lambdaphagy

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by lambdaphagy 4mo ago
I don’t think I understand your argument. If a wealth tax causes the wealthy to leave then you have even less tax revenue than before, right?
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by lambdaphagy 6mo ago
Given that no one understands how the mental relates to the physical in the first place, I have no idea how you would reach such a confident conclusion about the phenomenological status of 200k human neurons in a petri dish playing Doom?
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
China does not consider all lethal autonomous weapons system "unacceptable" even for use , let alone to develop , and the document you linked explains this very clearly. Here's what the document actually says, formatted sl
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
I agree that the risk of an accidental strike was a huge problem with the theory of nuclear deterrence, but the question is: compared to what? In expectation or even in a 1st percentile scenario, was MAD worse than a world where the USSR i
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
The guy who authorized the Manhattan project: - had four [!] terms, a move so anomalous it was subsequently patched by constitutional amendment - threatened court-packing until SCOTUS backed down and stated rubber-stamping his agenda - rule
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
There is an extremely straightforward argument that WMDs are precisely what prevented the outbreak of direct warfare between major powers in the latter 20th. (Note that WWI by itself wasn’t sufficient to prevent WWII!) You can take issue w
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
Say more?
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
I picked two random numbers between one and one million. The chances of it having seen that specific problem in its training set seem very low.
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
> For example, transformer-based language models can't reliably do multi-digit arithmetic because they have no number sense, only statistical patterns over digit tokens. I asked Opus 4.6 to multiply 50,651 x 895,707. It immediately
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by lambdaphagy 7mo ago
Hi! I can’t speak for your friend, but as a former atheist who brcame a Christian (albeit a very mediocre one) I feel like I can see both sides of this so perhaps I can offer a perspective that might help you understand each other better. W
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by lambdaphagy 8mo ago
> Rubio was promoting a conspiracy theory about what he has called the “censorship-industrial complex,” which alleges widespread collusion between the US government, tech companies, and civil society organizations to silence conservative
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by lambdaphagy 8mo ago
Inspiring to see women getting into the far weeds of the unicode technical standard.
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by lambdaphagy 10mo ago
The Know Nothing Party had nothing to do with anti-intellectualism per se. It was a secret anti-immigration party whose members were required to say they “knew nothing” of the group if asked.
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by lambdaphagy 10mo ago
Yeah, that's precisely what I'm objecting to-- smuggling in assumptions about the relationship between Sami and other Northern-European populations by using a term that implies that Scandinavians aren't native to Scandinavia,
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by lambdaphagy 10mo ago
Referring to the Sami as "Indigenous" in contrast to the Scandinavian and Finnish peoples seems pretty tendentious. All three of these groups have been in Northern Europe for thousands of years.
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
Sorry, that came out as unnecessarily harsh on users when it was intended for Duolingo’s product department. I don’t mean to suggest that the amount of language learning is literally zero, just that whenever language learning is in tension
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
My impression of duolingo was strongly influenced by a former PM who said basically what OP said without any hint of ill will in their voice. Duolingo discovered that it was easier to reward-hack short term signals of language learning ins
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
Fascism and Ayn Rand's political philosophy are pretty different from each other, however you may feel about either one. Not everything you dislike is the same bad thing.
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
No culture treats men and women equally-- they differ in how they treat men and women differently. Just today in my progressive coastal startup, for example, there was a proposal to set up a dedicated ERG for the women employees. In a c
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
Japanese tea gardens are pretty artificial and manicured, and they’re awesome. It’s great to have undespoiled natural beauty, and it’s also cool to see what people can do with a landscape.
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
Practically every culture on earth (except ours as of 10 minutes ago) had some sort of place for single-sex bonding, which suggests there’s something important to it. Traditional cultures aren’t incel, to the contrary it’s only in modern c
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
I wasn’t the one referring to behaviors. But I bet a social club that rigorously enforced the rules of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood would be more popular than anything goes.
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
What's classist about having behavioral rules?
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
When I visited an Opus Dei house once for a philosophy lecture they were discussing Plato, the Timaeus in particular.
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
> People need prompting and guidance on the parts that feel uncomfortable, not the parts that dovetail neatly with their intuitions. I totally agree in general. But I wouldn't say that the issues with Francis's style amounted t
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
That question very much does turn this political, and is not in the spirit of the thread. What is it that you'd really like to know?
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
I share some of your frustrations, and yet there is also a spiritual peril in failing to extend charity in the interpretation of these remarks, let alone in claiming to know that anyone who interpreted them differently is being willfully ob
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by lambdaphagy 1y ago
I think what many Catholics found frustrating about Pope Francis was his tendency to make apparently off-the-cuff remarks which, while never quite explicitly straying outside the bounds of faith and morals defined by the Magisterium, often
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, I don’t think curing cancer is the bar for sober self-experimentation. “Noticeable amelioration of disease” is. There is substantial regulatory burden that prevents US-based companies from doing what you sugg
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
TBC I have no reason to believe that Big Pharma is deliberately withholding effective treatments it knows about so much as making (understandable) decisions not to investigate them in the first place. The total addressable market of a pote

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