techno_tsar

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by techno_tsar 1mo ago
It's something worth thinking about, because it's trivially true one could be a socialist and socially conservative, the same way someone can be "socially liberal and fiscally conservative," and so on. More precisely, it
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by techno_tsar 1mo ago
The complaint is that if you strip the controls out, then you're no longer betting on diet. Because whoever maintains a fully plant-based diet is drawn from a population that 'probably' smokes less, drinks less, sees doctors,
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by techno_tsar 2mo ago
...I did, a few years ago, when I went camping with some friends.
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by techno_tsar 8mo ago
This does make me think about Kuhn's concept of scientific revolutions and paradigms, and that paradigms are incommensurate with one another. Since new paradigms can't be proven or disproven by the rules of the old paradigm, if an
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by techno_tsar 10mo ago
I'm working on a Yelp alternative called Vibehuntr -- just something different to browse venues using Google's API, with a social layer so I can see what my friends like. It's very rough around the edges right now and it migh
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by techno_tsar 1y ago
This is unreadable slop.
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by techno_tsar 1y ago
I was thinking about how the point of reading isn't to literally 'internalize' what you've read. When you're engrossed in a piece of literature, you don't remember the specifics of the last page you read. What&
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by techno_tsar 1y ago
The 'capabilities' of simulated neural networks have nothing to do with consciousness.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
I have some family in Hong Kong that lived in public housing for the longest time. Some of the newer apartments were pretty good. 40th floor, nice view, free WiFi.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
I agree. You don't need someone's ketamine use to explain why they're a Nazi. You know who else uses a lot of ketamine? The rave scene, the queer scene, and people treating PTSD. And those are some of the most un-Nazi folks o
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
stuff like this gets taught in school? that’s like a take from the 1600s. literally descartes’s argument that animals are just automatons and only humans have minds.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
Pretty much created the mind-body problem.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
This is completely nuts. Well done.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
There's a rigorous proof on Wikipedia, but there's simpler ways to show it. For example, we know that 1/3 = 0.333... 3 * 1/3 = 3 * 0.333... 1 = 0.999... You can also do it with subtraction. For example, 1 - 0.999... = x.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
What’s missing in the Gessen and Silver’s article here is that our ideological backdrop is largely realpolitik. If we’re talking about saying certain things to get re-elected, then yes, the notion of what public opinion is and how that affe
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
Someone ought to write an article on Nate Silver’s straw manning in order to write this article.
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. I saved your comment because it’s something I can see myself coming back to. I can definitely relate to your story. Child of first generation immigrants. We had to move back to Hong Kong when I was 9 because my dad died
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by techno_tsar 2y ago
I agree. If you have two narratives about your life, and both are true, it is literally pointless to hang onto the negative one. One's self-identity is important. The truth about what one's "narrative in life" is is not
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
Her actions have more to do with her psychology and less to do with her keeping a journal. A lot of people keep journals and it probably has the opposite effect. She sounds emotionally immature.
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
The assertion is not grounded in reality at all. It’s a common myth among people who live in a STEM echo chamber. Personally, I don’t know why people who haven’t even done more than a cursory overview of philosophy feel entitled to make met
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
What part of Plato are you referring to? Republic is honestly written at a 10th grade English reading level. The most esoteric work of Plato is Timaeus, but most people do not see that as a foundational text in Western philosophy.
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
I don’t interpret this discussion as about absolving oneself of responsibility. To be fair, what people spend their weekends doing is none of my business. But it is true that Netflix makes UI decisions that encourage binging. They are not
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
>Search process underway to identify permanent successor. Put me in, coach. As someone deeply entrenched in the realms of AI development and ethical considerations, boasting a robust leadership background, I stand poised to lead OpenAI i
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
The “poor” in capitalist countries have a higher standard of living than medieval kings? In so far as they have electrical heating, access to global food products, information technology, modern medical care, sure, plenty of people have a “
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
That's simply not true. Critical theories do not depend on modal logics, nor is your characterization of modal logics correct. Critical theory and justifications for essentially Marxist ideologies have pretty much nothing to do with Kr
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
This is what the author and some commenters are missing out on: entertainment value. If you're a young adult doing extracurricular debating, you're going to get very very bored doing things by the book and sticking to the narrow c
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
Sounds awful. I’ve done the same once, in college, reaching for a shower curtain. I genuinely thought I was too young to experience issues like that. Could also be a nerve thing. Sometimes my upper back and shoulders compresses a nerve and
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
Rest in peace. He taught at my university (University of Toronto), and he was obviously a rock star in the philosophy department. Still, as an undergrad, I was too concerned with drinking and passing my classes to really give his work serio
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
>Did you do poorly in school? Did you grow up in such a privileged environment that you can't believe that people like me exist? This is not about you. If you really care, I was rasied by a single-mother in relative poverty. But thi
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
This is a seriously cold take that’s infamously descended from Karl Popper’s argument that Marxism is unscientific. It’s obviously the case that Marxism is unscientific under Popper’s criterion of falsifiability for science, but 1) it’s con

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