SnazzyJeff
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Well, the part that was claimed. "The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak beginning around ages 2 to 3, he explained. After age 5, the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut." The person…
if only this site could manage something more complicated than the dialectic of "not retarded enough for y-combinator" and "too retarded for y-ycombinator" one day, y-combinator will give a shit about disability. There…
> Power drives consensus. Power is able to manipulate consensus, but ultimately it exists despite consensus. Its existence is relative by definition. > Capitalism has uses other than consensus as well. False > Ah. I…
> But no matter how well the gene therapy works, the researchers recognize that Aissam may never be able to understand or speak a language, Dr. Germiller said. The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak…
> It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development. You're responding to a quote that is trivially false with a quick google. Ok.
> Worth keeping in mind that Helen Keller didn't loose her hearing (and sight) until an illness at 19 months old. While this is in fact an important sample, this doesn't imply much about how humans develop after 19…
Hellen Keller never developed the skill to listen to spoken language. I agree with you fwiw, but your argument needs to acknowledge the above statement.
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> Consensus would exist due to the power of the state regardless of the economic system. What does this mean? Genuinely confused what you think a state is in the modern age if not the infrastructure necessary to support…
Do you have a point? Humans are self-evidently self-interested. You don't need to justify it.
> Prisoner's dilemma This falls apart pretty rapidly when you move beyond one person—groups of people don't tend to act collectively rationally. Hell, the entire reason "capitalism" is a thing at all is it provides some…
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> By now, everyone knows that serverless doesn't actually mean without servers; it just means using someone else's servers. What? Is this some kind of confusing reference to lambda and competing providers? As far as I…
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Knowing what exploits are like in the private/state sector that seems like a no-brainer if your threat model includes a well-funded attacker.
IMO a chatbot is sufficient to demonstrate AGI. I think the chinese room problem is as good as anything. Of course, there isn't much money in teaching a bot that only knows english chinese. EDIT, Wikipedia page for…
> Placing a skull on a bookshelf is not conducive to this public veneration. Veneration is enormously culturally subjective. There are many, many, many cultures that would have seen placing the skull of an ancestor in a…
That may be true, but I'm guessing you're not going to improve the situation without better wages. People likely don't get into this field in order to pursue a passion for tissue theft.
> All of these arguments seem totally compatible with anarchism, especially the type of modernism-questioning anarchism that would stem from anthropology. Given that virtually all political theories stem from the…