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by tovej 2y ago
No moderation is still worse. It means that -- especially with 4chans activity-based thread sorting -- the most "engaging" (read: rage-inducing) content gets bubbled up without fail. AND that you can drive away all reasonable peop
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by tovej 2y ago
Yes, what do you mean? The biggest climate effect at the moment is human carbon use, which is changing weather patterns, and the cause of the cloud shrinkage is changing weather patterns => cloud shrinkage is driven, to some degree (I wo
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by tovej 2y ago
Anything that facilitates or requires extracting carbon from the ground: Coal plants, petrol engines, cars, airplanes, mass production, modern agriculture processes. The only way to stop global warming is to stop extracting carbon from the
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by tovej 2y ago
That's not a tautology. That's the summary of the argument itself. If you want to know more, then a good reason why it can't be reasoning is that there is no evaluation of the truth value of any statement at any point, only t
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by tovej 2y ago
The burden of proof is on the argument that they _are_ reasoning, and I have seen very little evidence that they do. It's also immediately clear to me when I look at the architecture of transformers that reasoning is not in the cards.
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by tovej 2y ago
Because the humans are reasoning and the LLMs aren't? I have yet to use an LLM for a complex problem and not have it hallucinate. I expect a reasonable counterargument here would be 'but the LLMs have chain of thought now, and tha
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by tovej 2y ago
Refining a Vecs invariants from program flow is interesting. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. It hides an interaction between references and dynamic container types, possibly "protecting" the programmer from und
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by tovej 2y ago
The price is awarded exclusively to neoclassical economists, because it's effectively a marketing tool for neoclassical economics, which is the economic theory base of neoliberal shareholder capitalism.
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by tovej 2y ago
She's a phd in physics, I think we can safely say that she has a curious mind.
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by tovej 2y ago
Well, for one, he strangled his wife when he got upset: https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/richard-feynman-physica...
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by tovej 2y ago
She's the only youtube physicist I can stand, to be honest. Much better than Tyson, and much, much better than Hossenfelder, who's turning out to be a complete crank. Collier is matter of fact, cites her sources, and has non-hot t
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by tovej 2y ago
He hasn't written a single book (surprising I know), I assume you're talking about "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman", which contains exaggerated anecdotes designed to make Feynman look like a hero. That one was wr
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by tovej 2y ago
Evolutionary psychology is highly speculative and is widely known to be full of questionable results. So much so that there's a wikipedia page for how bad it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evoluti
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by tovej 2y ago
I'm using bash for simple build problems like building dynamic component lists, when bash gets too unwieldy I switch to python. If the build process is stable enough and the scripts are beginning to get long, I'll rewrite the scri
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by tovej 2y ago
I have a similar experience. We had a truly terrible paper written as a collaboration with a team from the US on a software project, integrating their "novel" and "innovative" component. The component took 1 hour to comp
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by tovej 2y ago
Biggest takeaway for me is just how terrible node.js is as a server. Can't say I'm personally surprised, but I think people need to wake up to the mess that moving to self-hosting in javascript has brought. There's no reason
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by tovej 2y ago
It's not just PRs and issues, my build systems are breaking because I can't download tarballs for dependencies from github.
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by tovej 2y ago
It's not just PRs and issues, my build systems are breaking because I can't download tarballs for dependencies from github.
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by tovej 2y ago
What do you mean? Linux has multiple excellent packaging solutions, apt/dpkg, yum, PKGBUILD/pacman If a developer can't be arsed to package their software, it's not the Linux community's fault
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by tovej 2y ago
Most of these people are forced to take these jobs, because nothing else is available, they don't have the power to avoid this job. You cannot make a principled decision if your basic needs, or those of your family are not met. In fact
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by tovej 2y ago
I understand that this issue seems to create a strong emotional reaction in you. That does not excuse you from the consequences of those strong emotional reactions. I feel like you have massively extrapolated the argument from what the orig
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by tovej 2y ago
fmt is not a random library, it's the inspiration and reference implementation for std::format
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by tovej 2y ago
If you're not answering the argument, that's fine. But let's acknowledge that you did not answer the argument and are now just spouting the rhetoric of the far-right movement I'm describing.
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by tovej 2y ago
This is an armed resistance group, not an academic clique, and the violence was a reaction to attacks (e.g. beatings, assassination attempt). It's also not an example of oppression, even though it is violent.
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by tovej 2y ago
Would you please tell me one example where oppression has started with criticizing nazis.
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by tovej 2y ago
You're saying national socialism is not harmful? /pol/, /b/, and tons of other boards constantly spawn threads glorifying nazi germany and vilifying other ethnicities and women, using rhetoric calling for people bel
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by tovej 2y ago
This problem is a societal one, it mostly harms you indirectly by creating spaces for hateful ideas to spread, 4chan's harm is through the capacity to organize and strengthen hateful and harmful political movements. More socially consc
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by tovej 2y ago
There's no smart algorithm for sorting posts, and there's a limited number of active threads, so it's not rage baiting in quite the same way. Only active threads stay alive though, so it has the exact same issue as twitter an
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by tovej 2y ago
/pol/ is 100% a big factor in the rising popularity of MAGA and far-right nationalist sentiment among young men
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by tovej 2y ago
That's not what an exception proving a rule means. It has a technical meaning: a sign that says "free parking on sundays" implies parking is not free as a rule. When used like this it just confuses a reader with rethoric. In

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