Zaphods

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by Zaphods 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't see that you'd replied to my comment until today. > A car's horsepower is in the engine. Where is it in the engine? The engine can go 180hp. But the engine does not contain 180 hp. That's what the
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by Zaphods 7y ago
Yeah but a metric is a metric is a metric. That there are more metrics in one area than another is arbitrary. You could just as easily say: all right LOC is the only thing that matters, we're not paying you to be right, we're payi
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by Zaphods 7y ago
It's not a remotely bold statement. Think about what imagination is, and then think about whether computers can imagine. Computers can't imagine. Computers can't come up with new things because they are programmed. Programmin
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by Zaphods 7y ago
> It's because it is effectively a computer. Not in the vague sense of "it has stuffs connected to stuffs and there's electricity involved", but in the more specific sense that it takes inputs, produces complex outpu
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by Zaphods 7y ago
> The brain can compute. You'll see in my comment and your quote that I don't say the brain can't compute. I agree, the brain can compute. But that doesn't mean it is a computer, because computing is an ability . P
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by Zaphods 7y ago
It's interesting the definition of bullshit in this study: > ‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. compared to the definition that the philoso
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by Zaphods 7y ago
That CV Dazzle project is fascinating. The link to the warship Dazzle camouflage is also hilarious in the sense that that is what people have to turn to in 2019. It reminds me of the comic book The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn. In that s
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by Zaphods 7y ago
The problem with that line of reasoning is you're assuming the brain is a computer, or that it merely computes. But that's just an assumption and there are many reasons a person, let alone a brain, is not a machine or a computer
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by Zaphods 7y ago
That clarifies a lot, then, thank you. In this case, then, I don't think the article from the BPS accurately presented the research in the paper. The fact that they specified that it is clinical depression in the abstract is pretty imp
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by Zaphods 7y ago
Now I think we're running into the strange alleyways in our concept of depression. Do people with depression have no agency in their depression? I think it depends. Depression can be a disposition, ie. someone is disposed to being de
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by Zaphods 7y ago
Is this that people with depression crave sad music, or that music meant to elicit pathos has found its target audience? > The controversial implication is that depressed people deliberately act in ways that are likely to maintain their
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by Zaphods 7y ago
I personally wouldn't jump at the chance to live in the US, but I still would. I absolutely would not ever live in a country that is not a democracy. That is the distinction I think you are kind of eliding. A puttering democracy is st
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by Zaphods 7y ago
> The Chinese, Russians and Arabs are just copying the West. The problem with that line of reasoning is that those countries are categorically different from democracies. Those countries do not have the interlocking systems of laws, elec
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by Zaphods 7y ago
The problem with that argument is that they can just call themselves developers and nothing would change. Currently, "software engineer" doesn't mean anything. There is no credential that obligates software engineers to t
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by Zaphods 7y ago
> The regulation won't necessarily help anything but to outlaw a lot of smart people from being able to write certain software. It will put us further behind the USA in our ability to create tech companies that matter (or that can c
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by Zaphods 7y ago
You have wedded your opinion of US news organizations to your definition of the news. Those two can and should be kept seperate. 1) Being an account is all the news is. It's a story. The division between TMZ and Fox and CNN is defined.
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by Zaphods 7y ago
I'll take a stab: 1) News is an account (story) of an event. The degree with which it is "true" is the degree with which it holds the events to account, and the degree with which the news organization/publisher holds its