smky80

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by smky80 12y ago
Not all of them though. http://theloveofsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/t... Been looking for a Sebastian Janikowski draft picture but couldn't find one.
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by smky80 12y ago
I came to the conclusion a while back that humans are just fundamentally religious. Even most people who don't believe in "gods" seem to end up largely clinging to some over-simplified, basically religious model of the world
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by smky80 13y ago
I don't trust the IPCC because the actual results haven't matched their models, regardless of what the "scientific consensus" is on negative feedback loops. And again, stopping the increase of CO2 would require massive g
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by smky80 13y ago
If my car's system had the same track record and fundamental flaws as the climate models commonly cited, I would be inclined to ignore it. By track record I mean predicting a 3 degree C increase per doubling of CO2 and experience show
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by smky80 13y ago
> The most recent studies suggest one degree of warming per decade on average There's been a total of approximately 0.8 degrees C increase in temperature since about 1880, at about 1.5 degrees C per doubling of CO2 concentration. A
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by smky80 13y ago
This stuff makes me laugh looking back on it. Also teachers saying stuff like, "If you do all of your homework, no matter what you will get at least a B." Pretty much high school was an obedience test. "Monkeys, if you do e
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by smky80 13y ago
I just read "Hell is the Absence of God". I just can't understand or relate at all to the "slave morality", as Nietzsche might put it, of that story, or wrap my head around why people choose to worship a creature r
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by smky80 13y ago
This seemed cute the first time I read it, and it explains the "why I am me?" question that most religions just don't. But I realized, this is would be an absolute disaster if true. True story: life more or less sucks if yo
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by smky80 13y ago
I really don't get people who think consciousness emerges from an algorithm basically, that can be transferred to software. If someone built a gigantic abacus and used to slowly simulate a brain, would that cause a consciousness to eme
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by smky80 13y ago
A lot of that is due to the strategy shift from trying to aggresively expand your business by adding as much value as possible, to trying to extract as much rent from the market as possible once you've achieved a dominant position in t
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by smky80 13y ago
This is exactly the sort of problem that convinced me that consciousness/mind must be a fundamental part of the (multi/uni)verse, and not something that "emerges" from matter. I find it terribly unconvincing that a speci
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by smky80 13y ago
Great post. It really comes down to morality and "cooperation" in the sense of the Prisoner's Dilemma. The more people see defectors succeed, the more likely they are to defect themselves. But once enough people are defect
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by smky80 13y ago
Ah, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for that. I guess what I would like to see is some kind of government mandate to force social networks and the like to follow this model.
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by smky80 13y ago
The point was really just to push for decentralization of social networks, through some kind of mandated data-sharing interface. The "DNS" thing is probably actually unnecessary I guess, it was just a random thought. We don'
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by smky80 13y ago
I really would like to see Facebook broken up via the Sherman Antitrust Act, or some such legislation. As I see it, the "network externality effect" which keeps such monopolies in business could perhaps be mitigated by creating a
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by smky80 13y ago
His slaves worked pretty hard too though. Just saying.
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by smky80 13y ago
Well certainly individual preference is a matter of taste. For me, "4 pooling" and these kind of largely random rock-paper-scissors choices -- which can often be decisive, as is the case here -- put me off Starcraft and a lot of
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by smky80 13y ago
It's not to say Starcraft isn't a challenging game or there isn't any depth to it, but I am saying if 4 pooling is considered deep stuff, you have to realize that something like chess is on a completely different level. I&#x2
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by smky80 13y ago
> a highly risky opening strategy that almost always ends the game very quickly In other words, a sucker punch?
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by smky80 13y ago
Yeah but this game has like 10 times as many openings so it will take much longer to learn them. The reason why memorization is a problem in chess isn't because there aren't enough openings/endgames to remember, it's bec
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by smky80 13y ago
That actually looks pretty promising, but seems like it will have major balance issues. To me the trick is preserve some kind of backward compatibility with chess while finding a way to increase the strategic content. Ironically stuff like
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by smky80 13y ago
As much as I recognize and appreciate the limitations of chess, it pains me physically to see the strategic depth of it compared to something like Starcraft. It's not close by orders of magnitude. I still remember some important match
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by smky80 13y ago
I would recommend reading _The Creature from Jekyll Island_.
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by smky80 13y ago
> why haven't millions of people descended on Washington and London Because humans essentially stopped evolving after developing agriculture, and most are only really capable of thinking one year/harvest ahead. Like so many oth
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by smky80 13y ago
I never had before until now, but will start doing so more often. Noticed a bunch of interesting links.
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by smky80 13y ago
Also, throw the head DHS and TSA officials in Guantanamo for terrorizing the American public.
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by smky80 13y ago
I don't think humans have walked on the moon. I wouldn't bet my life on it, and I don't have a complete narrative as to the why/how of it, but I'd put the odds at over 50%. It's something of a technological an
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by smky80 13y ago
I don't have a source handy, but I remember reading something to effect that when you figured in all the transportation costs for the fracking fluid and gas production, it really wasn't so clean.
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by smky80 13y ago
Methane's greenhouse gas effect is 20x that of CO2. [0] --- [0] http://epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/ch4.html
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by smky80 13y ago
> humans actually evolved to go at lengths to punish anybody who does defect They might have initially, but I'll make the argument that probably since the dawn of agriculture, and the generation of large societal surpluses, evolutio

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