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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> If your starting talking point is that half the country is irrational or detached from reality you've already abandoned the work of building consensus. We can keep doing the "Jon Stewart" thing and scoring points by call
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
I mean, what's more important to you, discovering truths via scientific research and reports, or conforming to your political ideology? (or getting revenge for perceived attacks, I guess)
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> The bigger issue is that NIH, NSF, NASA, and public health agencies are no longer perceived by the US right as neutral expert institutions. They see these institutions as strongholds of left wing elites. So this is less about fiscal po
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> Complete nonsense was getting funded in the social sciences and cognitive science / psychology Man, if you think it was bad now, wait until you learn about lobotomies!
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> The lesson is that real scientists should have stood up en masse to the political commandeering of their institutions by fringe activists peddling pseudoscience and this would have been avoided. Yeah, if only they had tried to appease
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
God, this is depressing. I think it's difficult, if you're a millenial/zoomer/whatever we're calling these things, to understand just how much of the world genuinely liked and respected and wanted america involved
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
sure: https://mbs.edu/news/why-diverse-teams-are-more-profitable
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Well put. It's easy to attack people attempting to work on hard problems for not achieving perfect results. Which they don't. Because IT'S HARD. Weirdly, these critics never have useful suggestions to improve anything, it&#x2
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
When ever asks about or attempts to defend fascism/strongman style systems with some kind of excuse that they "get things done", THIS IS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Does "he started it" count?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
What a wonderful example of why we need more scientific education in this country, not less.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
You're being downvoted, probably for being abrasive, but I agree with your overall point. When I was younger and more naive, this > "the debate (not controversy) should be about which steps are most efficient") i is what
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> I also suspect that our most committed enviro-leftists genuinely believe that their lifestyle is already fully aligned to their values -- they don't even own a car, take transit everywhere! They pay an extra $25 for carbon offsets
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
What a pointless comment. "Climate Change" isn't caused by flying a plane, it's caused by flying thousands of planes every day . This is a real distinction because the individuals you are talking to do not have any mean
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
What a depressing view of the world.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Anyone still following him after that needs to fundamentally reevaluate some life decisions.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
I mean, flash was always a pain in the ass, even when you got it working. The animations and games were great and I'm a big fan of stuff that tries to make it easy to publish programs like that, but I was still a teenager when apple an
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
I've never understood why so many self-declared programmers are so eager to brag that they can't understand a programming language which is, frankly, not really that complicated. I don't particularly like, say, lisp, but I ca
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> “AI/LLMs are just like the brain” is a strawman, why does this claim need to be true for LLMs or any artificial system to be considered to have something akin to the thing you think of as consciousness? It doesn't need to be
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Would you agree, for the sake of argument, that it's more interesting to discus chatgpt 5.5's similarity to sentient/sapient/conscious than, say, my mechanical toaster? > I have never heard about any principle in ph
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> Imagine how other intelligences would view us", written by us, hits a lot less hard when it's "imagine how our intelligences view a thing we are claiming is intelligent", not written by it This is well put. We don&#
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Yeah, works now
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
I mean, it doesn't even render properly on my default samsung android phone...
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
There's always someone willing to blame the victim. The answer to companies committing fraud is not "buyer beware".
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
What a weirdly hypocritical post. You played with legos as a kid. Congratulations, so did lots of other kids at the time, and so do kids right now . Nothing has actually changed. Legos are still sold in a box with instructions, just like t
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
If you can't build a millenium falcon out of any set you're given, whose fault is that?
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
People always say this in these situations. What do you think would be helping things? Passively sitting in the house waiting for the CEOs to change their minds? Writing polite letters to the local newspaper? Like, whats your theory here
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
> False. I said that a 3rd party traveling across the country to serve papers himself and then sitting in front of the house while police are called 4 times is needless YouTube drama. Genuine question, how do you think serving papers w
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
> That account is reminding me why I switched to using an anonymous handle on HN, though. Because you can't ever admit being wrong?
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by wredcoll 5mo ago
I feel like I once heard a great word/phrase for this thing where people attack the "civility" of the messenger instead of the actual injustice being reported on, but I can't remember what it was now. It came up a lot du

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