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by truculation 9y ago
Yes. Also the assessment of parts of his non-scientific work as being 'almost entirely fruitless' might be mistaken. We don't and can't understand how his great mind worked. Could it be that an apparently strange obsessi
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The review confuses psychological optimism with a problem-based definition of optimism: that problems are solvable (and hence progress is possible). As David Deutsch points out in The Beginning of Infinity , Winston Churchill was an optimi
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I suspect your dystopias have in common that they all had utopian visions. Instead of focusing on real problems and making gradual progress they kept talking about building heaven on earth. Apparently they just needed to tear down existin
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And yet intelligent people are said to use more drugs: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamen...
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by truculation 9y ago
Yes I would like a Starship Enterprise-style computer in my house. Who wouldn't? But it has to be the the ad-free version that works for me . It won't monitor the activities of my family and then sell the anonymized data to selec
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by truculation 9y ago
>the main argument for project-based learning is ability to make learning interesting Exactly. Btw are their any popular video games out there that actually help kids to write mods for them?
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by truculation 9y ago
I see PC as a means by which some members of a ruling group try to secure their status within that group by self-righteously condemning other members of the group and the group itself. The PC beliefs themselves are adapted to cowing the spi
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by truculation 9y ago
Heh. We're developing code that can impersonate the average human better than the average human. Well that about wraps it up for the Turing Test.
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It's pretty weird that 25 years into the internet age we have students paying through the nose to attend university and universities paying through the nose to subscribe to publications.
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There are a huge number of bureaucratic hoops to jump through before you can get an article published. The flow chart is huge and gets more elaborate year by year. So if the quality is still poor then I think this simply means that we&#x2
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by truculation 9y ago
>Economic inequality [...] is both highly moralized (right-thinking people agree it’s the root of all evil) No way. Even if all the money and stuff were ideally distributed our troubles wouldn't be over. Resentment and envy would
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My bank was involved with the LIBOR scandal but they won't let my wife pay small amounts of cash into my account just in case we're up to something dodgy. If I temporarily have a large amount of cash in the account then they send
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by truculation 9y ago
It feels like we're approaching the time where a home diagnostic kit could be economically employed to check health status and screen for a host of diseases. You'd receive sample containers at home for blood, saliva, urine, breath
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I would guess it costs more money for now , since now we can expect an increasingly long period of disease and disability before death. This period is made possible by improved medical care and palliative care, which is expensive. For exam
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>it does not last... Exactly. It ends with addiction, bad health, senility, crippling alimony or something else nasty. Thus hard problems are inevitable. Better to choose something meaningful ASAP.
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>There is no shortage of hard problems left to solve Yes, and there never will be. The problem of life is which one to choose. This problem is getting harder in the sense that there's more choice now. (In the old days if peasants
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by truculation 9y ago
This sounds like an excellent idea. However, what about choice of material? We pick a musical piece to learn because we enjoy the tune and how it sounds. How should a beginner choose which code to memorise?
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Yes, not having to do physical labour is better than being forced to do physical labour as a worker or peasant. The new problem for most people is how to eat less and get a little exercise. But this is a better problem. I like rsync'
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by truculation 9y ago
>Other than some very basic common sense things -- like don't eat rat poison Common sense is often mistaken. Here are two rat poisons which are also medicines: Ergocalciferol -- a.k.a. Vitamin D2 (used as a supplement for many
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by truculation 9y ago
If the immune system has finite resources, would reducing the lifetime drain on those resources by infectious diseases delay the age at which we can expect get cancer? For example, curing the common cold and/or developing a universal f
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by truculation 9y ago
Innovators are weird to begin with. Otherwise they couldn't resist the social pressure to be normal, get a 'proper job' and so on. Living on the edge keeps their minds active and creative. Plus they expect pushback for their