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by fnovd 3y ago
The Japanese. They're the first known group to explicitly represent Emoji, unlike the older Latin derived systems which could only represent emotion through character combinations and thus were lame rather than complete.
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by fnovd 3y ago
>We calculated the Amazon CEO's annual earnings by finding the difference between his 2017 and 2018 net worths
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by fnovd 3y ago
I don't think it's jaded at all. I don't disagree that a sales team is necessary, either. I'm just describing how a business works: it creates a solution and then finds a way to extract value by selling the solution to t
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by fnovd 3y ago
Think about any software company with a large sales team. The people writing the software are not the people selling the software. Writing software and offering it to people does not sustain a business. Creating IP and then finding creative
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by fnovd 3y ago
The pursuit of growth is the foundation of all life as we know it. Every species (but not necessarily every individual) will seek to produce offspring and grow their "genetic footprint" so to speak. It's a baseline requiremen
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by fnovd 3y ago
I'm not sure what your nitpick is supposed to be getting at. Good businesses create a solution to your problem and then "insert themselves" between you and that solution. That's how they make money. If they could not sta
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by fnovd 3y ago
If the Universe is the territory than Knowledge is the map. I'm not at all mistaking the map for the territory: I'm pointing out that the set of maps that can describe a given territory are virtually infinite. Asimov is saying the
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by fnovd 3y ago
I disagree fundamentally. You may as well ask me to imagine Earth as a disc, with multiple rotating spotlights shining down on it and a giant ice wall around the edges. I understand what the image is trying to convey, I simply do not agree
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by fnovd 3y ago
You're right--chess is a decidedly finite game. Even so, we have not "solved" this simple, finite game--not even close! If we're not close to solving such a trivial game, how can we be close to the limit of the knowledge
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by fnovd 3y ago
This leads to a more fundamental question: What is the universe? Is the optimal move in an a given chess board considered knowledge? If so, can't we create entirely new sets of knowledge from the emergent properties of an arbitrary set
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by fnovd 3y ago
There is no contradiction because there is no limit of knowledge. The limit of y = e^x is infinity. You can keep increasing x and y will increase exponentially. So you plot the function, let's say with the x axis going up to 10 and the
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by fnovd 3y ago
As much as I enjoy Asimov, I have to say that he is wrong. The gap between what we know and what is true might have decreased immensely, but it is still infinite. Any quantifiable increase is 0 in relation to infinity. Asimov's counter
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by fnovd 3y ago
Simply look at the career of Van Gogh or any "Bohemian starving artist". Listing only the most popular, most influential artists proves my point: for most people art is an untenable career. In that regard AI, has virtually no impa
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by fnovd 3y ago
There is a difference between "making money and making art" and "making money by making art". No one is entitled to having other people value their artistic output. I would argue that art created for the marketplace is l
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by fnovd 3y ago
Takes like this confuse me. ChatGPT is not stopping anyone from making art. It may stop you from profiting off of your artistic labors. Though, if you need a profit motive to make art, were you really making anything truly expressive and
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by fnovd 3y ago
This is a hierarchy of one stratum (birds) cooperating to dominate another stratum (fish). If anything, this link shows that operating effectively within a hierarchy has clear advantages to survival.
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by fnovd 3y ago
>It didn't take millions to build Linux or wikipedia, just a couple hundred to a couple thousand absurdly dedicated people. Maybe it didn't take millions of people to build those things, but it did take millions of people to cr
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by fnovd 3y ago
Hierarchies in society get stronger, deeper, and more complex the larger the societies are. There is a function to hierarchy, it doesn't exist for its own sake. In small groups those hierarchies are not as useful so they aren't as
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by fnovd 3y ago
When we define intelligence as having the ability to do the things that only humans do, it's no wonder that we can't see intelligence in other species. Most animals don't have digits they can use to manipulate things with the
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by fnovd 3y ago
Most people agree with you, which is exactly why there is no chance that an organization like this can have a real impact. How can a breeder, who is incentivized to create a stream of puppies to sell, be compatible with a society that is tr
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by fnovd 3y ago
There are two kinds of shelters: open-admission, and no-kill. There is no third kind. We will never be a no-kill nation without addressing the root causes: lack of availability of subsidized spay/neuter programs, and the profitability
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by fnovd 3y ago
Lottery winners owning fancy houses should not be taken as an endorsement of their wealth acquisition strategy.
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by fnovd 3y ago
It's how you get /r/X and /r/TrueX and /r/X_memes and /r/ECKS
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by fnovd 3y ago
What would a moderator normally do? Delete comments, issue warnings, ban if necessary. So they can just do the same thing. Nothing changes on their end, but for the user, they're only banned from one curated feed and not from the topic
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by fnovd 3y ago
I don't see how that could be true. It's the same workflow for the moderators, it's just that users can unsubscribe to their view.
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by fnovd 3y ago
I'm actually talking about having virtually the same setup we have now, just with a moderator B-team (and C, D, etc.), whose view you can subscribe to instead of the main one. Really the question is not "should we have moderators?
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by fnovd 3y ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't have teams of people filtering this kind of comment. We already do. The issue I have is with the marriage of one specific moderator team to the board/subreddit in question. Comments like yours are
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by fnovd 3y ago
That's already a problem with the spaces we have today. Even so, subreddits have moderator teams that keep them running. What would be the issue with allowing a B-team, maybe with a lighter touch, and allowing users to choose between o
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by fnovd 3y ago
Right. My question is closer to this: why do we need exclusive moderators? If posts & comments are our dataset, what is the purpose of only allowing one, singular curated view into that dataset? There are removals for ToS/legal r
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by fnovd 3y ago
Of course. The question in the title isn't exactly the one I was trying to ask, but it is close. In my mind there is a difference between content moderation, which enforces the ToS and removes illegal content, and curation, which is mo

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