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by warent 6y ago
oh wow, I thought the video was an artistic edit of the program. it was frustrating me because just wanted to see the program, not a filtered, edited trailer. then I realized that's the program. this is really mindblowing, the creator
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by warent 6y ago
I don't endorse this behavior at all but can it really be said to be black-hat? imho seems more gray to me. From what I understand, content _is_ being generated and there are attempts to boost the SEO, so they're providing a servi
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by warent 6y ago
I'd guess for starters that an extreme authoritarian centralized state is already normalized in China. USA is creeping that direction but there's still a ways to go
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by warent 6y ago
I imagine it's similar to having your upper-torso tied to a pole and your lower-torso tied to a car, meanwhile the universe rapidly ages into an ever-shrinking sphere behind you. It sounds nightmarishly painful--physically and existent
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by warent 6y ago
> Now, the question is: what causes this discontinuity in the equations of motion? Why is interaction with a detector different than interaction with another particle? > Many Worlds simply reframes this problem, but doesn't get r
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by warent 6y ago
That doesn't seem like a question that can be answered mathematically, does it? That's like asking, why do electrons have a spin of 1/2? Why is the speed of light 299,792,458 m/s? These are just properties of the univer
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by warent 6y ago
I think you're mixing up metaphysics and human intuition with what the math describes. The current math says there may be essentially infinite worlds created in infinite time, where yes there is least one in which you are a billionaire
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by warent 6y ago
My understanding is that any kind of measurement will do, it doesn't matter how you get it. You could use photons to do the measurement but there are other ways which all have the same result. It's a mystery how the particle &quot
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by warent 6y ago
Why did the open that article talking about someone who assaulted another person? That just seems random and unrelated, like if if an article about sex toys just randomly opened with a paragraph about rape.
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by warent 6y ago
I think it's a matter of hiding them because of so many people fetishizing tits, which ironically is likely due to them being hidden in the first place. It'll probably take a couple generations of uncensoring them before it's
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by warent 6y ago
Who said anything about stupid? I'm not sure why you dug that description up but I think it says more about your views than mine.
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by warent 6y ago
It's really strange they insist on calling it a playroom. Sure, he is a child (young man / young teen) but it seems weirdly demeaning and distracting. It's a laboratory, which they correctly name it later on, but why not in t
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by warent 6y ago
The word "religion" has a lot of baggage associated with it where it seems to invoke a stereotypical undereducated westerner who interprets ancient spiritual texts literally. There's a lot more than just that. Ancient Buddhis
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by warent 6y ago
I don't think this works for two reasons. First you're incentivizing the wrong behavior, which would be to complete the ride as fast as possible rather than completing it safely. The second is that it breaks down in small economie
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by warent 6y ago
This is very relevant to my personal experience. I've always had a very, very poor sense of direction. Even if I I've been down a road countless times, if I approach it from a different direction I can easily become lost and turne
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by warent 6y ago
> Should we lock em all up in super max prisons for providing weapons to people? I said we should shut down Florence. > Net positive... LOL Name a single politican that does provide a net positive to the world. How about Trump? I have
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by warent 6y ago
I agree with you. I just wanted to focus my comment specifically on the topic of solitary confinement. At present moment such correctional and rehabilitational systems do not exist, so unfortunately yes prison sentences should be given as a
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by warent 6y ago
Solitary confinement in general is out of proportion, particularly for extended periods. In my opinion it should be a violation of the Eighth amendment and they need to shut down Florence, but few people fight for it because it's full
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by warent 6y ago
Google cares very much about cost. That's why they always terminate their own projects and services even if people enjoy them. They just happen to care more about their friends.
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by warent 6y ago
I'm so blown away by the clarity of speech! After hearing him talk like that, hearing the normal bird noises almost sounds strange, like a human mimicking a bird, or like he's gotten impatient and wants us to understand his native
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by warent 6y ago
You may already be familiar but you might be interested in checking out the comedian Drew Lynch https://www.youtube.com/user/WordsRHard He developed his stutter years ago after a softball accident (hit him in the throa
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by warent 6y ago
Not even about bleeding edge products. It's a lengthy article about the pitfalls of entering a market with no market validation, which the author slapped lipstick on and gave this sexy title.
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by warent 6y ago
The reason why is that presenting facts and concrete logic is more compatible with a greater array of people, whereas ethics and morals are subjective. Using a moral argument is not going to be as persuasive in business (particularly if,
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by warent 6y ago
Agreed. This is really bizarre behavior for HN. This thread reads like a paranoid Reddit post, and people who are requesting evidence are being downvoted into oblivion... Because it's more fashionable to jump on the "godaddy is a
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by warent 6y ago
Interesting, I liked the story but got the opposite impression you did. At first the humor was amusing but I felt like the relentless, extremely heavy sarcasm dripping off every sentence quickly turned it into a slog and even started to mak
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by warent 6y ago
It's just a fun relic of an older internet. Seems like something unlikely to be found on a big website like Wired.
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by warent 6y ago
For some reason what has always worked for me is just abandoning rational thought entirely and working day-to-day. I go into a project thinking "I bet I can get 50% to 100% of this thing done today" and that's almost never th
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by warent 6y ago
"GPT-3 is a marvel of engineering due to its breathtaking scale. It contains 175 billion parameters (the weights in the connections between the “neurons” or units of the network) distributed over 96 layers. It produces embeddings in a
930.
by warent 6y ago
Maybe it's just a matter of perspective. Doing things to be selfless or altruistic has nothing to do with external validation, reward, or appreciation, in my experience of it. Appreciation and reward have little effect because people

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