Artoemius

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by Artoemius 10y ago
Fortunately, it's still possible to retain anonymity online. I wonder for how long.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
An elucidating quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."
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by Artoemius 10y ago
It might be one of the cases where correlation doesn't imply causation. For an objective study, we would need to assign children to groups randomly. Otherwise, we can miss various obscure selection effects. (For example, if children wh
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I don't know. The Japanese are usually known for their dependence on the society and social norms. In the corporate world, they find it normal to work overtime without pay, never take vacations longer than several days at a time, and t
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by Artoemius 10y ago
It's Trump's hug of death this time.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Given that the race was pretty close, I wonder if we have Peter Thiel to thank for this result. Personally, I have a feeling that Trump would lose without Thiel's support.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Great resource! I hope it grows to be a huge collection indeed. Also I hope it'll manage to avoid all the potential legal problems when people (knowingly or unknowingly) start submitting books that are not actually freeware.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I think the lesson here is that people are tired of anything plain and boring and are eager to vote for something more unconventional.
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Boaty McBoatface wins poll to name polar research vessel(theguardian.com)
1 points by Artoemius 10y ago|1 comments
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Brexit, then this. Life on Earth is becoming unpredictable again. A bit scary, but fun. It was way too boring.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Everything about Apple these days points to the same elephant in the room: their top management are just a bunch of clueless salesmen without their leader.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
This was a fun read, and I found myself agreeing with him on most of the points. I would call his attitude "confidence in his own ability to reason clearly".
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by Artoemius 10y ago
For some reason, in Europe, even less people seriously consider cryonics as an option, despite the population being generally less religious. Some view it with cynicism. Others just laugh.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Musk strikes me as an imaginative but a very rational person who deeply thinks about stuff, so this is confusing to me. His argument that our world is most likely a simulation does seem logical given our current knowledge. However, breakin
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Here's a post that tries to solve the geek vs nerd argument with Science! : https://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek-versus-ne... P.S. The mandatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com&#x2F
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Other than being very interesting, this article provides one of the funniest instances of the crazy humor generated by the Cloud To Butt Plus extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation I'm very curious who these two billionaires are and what exactly are they planning to do regarding this likely ho
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Religiosity and intelligence(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Artoemius 10y ago|0 comments
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by Artoemius 10y ago
This is probably the most profound work out of these (no sarcasm): On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html
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by Artoemius 10y ago
The problem is that even if people hear it like this, P is still a more likely exact description of reality than P&Q.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> if somebody takes the trouble to point something out to you (say, that someone you've never met used to be a very politically-active left-winger), what they pointed out must be relevant to the conversation. Even if the brain belie
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (1998)(frc.ri.cmu.edu)
74 points by Artoemius 10y ago|84 comments
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> nobody can prove or disprove the existence of a higher being or a religion. You don't believe in something just because you cannot disprove it. You must have some evidence to believe it in the first place. Otherwise, you would bel
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by Artoemius 10y ago
That depends on how you define an idiot. It's true that one half of people literally has less-than-average intelligence...
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Sorry, most people are indeed not idiots, but that doesn't apply to creationists. It's one thing to go to a church (there even might be purely social reasons), and it's another thing to discard overwhelming scientific evidenc
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Yes, it's entirely possible to be both human and a piece of shit at the same time. It's the scammer's job to convince everyone that he is more human than a piece of shit, and it's our job not to fall for that. The factua
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Although calling someone a psychopath without access to their medical history is not literally correct, I don't agree with the spirit of your comment. After being caught, this scammer was actively trying to be seen as a human being. Th
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I agree. Begging is a skill, and this scammer is already a professional in that respect. If he was 16 or 17, it probably wouldn't be too late to tell his parents, although that depends on the family. 22 is way too old for that. In addi
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Artificial intelligence.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Not seriously. But I wouldn't seriously argue that it is always rational to follow the law, either. Sometimes you really need the money.

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