Jevon23

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by Jevon23 3mo ago
It might be correlated with neurodivergence. But it’s also just correlated with high verbal ability in general, presumably. I find it quite natural to think in complete structured sentences, and it’s often perplexed me why other people seem
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by Jevon23 3mo ago
> The thought that was comfortable as a vague impression has to become a sentence, and sentences have structure. They have a subject and a predicate. I already think in sentences so idk what this guy is on about, sounds like a skill issu
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by Jevon23 1y ago
In order to get into Zuckerberg’s position in the first place, you need to have a highly competitive personality type. And competitive people want to win at EVERYTHING, all the time. It’s a constant compulsion. Even if they might intellectu
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Why bother with research into fundamental physics? Is there some deeper truth about the prime numbers hidden in the universe?
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by Jevon23 2y ago
>1) It's certainly not unheard of for theories have observational or experimental data appears that sends them back to the drawing board for reworking and do eventually get to a consistent state Sure. But when the socially dominant
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by Jevon23 2y ago
>I’ve always felt there was something really interesting about the idea that someone might internalize the color blue as I see the color red. Yes! In fact, philosophers have spent a lot of time thinking about this exact problem: https:
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by Jevon23 2y ago
There are some specialized terms here that you're unlikely to encounter outside of an academic philosophy paper, but there's nothing complex about the meanings of any of the individual terms. Once you know what the words mean, it
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Every field has jargon and specialized terminology. Do you expect to be able to read any random physics or math paper outside your area of expertise and understand every word?
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by Jevon23 2y ago
There are… many people who think that cities are worse off because of cars. Maybe not for the same reasons, but still.
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by Jevon23 2y ago
You know that ChatGPT writing is still obvious even when you ask it to change its style, right?
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Aliens are not woo. Life is a natural phenomenon that is very clearly possible within the known laws of physics. We know life can naturally occur in the universe, because it happened here. Why not somewhere else, too?
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Nothing forgotten about him. His work is foundational to modern algebraic geometry and there’s no mathematician who doesn’t know who he is.
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by Jevon23 2y ago
ChatGPT comment?
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Video is not the standard medium of communication in academic philosophy. I imagine the GP mentioned youtube because most people are more likely to watch a video than read a paper. Bernardo Kastrup has a bunch of essays/books up for fr
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Biology isn’t magic, but it does do a heck of a lot of amazing things that we don’t understand yet. We haven’t even been able to reproduce abiogenesis.
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by Jevon23 2y ago
>One way to understand the legitimacy and value of non-analytic philosophy I don’t think HN is even sold on the value and legitimacy of analytic philosophy. It’s best to get people on board with that first, before moving on to the weir
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by Jevon23 2y ago
>a human clicked on the “overtake” button Ok. So what are the consequences for this human operator and/or Waymo? Human drivers make mistakes all the time, it’s true. But there are consequences for those mistakes. If a human drives i
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by Jevon23 2y ago
I just don’t understand why you would want or need one except for gaming. And there are already a lot of more comfortable and familiar input devices for gaming. Classic solution looking for a problem.
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by Jevon23 2y ago
Next time you’re confused about why people seem to hate “techbros”, remember that this is the reason.
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by Jevon23 2y ago
That heavily depends on the individual developer and the organization in question. In general, the most highly skilled developers who are most capable of doing a thorough code review are also the ones who are most likely to be genuinely ove
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by Jevon23 3y ago
There’s about as much evidence for the existence of dark matter as we can possibly get, short of actually observing it. In particular we’ve observed some galaxies that seem to have little to no dark matter. Gravitationally, they behave the
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by Jevon23 3y ago
I assume that the text is as AI-generated as the picture is.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>money transfer is just a list of rules, transactions, settlement dates and so on. Surely you must appreciate how obnoxious it is when people assume that software development is just “translating the requirements into code”, right?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
I miss the days when professional software development was more akin to this sort of thing, rather than gluing together 20 Javascript frameworks on top of someone else's cloud infrastructure.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. But you have time to play their games, apparently?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
The majority of HN makes a living from software that by nature can’t be pirated, so they have little sympathy for people who work on software that can be pirated.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Is there ever really a reason beyond “we don’t need you and/or can’t afford you”? I don’t think it really needs to be spelled out.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Do you know the “ending” of a piece of software before you write it? Obviously it varies a lot, based on the type of project and your own personal methodology. Sometimes you might be able to say yes, sometimes you might have to say no. In s
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This really is a story that should have more visibility. If aliens don’t exist, why are defense contractors trying so hard to shut down a bill that simply says “show us what you know about aliens”?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Complete insanity. Don’t plan for the future. Don’t delay gratification. Never save up enough money that you’re allowed to have a taste of true freedom. Always be precarious, always be dependent on your boss for the next handout, lest your

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