I've only seen the contrary when I met Europeans.
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by tock 7mo ago
Huh? I value myself and my family at infinity. Meaning no-one else or no amount of money can replace them. So no we are in fact extremely non disposable and non replaceable to the people we love.
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by tock 7mo ago
It's a M1 Macbook Air substitute with significantly better single core performance. Any comparison with a chromebook is just hilarious.
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by tock 7mo ago
I hope it's true. Middle east interventions have all led to failed state scenarios so far. And I doubt this administration is smart enough to do whats best for the US. End of day I guess Israel decides the outcome of this particular wa
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by tock 7mo ago
Are you confident this war is targeting a regime change vs causing a failed state scenario?
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by tock 7mo ago
Fairness matters because the only way we can collectively decide to reduce emissions is if people everywhere feel its fair.
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by tock 7mo ago
Something about FIRE makes people have a visceral reaction. How DARE people not work like the rest of us. I get the purpose part if they were like teachers or doctors or something. Nope. SWE at Meta.

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