AlbertCory

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How Grift Works(albertcory50.substack.com)
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Software patents don't signify "innovation"(albertcory50.substack.com)
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
No, the Japanese implosion came at the end of the 80's and early 90's. That book is from 1982.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
You might well be 100% right. I'd like to see the Japanese succeed, actually. However, it was simply not possible for anyone to succeed at AI in the early 80's. It took some Nobel-prize-winning software, a change of approach, an
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
You made some nonsensical statements on HN, and now you're dropping out rather than trying to defend them. Got it.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Let me just repeat: So what ARE your limits? Or are there any? So I guess you're saying there are no limits? Every project should be funded to the max? and since you're against taxation, does that mean ordinary people are to be co
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
It's somewhat appalling that they don't mention that there's a book with this title: https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige... As for "The important thing is that they tried" :
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
This seems kinda confused. The Nobel is now controversial because after all, Nobel invented dynamite and he wanted to expunge his guilt. Yet you said it was "prestigious" -- but you want to cancel that, regardless? But somehow the
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I'd be more surprised if you linked to any of Krugman's recent columns and I actually thought they were worthwhile.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
The "Nobel Prize in Economics" was not one of the original ones endowed by Alfred Nobel. As the name implies, it was created by a bank. Is there any reason Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk can't endow a
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> indigenous people who get colonized Academic talking points. Talk about the indigenous Irish who got "colonized" by the Celts, or the Britons who got "colonized" by the Saxons, Danes, and Normans, or the native Amer
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> Krugman is controversial at times Kind of like saying Lysenko was controversial at times. He's not "controversial," he's just a bloviator. His credentials as a serious economist expired long ago when he signed up wi
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Hear. I don't know if I'd want to get to zero. And on special occasions the rules are suspended.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Old word: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-teetotaller-3530549
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> Canada’s latest guidelines, which Dr. Stockwell advised on, are more stringent: Low-risk drinking is defined as no more than two drinks total per week, regardless of sex. That's where I'm at. Heading down to one, and then som
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
And therefore, we need censorship. Right? Where we'll be told the "correct" way to think. I'd rather see it all and decide for myself. And end up watching PBS but never, never pledging in their interminable pledge drives
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Great article. Reinforces my reluctance to see movies in theaters anymore. At home, you can turn on subtitles. People who are not at all hard of hearing do it.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Hypothetical. In my experience, they say "your credit card is failing, please give us another one." Because credit cards fail all the time. It's not Red Alert. You go to the page to change your credit card, and THEN you usual
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Interesting. I grew up in Roseland, and there was a hill east of Michigan Ave. going down. I always thought that was from Lake Calumet which used to be a lot bigger.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Every time I bring this up, someone says "oh, they'll ruin your credit rating!" No, actually they don't, unless you do something fraudulent. If you cancel your subscription legitimately and then kill the credit card, you
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I'd never heard of this, despite growing up in Chicago. It makes you wonder how many other archeological treasures are underwater and undiscovered, given how water levels used to be lower.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I was about to pan this as yet another shallow "all great art gets criticized" take (ignoring that a lot of things that get criticized actually ARE crap). But then I got to the last paragraph. Yes, it's been rejected now, but
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
The chances of a nuclear bomb being used in the next 30 years is at least 90%. That's an opinion so don't ask for a link. Why? Purely because of the combinatorial math of proliferation, and the likelihood of either an accident or
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> unbiased would mean presenting all the pertinent facts Exactly. As Edward R. Murrow used to say, "Don't tell me what you think. Tell me what you know."
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I use DDG most of the time. Sometimes I try Google, and then I'm disgusted by all the non-result garbage they put at the top nowadays. Once in a while they do have something valuable that DDG misses. So yeah, I find DDG perfectly adequ
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
So you went to Wikipedia. Now do some real research. "Unbiased" means presenting the facts: what actually happened. You're right; it's not the same as "presenting both sides."
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> Trying to be unbiased is a futile effort That seems to be the conventional wisdom. I sometimes get on newspapers.com (not free, unfortunately) for my articles, and for the Pullman Strike series I used the NYT for excerpts. This was 189
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
No, the difference is whether they try to be unbiased or not. Wikipedia used to try, somewhat, occasionally. Now they are indeed "merely left-wing advocacy essays.” Hardly any news outlets are trying anymore, so I can see why you thi
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Consider the Nobel in economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom... It was not one of the original five, but it was endowed by a bank. SO: you tech billionaires, why don't you endow
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> Rather, my experience is that young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding a seat at the table where decisions about texts are being made. There's never been a t

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