endominus

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by endominus 3mo ago
I think most pro-AI people would be happy to let an AI maintain the sloppy fork. What reason would they have to complain, after all?
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by endominus 3mo ago
Just as people pointed out that my misinformation line was also said by AuthLeft, gay marriage and drug legalization are both supported by LibRight (under the reasoning of government minimization). But that just speaks to the problem; the p
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by endominus 3mo ago
It's a fundamental problem of the political compass, since people's political beliefs are usually object-level or tribal rather than rooted in fundamental principles (for example, when their party controls the state congress but n
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by endominus 3mo ago
"The government has the right to force people to take vaccines against their will for the sake of public safety." - Authoritarian Left "The government has no right to legislate that a woman cannot have an abortion - women sho
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by endominus 5mo ago
Cost of the Macbook Pro 14 in 2031: another £1999 Cost of the Framework 13 upgrade kit in 2031: £499 The point of the upgradability and openness of the design is that you only have to pay that cost once , instead of every time you buy a la
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by endominus 5mo ago
It's frustrating that the only suggestion the experts interviewed have here is essentially blue-washing woman-dominated jobs. "For instance, many health care jobs could be framed as roles requiring the strength to lift people. Pre
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by endominus 5mo ago
Creatine is probably the most well-studied nutritional supplement we have, and one of the most efficacious. You are presenting a single study to counter that. Not even a meta-analysis, but a single study of just 54 participants who did not
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by endominus 6mo ago
Just because a particular market is free doesn't mean it's useful to society at large. If it's not useful to society, society has no moral reason to tolerate it. If it indeed benefits a few individuals massively while on net
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by endominus 6mo ago
Unfortunately, "this is a wildly successful model that prints money for us with almost no upkeep required" has historically not been a bulletproof argument when new management comes in and wants to prove themselves. Human beings a
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by endominus 6mo ago
Even if that were the case, wouldn't it still be an essentially net-zero pollution system (disregarding small contributions from transport etc.)?
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by endominus 7mo ago
Sure, but it's not reasonable to call it as unpopular domestically as the Vietnam War, which had more than 12 times the casualties, spread over a group that on the whole was unwilling to fight and had to be drafted into the conflict, t
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by endominus 7mo ago
> General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research? > Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Yes sir. But now that they are doing psy-researc
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by endominus 8mo ago
Why did the author feel the need to throw in a spoiler for the end of The Conversation in the last paragraph of the article? That seems contradictory to the point of everything else she wrote and disrespectful to both the audience and the
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by endominus 8mo ago
It was available on Humble Bundle a few months ago as part of Remedy's full lineup, along with the sequel, the Alan Wake games, and Control.
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by endominus 10mo ago
>If you were given the choice of two different dangerous roads where one road had a 30% lower chance of getting into a life-threatening car crash, you would probably think that the choice was obvious, not that the two roads were basicall
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by endominus 11mo ago
... so give reviewers a financial incentive to deem reports invalid?
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Days of Rage (2017)(status451.com)
4 points by endominus 1y ago|1 comments
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by endominus 1y ago
Reminded of this article/book review given comments here about political violence on the rise and wondering how that looks like on a wider scale.
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by endominus 1y ago
The OP is not claiming that the link is being changed; the complaint is that a hyperlink is being generated from the plaintext URL. The HTML body of the email is being modified.
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by endominus 1y ago
If you run a restaurant and a known dine-and-dasher walks in, can you not refuse to serve them? If you're a consultant do you have no right to refuse a client? Even if you have other clients you'd rather work for, or that particul
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by endominus 1y ago
>So would you say changing one's mind is a case where one seeks a different religion I have no idea what you mean by this. I explained in detail what changing one's mind entails. It has nothing to do with "irrefutable&quot
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by endominus 1y ago
Your original issue with the article was that once you've "settled" an issue, there is no reason to argue about it. I pointed out that a number of people do not "settle" issues in the way that you describe, and that
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by endominus 1y ago
You realize that examples can extend to other topics? "I am 60% confident that recursion is the best method for this algorithm." "Having had more time to study potential options, I am now 75% confident." "I am sure
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by endominus 1y ago
>But they can't change their mind as they never established something that can be changed. "I am 70% confident that candidate X will win the upcoming elections." "Oh, new polling data has come in that shows more suppo
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by endominus 1y ago
This response is indicative of a completely different perspective on the idea of "argument" (and "making up your mind," a phrase that does not appear in the than the original article and would not fit with the framework
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by endominus 1y ago
Eh. This crowd isn't where this article is aimed. Remember the British minister who asked when Microsoft was going to 'get rid' of algorithms? https://www.windowscentral.com/british-government-reported-a... (
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by endominus 1y ago
One thing the Streisand effect illuminates is a certain type of person is not fully able to model the consequences of trying to keep information secret. It's absolutely plausible that someone in the university administration actually b
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by endominus 2y ago
>A century after terrifying disasters, is it a safe-enough bet? In the Hindenberg disaster, 35 of the airship's 97 occupants died. Meanwhile, every time I browse the front page of HN, there seems to be another story of an aircraft c
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by endominus 2y ago
I think what that commenter meant, and I agree, is that the "savant" in this case was referring to a literal computer; the programmer as an IC is "delegating" a task by writing a program and having the computer execute i
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by endominus 2y ago
Complete with slideshows about what he was doing, how he planned to do it, and the logistics involved with becoming the supreme arms dealer and private army to half a dozen governments.

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