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by ummwhat 4y ago
Maybe the trick is to just teach it young. I first learned about the towers of Hanoi when I was about 14. Blew my mind. It was like circular reasoning that worked somehow. Unlike a lot of people, I don't have this fear/anxiety abo
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by ummwhat 4y ago
You're biased by a priori knowing you were about to read computer generated text. I hereby invoke the right to a fair and public Turing test.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Race to the bottom tax incentives are the first wrung on the ladder to bootstrapping a nice place with robust investments. Provided the benefits aren't squandered.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I guess she's hit a new low.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Consistently not being able to run code that was just fine 2 years ago. Consistently having "quality assurance checks" that somehow always entail paying more rent to Apple.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I'm personally hoping during the subway tunnel dig they uncover a Byzantine era svbway station already built. Sure it would completely upend our understanding of history and technology of the era, but it would also be quite the useful
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by ummwhat 4y ago
90% of work used to be farming. Today 10% of people are farmers. The next big thing was factory work. At first looms meant more textiles, not less workers. But eventually we hit the transition point where there's actually less factory
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Ya stupid sons of bitches, you automated everyone else out of a job and then you gone done it to yourselves too!
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I'll take a stab at it. Imagine you sit at your desk all day answering emails. Emails come in, responses go out. Except when you step back from the desk, it's just a black void. Information from your eyes? That's just an emai
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by ummwhat 4y ago
A while back I went on a google maps street view tour of a place I lived until I was 9 but hadn't been to in well over a decade. I wasn't sure what to attribute to the tenuous nature of my ancient memories versus what things had a
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Your going to hate my answer because it makes the problem worse. For about two weeks I was convinced my new roommate was a hallucination and I'd finally snapped. There were a number of uncanny cases where he knew the same incredibly ob
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I like how the Manchu word for horse kind of looks like a horse.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
In the maximal case where bots are indistinguishable from humans, by definition the odds of failing the Turing test are 50/50. A coin flip per comment. Yeah, I can put up with that. Realistically, I don't think I will ever start r
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I'm ok with filtering humans who fail the Turing test.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
This sounds scarily similar to descriptions of brains dealing with incomplete information. Good thing brains aren't keen on rationalizing prior beliefs in the face of new evidence or believing spurious things. Oh. Oh dear.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I learned it from the Stanford Neuroscience lectures available on YouTube. The ones with Dr. Spolansky. I'm not sure how to discern the subtle difference between "a brain liable to conflate sex and violence" with "violen
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by ummwhat 4y ago
This assumes a normative value of truth being good. You could be ambivalent on the truthfulness of adults, accepting early on that everyone lies some fraction of the time and it's ok for you to do it too. The badness of lying is a soci
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by ummwhat 4y ago
There's two facets of sexual behaviour that are unique to humans. The first is we're the only species that sometimes gets aroused on violence or gets violent on arousal. This is an accident of neurology, both feelings a processed
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Even that assumes a fair bit of background knowledge. At that age it would be perfectly logical to suppose that "making a baby" means assembling all the parts together like Ikea furniture.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
He's not missing the link. The link is the empty string.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
What's the point in life if you don't get to work on what you find interesting. Those Yaks ain't going to shave themselves you know.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Paul Graham's submarine essay probably.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
As far as I know, I currently hold the world record score at knife fairy. The game of knife fairy is very simple. You must sneak into your roommates room late at night and slip a knife under their pillow. My current score is 1, so it should
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by ummwhat 4y ago
Hold up. Downed a plane is different from grounded a plane. I don't know the Belarusian case, but either you misused the word or they are very different.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
You've demonstrated that you've fallen for the popular misconception of Malthusian theory. It's not that food is "depleted at the margin" as in people starve until death rates go up. What actually happens at the mar
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I forget exactly when this happened or which data set it's in, but at some point sanitation and medicine got good enough that cities aren't a population sink per se. They can have around equilibrium birth rates.
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by ummwhat 4y ago
"'just enjoy it and don't think' is for those who don't understand what a joy it is to think." If you're the type of person enjoying a game that is like work but without productivity, "fun" and &
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by ummwhat 4y ago
My pet theory is cities are malthusian. Contrary to popular belief, Malthus didn't predict runaway population growth. What he actually predicted (and was right for most of human history), is that any gains in productivity would be eate
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by ummwhat 4y ago
I thought this looked familiar so I checked my collection of 2 player abstracts and sure enough I own an octagonal variant called "pathagon". Haven't played it yet. Hard to find people interested in this genre (except for che
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by ummwhat 4y ago
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