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by keiru 7y ago
Firstly, getting this out of my chest: It felt like a really good note, except for the graphs. The author acknowledges that he is pulling the Bell curve out of his ass, but somehow serves to illustrate his point. But for some reason the ext
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by keiru 7y ago
It's amazing how the whole world can be in turmoil about a presence we barely bothered to actually look at because there's simply no point in doing so.
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by keiru 7y ago
This is the only reason I chose not to delete some old accounts from different sites, and check on them yearly-ish. I used to think the internet as ephemeral, but I don't have that luxury as long as anyone else doesn't. From relat
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by keiru 7y ago
>Y2038 is in your walls Fuck me, as this is true
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by keiru 7y ago
Related: Samo Burja is a sociologist with a pretty tidy and poignant YouTube channel. He has a lot of stuff on human institutions (from corporations to civilizations), their underlying social mechanics and what makes or breaks them. He emph
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by keiru 7y ago
I found this so baffling that the best I can say is I don't know, and I've found no explanation satisfactory. "Denial" doesn't cut it, it's mass delusion. The first Chinese quarantine was a giant red flag that
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by keiru 7y ago
Which brings us back to the matter at hand; devastating plagues have happened many times in Europe. This one is probably not going to be devastating, but we really don't know the effect of this disruption in today's society.
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by keiru 7y ago
But back to the discussion about the WHO, their bland attitude is greatly to blame for the inaction of the CDC, and the rest of the world. As a case study, for some days half of all confirmed cases outside of China were in the Diamond Pri
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by keiru 7y ago
They showed a strong unwillingness to declare the high state of emergency from the start, which dragged the numbers 30 fold through delayed action. They were the one institution with the moral authority to drive prevention (incentivising te
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by keiru 7y ago
It's way thinner and full of holes. It's not so much about the skin on your cheeks, but your mouth, eyes, nose membranes. And even if you just dirty your cheek, the contamination might spread elsewhere with further touching. Think
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by keiru 7y ago
>the feeling of working for public good and not for some profit-driven corporation. By advancing human knowledge you are arguably working for hundreds of profit-driven corporations at a time
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by keiru 7y ago
>AI-fueled eternal September We will see in our lifetimes how droves of spureous personas flood the internet forever
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by keiru 7y ago
I wonder if one could earn a living as a professional shitposter for AI training purposes.
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by keiru 7y ago
secret mind control programs. The human brain, being a computer, is expected to be alterable. But the extent of secrecy, shadiness and memory-holing of secret government programs never ceases to amaze.
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by keiru 7y ago
>Mathematics was never focused on proof until the formalization of math became popular approximately 100 years ago. We are transitioning surprisingly fast from kinda explaining stuff to automatically and systematically advancing exclusiv
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by keiru 7y ago
The second tribe sounds more like engineering than science though
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by keiru 7y ago
It's a good learning opportunity then, and it should be pointed out
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by keiru 7y ago
Professional lawyers posing as peers psychologically tortuting him to shatter his worldview, while the professor that led the experiment manipulated him to continue. Given that he secluded himself and wrote about his ideology for years like
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by keiru 7y ago
Imagine if the NSA suddenly had to spy on 5 million people. Oh wait.
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by keiru 7y ago
"I am 12 and what is this" needed a comeback
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by keiru 7y ago
I've posted several times about law lagging behind technology, and this is what I mean. If a new tech is in the horizon, you should already be able to realize what can be done with it, what damage it can cause. I can't believe the
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by keiru 7y ago
People discussing stuff and having those daily inconsequential political debates is what shapes society and culture. I do understand the practicality of the advice, and I've implemented it in the past, but so just nobody fool themselve
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by keiru 7y ago
Gamma correction and monitor settings usually go criminally unnoticed. I had problems just working with designers, I can't imagine what silent mistakes it produces in color-critical applications, like medical imaging. Some monitors are
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by keiru 7y ago
This is why I liked their C2 approach
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by keiru 7y ago
Today, you are not you, you are your data, a persona. And you are somehow responsible for it or anything that casts a similar shadow.
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by keiru 7y ago
>Colonizing Mars with a small team of experts Like the thousand people in Antartica right now? I just wouldn't call it colonization. >The lack of a plausible business model which could profit from having people live on Mars is th
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by keiru 7y ago
Well, I agree there is not that much merit in the article for pointing out the obvious, but if the emperor has no clothes someone needs to say it. The engineers working on these problems will never solve them in a cost-effective manner. Nev
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by keiru 7y ago
Perhaps the real evolutionary advantage of Sapiens was abstract thinking put to use in advanced sexualization of different species.
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by keiru 7y ago
Goes to show that every field has its own inferred "dark matter" of sorts.
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by keiru 7y ago
Not the reason at all. Even if you left the charge of the word "race" behind, no one ever uses that word to describe such a distant variety of humans as the ones described in the article. I've read they compare to neanderthal

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