pryce

8 ms·

1.
by pryce 23d ago
the history of how people have conceived of causality between human intelligence and human hands (and in which direction dependency may lie) is quite interesting. "It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.&quot
2.
by pryce 3mo ago
I think you should look into NCCAM funding[1], how much that was, and how many useful treatments came out of it, before speculating that 'funding for the research to be undertaken' is the issue stalling clinical acceptance of comp
3.
by pryce 3mo ago
An affable personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein?
4.
by pryce 3mo ago
Homeopathic medicine is a discredited theoretical explanation for a phenomenon that empirical testing shows does not exist. For 'homeopathy' to be right, it would need the to become 'right' twice - first: new data w
5.
by pryce 3mo ago
You ought to read my comment carefully. Singal (not Signal) and Soh are "major figures in transphobia", and Molyneux is a pro-fascism campaigner. The former two (Singal, Soh) are advocates of "gender essentialism", and
6.
by pryce 3mo ago
One of them I refer to is "race essentialism" [1] which led to the long-discredited pseudoscience known as scientific racism[2], and its political associated program of eugenics, and the other is "gender essentialism"[3]
7.
by pryce 3mo ago
What are the major historical examples where protecting employees from a "hostile workplace" is important? Racism? Misogyny? Homophobia? Do protection from these things look expendable to you? I'm sure either of us could qui
8.
by pryce 3mo ago
100% agree. The James Damore flag was immediately taken up by major figures in transphobia (like Singal, Soh, etc) and pro-fascism campaigners (like Molyneux), both of which are political programs are absolutely incompatible with maintaini
9.
by pryce 3mo ago
would you allow that it was bad enough to be fairly labeled garbage in 2011, yet could you still concede it has degraded significantly further since then? Or are you arguing that not only was it bad in 2011, but you are contending it hasn&#
10.
by pryce 3mo ago
I feel like we are going to relive the hyperloop-decline with the specs of proposed orbital datacentres. But the hyperloop was in one regard a success, in that it built temporary hype. Maybe it was even named after that.
11.
by pryce 4mo ago
> Because technology caught up with them..... a good CPU is good enough for a very long time This is an excellent point but surely it lampshades that the exact opposite case is true for RAM. How many of apple's laptops become unusa
12.
by pryce 4mo ago
This should be a 5 alarm fire. It reminds me of nothing more than organized crime rackets that targeted control of union retirement funds
13.
by pryce 4mo ago
you're right about psychoanalysis being a stretch, but the article seems to be about the odd popularity among Gen Z, not the younger Gen Alpha. Youngest GenZ is 14yrs old; with a lot of this labubu trend, we're talking teens and
14.
by pryce 4mo ago
I understand some startup deciding to take a punt on "this will all work out financially if our new product demonstrably boosts productivity of large sectors of the economy by a breathtaking factor that's incredibly rarely ever ha
15.
by pryce 4mo ago
> i'm quite amazed they got any VC money at all. probably VC bit at the 'agentic' part. Using that word makes some folk lose their minds, and they may then find themselves investing in a whole range of things that they ot
16.
by pryce 4mo ago
I have a strong suspicion the rationale for how they select providers on will turn out to be kickbacks and self-dealing.
17.
by pryce 4mo ago
If my definition of 'value' was something that was totally contingent on both post-industrial society and an ultracapitalist approach to production, and it made me deduce that human being's lives over thousands of years or in
18.
by pryce 5mo ago
This makes it sound as though doing business with Palantir is akin to doing business with Lockheed Martin, RTX Corp (Raytheon), Northrop Grumman etc. This ignores important, qualitatively different ways that Palantir is worse: eg intenti
19.
by pryce 6mo ago
Thank you, I remember reading this background as well. There is no 'unedited' version of Anne's diary, as Anne herself intentionally edited and re-edited her work during her time in the Annex. A remarkable young woman. What w
20.
by pryce 7mo ago
> whether the singularity actually happens or not is irrelevant so much as whether enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly. We've already been here in the 1980s. The tech industry needs to cultivate people who are i
21.
by pryce 8mo ago
> Surely everyone would want such a key piece of technology to be air tight and easy to debug The incentives of different parties / actors are different. 'Everyone' necessarily comprises an extremely broad category, and w
22.
by pryce 8mo ago
> Besides that, who is going to read this long-ass document? Plenty of people will encounter snippets of this document and/or summaries of it in the process of interacting with Claude's AI models, and encountering it through t
23.
by pryce 8mo ago
If instead of looking at it as an attempt to enshrine a viable, internally consistent ethical framework, we choose to look at it as a marketing document, seeming inconsistencies suddenly become immediately explicable: 1. "thou shalt no
24.
by pryce 9mo ago
From the wiki: currently supported devices does not appear to support the recent Kobo eReaders
25.
by pryce 9mo ago
A wall street journal opinion columnist - Shrier- with zero medical training wrote a book to create a moral panic in the public about trans teens, based on the discredited ideas from Lisa Littman's ROGD "research", where in t
26.
by pryce 9mo ago
Increasing social acceptibility and awareness is not mysterious to people who understand that many perceptions about gender are constructions that occur in social contexts. Why do I owe you any specific "explanation" when the
27.
by pryce 9mo ago
To claim there are not really any other candidates for a skew (in that direction or the other) you would have to (like Shrier herself) go out of your way to not bother to talk to trans people, or their doctors, or their families, or sociolo
28.
by pryce 9mo ago
> Is she not going to say "pretty well compared to a surveillance database" No, instead she is likely to avoid talking in abstractions and instead talk about personal experiences of getting stalked online by multiple people sh
29.
by pryce 9mo ago
moral panics are useful for creating authoritarian states. If a moral panic is not presently available, in 2025 it may be easier it's ever been before to cultivate one.
30.
by pryce 9mo ago
It is not that simple: Authoritarians that want to "protect" their gender-questioning or orientation-questioning children from having online access to trans and gay spaces online are not only enthusiastically backing Australia&#x

More ›