yelsgib

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by yelsgib 18y ago
"I am convinced that there is no possible external measurement for value" I agree with this. However, this does not mean that we can't form systems for interpreting our our observations in terms of values or structuring our lives to create
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by yelsgib 18y ago
What does "subjective" mean? This question is not so straightforward as you (may) think. This is a microcosm of my point. What is value? How do we determine the relative values of our life decisions descriptively? How do we do so prescripti
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by yelsgib 18y ago
The salient question is "what is value?" One aim of Philosophy is to align our abstractions with our intuitions. Game theory/math can't do this, sorry. Your prejudice is undoubtedly based on your lack of understanding of math, economics, an
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by yelsgib 18y ago
"well" Dying is not easy to understand.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
It always frustrates me when people pay more attention to word than meaning.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
God, even worse is -Capitalist-. Socialists say the US is Capitalist, Libertarians say the US is Socialist. Who knows? What a waste of words.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
"Is it wrong to call something unscientific?" I'm surprised PG didn't follow this with: "Is it wrong to call something wrong?" I think that: wrong, bad, good, evil, should, right, etc. Form the oldest and most commonly used category of mean
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by yelsgib 18y ago
It takes many years to learn to play a violin. Violining is reserved for "violinists." You are confusing -description- with -prescription-.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
Most of the comments I've seen in response to this post are either that "the author was wrong" or "the author didn't give enough evidence." I think that you are completely missing the point of what this guy Cecil wrote. His point was that p
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by yelsgib 18y ago
Of course, there is something to be said for the ability to exist within a free (non-systemic) community, no? I mean, we can have a "system" where the members of the community come to a consensus about appropriate content, downmod people wh
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by yelsgib 18y ago
No, let's blame our parents for raising us to be this way! No, let's blame THEIR parents. I blame you.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
Great list, yo. I especially like #1. Hadn't thought about it, but I bet it would work.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
What does it mean that the brain "obeys the same physiological rules" that the body obeys? This point is incoherent. My point is that yes, there is a genetic aspect to intelligence (duh), but that doesn't mean that there is a genetic compon
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by yelsgib 18y ago
"There's no reason to think that intelligence -- regardless of definition -- doesn't work the same way." I agree if what you mean is that there's no reason to believe that there is no fixed, genetically-determined components to intelligence
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by yelsgib 18y ago
I agree with this point, but I think that what you run into is that there are certain important cross-cultural trends which might cause g to be pertinent. What I mean is that perhaps the set of tasks which we "regularly perform" are governe
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by yelsgib 18y ago
This is a good point. I agree that my feeling smarter does not actually mean that I am smarter. I -do- produce a lot more, but this could be due to other factors. I think you're hitting very close to the important issue here which is that a
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by yelsgib 18y ago
I don't think that we can really investigate "genetic intelligence" until we have a definition of intelligence which makes -any sense at all-, which we don't. I find a lot of the opinions of neuroscientists I've talked to/read articles from
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by yelsgib 18y ago
You're justifying a hypothesis circularly. I was somewhat gifted at an early age, but I consider my intellectual growth over the past 5 years (17-22) to vastly outstrip my growth before that.
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by yelsgib 18y ago
I think you're being presumptuous. I'm not saying that I'm "turned off" by the -fact- that I can't get tall(1). I'm saying that this is not a -fact- at all. Even if it -is- a fact, it certainly is much more uncertain/open for debate than th
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by yelsgib 18y ago
I definitely, definitely agree. A lot of mathematicians I know are kind of self-appointed "kings of the mind" and so pontificate tremendously on subjects they're not really qualified to talk about. Not saying that cpervia is, but it's defin
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by yelsgib 18y ago
What is "intelligence?" Can we separate it from society's conception of it? Can we state a computational definition rather than a definition in terms of satisfaction of cultural standards? We undervalue a lot of mental attributes - consiste
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by yelsgib 18y ago
People vary in mental attributes. Let's get this out of the way right now. It -has to be the case-. We should obviously remain agnostic about what these attributes are (for instance, I would be hard pressed to say that "good memory" is even
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by yelsgib 18y ago
What stage of release is this in? Are there any significant changes coming up? In particular, I don't see any attempt to prevent spam. I'm not even talking about purely bot-generated spam - I mean, I just submitted that "Ghandi Christ" (ema
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by yelsgib 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert's_W_function This seems related.
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by yelsgib 19y ago
I think this could be the source of a lot of interesting discussion w/r/t startups. In particular, I'm interested in people's opinions regarding the influence that this will have on the ability to create startups in the US in the future. I
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by yelsgib 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_and_hats_puzzle#Count... "In fact, even if we allow an uncountable number of different colors for the hats, the axiom of choice provides a solution that guarantees that only finitely many prisoners m
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by yelsgib 19y ago
Perhaps the reason that people troll (or take part in any sort of asshole behavior, really) is that they don't have anything better to do. Hear me out. Hacker News is a "forum" whose main purpose is getting people to talk about/think about/
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by yelsgib 19y ago
Not only do I plan to do my startup in Arc, I've already decided to use holographic storage to do my backups (it's big, you know).
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by yelsgib 19y ago
Consider any "vocalizable concept" X. There are 4 directions you can move from X. "Meta" - you can ask the set of questions "what can we say about claims about X?" "Anti-meta" - you can ask the questions "what can X say about other things?"