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by kilgnad 4y ago
obviously he's talking about the part of the brain that matters. Nobody is comparing anything to say the part of the brain that controls your heart rate. You're just being pedantic here.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Comments like this should be banned from HN. It's used deliberately and manipulatively to characterize the other person as "unhinged." It does not promote useful discussion and is a clear violation of the rules. I just have a
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by kilgnad 4y ago
It's describing an LLM. When we start to lose our minds the unguarded core functionality of the system becomes more and more exposed. And as it becomes more exposed it starts to look like chatGPT. Because as much as we don't like
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>Even regulators are regulated. There are laws that prescribe what the Fed can and can not do, and how. I mean sure, you can say that. The US government is regulated too. But in general the government IS the regulator of the people just
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by kilgnad 4y ago
You're not dealing with the geniuses. You're likely just dealing with people smarter than you. I can assure you geniuses are rare, and people of the same intelligence level tend to gather so you can go through a career completely
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Here's another controversial opinion: It's the genius programmers who write the shittiest code. In my experience clean code tends to be a waste of time for geniuses because shitty code isn't really a problem for smarter peopl
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> I have great sympathy for your argument, and agree with the gist of it. I'm not making an argument. I'm stating the current status quo of the US. No argument was ever made here about whether I think it's right or wrong.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
If I get a loan from Bank A, then I use that loan to pay a person who deposits the IOU into Bank B. Bank B will go to Bank A and demand the money in cash because it's a competitor bank. If bank A has zero cash on hand they immediately
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by kilgnad 4y ago
I still disagree. It's just not that hard. I can explain by comparing it to art. Artistry is hard and artistry is basically the same thing as design but harder. Let's take something like say painting. Painting requires a lot of sk
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> As I mentioned before, heterosexual male teachers are not automatically viewed with moral suspicion in all-girls schools (second example: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/the-perils
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Male leaders tend to have daughter(s) or family in the troop thus the incentives are aligned. A single male is rarely the troop leader. There is a reason to suspect a single heterosexual male joining a girl scout troop for the same reason y
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>and more success in life. There's merit in the idea that stupidity correlates with success. Anecdotally you see the correlation among academia and celebrities. Celebrities are richer and happier then academics who are poorer but sm
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by kilgnad 4y ago
The true death of silicon valley will come as a slow burn. Arguably the burn has already begun years ago.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
This is true. Banning does work though when coupled with extreme capital punishment. See Singapore. There is also the argument of whether usage reduction is the objective goal though.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>This was attempted before by Russel & Whitehead before Godel proved that any sufficiently complicated system can produce non-truths and false statements that cannot be verified by that same system. I never made the claim the system
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Even the probabilities are somewhat bullshit. 50% confidence on intelligence? How was that number calculated? Someone definitely pulled that number out of their ass. I actually think the words like "unlikely" better convey the rea
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Before legalization in many states, even on HN even the suggestion that cannabis was unhealthy could get you voted down. People refused to believe it. Now that it's legal peoples' objectives have shifted and it's now ok to ta
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> If you think it would be ok for a school to fire a teacher merely for being gay (as suggested by “it makes perfect sense for organizations to spend money to get rid of these people”), then you don’t support gay rights. In some instance
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Now is a really good time to make a start up called skynet.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> Paragraphs and paragraphs about pedophilia when you could just have chosen another analogy to make your point. Apologies for the late edit (which I made without having seen your comment), but I hope you can see what I'm getting at
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Wow, what is this? You know about how many Catholics view pedophilia as equivalent to homosexuality and you had the gall to accuse me of being inflammatory in my other comment. You do have an agenda.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> you consider scrolling through wikipedia a review of the formality of the field? I think you may need to consider how formal you are :) Yeah I did. Not one math equation and two informal diagrams describing the same thing. Most formal
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>Even though there isn't a formal theory, there definitely is a big difference between a person capable of doing good system design and one who isn't. Yeah? Prove it. You can't. That's the big problem here. The only t
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> Pedophilia has victims. There is no victim when two adult gay men have consensual sex – unless one of them is harassed out of his job by people spying on him. Not necessarily. Depending on the state, it's technically pedophilia&#x
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by kilgnad 4y ago
I picture a naked torso with all the sensitive zones under the correct letters. Typing the right letters triggers something to happen.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
easy maintenance is what I really want this for. Even the best keyboard eventually transforms into a crusty mess due to how dirty I am. With this I can I can keep it clean.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
This doesn't look formal at all. Usually formal theories need a logical mathematical language to fully characterize it. I scanned the wikipedia of cybernetics and it's just not it. Control theory or signals is the closest formal t
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Maybe I shouldn't say "Anyone can do it." I mean more like you don't need any "design" training or specific "systems" training because no actual theory about this stuff actually exists. It's bull
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> Being gay isn’t a sin according to Catholicism, only having gay sex. Being a pedophile isn't against the law, only engaging on pedophiliac desires is illegal. Therefore I should be ok with pedophiles being leaders of our community
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Seems like systems design is just studying a potpourri of engineering disciplines and the job entails stringing it all together the best that you can. Is there a formal theory about systems? I don't think so, and if there is, there&#x2

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