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by xamuel 8y ago
Showing that paradoxes are incoherent is a logical exercise, not a scientific one. If we use a truth-table to show "P and not P" is always false, that's logic. If we repeatedly drop a ball and observe that it falsifies "
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by xamuel 8y ago
Science does not support the claim that humans have consciousness! You know that you are conscious, but you have no way to falsify the hypothesis that everyone OTHER than you is a philosophical zombie. (If you discover such a test, then c
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by xamuel 8y ago
Ironically, that video is a genuine ad for a stock footage company. Reality has collapsed on itself and is no longer distinguishable from parody.
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by xamuel 8y ago
I wonder how much VC money was spent on marketing and promotion. You couldn't have just invented Patreon and waited for content creators to find you by going to Google and searching for "companies that serve as middlemen for peopl
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by xamuel 8y ago
>mass market rubbish Yep, that describes so much of what's popular. One book I find goes in the opposite direction--I didn't get much from it when younger, but when I revisited it as a grown man, I suddenly saw a lot more value
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by xamuel 8y ago
I've spent a lot of time living in poorer areas and I can tell you from experience, noise ordinances are not effective. It'll take months or years for Cletus to work his way through the court system for noise pollution, and in the
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by xamuel 8y ago
Here's another perspective you might not be accounting for. Currently, people who work elite jobs tend to live around people with elite interests. If you're an upper class developer, you'll live in a neighborhood with other d
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by xamuel 8y ago
It's a mistake to think of money as resources--as if money is something we dig out of the ground and need in order to make our machines run. No-one eats cash. Whatever could be done if Apple spent its cash, could be done if Apple didn&
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by xamuel 8y ago
This is whack-a-mole. If I can design deepfake software, it isn't much harder to design it to specifically anticipate the user filming the result. The user would input their monitor specs, their camera specs, etc., and the software wou
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by xamuel 8y ago
Nothing can stop me from pointing a camera at my computer monitor and recording a verified video of a non-verified video.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Compared to a lot of other fields, software development is such a screaming meritocracy, we're practically living in a real life utopia. Where else can you literally write your own ticket to a 200k+ salary without so much as a high sch
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by xamuel 8y ago
Great point. If someone without credentials were truly doing ground-breaking stuff in the field, then getting a PhD should practically be a formality--schools should be banging the door down trying to recruit that person just for the status
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by xamuel 8y ago
If that's the case for OTC cold medicine, it makes you wonder how it is for prescription products like ADHD medication or, God forbid, opiate-based painkillers. My sympathy is stirred up for anyone in chronic pain who happens to exude
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by xamuel 8y ago
When I said "those guys", that was clearly referring to hypothetical criminals in the immediately preceding three sentences. Has HN really sunk to the level now where we attack people for uttering forbidden noun-phrases like &quot
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by xamuel 8y ago
According to the article, the university wasn't really teaching classes and it didn't have a real campus: the resources used for this sting are not that high. Speculating here, but what if the 8 recruiters who were charged are peo
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by xamuel 8y ago
Apparently the university had no real classes or campus, so any students who continued to use it to maintain their visa after discovering as much, are clearly not "people who want to learn, work, and better themselves".
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by xamuel 8y ago
The executive's ability to be flexible with the law is supposed to be used expeditiously when it's urgent. For example, it would be appropriate to suspend ICE operations temporarily during a national emergency. The executive isn&#
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by xamuel 8y ago
Complaining about the executive branch enforcing the law is like complaining to an umpire about the rules of baseball. Want to change the law? That's what legislators are for! The laws in question were put in place long before the curr
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by xamuel 8y ago
Oh, thanks, I explicitly tried to check but somehow missed that!
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by xamuel 8y ago
People who like this should also check out Robert Bosch's "TSP Art" (TSP stands for Travelling Salesman Problem). While this submission focuses on mazes, Bosch focuses on non-intersecting paths. The two problems are clearly d
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by xamuel 8y ago
It's too early to expect real-world applications of anti-realism. Instead I would redirect your attention to a similar pattern in the foundations of mathematics. Mathematical foundations were once very shaky, but real-world mathematici
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by xamuel 8y ago
What you're getting at is actually a profound paradox in philosophy of science: the statement "no miracles occur" is itself unfalsifiable, and thus (at least in the Popperian sense) not scientific. It's unfalsifiable bec
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by xamuel 8y ago
>If even a modest amount of the supernatural claims in the Christian Bible are true then at least one of them should be reliably repeatable If it were reliably repeatable, it wouldn't be supernatural. That's tautological.
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by xamuel 8y ago
>We came up with a very unique "pass phrase" and she agreed that if she got "up there" she would try to get it to me This sort of thing is addressed in the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man in Luke 16. An excerpt: &
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by xamuel 8y ago
Glad to set minds buzzing, it made me smile real wide to read that. I'll have to check out that book you mentioned sometime :)
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by xamuel 8y ago
Bar absolutely none, the SINGLE most important thing is: practice!! Rehearse with a stopwatch, modify, and repeat until it stops sucking.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Not the person you replied to, but re: forming good habits: I make a point that instead of saying e.g. "Wow, you're so good at drawing" to my kids, instead I say e.g. "Wow, you're getting so good at drawing because
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by xamuel 8y ago
For people interested in philosophy of soft errors, I'll take this opportunity to plug a paper of mine where I use soft errors to argue that empirical evidence suggests we do not live in a computer simulation (at least not in one ultra
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by xamuel 8y ago
You're right, the claim is trivially true if G is finite. In the paper, I argue that Darwin must have implicitly allowed at least the possibility of G being infinite (i.e. life going on forever), or else, as you rightly point out, the
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by xamuel 8y ago
See my reply to cjohnson318 for an example.

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