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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
>And it gets some weird amount of focus seemingly purely due to modern sensibilities in an anti racism drive and to create a sense of belonging. What does it say about people who relentlessly push back on it? It's not like people ar
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
>Equating North Africans who genetically, culturally more interlinked with other Mediterranean people with Sub-Saharan Africans is not exactly right. After all before the Indo-European invasion Europe was almost exclusively settled by mi
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
The blog's name is "a collection of unmitigated pedantry" and the host is known for playing scores of video games including AOE2 itself. The explicitly avowed purpose of the blog is to talk about pop culture products as a gen
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
There are reports of black legionaries in Romain Britain as late as the reign of Septimus Severus (himself not very white if you look at portraits). Black people in the Roman empire isn't that far fetched when you consider Rome had a h
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
This meme must die, how did Kimi 3 even distill Fable or GPT 5.6 within weeks of their being available? Also, how a model identifies itself isn't very telling, many models when asked in Chinese will identify as DeepSeek
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
Premodern states would do this all the time. A ruler would find themselves strapped on cash, debase the (metal content based) currency, people slowly find out, raise their prices, rinse and repeat. Gresham's law ( https://en.
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
It's just Moravec's paradox all over again
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
It's more like WP:BASICMATH. It's like someone showing a huge number isn't prime (proverbially hard to factor, trivial to check) and HN/WP users requesting a reputable source citation for the factor multiplication when a
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
Counterexamples are literally the only way to show a "for all" statement is false. (Non-constructive proofs by contradiction work by showing a counterexample must exist.) Also, 'brute-force' style attacks where one simpl
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
Just a couple days ago I argued with an HN poster who quipped that biology is stamp collecting. A non-negligible number of "mathy" engineer types (not actual mathematicians, those usually understand the complexity of biology and e
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
Meh, you can ask another LLM like GPT5.5 to unwind it into accessible language and it works it out fine. Seems more like a case of token greed from Anthropic
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
"Co-author" lol we both know what that means. Still, if that's true that makes it even sadder. Hope you mature and broaden your horizons at some point instead of engaging in undergrad-style petty field rivalries
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by throwaway676712 2mo ago
So you think biology is just proteomics and use meme expressions like 'meat bag', got it. Not updating my prior on you being unserious
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
The commenter was talking about biology and you are talking about physics. Just because your view of one field stagnates doesn't mean the rest of science doesn't, and your quip about stamp collecting (referring to that sneering qu
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
No
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
A large contingent of the top AI people is French, the Mistral founders worked at Meta and Google before coming back to France. The real issue is capital, French salaries are shit
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
Europeans are risk averse and don't have access to that many deep pocketed risk-taking VCs. On top of that the US is poaching all the talent since most EU firms won't or can't match the salaries offered in the US to AI resear
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
The key part is like other species and human societies do not tolerate impulsive violence in adults . All societies have rules, customs and/or arbitrage methods to regulate violence and the vast majority of people definitionally abi
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
Moving goalposts. Android is Linux (the GNU part of GNU/Linux is trivial to add), people use Linux knowingly or not, and Linux is on the most devices on Earth regardless of whether their users know it or not.
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
IQ is not a unit, it's a z-score. Z-scores can only be compared within the same cohort against which they are computed and given the same test. Given that the cohorts and tests keep evolving over time, it makes no sense to track IQ acr
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
European elites as in a couple media figures and fellow extremely online people that professional internet opinion havers like him have convinced themselves control the world narrative. In reality AC is very common in Europe except in old b
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
It's just a meme but too-online professional opinion-havers memed themselves into taking it seriously. Many such cases unfortunately
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
It's a touchy subject because scientists are afraid of looking like cranks. Just like cognition in other nonhuman species was historically dismissed because no one wants to be seen as someone who think plants talk to each other
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
A necessary condition for the emergence of civilization (in its broadest sense, as in the collectively organized reshaping of one's living environment for one's purposes) is a basic level of trust and cooperation. Humans are not n
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
Is this 2006? Linux is present on literal billions of android phones, servers, supercomputers and other embedded devices. It's the most ubiquitous OS on the planet and it's not even close, even Microsoft contributes to it. The onl
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by throwaway676712 3mo ago
So, literally the ending of Her (2014)?