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by lisper 6d ago
Private pilot here. No, I'm quite sure very few of you here would have made the same mistake as evidenced by the fact that literally hundreds of thousands of aircraft land successfully every day, many of them under much more adverse c
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by lisper 8d ago
You seem to be missing a basic fact about how the world works: there are two classes of people, those who make the rules, and those who are expected to follow the rules. These classes are largely disjoint.
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by lisper 14d ago
It is at once obvious and hard for people to internalize that there will come a time in the future when our time will be as far in the past as ancient Rome is to us. We might not be interested in old magazines and artifacts from our grandp
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I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul(sfstandard.com)
164 points by lisper 18d ago|127 comments
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by lisper 20d ago
No, we are talking about Page Rank, which is an algorithm on directed graphs. Web search is one application, but not the only one.
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by lisper 20d ago
You clearly don't understand how Page Rank works. It is not just a matter of counting the incoming links.
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by lisper 21d ago
Um, no? It works in non-adversarial environments. Such environments are rare in today's world but they still exist, mainly where there isn't a profit motive. Believe it or not, there are still some people in the world who belie
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by lisper 21d ago
Thanks. I don't have time to watch the video, but the article still leaves me skeptical. Matching myths to past events seems to me fraught with all the same potential pitfalls as matching them to future events and thence labeling the
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by lisper 21d ago
> Importantly, PageRank doesn't work today It works as well as it ever did, i.e. in non-adversarial situations. It's not designed to be secure so it fails when people try to game it. Designing something like Page Rank that wo
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by lisper 21d ago
> The original caretakers of the Australian continent have been telling the same stories orally for 40,000 years. I know that this is commonly believed, but how could you possibly know?
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AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, MIT warns(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by lisper 22d ago|0 comments
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Khinchin's Constant(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lisper 24d ago|0 comments
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by lisper 25d ago
The Supreme Court has a long history of ignoring both the letter and the spirit of the law for the sake of politics and practical expediency. I can legally buy an AK-47 but not a Patriot missile despite the fact that the second amendment m
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by lisper 25d ago
Not sure what you mean by "in this case." I'm pretty sure that the founders intended the Bill of Rights to apply everywhere including the border.
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by lisper 26d ago
> The law is not “hackable.” It absolutely is. The rich and powerful do it all the time.
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The Plasticity Thesis: How the Brain Learns to Be Conscious – PMC(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
10 points by lisper 1mo ago|0 comments
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by lisper 1mo ago
And so, as I predicted, we come full-circle back to the no-true-scotsman fallacy.
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by lisper 1mo ago
> Hayek Oh, the irony. If you look at the rest of the comments in this thread you will find people insisting that the Austrian School is economics, not philosophy. And this is exactly the problem. Philosophy is whatever other self-styl
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by lisper 1mo ago
Air conditioning!
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by lisper 1mo ago
In the context of a discussion of the kinds of philosophy that silicon valley tech bros misread, what would cross your mind?
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Record heat is drying up Europe's major rivers, as these striking images show(washingtonpost.com)
57 points by lisper 1mo ago|7 comments
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by lisper 1mo ago
> you didn't qualify "a lot" Why do you think I needed to? The phrase "a lot" has an established meaning in the English language. > or mention which topics in philosophy you think are legitimate That's t
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by lisper 1mo ago
> You're basically pointing at RFK Jr's speeches and saying, "See? Biology is bullshit." That's actually not a bad analogy, except for the tacit implication that RFK is a crackpot and not worthy of serious consid
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by lisper 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand "Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[c] February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/ ⓘ), was
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by lisper 1mo ago
Yeah, I actually realized too late that my brain somehow thought that nanofarads were smaller than picofarads. Mea culpa.
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by lisper 1mo ago
Why is this a component? Couldn't you just make one of these out of PCB traces?
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by lisper 1mo ago
Yeah, well, the topic at hand is how Silicon Valley tech bros abuse philosophy. The philosophy they abuse includes a lot of non-academic stuff. I can cite a lot of bullshit in academic philosophy, but so what? There's a lot of bullsh
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by lisper 1mo ago
> when you try to argue that economics is a field of philosophy You obviously haven't read Murray Rothbard.
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by lisper 1mo ago
Apparently they don't teach you about straw-man arguments. I didn't say philosophy was useless, I said a lot of philosophy is bullshit. That is not the same thing. A lot of physics nowadays is bullshit (like string theory) but
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by lisper 1mo ago
> people who aren't philosophers said some bullshit Wow, I didn't expect to be vindicated quite so definitively when I predicted: "The most likely outcome of that exercise would be for you to invoke the no-true-scotsman fa

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