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Would you put spaces around parentheses? It would look ( to most people ) very strange.

No thanks. As an interesting counter-proposal to wasting time with this... look for older less popular/downloaded/featureful apps written by people for their own education, edifica…

> Also, I imagine it's not easy to train a model to notice these "preconceived notions" and react "appropriately" Then don't. It's easy enough to pay a teacher a salary.

It’s just a blog post. No academic is going to read it as more than a very promising early result. The issue is that lay people read every paper or post as if it were a final procl…

It doesn't really surprise me that's possible. I've landed by accident in a very recognizably DMT state when the stars aligned. It can happen, I just don't generally buy claims of …

It’s not even a well-defined question to ask "what is the best action". To ask that in the context of a fight (not a bounded game like chess) is already to assume the existence of …

Technologists in particular, taken as a group, have a very specific philosophical outlook that they don't tend to interrogate in themselves because it's so pervasive and intrinsic …

No, it is not. First of all the territory isn't fixed. Second of all the existence of a fitness landscape (let alone ocean) doesn't guarantee the existence of unique optima, nor th…

At that point the map is the territory.

As someone who has gotten a lot out of psychedelics therapeutically, you are correct. Psychedelics do not in of themselves grant any insight or wisdom beyond perhaps raw experienti…

> Even in extremis: A fist-fight is a sequence of biomechanical optimization problems, and there's always a "perfect move" at any given moment in time. No, it is not. And no, there…

They can call themselves empiricists all they like, it only takes a few exposures to their number to come away with a firm conviction (or, let's say, updated prior?) that they are …

Yes, specifically when it comes to open-ended research or development, collocation is non-negotiable. There are greater than linear benefits in creativity of approach, agility in a…

A lot of overwrought digital solutions here and not the obvious one: Stop selling online. Sell the tickets at a small number of locations near and including the venue, with cashier…

I don't know what to say other than "I sure hope not".

You go to IKEA!

In practice it does not. If you have had something with FindMy tracking stolen you may know what apartment block it's in, but not what unit. Police won't or can't do anything if it…

> Try buy a TV without smart features. Easy. Just buy a dumb monitor. Why do you even need the TV tuner?

Different people evaluate cost/benefit trade offs differently than you do, and don't speak of the matter with metaphorically charged terminology like "abuse", "prison", "Stockholm …

Forums, perhaps. But small group chats (which I suppose are technically "dark") are the bedrock of the current internet writ large and where most of the content that filters up to …

Depends on 1) where the university is located (CoL), 2) if they went on strike recently to get paid enough to pay rent. You can reliably assume that PhD wages must eventually conve…