tycho-newman

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by tycho-newman 3mo ago
Robert Sapolsky has a fantastic discussion of depression as a form of learned helplessness. We see it in abused animals: https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?is=YnnSt1292XjiGbEE You are not much different from any other animal at s
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Years ago I had a little token that printed auth codes. They were everywhere. I had it on my keychain. I recall thinking it was nifty.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
I think the consensus sought here is narrow enough.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Parliament can make any law.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
We only tolerate totalitarianism in the private sector!
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Lots of Americans live on that right now. It would go further in India.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
It sounds like you object to the exploitation rather than to the H1-B.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Nothing. American workers will rarely consider offshoring themselves. Which is a shame.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Maybe we should let people work wherever they want? The tech companies will just offshore the jobs they’d otherwise use for visas. India is a cool place. Lots of Americans would do well to live and work there. They’d probably even be a bit
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Simpson Tide predicted this.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Writing probably arose from reading animal tracks in soft mud.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
QM is so platonic though. Reality consists, ultimately, of forms that can only be described mathematically. It just happens that the math returns (what we see) as a probability distribution/wave function. I’ve never quite understood wh
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
The snark is part of the vibe. The world is full of people still working through their inferiority/superiority complex. Many of them convene in the Halls of Power. The Economist reminds them all that they are still mortal.
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Ask HN: Is 'Wheel of Fortune' a workable analogy for how LLMs work?
1 points by tycho-newman 1y ago|1 comments
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Facts.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
In "On Love", bell hooks points out just how screwed children are by their circumstance and their lack of agency/autonomy. Highly recommend reading her.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Indeed. For me, being aware of those complexities is what gives me hope that there’s a new emerging paradigm.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
I get why you see this as me having an inflexible black and white rule. I see it differently. I see respecting individual autonomy as the best way to respond to the shades of grey in life. This respect for autonomy goes all the way to the u
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
That's all valid, but I'm going to stick to my autonomy rule. People are free to make fatal mistakes.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
I did nazi this coming …
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Altruism, trust, and cooperation often emerge from acts and choices that seem completely self-interested. Heck, cooperation is a survival strategy that came out of evolution. It exists outside of humans. It doesn’t need to come from human i
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
I don’t make the distinction between asking and forcing. To me, you can ask why someone wants to die. But stopping them? Or asking them to stop? Eh, not up to me.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
“On their own” is in air quotes because it’s a vast simplification. In kinship group days, and especially before vaccines, children simply didn’t survive. They died by the millions. Today, a child has a viable alternative to the abusive or
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
No one should ask a suicidal person not to kill themselves. If you believe in autonomy, every human has the right to decide when and how to end their lives. Slavery denies human autonomy by taking all control away. Even when you think their
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Communities, like all living things, are subject to the whims of extinction events. When a mountain falls out of the sky, it’s no one’s fault (not even the bad people) that the community failed.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Sure. That said, the nation state is often little more than regional elites legalizing their control over workers and capital. If your local elites are generally better than the alternative people tend to stick around
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Life has a 100 percent fatality rate People fight for communities they want to preserve. There’s no guarantees that fight will be successful. But when they don’t fight? Maybe it’s because they can’t. Or don’t want to. No one should ask them
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
It's not lost, just no longer necessary for survival. Also, bad communities fail. They should be allowed to fail. Until recently, individuals needed to be part of some sort of kinship group to get their needs met and to survive. To com
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
I am comfortable branching out.
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by tycho-newman 1y ago
Back in MY day, we didn't even have wheels!

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