The very consumerism that has made it materially wealthy has fucked up its citizens' priorities. Indeed, because the wealth differential over the last 30 years is as steep as it is - and because people are generally…
Not really. You can be honest about something working and others can disagree with your assessment.
I'd have to look deeper into his views, but I've already come across what seem like similar claims that try to attribute computation to the laws of physics or to matter in general or whatever. However, these rest on…
Whatever one might say about method, epistemically speaking, the aesthetic is prior to the mathematical. The mathematical is found in the analysis of the beautiful.
> I love how artistic taste can be partially derived from math [...] the math itself isn't sufficient to develop artistic taste Strictly speaking, it isn't "math" as math is the science of quantity and structure, both…
And if we're talking Ukraine, we have to talk Poland as it has been facilitating 90% of all Western military equipment, humanitarian aid, and crucial trade deliveries into the country. Poland is, of course,…
> Science can't disprove religion. That depends on which religion, doesn't it. The categorical claim doesn't make any sense, because the general notion of "religion" doesn't entail anything that is inherently at odds…
Not really. AI isn't intelligent by any stretch. To make that claims requires ignorance of what constitutes "intelligence", especially the most essential element of intelligence, viz., intensionality. LLMs or expert…
Human beings are rational animals as such, but our exercise of that rationality can be quite weak and subject to character flaws and bad habits, and requires cultivation to refine, purify, and actualize. Of course, we…
> AI can do a looot of things AI is not a real thing or a natural kind but a perspective. Whether something qualifies as "AI" or not cannot be decided by the objective features of the thing. Ergo, it can be defined at…
That's a strange way to phrase things. It's a bit like saying that the Church recognizes the licitness of murder under a lawful ceiling, but that this ceiling just happens to be 0 per year. Interest as such is…
This is a classic case for one time ZKPs. Sure, you can't get around attestation, but the party that needs to verify that you meet age criteria doesn't need to know your age or other private information. I presume…
That depends. Some schools actually cap the number of students permitted to continue. They fail a certain fixed number or percentage of students below a threshold, even if the raw score is good.
> All religion is based on superstitious believes Quite the question-begging claim. > or do you have counter examples Begin with the existence of God as self-subsisting being. This can be be shown to be a metaphysical…
It requires discernment, to be sure. The Principle of Double Effect[0] is essential in such cases, because it helps determine when cooperation with evil is remote or proximate, and when such cooperation with evil is…
> You really think if they didn't work there, someone else wouldn't? Putting Meta aside as I do not have a sufficiently deep view of the total scope of work at Meta and its relation to its misdeeds, I never understood…
Except Zionism is not religious. It is a modern secular nationalist ideology rooted in ethnicity, shared ancestry, history, culture, and language. Indeed, socialism dominated Zionism for a long time. Many if not most…
Education today is broken in general. Few people have a clue about what education is actually for. How can you possibly educate students well if you don't know the destination? And how can you know the destination if…
> if a dev's only real skill was "write code" that they were severely limited compared to people who had strong domain knowledge and had "write code". Indeed. If we peel back the rationalizations, it is patently obvious…
> slows down innovation A return to the classical understanding of the person, society, and the common good is indispensable.
I doubt it was intentional, but in general, I am not impressed by that and don't find any value in that. Same with Hollywood's depiction of women knocking out guys twice their size. Unrealistic, ridiculous, and harmful.
> We're quickly getting to a point where all parenting is delegated to people and institutions that have nothing to do with raising children. This is just the logical conclusion of consumerism. Consumerism produces…
As the saying goes, experience keeps an expensive school, but humanity will learn in no other. The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk. It is indeed interesting to observe how attitudes in tech seem to be changing,…
Except it's not really conservative. What often gets called "conservatism" is very much just a variation of some form of liberalism. (Republicans in the US aren't conservative either, not in any meaningful sense.)…
This is where I would note that tastes can be deformed. It is possible, for various reasons, to acquire bad tastes (here, childhood nostalgia).
The very consumerism that has made it materially wealthy has fucked up its citizens' priorities. Indeed, because the wealth differential over the last 30 years is as steep as it is - and because people are generally…
Not really. You can be honest about something working and others can disagree with your assessment.
I'd have to look deeper into his views, but I've already come across what seem like similar claims that try to attribute computation to the laws of physics or to matter in general or whatever. However, these rest on…
Whatever one might say about method, epistemically speaking, the aesthetic is prior to the mathematical. The mathematical is found in the analysis of the beautiful.
> I love how artistic taste can be partially derived from math [...] the math itself isn't sufficient to develop artistic taste Strictly speaking, it isn't "math" as math is the science of quantity and structure, both…
And if we're talking Ukraine, we have to talk Poland as it has been facilitating 90% of all Western military equipment, humanitarian aid, and crucial trade deliveries into the country. Poland is, of course,…
> Science can't disprove religion. That depends on which religion, doesn't it. The categorical claim doesn't make any sense, because the general notion of "religion" doesn't entail anything that is inherently at odds…
Not really. AI isn't intelligent by any stretch. To make that claims requires ignorance of what constitutes "intelligence", especially the most essential element of intelligence, viz., intensionality. LLMs or expert…
Human beings are rational animals as such, but our exercise of that rationality can be quite weak and subject to character flaws and bad habits, and requires cultivation to refine, purify, and actualize. Of course, we…
> AI can do a looot of things AI is not a real thing or a natural kind but a perspective. Whether something qualifies as "AI" or not cannot be decided by the objective features of the thing. Ergo, it can be defined at…
That's a strange way to phrase things. It's a bit like saying that the Church recognizes the licitness of murder under a lawful ceiling, but that this ceiling just happens to be 0 per year. Interest as such is…
This is a classic case for one time ZKPs. Sure, you can't get around attestation, but the party that needs to verify that you meet age criteria doesn't need to know your age or other private information. I presume…
That depends. Some schools actually cap the number of students permitted to continue. They fail a certain fixed number or percentage of students below a threshold, even if the raw score is good.
> All religion is based on superstitious believes Quite the question-begging claim. > or do you have counter examples Begin with the existence of God as self-subsisting being. This can be be shown to be a metaphysical…
It requires discernment, to be sure. The Principle of Double Effect[0] is essential in such cases, because it helps determine when cooperation with evil is remote or proximate, and when such cooperation with evil is…
> You really think if they didn't work there, someone else wouldn't? Putting Meta aside as I do not have a sufficiently deep view of the total scope of work at Meta and its relation to its misdeeds, I never understood…
Except Zionism is not religious. It is a modern secular nationalist ideology rooted in ethnicity, shared ancestry, history, culture, and language. Indeed, socialism dominated Zionism for a long time. Many if not most…
Education today is broken in general. Few people have a clue about what education is actually for. How can you possibly educate students well if you don't know the destination? And how can you know the destination if…
> if a dev's only real skill was "write code" that they were severely limited compared to people who had strong domain knowledge and had "write code". Indeed. If we peel back the rationalizations, it is patently obvious…
> slows down innovation A return to the classical understanding of the person, society, and the common good is indispensable.
I doubt it was intentional, but in general, I am not impressed by that and don't find any value in that. Same with Hollywood's depiction of women knocking out guys twice their size. Unrealistic, ridiculous, and harmful.
> We're quickly getting to a point where all parenting is delegated to people and institutions that have nothing to do with raising children. This is just the logical conclusion of consumerism. Consumerism produces…
As the saying goes, experience keeps an expensive school, but humanity will learn in no other. The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk. It is indeed interesting to observe how attitudes in tech seem to be changing,…
Except it's not really conservative. What often gets called "conservatism" is very much just a variation of some form of liberalism. (Republicans in the US aren't conservative either, not in any meaningful sense.)…
This is where I would note that tastes can be deformed. It is possible, for various reasons, to acquire bad tastes (here, childhood nostalgia).