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by westoncb 8y ago
> It's easy not to care how good you are at your hobbies when you're already really good at something else. I've seen that at play, and it can be a very significant effect. The clearest instance from my personal experience
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by westoncb 8y ago
I found 'Gödel’s Proof' fascinating—surprisingly more so than GEB, which I'd anticipated loving for years before dipping into it (I didn't finish, but the primary reason was loss of interest). It was one of the first thi
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by westoncb 8y ago
I didn't see anything specifically on this, but I think it would be fair to assume the screen will be significantly higher than the DK1. Even the resolution of the Oculus Go is far better.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Hmm, there's an element you've left out of the situation that makes it different from a straight Linda Problem though. In logical terms, it looks like this. mental_illness -> shittiness being_a_naturally_shitty_person -&g
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by westoncb 8y ago
Not if they've already been diagnosed with a mental illness, which is the situation at hand.
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by westoncb 8y ago
> Or be more attuned to the current state That's a good suggestion I hadn't thought of. Really not sure aside from that—I've got some vague ideas about certain 'empathy trainings' that could be done, but I'd
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by westoncb 8y ago
This is a good time to employ some Occam's Razor: if we've already accounted for the shittiness via mental illness, what is our reason for introducing an additional explanation? Are certain extreme mental illnesses not enough to a
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by westoncb 8y ago
I was just reading some reviews and overviews of the book and walked away with the same impression. The most interesting definition (partly just IMO, but also because it's the one whose derivative of 'being talked about' is a
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by westoncb 8y ago
I do have to agree with you insofar as the studies' particular results go: in both scenarios, the patient suffered: in the first scenario because of a lifetime of depression, in the second because of the same + the trauma of the early
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by westoncb 8y ago
My read is that, if you think about it, yes, it's somewhat obvious that would happen—but the question is, since that's clearly not fair behavior/right, what do we do about it? It seems clear to me that it's not right sin
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by westoncb 8y ago
The key word in my previous comment would be 'analogy'. In any analogy, some elements in the analogous domain have no mapping. I was highlighting the isomorphism between code undergoing refactors and theories undergoing paradigm s
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by westoncb 8y ago
> "Refactoring" is part of the current paradigm, so the act of refactoring is not a pardigm shift. The example you cited to justify that claim is a difference in magnitude, not intrinsic structure. I brought up refactoring as a
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by westoncb 8y ago
Sure--it would need to be a refactor of the foundations of the code base, and not just splitting a method in two or something. If you look closely at the word 'refactor' though, you'll see it's actually referring explici
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by westoncb 8y ago
Software developers are especially well-positioned to understand some of the controversial claims of Kuhn: his 'paradigm shift' would be to us a 'refactor'. Not just adding statements or fixing bugs (accounting for &#x27
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by westoncb 8y ago
Kuhn is very explicit on that the typical behavior is this kind of subsuming rather than outright replacement. He even points out cases where the new paradigm causes us to lose the ability to say certain things we were capable of in the old
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by westoncb 8y ago
Also, I didn't notice this before, but when you say: > And that seems to be roughly what the abc conjecture says: it is not likely that all of a, b, and c are rare. It almost sounds like a tautology. Is your view that it is somewhat
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by westoncb 8y ago
I just spent about half an hour reading from the preview on Amazon, and I've got to say I was super impressed with the style—very clear and focused on the most interesting things.
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by westoncb 8y ago
That's a pretty interesting quote. Can anyone provide some more context for it?
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by westoncb 8y ago
It could be social. Imagine the family surrounding the deathbed of an elder, dying relative. It's probably the case that the relative is observed closely while 'crossing over,' and depending on the relatives' interpretat
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by westoncb 8y ago
Great explanation—thanks. I think I got the upshot, though I am unclear on what function rad() is.
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by westoncb 8y ago
It's interesting that this article doesn't touch on this aspect of the situation at all, but when reading about Mochizuki's proof in the past it was presented as clear that proving the ABC conjecture was one application of a
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by westoncb 8y ago
> “The abc conjecture is a very elementary statement about multiplication and addition,” said Minhyong Kim of the University of Oxford. It’s the kind of statement, he said, where “you feel like you’re revealing some kind of very fundamen
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by westoncb 8y ago
> ... although it relies on reifying particles embedded in waves to essentially select a single world, ... Is the mathematical formalism actually more unwieldy, or is it just this interpretation of what it's doing? The 'select
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by westoncb 8y ago
I wonder if that process of learning each of the different material systems so well might lead to knew knowledge about patterns between materials not seen before, which could end up being knowledge of the more fundamental sort...
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by westoncb 8y ago
That's fair—rereading more closely, their terminology is neutral on the matter. I jumped ahead because typically when I see this brought up that's the main point folks are talking about: since the physical system is 'computin
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by westoncb 8y ago
Okay, that makes sense to me—we can set up the physical system's initial conditions to mirror some problem we want solved, then let it do its thing and grab the solution back afterward. That definitely feels better justified than the v
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by westoncb 8y ago
The main thing I wonder about this is whether it's misleading to say the soap bubble is 'solving' a problem of high computational complexity. If we were to form a description of its state evolving, framed as a computation, th
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by westoncb 8y ago
I see. That make sense. I had thought we just used it to refer to genome sections related to 'macro traits' (not sure of a better term) we're interested in.
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by westoncb 8y ago
> The most recent estimate for how many genes are involved in complex traits like height or intelligence is approximately “all of them” – by the latest count, about twenty thousand. From this side of the veil, it all seems so obvious. It
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by westoncb 8y ago
That's great, definitely send me a message if you want to talk about it more at some point. You can find my website with contact info on my profile here.

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