JulianChastain

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by JulianChastain 4mo ago
I find the claim subjective experience may be illusory absolutely baffling. I can only speak for myself with certainty, but I am entirely sure I have subjective experience. All the other propositions I believe could be false but I don'
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by JulianChastain 4mo ago
> The report complains that when asked about the age of the universe, AIs just give the scientific consensus answer of 13bn years, never mentioning that young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old Is certainly a typo, off by an o
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
Both are damaging and shouldn't be normalized, for similar reasons.
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
When I grew up, I was taught that if someone in your friend group makes a racist joke, you should stand up to them, and inform them that casual racism leads to normalizing racism. Even if "Kill All Men" was just a shibboleth of a
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
Yeah that wasn't meant to be an accurate transcript of a whole conversation, just wanted to sketch out the ideas involved. The "kill all men" bit would come after getting to know the other person and talking to them about how
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
It feels like there's almost no engagement with the actual claims I'm making. From the original claim of, "Nobody really thinks men are the cause of most of societies problems." My response was, "While growing up I
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
I don't know what exactly you're asking by "Who are the people I have these conversations with?" They were real-life in-person interactions, most often with young women I knew in college. It's interesting that even
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
I am not claiming my experience generalizes here. But my experience was absolutely saturated by a narrative that men are oppressors who are the cause of many/most of the ills of society. The nuance of only including men who are "e
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by JulianChastain 10mo ago
I grew up with the sentiment that forms of masculinity are some of the chief evils of society being the dominant narrative. I grew up learning that the US is patriarchal culture, and that it must continue to evolve and progress in order to
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by JulianChastain 11mo ago
As far as I can tell all the data on loneliness points to equivalent rates between genders
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by JulianChastain 11mo ago
It seems salient to ask the follow up question of "Why aren't men getting laid and/or married?" Actually finding the root cause may be much less simple. Your response seems as hand wavy to me as saying "Most of the
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by JulianChastain 11mo ago
It seems totally inconceivable to me that you could accurately predict how long until we will know whether BB(7) is greater than Graham's Number.
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by JulianChastain 11mo ago
By representing all numbers with lists (or sets). 0 = [] 1 = [True] 2 = [True, True] Etc. Then for example addition becomes appending two lists together
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
What about "we were cut from the deal"? It seems like you could make a phrase in which 'cut' means "to exclude"
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
I got h = c(c)(c)(c)(c), just by playing around with it
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
`wat(foo)` also works. The author says he implmented the `wat / foo` syntax to allow you to more quickly use wat by avoiding parentheses
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
A charitable interpretation of nico is that he was saying a well-trained NN is itself a model of the world. If it can tell you what a system will do given some inputs, then it functions as a model. While internally it isn't creating a
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
Well I mean the reason you can't optimize away the stack frame is that at any point during runtime f can be redefined to be a different function. In the above example, do you agree that any tail call elimination would result in the wro
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
Let's say you had a library function foo, which takes no arguments, does an expensive computation, and then prints a single result to the console. You need the function to instead return the value, so that you can do more computation o
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
I think that the first amendment prevents congress from banning tiktok for the reason that the content is objectionable. Instead they would need to argue that it is a nation security risk (spyware, etc)
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
Yes, I believe that this is due to how python lets you dynamically redefine functions even to violate lexical scoping. So in the author's example: def f(x): if x > 0: return f(x-1) return 0 # Here is wher
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by JulianChastain 2y ago
Some of the motivation for this comes from how often devs want to contribute to open source but are intimidated by how difficult the barrier of entry is, particularly for large projects. It's surprisingly hard to find a good list of pr
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by JulianChastain 3y ago
Iirc California has the most "nice" days on average of any state. "Nice" = between around 60°-80°F and Sunny. If you want to spend the whole year outdoors California is the best state to do it in.
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by JulianChastain 3y ago
I would recommend `zod` as a good typescript schema runtime validation library as well. It does require strict type checking to be on however.
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by JulianChastain 4y ago
Presumably because the author feels that simply characterizing the anti-crypto position as bearish doesn't do justice to the animosity many people hold towards crypto. He's also not saying he is bullish on crypto currency, just th
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by JulianChastain 4y ago
Is there any way to see what the expected regex was after failure? I feel like this could be a great review tool if that was added
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by JulianChastain 4y ago
Do you think the purpose of prison is primarily to rehabilitate prisoners into society or to give just, deserved punishment for offenses to society? If you agree with the former, then making conditions better than the legal baseline could
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by JulianChastain 4y ago
A right to death is not mutually exclusive to aiding the poor/reducing misery. I don't understand your critique about making money at all. I broadly agree with the comment you responded to, and my motivation is purely wanting to l
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by JulianChastain 4y ago
The excess solar panels won't be built if there isn't demand for them. PoW mining creates that demand
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by JulianChastain 4y ago
I think the whole point of the term neordivergent is imply that many mental disorders aren't impairments in the sense of stop you from living life, but are different ways of perceiving. For example, I know an eye surgeon who was diagno

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