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by xamuel 7y ago
For all the people talking about how of course we should increase population density: what should someone like me do? I'm neurologically over-sensitive to certain noises like subwoofers or dogs barking. So what should I do when all the
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by xamuel 7y ago
Incidentally, the brain retconning to fill in gaps is actually so mundane and common, you do it hundreds of thousands of times per day. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
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by xamuel 7y ago
>I would appreciate if you could point out some specific examples Well the first one that comes to mind was you seemed to do all sorts of mental gymnastics in response to my "man reading about global warming in Huffington Post"
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by xamuel 7y ago
Username checks out ;)
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by xamuel 7y ago
Thanks, I'm flattered you're interested in learning from me. I'm not deliberately trying to be evasive. Believe it or not, I've been thinking of you as deliberately evasive. Achieving real mind-share with someone is MUCH
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by xamuel 7y ago
You're just pushing the bubble around under the wallpaper: who defines "living costs" etc? A person can technically stay alive in extremely spartan conditions.
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by xamuel 7y ago
What's your objective with this continuing discussion? Are you hoping to convince me to take a specific action or something? Wikipedia describes Memetics as "the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian
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by xamuel 7y ago
I'm in full agreement with the quoted paragraph. And I would say reducing the amount of delusional beliefs held by individuals is extremely, urgently important. As for this pedantic discussion, maybe this parable will help. A man goes
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by xamuel 7y ago
It's even more interesting to think about this in the context of preserving banned information for future generations. For example, if all the countries in the world united to ban the New Testament. But you eventually realize the ephem
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by xamuel 7y ago
It's really sad thinking how kids these days totally miss the wonder of the early internet. In my case, it was at the public library. The lone internet computer was constantly booked. But by watching over a library clerk's shoulde
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by xamuel 7y ago
Thanks for the answer. I think you touch on something with the Optometry example, and that example helped me to articulate a proto-idea I've been trying to get a finger on and haven't been able to grasp until now. To avoid unneces
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by xamuel 7y ago
I'm not saying no biased algorithms exist. I'm just saying, we shouldn't throw away what initially appears to be discriminatory bias, we should instead ask, "what caused this?" And that goes no matter what color of
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by xamuel 7y ago
Please don't use foul language. I'm genuinely interested in komali2's answer. I'm not pulling some rhetorical trick or something. Please follow HN guidelines and give fellow commenters the benefit of the doubt. There are
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by xamuel 7y ago
I think at last we can agree on your more accurate description of your beliefs, just with the sole exception that we could simplify it by the removal of the first sentence. That is, I fully agree with the following: Everyone perceives that
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by xamuel 7y ago
What would it take for you to falsify your stance? If nothing can make you falsify it, then that's not science, that's pseudoscience. Unconscious bias entering AI is bad. But consider this scenario. Imagine for decades, there&#x27
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by xamuel 7y ago
Because that's not what science is. Science is the study of physical objects via empirical experiments. If you're talking about morality or ethics, those aren't physical objects and you can't make empirical experiments a
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by xamuel 7y ago
You're casting an over-broad definition of Memetics. Long before Dawkins, we had things like "archetypes" in Jungian psychology, "gestalts" in gestalt psychology, "signs" in semiotics. And many other simil
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by xamuel 7y ago
I'm not saying that memes have no impact, I'm saying that Memetics have no impact. As in, the scholarly academic study of memes. Obviously memes have had an enormous impact on everything ever since the first cavemen invented the a
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by xamuel 7y ago
>a general observation (itself a meme) of ideas like people do not think in facts, or fully realize the difference between reality and their interpretation of reality. People have been pointing that out for a loooong time. Plato's
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by xamuel 7y ago
Yes, image macros can be a great way of getting a point across. But it's not like the people making them are professors of the Department of Memetic Research. The grandparent comment about Memetics being so "impactful" is som
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by xamuel 7y ago
If anything is a meme, then memetics itself is. It's no more "impactful" than the observation that people chant team slogans, recite famous quotes, or use mnemonic devices. Name something memetics has impacted. Viral marketin
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by xamuel 7y ago
There are plenty of anonymous truths. Euclid probably didn't actually invent geometry, he probably compiled many sources to compose the Elements. Depending which scholars you ask, half or more of The Bible is either totally anonymous (
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by xamuel 7y ago
>"Literary and aesthetic merit" has always been code for stuff old white dudes like. You are confusing one thing for another. Until fairly recently, cultured, well-read people tended to be old white dudes. If history had been d
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by xamuel 7y ago
From Philip K. Dick's "Ubik" (1969): The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it rema
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by xamuel 7y ago
Whether he was supernatural or not, Jesus of Nazareth did launch a crucial institution which plays a huge role in our everyday lives. Namely: the institution of "not following tyrants who proclaim themselves to be gods". In Jesus&
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by xamuel 8y ago
Toxicity is in the eye of the beholder. To the king of France, any talk of revolution is toxic. If the king of France could have censored everybody's speech with algorithmic precision, his descendant would still be king today.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Hi, hope you'll enjoy the paper! I'm not at OSU any more unfortunately (miss it a lot). Agreed the philosophy dept is great there, I even had Stewart Shapiro cross departments to be on my thesis committee :) How far along are you
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by xamuel 8y ago
Not sure what you mean exactly by "generative models" but it reminds me of Rohde et al 2004 ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02842 ) which is all about modelling this sort of thing. In fact, some of the
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by xamuel 8y ago
Given that his HN name, "whunting", is a reference to "Good Will Hunting", that suggests OP might be a non-mathematician math enthusiast. I can't think of a single mathematician who would unironically name themselve
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by xamuel 8y ago
Nice idea, +1 for LaTeX titles! But the registration system should be way more open, you're discriminating against many math PhD's who are no longer in academia. I would have posted my paper there but I guess "@math.ohio-stat

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