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It might be correlated with neurodivergence. But it’s also just correlated with high verbal ability in general, presumably. I find it quite natural to think in complete structured …

> The thought that was comfortable as a vague impression has to become a sentence, and sentences have structure. They have a subject and a predicate. I already think in sentences s…

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In order to get into Zuckerberg’s position in the first place, you need to have a highly competitive personality type. And competitive people want to win at EVERYTHING, all the tim…

Why bother with research into fundamental physics? Is there some deeper truth about the prime numbers hidden in the universe?

>1) It's certainly not unheard of for theories have observational or experimental data appears that sends them back to the drawing board for reworking and do eventually get to a co…

>I’ve always felt there was something really interesting about the idea that someone might internalize the color blue as I see the color red. Yes! In fact, philosophers have spent …

There are some specialized terms here that you're unlikely to encounter outside of an academic philosophy paper, but there's nothing complex about the meanings of any of the indivi…

Every field has jargon and specialized terminology. Do you expect to be able to read any random physics or math paper outside your area of expertise and understand every word?

There are… many people who think that cities are worse off because of cars. Maybe not for the same reasons, but still.

You know that ChatGPT writing is still obvious even when you ask it to change its style, right?

Aliens are not woo. Life is a natural phenomenon that is very clearly possible within the known laws of physics. We know life can naturally occur in the universe, because it happen…

Nothing forgotten about him. His work is foundational to modern algebraic geometry and there’s no mathematician who doesn’t know who he is.

ChatGPT comment?

Video is not the standard medium of communication in academic philosophy. I imagine the GP mentioned youtube because most people are more likely to watch a video than read a paper.…

Biology isn’t magic, but it does do a heck of a lot of amazing things that we don’t understand yet. We haven’t even been able to reproduce abiogenesis.

>One way to understand the legitimacy and value of non-analytic philosophy I don’t think HN is even sold on the value and legitimacy of analytic philosophy. It’s best to get people…

>a human clicked on the “overtake” button Ok. So what are the consequences for this human operator and/or Waymo? Human drivers make mistakes all the time, it’s true. But there are …

I just don’t understand why you would want or need one except for gaming. And there are already a lot of more comfortable and familiar input devices for gaming. Classic solution lo…

Next time you’re confused about why people seem to hate “techbros”, remember that this is the reason.

That heavily depends on the individual developer and the organization in question. In general, the most highly skilled developers who are most capable of doing a thorough code revi…

There’s about as much evidence for the existence of dark matter as we can possibly get, short of actually observing it. In particular we’ve observed some galaxies that seem to have…

I assume that the text is as AI-generated as the picture is.

>money transfer is just a list of rules, transactions, settlement dates and so on. Surely you must appreciate how obnoxious it is when people assume that software development is ju…

I miss the days when professional software development was more akin to this sort of thing, rather than gluing together 20 Javascript frameworks on top of someone else's cloud infr…