DiogenesKynikos

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by DiogenesKynikos 6d ago
This is a completely absurd comment. I'm calling the AfD Nazis because that's exactly what they are. Of course when people vote for a Nazi party, that's extremely alarming, and I have every right to say that they're wron
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by DiogenesKynikos 8d ago
Deep Blue beat Kasparov fair and square. Kasparov was a bit of a bad sport at the end of the match, though the reasons are understandable. He was at the top of the human chess world. He wasn't used to losing, and he took it badly.
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by DiogenesKynikos 8d ago
The fall of East Germany, which led to mass unemployment in the East (including Saxony-Anhalt). The Thatcher-Reagan-style reforms that the Social Democrats and Greens pushed through in the early 2000s, which reduced the social safety net an
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by DiogenesKynikos 8d ago
20% of people in Germany were born abroad. A good share of them have naturalized and are now German citizens. The top countries of origin are Poland, Turkey and Ukraine. Very few of them go to Saxony-Anhalt. Less than 10% of the population
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by DiogenesKynikos 8d ago
If you're a foreigner who's rooting for the fascists, you're an idiot. They want to deport you.
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by DiogenesKynikos 8d ago
> being told they're all nazis (I'm sure some of them are, but nowhere near all) Many of their senior leaders are Nazis. The head of the party in the state of Thuringia used to write pro-Hitler articles under a pseudonym. >
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by DiogenesKynikos 8d ago
The Nazi party got 37% of votes nationwide (not just in one state). Getting a lot of votes does not mean a party is not far-right. Germans of all people know that.
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by DiogenesKynikos 12d ago
A lot of people don't realize that chess players peak around the same age as athletes do. Carlsen was at peak dominance in his mid-20s. Kasparov peaked later, at 36 years old, but still, it wasn't at age 50 or 60. Chess requires y
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by DiogenesKynikos 12d ago
Chess has developed significantly over the last 50 years. The best players now can be reasonably expected to be much more skilled than the best players of 50 years ago, even if you discount opening theory knowledge.
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by DiogenesKynikos 13d ago
I agree that the drift in chess Elo ratings is slow enough that we can say Bobby Fischer at his peak would still be a strong grandmaster today (if he were given some time to study developments in opening theory). But I don't think we c
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by DiogenesKynikos 13d ago
The distribution of Elo ratings will not tell you how strong the average player is in an absolute sense. Elo ratings measure differences in skill between different players. A player rated 400 points above another player will win 90% of the
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by DiogenesKynikos 13d ago
You can't compare Elo ratings over long stretches of time, period. Ratings drift over time, based on the total population of people competing. I think the most accurate way to view Elo ratings is as a measure of skill vs. the average r
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by DiogenesKynikos 13d ago
Before AI, there were tons of very bright researchers around the world who couldn't write English well. It was a major problem. It isn't anymore. Writing well is actually very difficult, even if English is your native language. &g
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by DiogenesKynikos 14d ago
You seem to think papers being legible is not important. Fine. Who needs to actually understand what the authors wrote? But AI is extremely powerful for scientific research, and is massively increasing scientific output. It has side-effects
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by DiogenesKynikos 14d ago
AI has been great for scientific research. It writes code, it can help solve difficult mathematical problems, you can bounce ideas off of it, you can learn background info on a scientific question quickly, etc. I haven't noticed any up
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by DiogenesKynikos 15d ago
> Sounds like your relatives excel at generalizing to millions of people from a few individual interactions. You claimed that it's extremely dangerous for any Jewish person to enter Palestinian cities, based on nothing. When I infor
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by DiogenesKynikos 15d ago
I can imagine an Ed Zitron in 1840 arguing that trains and steam engines are useless - or even a scam - because railroad investment was a bubble (which it was).
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by DiogenesKynikos 15d ago
One thing I've noticed is that since LLMs came out, scientific papers with poor English have essentially disappeared. Just one of the many ways that AI is changing the world. People are using AI in all kinds of fields.
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by DiogenesKynikos 17d ago
Independent from the clown sitting in the Oval Office, renaming large bodies of water with a sharpie pen.
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by DiogenesKynikos 25d ago
It's a transcription of a spoken speech. The periods between connected clauses are just where Mark Carney paused for a moment.
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by DiogenesKynikos 26d ago
> You can’t choose a statute of limitations arbitrarily to suit only one side. You don't have to precisely draw a statute of limitations to know that claiming land because of what happened during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian i
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by DiogenesKynikos 27d ago
> Sale of land to Jews is punishable by death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_land_laws No, selling land to Israelis or people acting on behalf of Israel is punishable by death. The reason for this is tha
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by DiogenesKynikos 27d ago
> It truly is insane that in this day and age there are parts of the world that are banned for Jews simply for being Jews. It's the Israeli government that bans Israeli citizens from entering Area A. The Palestinians do not ban Jews
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by DiogenesKynikos 27d ago
> To this day territories under control of the Palestinian authority are kept ethnically cleansed of Jews. This is an insane statement. Israel controls all of East Jerusalem and the entire West Bank. They are moving their own settlers in
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by DiogenesKynikos 28d ago
> We can acknowledge that some Arabs were forced out of some towns during the war That's a massive understatement. The Zionists / Israelis[0] expelled 80% of the native population of the territory that became Israel in 1948. Ac
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by DiogenesKynikos 29d ago
> Albert Einstein legally traveled to British Mandate Palestine in 1923 You're claiming that visiting once made him native to Palestine? He was a German. That was his native language, his culture, the world he grew up in. > Makin
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by DiogenesKynikos 29d ago
> If continuous presence in a land doesn't define a people's right to exist as a nation, you know what does? You're playing a deliberate sleight of hand here. A tiny number of Jews lived as a small minority in Palestine, t
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by DiogenesKynikos 29d ago
> Hamas is planning further attacks now, what do you suggest Israel do about it? Remove the grievances that lead Palestinians to support armed attacks on Israel. Israel has held millions of Palestinians under military occupation for deca
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by DiogenesKynikos 29d ago
By "continuous presence," you mean that a tiny number of Jews lived there. The vast majority of Jews lived elsewhere, and the vast majority of the local population was not Jewish. I'm sorry, but 5% of the population of Palest
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by DiogenesKynikos 29d ago
> Next thing you’ll say we’re not native to that land right? We only lived in the middle east forever There were very few Jews in Palestine for nearly 2000 years. The founders of Israel were almost all Europeans, and their families had b

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