murftown

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by murftown 2y ago
Hmm. Maybe what "counts as an observer" is relative to your reference frame, and so is the concept of "superposition". And thus, though the cat is making observations within its environment, since the environment is seal
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by murftown 2y ago
I love your advice for beginners (last 3 paragraphs of your comment). It definitely rings true that the attainment of desirelessness can become a desire in itself, just another dragon to chase. I like your comment so much I was tempted to s
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by murftown 5y ago
> I mean, what data is going to get extracted? Your favorite color? For instance, a log of every time I turn my lights on and off? Coupled with of course all kinds of fingerprinting info about my phone which is also tied to all my accoun
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by murftown 5y ago
Sure, but what debt does the average person own which is eroded? The money in their bank account.
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by murftown 6y ago
For an article about privacy and not being snooped on, some HTTPS would be nice! But then again, the author could understandably reply that TLS is an example of a system that has evolved to require "checking in" with a central aut
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by murftown 6y ago
I can relate to the feeling of anxiety when the all-too-short weekend is drawing to a close. Glad you put this up! Hope it helps you feel a little more in control and able to do something creative. It makes sense that you chose to just get
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by murftown 6y ago
> you can choose what companies you interact with but you can't choose your government. On the contrary, you can vote to change your government, but the corporations get to do what they want with 0 accountability. If they have a pse
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by murftown 6y ago
Yes.
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by murftown 6y ago
I've long wondered about this as well. I think asking questions would be an important part of any self-editing process.
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by murftown 6y ago
Off topic, but I really, really wish we could stop overloading the word "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrencies when it already is an abbreviation for cryptography. It's worse when we start saying things like "crypto netwo
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by murftown 6y ago
I didn't read the article, and I know it's more about math than an actual plan, but as a tangent I wanted to say that there's a cost to preventing rain from reaching the earth - even if we eventually returned the water there
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by murftown 6y ago
This seems really disingenuous, like you care more about dissing someone than understanding the pros and cons of using this tool that suddenly is one of the only ways to connect with people.
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by murftown 7y ago
As others have mentioned a lot of this boils down to the wording of the 5th amendment. Specifically: "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...". I recently found out that, for example, the
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by murftown 7y ago
Seems like (1) is doable, as long as it's opt-in. But if it becomes the default behavior, existing applications would break when they do something against the type system. I'm not sure what (2) buys you.
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by murftown 7y ago
Not OP, but read your comment and felt inspired to respond. I understand your mindset - in a sense, the absence of growth implies death, all life needs growth, etc. However, growth is not a purely-quantitative, 1-dimensional value. There ar
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by murftown 7y ago
Totally agree that wealth creation is a thing distinct from distribution, and that it matters. However, I'm not aware of any metrics or markers for wealth creation - other than revenue / profit. So in other words, most of our atte
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by murftown 7y ago
Right? As an aside, I was surprised by the repeated use of "climate hawk" throughout the article as an identity that we might be interested in taking on. Could they have said e.g. "people concerned about climate change"?
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by murftown 7y ago
So for example if the person receives false ashes, as in the article, and then the ceremony is performed in which the "dearly departed's ashes" are scattered, but it's really unmixed concrete - then does that falseness o
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by murftown 7y ago
Off-topic, but I came here to say that my long-standing fear just came true about the word "crypto"; namely, that I totally misread it in TFA as meaning "cryptography" - which is of course what the term always used to re
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by murftown 8y ago
Cool, I'll bite. I don't know some of your mathy terms like "putative extensive transduction" or "anisotropy" so go easy on me. But I hear you say things like "Neural nets are nonlinear iterated function s
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by murftown 8y ago
I get where you're coming from, but it's hard for me to watch you continue to balk at what people are saying to you. I am assuming good faith in your intentions to be scientific and well-reasoned, and it would be nice to be able t
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by murftown 8y ago
I don't consider myself a good chess player at all, but I always thought the opposite way: When I'm ahead, I'm willing to whittle down both sides with even trades until they are left with no options and can be checkmated. Whe
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by murftown 8y ago
> a scientist while under the influence of neuroactive substances could be said to be ... irrational. Just for thoroughness, what's your rational, logical deduction that someone under the influence of neuroactive substances is more
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by murftown 8y ago
That's hilarious. :) I agree that non-techies have plenty of ways that they're actually more balanced on average, and there are plenty of ways that a lot of techies probably seem scary to other people as well. However, I think GP&
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by murftown 8y ago
> privacy is inefficient. This is the main reason I despise it. Certainly not in all cases, maybe not even most? For example, it's efficient to have a private key to log in to your server rather than just leaving it open to get hac
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by murftown 8y ago
TL;DR - I respectfully disagree. > Privacy is unfair because it highlights characteristics that are difficult to conceal. The idea that privacy highlights characteristics that are difficult to conceal is possibly truthful, but it's
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by murftown 8y ago
Yeah, the phone lines getting that polluted is not a pleasant prospect. This conversation reminds me of "Lenny", a simple bot someone created to talk pointlessly in circles with telemarketers for hours until they hang up in frustr
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by murftown 8y ago
Ableton Live .als files are also gzipped .xml files.
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by murftown 8y ago
Yeah ... I don't think someone who celebrates a bit of mostly untouched nature in the city they live in represents "one of the worst expressions of capitalism". I follow your line of thinking, but I think it's a bit out
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by murftown 8y ago
> I would even say it's selfish > (previously) cultures are emergent properties from markets Honest question: Do you think selfishness is a bad thing? As you seem to have such apparent respect for the primacy of markets, I woul

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