TelmoMenezes

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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> It’s unfalsifiable unmeasurable woo-woo. An hypothesis that cannot be falsified does not count as a scientific theory (according to Popper, not everyone agrees). That does not mean that is woo. It just means that it's outside the
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> It was quality content and services, subsidized by investors You're joking about the "quality content" part, right?
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> And there's nothing preventing Google from leveraging Youtube/Gmail/Search to push out other browsers which have tracking protection. Nothing except antitrust laws...
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
It's a shame they won't revert the idiotic decision to ban adult content. The sense of freedom of expression and unrestrained creativity gave Tumblr its edge. Without it, it's just another boring blog engine, and this is just
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Uh huh. I'll remember that the next time a ton of bricks falls on my head when passing a construction site. Was it a common occurrence in the US, that construction workers would cause accidents because of smoking cannabis? And btw
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Yes, and a bunch of harder drugs that destroy lives and are much more dangerous than cannabis, but perfectly fine because some big corp is making billions selling it. No security implications there. Of course, by security, it is meant &quot
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
"Safety and insurance implications" are an infinite excuse for employers to abuse you unless you have a legal system to protect you from asymmetrical power relationships.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
No, I am saying that the US isn't the land of the free because, in practice, you seem to live under immense scrutiny and oppression when compared to other western countries. No privacy over even your own body, no job security, no healt
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
The land of the free: now with mandatory drugs testing at work.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> I think what precludes the final victory of open source is that the world itself changed for the better. Maybe we don't live in the same world??? > The mobile and web revolution brought easy to use software into the hands of bi
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I agree. Unfortunately, I have the impression it is already going in the downwards trajectory. The new redesign contains all the red flags. When "old.reddit.com" stops working, I suspect it's over for me.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> I don't know what you mean by "suspicious." I mean that, maybe you should distrust your own judgement that "HN is the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet". Perhaps other places have envir
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Strict moderation is the reason HN is the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet. Don't you find it a bit suspicious that the forum you happen to like is "the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
In theory, no. In practice, yes.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> No, you don't understand that the "you" that is the sum of your experience and history, and the "you" of a clone are different you's. In what sense are they different? Consider that the molecules that make
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> What's uploaded can maximally be a fork of your mind, not your actual mind >> Why? What makes you you? > My history until now. ? > that fork starts to diverge within that new environment as it adapts to it, and won&#x2
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> What's uploaded can maximally be a fork of your mind, not your actual mind, or "you". Why? What makes you you? Maybe you are already being emulated, how would you know? > And that fork starts to diverge within that ne
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Yes, our entire civilization is built on trust relationships. Trust relationships are easier to succeed when the interests of the two parts are aligned, or at least mostly aligned. The ad business model guarantees that our interests are mis
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> You can not have both smooth service and complete privacy if the data is restricted, as the system will not get to learn you. Sure you can, as long as you control the system. There is nothing preventing us from realizing the old dream
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> UIs are expected to reflow to devices with different screen sizes and dot pitches > Users expect their programs to give them up-to-the-minute information from the internet, with slick animation and nuanced typography. Do these requi
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Not really. PageRank is a centrality measure for networks, not a sociological theory / hypothesis. It is very useful in finding the most popular nodes in a network, but it says nothing about whether this popularity is byproduct of cult
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Inductive Machines and the AI Controversy(medium.com)
4 points by TelmoMenezes 7y ago|1 comments
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I have no problem listening to the nuances. Please feel free to educate me, but give counter-arguments to what I wrote and spare me the clichés.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> The analogy breaks down because the fact that you may or may not have slaves doesn't change the supply and demand of the slaves. Nothing that I said is related to the supply and demand of anything. > When you said all informati
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Any claim that Google would have helped China censor Chinese citizens ignores the fact that Chinese search engines are already censored. So what? That does not make censorship morally acceptable. This would be the same as saying that u
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> The fact that Harari seems to think that everything is just a 'story' that we tell ourselves, is way too nihilistic. I find that the great challenge that confronts our species is precisely the search for meaning. There are my
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> I think physicists can say they proven something Not even them. It only makes sense to talk about proof in formal domains such as math and logic. Science proves nothing. It is impossible to prove that any given scientific theory will n
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> if you don't like it you're welcome to buy a different laptop or phone Or at least while our planet is inhabitable. 44.3 degrees today in France, the highest temperature ever recorded in that country. Free markets and design
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Yes, I know they are separate, but they are both shadows of a class system that is repugnant to modern western values. And although what you are saying is true, it is only the current practice. Notice that the UK has no written constitution

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