Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258
I agree, but I'd also like to defend Jackson on this one. He was brought in after Del Toro dropped out and the movies had been in production for years already. He had no prep time and seemed to exist on little sleep for…
If I really need to remember something I use spaced repetition, Anki being one of the more well known tools for that. Spaced repetition is particularly useful if you need to retain information indefinitely; you can do…
As far as I understand, we do have the physical capability of housing that many people, but a significant number of the homeless are drug addicted, have mental illness, or both, and attempts to provide housing in mass…
Unfortunately, if this is serious, it just makes me lose respect for him. The Enlightenment was the greatest period of human history ever with regards to philosophical and intellectual progress since ancient Greece.
I think the focus on sentience is misplaced. Rather, the value should be rationality, meaning here the ability use one's mind to survive and to live by reason alone. This is valuable to any other rational living…
But at the same time, I think it's doing a really good job of what it's trying to do. Google search is not trying to be a repository for all the world's information. It's just trying to get people to what they're most…
Exactly, so this would be a legitimate reason for us to support biodiversity.
Yes, but if biodiversity loss and changes in the land caused by some action we've taken leads to civilizational collapse, then obviously that's not good for our lives and we should stop doing it. If biodiversity has…
> The good news is that what is good for humans is to maintain biodiversity and what's good for biodiversity is good for animals. Exactly, which is why I'm generally in support of building things in a way that maintains…
This is going to come across as a nitpick on the title, the idea is taken farther in the article and I think it's an important distinction. No, we should not build for wildlife. We should only build for people and what…
Why abolish patents rather than just fix their implementation? Patents are very important. Without them, incentive to bring things to market falls as all your hard work of designing and creating something can just…
I'll give a perspective, although my specific knowledge of math is not very deep at all, I've thought a lot about concepts and abstractions. I think the difference here is that math is much more abstract than physics.…
The only two options are not either that the FDA screens and approves drugs or it being down to individuals (or even these individuals' doctors). We could have private screening and trials companies that the drug…
Do they attack education through funding or through rhetoric? I imagine funding is where they would have more power. I already believed that education should be outside of the purview of the government, but this even…
I would say in the event of experimenting on non-voluntary humans, specifically prisoners, the issue is mostly about the fallibility of the law and setting a dangerous precedent. It's the same reason why the death…
Yes, given that the evidence in support of it being cleaner is not only slim, but has been shown to suffer from extreme methodological errors, the resulting situation is that of cultural or religious genital mutilation.…
It of course matters how far they went in interacting with him, but if all it takes for someone to try to bomb a building is another person online going, "do it, I'll sell you a bomb", they should probably not be free…
Regarding weather and showering, I think the person is thinking more about the times of year when it is 100 degrees F outside and 60% humidity for 1/3 of the year.
If you literally mean in a checking account, I'm curious what your reasoning is for keeping seven figures in liquid assets. Aren't you just losing money to inflation?
I would argue that the original original sin is the fact that the government would bail out the banks writing these mortgages. The fact that the banks knew this encourages them to do take reckless actions in the name of…
For what reason are we considering these platforms "conduits of free speech"? They are simply private services, private property. In the same way you can legally remove people from your home that you don't want in…
If the first amendment and your concept of freedom of speech don't line up, then one or the other need to change I would think. If a right is not recognized by others/the government, then it effectively doesn't exist.…
> This is a distinction without a difference. I disagree, there is an extreme difference there. Freedom of speech is specifically in regards to the government giving you the negative right of being able to say whatever…
I wouldn't say no signal at all. If I have data that they are the best doctor from my options and are obese, yeah totally, I'll go for them. But if I just see a lineup of doctors and all else is equal, I'm definitely…
Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258
I agree, but I'd also like to defend Jackson on this one. He was brought in after Del Toro dropped out and the movies had been in production for years already. He had no prep time and seemed to exist on little sleep for…
If I really need to remember something I use spaced repetition, Anki being one of the more well known tools for that. Spaced repetition is particularly useful if you need to retain information indefinitely; you can do…
As far as I understand, we do have the physical capability of housing that many people, but a significant number of the homeless are drug addicted, have mental illness, or both, and attempts to provide housing in mass…
Unfortunately, if this is serious, it just makes me lose respect for him. The Enlightenment was the greatest period of human history ever with regards to philosophical and intellectual progress since ancient Greece.
I think the focus on sentience is misplaced. Rather, the value should be rationality, meaning here the ability use one's mind to survive and to live by reason alone. This is valuable to any other rational living…
But at the same time, I think it's doing a really good job of what it's trying to do. Google search is not trying to be a repository for all the world's information. It's just trying to get people to what they're most…
Exactly, so this would be a legitimate reason for us to support biodiversity.
Yes, but if biodiversity loss and changes in the land caused by some action we've taken leads to civilizational collapse, then obviously that's not good for our lives and we should stop doing it. If biodiversity has…
> The good news is that what is good for humans is to maintain biodiversity and what's good for biodiversity is good for animals. Exactly, which is why I'm generally in support of building things in a way that maintains…
This is going to come across as a nitpick on the title, the idea is taken farther in the article and I think it's an important distinction. No, we should not build for wildlife. We should only build for people and what…
Why abolish patents rather than just fix their implementation? Patents are very important. Without them, incentive to bring things to market falls as all your hard work of designing and creating something can just…
I'll give a perspective, although my specific knowledge of math is not very deep at all, I've thought a lot about concepts and abstractions. I think the difference here is that math is much more abstract than physics.…
The only two options are not either that the FDA screens and approves drugs or it being down to individuals (or even these individuals' doctors). We could have private screening and trials companies that the drug…
Do they attack education through funding or through rhetoric? I imagine funding is where they would have more power. I already believed that education should be outside of the purview of the government, but this even…
I would say in the event of experimenting on non-voluntary humans, specifically prisoners, the issue is mostly about the fallibility of the law and setting a dangerous precedent. It's the same reason why the death…
Yes, given that the evidence in support of it being cleaner is not only slim, but has been shown to suffer from extreme methodological errors, the resulting situation is that of cultural or religious genital mutilation.…
It of course matters how far they went in interacting with him, but if all it takes for someone to try to bomb a building is another person online going, "do it, I'll sell you a bomb", they should probably not be free…
Regarding weather and showering, I think the person is thinking more about the times of year when it is 100 degrees F outside and 60% humidity for 1/3 of the year.
If you literally mean in a checking account, I'm curious what your reasoning is for keeping seven figures in liquid assets. Aren't you just losing money to inflation?
I would argue that the original original sin is the fact that the government would bail out the banks writing these mortgages. The fact that the banks knew this encourages them to do take reckless actions in the name of…
For what reason are we considering these platforms "conduits of free speech"? They are simply private services, private property. In the same way you can legally remove people from your home that you don't want in…
If the first amendment and your concept of freedom of speech don't line up, then one or the other need to change I would think. If a right is not recognized by others/the government, then it effectively doesn't exist.…
> This is a distinction without a difference. I disagree, there is an extreme difference there. Freedom of speech is specifically in regards to the government giving you the negative right of being able to say whatever…
I wouldn't say no signal at all. If I have data that they are the best doctor from my options and are obese, yeah totally, I'll go for them. But if I just see a lineup of doctors and all else is equal, I'm definitely…