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by yters 6y ago
I remember growing up adults just mentioned global cooling. No mention of global warming. Which gives me the impression cooling seemed the bigger concern back then. If so, that would explain this reaction by companies that either didn&#x
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by yters 6y ago
If people spent more time playing board games and less time fighting and mistreating each other, the world would be on the whole a better place.
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First person consciousness is just a fundamentally different thing than any third person property of reality such as matter or energy or electricity. These sorts of ideas are just category errors, like trying to determine what number 1 tas
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Where researchers only finding warming results back then? or also cooling results? how would they know which were most reliable?
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by yters 6y ago
What happens if culture warriors make everyone hate the position they are fighting for by using really annoying methods?
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Might be due to Judeo-Christian culture that sees death as not the way things should be. Hebrews says Jesus came to save people from the fear of death.
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Anecdote I was told by a hospice medic is athletic people's hearts tended to outlast their life, i.e. at the end the only thing going was their heart. Also, there is supposedly a study showing 30 min of jogging 4 times a week halves a
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by yters 6y ago
What is the need for encrypting photos?
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by yters 6y ago
I grew up in crippling poverty in a third world country, and it is not so bad. I had a lot more freedom and fun than when I moved back to the states.
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by yters 6y ago
I don't see any racial disparagement of China. I see criticism of the culture that focuses on stealing, copying, and fine tuning over macro innovations. This is not based in race or genetics, but in the choice by the people how they
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CNN likes to post rich people in favor of wealth taxes.
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i would say that's more a function of corpus than ML plus is it really that much better? i still get weirdness out of google translate
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by yters 6y ago
Is that due to ML or all the massive crowdsourcing and more keyword/search driven approach? e.g. has dictation apps like dragon improved substantially?
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How do we define 'works'?
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What exactly is so great about AI anyways that people expect it to deliver major benefits? Every AI breakthrough in the news is the result of massive amounts of data and compute applied to very narrow problem, such as games or image labell
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Unless you are Sam Altman creating AGI which is the lightcone of the future and the final invention.
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I was homeschooled and taught myself a lot. Works well if the material is clearly relevant.
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by yters 6y ago
That seems a pretty wide scope for propaganda. Then anything that puts Trump in a good light becomes propaganda, even if it is a legitimate good thing that happened in his administration, and even if it has nothing to do with Trump. This
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by yters 6y ago
I am even more confused by this comment. How is this propaganda?
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How is this related to Russiagate?
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Why call it white culture if it isn't related to genes (and built on lots of non white cultures)?
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No amount of money can eliminate the second law of thermodynamics, and a finite timeline always comes to an end.
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Do we know whose old satellites these are? Why aren't we able to predict this way ahead of time?
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It might be true in broad strokes. That tribe that commits mass ritual suicide every year is no longer around and no one ever heard of it.
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2000 years before Darwin the presocratics were proposing evolution. 'Islamic' scholars where merely conquered philosophers continuing the Greek research.
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by yters 6y ago
I think there is something weird going on. I am heavily involved in my company's staffing process, and the vast majority of the referrals we get from our recruiting sources are from overseas (and often cheat and have cruddy IT skills)
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They say this is an information economy, so what is information?(mindmatters.ai)
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by yters 6y ago
Slow down is due to inefficiency in the Slack log secrets extraction pipeline.
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by yters 6y ago
Exactly. We can try brute force counting all the permutations of 1000 bits, which will exhaust the lifespan and size of the universe. Or we can use exponentiation and solve by hand in a second.
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Symbolic reduction is undecidable.

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