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by turzmo 3y ago
Why does HN keep editing the titles of these things?
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by turzmo 3y ago
“Shindyapina hails from Russia, which has a long-held cultural fascination with longevity technology” Does anybody find this puff-piece strained and idiotically written?
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by turzmo 3y ago
Neither better innovation nor bigger sales imply better cars.
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by turzmo 3y ago
American, but I read PG's tweets as someone who absolutely does not want to piss off Sam but is willing to come close to the edge of plausible deniability in damning him, e.g.: > The most alarming thing I've read about AI in re
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by turzmo 3y ago
People could afford to say more nice things. Perhaps it would even devalue the false flattery used by salespeople to their advantage. OTOH the parent comment's take seems reasonable. Calling your dad and saying "I love you" b
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by turzmo 3y ago
Perhaps you can expand on why you think that’s the case then?
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by turzmo 3y ago
Nice troll
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by turzmo 3y ago
The question is reasonable, it’s often not a good time to watch a video and one might want to know if it’s worth coming back to. The problem is that the tone is abrasive.
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by turzmo 3y ago
Relevant Feynman: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_25.html (At the bottom, cf. “unworldliness”) Physicist here, I don’t want to be too dismissive because reducing physics down to its basic principles is part of th
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by turzmo 3y ago
Anyone else bothered by the phrasing of the title? Find “star that is?”
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by turzmo 3y ago
The bottom 5% is hopeless. Yeah it would be better if we did that, but people think about education as a means to provide the individual the chance for success in life rather than thinking about the broader impact of individuals on society
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by turzmo 3y ago
Cute, but the less optimal arrangement gets a better workout switching stuff around
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by turzmo 3y ago
My mother, I love her, but all of her worldview is based off of the news. No social life, no hobbies, no books, no real experience. It’s amazing, but understandable, how she perceives risk. Cars get in crashes. Flights are always delayed. B
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by turzmo 3y ago
I don't think game controllers are considered to be well tested and physically robust. Look at the reviews for the product on amazon, it seems to not be very reliable. While this probably wasn't the part that failed, it shows an i
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by turzmo 3y ago
I don't expect CEO's mean anything they say. But I do think this infraction is minor compared to everything else that goes on. Overall, I agree with you.
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by turzmo 3y ago
I dunno, as someone generally disillusioned by tech and its shady practices/ethics, this doesn't seem all that bad to me. It's a little gross but maybe a necessary evil in this day and age.
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by turzmo 3y ago
I’ve had professors share PDFs of copyrighted textbooks with the class. I doubt this was legally valid in any way. I personally love to buy textbooks because I think a physical book is easier to retain. Printing and binding a PDF at Fedex i
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by turzmo 3y ago
Gotcha, thanks
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by turzmo 3y ago
How is that?
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by turzmo 4y ago
Glad to know I’m not the only one, I spend an ungodly amount on JetPens…
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by turzmo 4y ago
I would argue that my hard drive too can take an array of integers and produce an owl.
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by turzmo 4y ago
I think this is true, but there are (likely) more children's books out there than you can read in a lifetime, so it seems like adding more middling AI ones to the mix would not be a value-add. At least (skilled) human authors adding to
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by turzmo 4y ago
I don’t think so. Unlike online forums, people attend MIT for considerations far more important to them than politics. MIT students are also typically less politically minded than other top schools
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by turzmo 4y ago
Sure, Biden, but Trump is plenty menacing himself.
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by turzmo 4y ago
I agree science needs to be used as a justification carefully, and pushing COVID vaccines out quickly may or may not have been a good use of that power (consider other diseases though). But I still believe that science needs that credibil
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by turzmo 4y ago
Yes, I’m saying that. You are a scientist but imagine what the space of skepticism in the general public actually looks like. Anybody with a political motivation can ‘take down’ climate change, vaccines, or even a tound earth.
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by turzmo 4y ago
I think that undermines the inherent objectiveness of scientists. If people have to be skeptical of scientists they will not believe anything that they say (take the ideas of relativity or quantum mechanics). Scientists have one thing going
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by turzmo 4y ago
Actually, I don't think that's true. The military was using planes within a decade of 1900, and certainly a decade after the Kitty Hawk flight, they were installing machine guns on planes. They were proposing international legisla
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by turzmo 4y ago
We often can figure out how to take a product that works 90% and bring it to 99%, and then to 99.9%. The engineering challenges involved in each nine are often vastly more than the percentages indicate, but they're conceivable. With AI
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by turzmo 4y ago
"was no more than a meaningless winter drinking game, played by a plague-ridden population that made use of the vibrant tulip market." Exaggerated or not, I think we can still use this line!

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