yters

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by yters 6y ago
Aren't most discussions on HN an ideological debate of one form or another? I think my error is being on the wrong side of the popular view here. Oh well, you cannot please everyone all the time :). In parting I thank you for the gre
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by yters 6y ago
I would agree with that. There is often a practical question motivating comp sci and mathematical discoveries. The difference from Darwin's case is the mathematical conclusions are never wrong, regardless of the underlying motivation
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by yters 6y ago
Yes of course there are cultural influences. But it seems some branches of STEM are fairly immune to the opinions of the surrounding culture. E.g. what can we say is victorian about any mathematical conclusion? Yet Darwin's supposed
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by yters 6y ago
Well, for instance in computer science all the theorems are completely culture free, so it is not impossible. But it is indeed difficult, and to be expected for the most part.
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by yters 6y ago
Strange that Darwin's theory of human evolution was so culture bound. One would think looking to the science would transcend culture to a greater degree.
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by yters 6y ago
These really intense dreams, are you in control of the imagery, or is it something you are experiencing beyond your control? When I have intense dreams and try to control them the fidelity breaks down and I usually wake up.
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by yters 6y ago
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are so to be called, will
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by yters 6y ago
One of the neatest aspects of git that I never see used is delta debugging, where git automatically finds the code that introduced a bug through binary searching the commit history. This requires many small commits, which is tedious.
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by yters 6y ago
I would like to see a good treatment of Lucas like arguments. Most take the form of humans having their own halting problem. But, that objection is completely irrelevant, and it concerns me that objectors do not realize this. Makes me th
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by yters 6y ago
There are no mathematical theories of runaway intelligence growth. On the other hand there are many theorems of fundamental limits to maechanical processes. E.g. NP completeness codiscoverer Leonid Levin also proved what he calls independ
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by yters 6y ago
Good point. Pathos is not with the boring old tech approach :)
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by yters 6y ago
I read a similar article by Scott Alexander, about the fact some psi researchers could generate a reliable signal with their studies, but since he a priori ruled out the possibility of psi, he is convinced there is something wrong with the
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by yters 6y ago
He is handling the integration. The maintenance of the products falls on the ops team. He is doing a great job. I just don't think he will stick around to maintain things once he is done, and we will have two stacks to migrate and m
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by yters 6y ago
My internal devops group has this issue. We had a working system on teamcity and the hashicorp stack and linkerd. Now we are working on a brand new system using gitlab and openshift and istio. Highly redundant with, from my perspective,
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by yters 6y ago
The SRI at Stanford claims psi is very prevalent in the human population, but operates at low levels that require a large number of sensitive experiments to detect. Not saying they are right, but that could explain why these people were pe
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by yters 6y ago
What do you think about intelligent design sort arguments? It is hard to understand how random variation and natural selection can produce the equivalent of a biological operating system. I have also a fair amount of experience with evolu
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by yters 6y ago
Did you ever find some genuine inexplicable phenomena?
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by yters 6y ago
My main problem with dictatorships is mass concentration camps, mass executions, torture, human experimentation, etc. Granted, democracies have done all the above, but diligent activists corrected the system, and the scale never reached tha
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by yters 6y ago
What if psychedelics makes people more susceptible to demon possession?
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by yters 6y ago
I spend long periods of time without ingesting sources of information without getting bored and literally dying. Conversely, if I was constantly bombarded with useful information, I would still go crazy, and that could very well lead to li
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by yters 6y ago
Doesn't death allow the body to achieve maximal entropy? Also, this conversation here has nothing to do with keeping me alive, yet I find it informative. Seems the concept of sematic information is missing something, or a lot.
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by yters 6y ago
It's a very important point the paper makes, which is the disconnect between what is commonly called Shannon information (he actually called it entropy) and what we call information in normal parlance. A channel may transmit a high am
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by yters 6y ago
What about webpages on suicide techniques? Do those count as information?
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by yters 6y ago
There is a possibility that drugs being illegal has resulted in many less addicted and dead drug users. Supposedly, prohibition back in the day was quite successful keeping people from becoming alcoholics.
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by yters 6y ago
Sometimes it is analogous, such as creating a new internal product and trying to get internal customers. The best part is if the effort fails I still keep my job and salary. On the other hand if it succeeds I can get a promotion and raise
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by yters 6y ago
On the other hand, if one is not of the viewpoint labeled as politically correct, then prepare to be ostracized in a very passive aggressive way. Not that I mind much, but passive aggressiveness is annoying. E.g. mentioning anything that
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by yters 6y ago
Text is actually made of a bunch of little pictures. Pictures: check and mate!
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by yters 6y ago
I will follow up my negative take on pg with a positive. He already has a lot of flack for that essay online. I do agree with the general frustration. Philosophy taught in school seems to somehow miss the mark in our scientific discourse
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by yters 6y ago
I agree on the procrustics. I would say the traditionalism is just an accident of the more fundamental problem which is sacrificing truth to the cause. Look at all the crazy things believed by both Nazi and communist regimes, and how main
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by yters 6y ago
This sort of thing struck me reading gulag archipelago. The courts used the class struggle dialectic to make any enemies of Lenin or Stalin criminals, regardless of what they'd actually done. I see this sort of thing all throughout o

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