ConspiracyFact

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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
Even if it's not a strawman, the only actual problem is the FOSS person saying that some program can replicate her workflow when they don't actually know if it can. And even that is not malice or callousness, it's just someon
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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
"Talk to any FOSS acolyte about something and the conversation will often go like this: You: I'm having a problem with [proprietary software], I'm really frustrated. Them: scoffs I don't have that problem because I use a
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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
I know that it strikes most people as faintly ridiculous if not outright dangerous to talk about anti-white-male sentiment, but can we at least stop kowtowing to it? Like, sure, "first-world problems", I get it. But there is const
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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
Lawyers won't allow themselves to be replaced even if it makes sense to do so.
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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
Every file that I've looked at (a dozen or so) is very heavily redacted. This is a joke.
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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
>release They weren't actually released. They're like 90%+ redacted. This is a slap in the face.
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by ConspiracyFact 9mo ago
The other person who replied to you noted that this is not true in British English, but beyond that, it appears to me that my generation (Millennials) essentially all came to the same conclusion, which is that punctuation should only be inc
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
If that's what's meant, it's a hilarious perversion of utilitarianism.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Just teasing here, but I presume you’re a social conservative…? ;)
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
There’s definitely a tension between having a low tolerance for crankery and being open to fresh perspectives. If I’m being charitable to the critics of Rationalism (big “r”), I suppose that they have encountered arguments from Rationalists
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Is the argument that we should try to do things that will benefit our theoretical and theoretically multitudinous descendants? Or is it that just taking action to make their existence more likely is a moral good? Because the latter is jus
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Perhaps part of it is that local action can often be an order of magnitude more impactful than the “equivalent” action at a distance. If you volunteer in your local community, you not only have fine-grained control over the benefit you best
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I thought it was generally understood that Hilbert didn’t literally believe that. Do you seriously believe that he believed it?
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Sorry, but all I see here related to school are two ideas, namely that being put on the spot is uncomfortable and that college courses are too difficult, the latter perhaps part of an intentional scheme to make money. Neither of these comes
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
This is all very vague and abstract. Can you provide some concrete examples? The only somewhat concrete example you gave is that students are graded in process in early math courses and then graded on results in later math courses. Any othe
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I will admit to a conspiratorial bias, but I curb it by asking basic feasibility questions, one of which I'll now ask you: how many people would need to be involved, and to what degree? If the education system is torturing children, do
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
>Largely, those who worked in factories did so because the benefits/costs exceeded that of farm work. If there were no incentives to change, everyone would have stayed on the farm, preserving the agrarian status quo. This is true fo
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
>I'm pretty sure there is a slight widespread lack of respect for software engineers I get the opposite impression. If anything software developers get more respect than they deserve.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
The judge wasn’t arrested for following procedure. Read the complaint.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I just read the complaint. What’s the problem? Was the administrative warrant invalid? According to the complaint, the agents didn’t enter the courtroom, but rather waited in the hall, where they were approached by the judge. If the judge d
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
It’s things like this that turn my reaction to Trump’s bullying of universities from “That looks like an abuse of power” to “That looks likes an abuse of power…but…”
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
If we ever reach the point where we aren't interested specifically in what prominent elders have to say, we're screwed.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I wonder if this is a subconscious reaction to the drawishness of the game. There are certainly very many beautiful defensive motifs, but strong players might be biased against training on them because they constantly encounter strong defen
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
If I report a question, I should skip to the next one. Why do I have to answer what I consider to be a bad or unfair question? If you’re waiting on a response there’s no way to get to the next question besides answering it.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
The “Waco bombing”…?
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
For some reason he’s lapsed into Madonna lyrics.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
>What we need is a huge server farm running copilot doing nothing but watching gay porn This made me cackle. We definitely need to start fucking with AI’s training data. Maybe we poison it so that during odd-numbered hour’s it’s anarchoc
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I think it was meant to be.
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
> Now one side wants to control what types of thought the universities allow, demanding they monitor, snitch, report, and police the on ideas the conservative base don't like. That's directly opposed to how Universities operate
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by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
The notion of "Sealioning" is a perfect example of substituting mockery for criticism. See also: "What about the menz?!", "Akshully...", " tips fedora ", etc., etc.

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