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by trendoid 12y ago
Refreshing the page not working, "cant get /results". Tabbing doesn't work so I have to click on every text box to type. You need to increase the number of colleges on the first page itself. Keep working on this(potentia
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by trendoid 12y ago
This is great. can you recommend a few readings to someone who is interested in artificial life(and has some programming experience) but not sure where to start?
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by trendoid 12y ago
You are probably not seeing this but your point needs refutation. Dawkins model(not his actually but he presented to general public) was not competition-centric. Main idea was gene centric view of life. Competition, cooperation, symbiosis e
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Intelligent Crows Flunk Causality Test (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
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by trendoid 12y ago
>bacteria that are less prone to washing away The only reason a bacteria will be less prone to washing away is if its useful for our skin in some way and has a symbiotic relationship with it. In which case its highly unlikely if it will
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by trendoid 12y ago
Hmm, haven't noticed it since people around me dont speak enough English. "Apathy" is what I still see more to describe "low level of feeling or lack of caring".
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by trendoid 12y ago
Yes, I agree with the music bit. I had other examples in mind that Sivers mentioned like his opinions about Indonesia and gym that changed overtime as he got more exposure to both. Science might not be the best way to view everything but I
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by trendoid 12y ago
ambivalence : "the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone"
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by trendoid 12y ago
This is what scientific/rational beliefs are all about, open to new data and susceptible to change. Normally, when your long held beliefs somehow become part of your identity, it becomes harder to let go off them when contradicting dat
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by trendoid 12y ago
Not sure why he put atheism bit but considering how many pills Ray Kurzweil takes per day(200?) to increase his age by keeping himself young, it wont be surprising if he has a genuine fear of death. Some of his claims are quite ridiculous a
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by trendoid 12y ago
You should probably read this first as a starting point: http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/04/challenge-islam
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by trendoid 12y ago
If thats your concern, hope you stop having drugs when sick. Almost all allopathic drugs are tested on animals first and the conditions in which they live in arent great.
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by trendoid 12y ago
Most of the parabiotic procedures on mice had two organisms almost always connected to each other. Not sure if the case you described above is feasible in near future. For eg, This one had them connected for 2 weeks : http://www.
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by trendoid 12y ago
Lack of free will invalidates any form of extreme torture or death penalty. People think that the perpetrator should have known better and hence "deserves" the punishment. This is nonsense since we now know from neuroscience that
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by trendoid 13y ago
Thanks, I would love to see more reporting done on such practices. If you still have those links you shared with friends, please share them here.
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by trendoid 13y ago
>But if you take such a job, you know the dangers. So you can take the job or don't. Watch the documentary I posted below, in most cases they are not aware of such dangers. They are promised high returns and better living conditions
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by trendoid 13y ago
>I refuse to have anything more to do with professional sports. Genuine question, what exactly have you stopped doing? I guess not watching FIFA 2014 world cup is on the list?
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by trendoid 13y ago
For many people, hacker news is the only source of knowing shit happening in the world, be it innovation or injustice. Hence, if once in a while such stories do pop up, I like that.
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by trendoid 13y ago
Vice did a documentary on similar shit happening in Dubai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU There are so many issues occupying the world currently that I doubt anyone from governments will raise an eyebrow for
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by trendoid 13y ago
It really depends on what ones priorities are. If someone is really in the middle of starting up or even immensely enjoying the current work that she ends up spending most of the time in office, why the hell would you want kids? Raising dec
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by trendoid 13y ago
I was hoping to see something along the lines of "Intelligent people take time in stereotyping or judging people until sufficient data is collected. Hence initially they trust what people say at face value. This obviously depends on wh
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by trendoid 13y ago
I think u misunderstood the game. u need to get the number 2048, not 2,0,4,8 in some order. Your score will be around 6k atleast if u win. Also, shit loads of time 'wasted'.
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by trendoid 13y ago
>You'd inevitably learn to feel good at the prospect of not having to yield cash to a good cause. Are you really saying this is like Pavlov's dog experiment? Since, the money goes for good cause, I think it might not act as a g
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by trendoid 13y ago
Anything that shows a big corp doing bad to small corp will attract interest. Go ahead and write a blog with evidence and all. I am sure it will raise eyebrows on atleast HN.
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by trendoid 13y ago
I think its nonsense also due to this : "Many physicalist philosophers argued that this scenario eliminates itself by its description; the basis of physicalist argument is that the world is defined entirely by physicality, thus a world
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by trendoid 13y ago
I was actually addressing this line of yours : >There will always be some people who waste their time and others that produce. The people who are producing are creating content which encourages people to waste time. Producers will say &#
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by trendoid 13y ago
Its not just about creating, its also what these people are creating and whats the incentive to create? Do these creators ever think about the repercussions of their creations on the society? If your creation is not motivating people to cre
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by trendoid 13y ago
I think the main issue is that people ge excited about a topic and buy the book. They enjoy few chapters but soon they come across something more interesting on internet and then buy that book too. Almost all non-fiction has some boring bit
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by trendoid 13y ago
I highly recommend 'Practical Ethics' by 'Peter Singer'. You will start seeing how you can apply critical thinking to various moral questions in life without clinging to any religious book. If there are facts to learn ab
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by trendoid 13y ago
is-ought problem is a false problem. Hume says u cannot derive an ought from an is. So if science tells us that a society which treats women as subordinates, kills homosexuals, inhibits dissenting opinions is not a healthy society, you sayi

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