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by tw1010 8y ago
Has this happened before? How can we learn more about this phenomenon by looking at history? To me this is an entirely new phenomenon.
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What's the best way to know what quotient of your investment money comes from "good" (e.g. enviourmentally friendly) sources vs "bad" (e.g. oil) sources? The enviourmental industry tend to be really good about going
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Sure, but I still don't see why we should be hysterically scared about its development since I think photoshopped images would have made the same damage a long time ago if the system was really that fragile. The fact that photoshopped
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by tw1010 8y ago
Well, we need some duds to get the big wins. This is just a sign of a more than healthy industry (taking risks and sometimes failing). No need to feel bad.
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There are a lot of people who don't think verbally, who nevertheless manage (because they have to, because that's basically the only channel we have) to share their ideas using language (in an indistinguishable way from people who
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by tw1010 8y ago
Yeah, this is why I'm not worried one iota about deepfakes. Say what you will about fake news, but blantant lies like a faked video or image generally does not get through journalistic filters. Something big like a fake video of a cele
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I don't think you can evaluate if that's true by reading books by people in the past. There are a lot of different states of mind which are consistent with the same output. I mean, just think about how many people with wildly diff
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by tw1010 8y ago
Has anyone written a blog about the game theory of this whole ordeal? Feels a bit like the snowdrift game.
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True introspection turns into a math puzzle when you want to go really deep. (It requires constant monitoring and logging of your own mind, and requires an insane amount of tests against self deception if you want to do it properly. Both of
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Aren't you curious about the world, about history, about psychology? You won't be able to learn deep rich history if you don't remember what you read in the first nine books once you get to the real payoff in the tenth book.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Blindly hating brutalism is just as mimetic as blindly loving it.
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To be brutally honest, a lot of the negativity on HN probably isn't the best influence on your mental health. It's a trade-off between that and career benefits.
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Jesus christ is that flickering scroll thing distracting.
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If they're uncorrelated risks, it's still a pretty slim chance that they'll all explode though, right?
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Answer: branding.
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I used to think this. Then I was bored for so long that I got used to it, and found no creative thoughts flowing out of me anymore. It's a balance, unfortunately. I sometimes think that having a procrastinating undercurrent is almost a
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What makes you assume z3t4 exhaustively tried every other language before settling on JS? It's not typical that you present your opinion of a tv show by giving the few unique positive traits it has in contrast to the union of all posit
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by tw1010 8y ago
Habituating myself with music and special rooms that I'm very strict about associating only to work (never play) has been the key for me. Play music when you work, and be very strict about not playing the same track/genre when you
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by tw1010 8y ago
I typically think of this as a unique advantage that programmers have. In almost every other industry I see, I see people who never get the chance to focus all their attention on intellectually challenging tasks for hours without break, and
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Never evaluate yourself based on an abstracted metric of a population, without considering inescapable underlying correlated factors in the negative direction. (If all you know is reported salaries from anonymous people, then you don't
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My experience with some PhDs would suggest too much schooling might have the opposite effect...
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Massachusetts Institute of Binary Sequences
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You can't treat statistics about humans the same way you treat probabilities about trajectories in a mechanics experiment. People live in a level two chaotic system, which means that the existence of statistics can affect future outcom
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This article reminds me of how it felt to be on the internet as a child. It seemed like this magical place where around every corner there was hidden an alchemic recipe to achieve something magical, if only you knew how to search in the rig
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It'd be silly to assume that influencers are a necessary requirement for information to spread in a network, just because that's how it's worked a lot of the time in our society.
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Oh come on. Mass blackmail, that'd be pretty cool. Or models trained on our behaviour, subtly affecting the market to make us do silly things purely for the enjoyment of some accidental bitcoin millionaire, never detectable by governme
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What's the most sci-fi worst case scenario that could come of this?
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My main qualm with intermittent fasting is that it makes me hungry, which depletes my will-power budget for the day (which prevents me from being productive later in the day). Is there any diet that works better than IF (or just as well), g
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Feels like Apple are really are taking the "You never let a serious crisis go to waste" quote to heart.
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Education, I feel like many are screaming. If only they knew more about this stuff, then they wouldn't fall into this trap. But isn't this an arms race? If workers got smarter, wouldn't industry find something else to exploit

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