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You are slightly improving as a person. I did not expect that. To respect your personal growth, I'll retire this account. In the case example that you linked, I find it disappointi…

I wonder whether maths really can be self-taught for more than about two generations. It has been known since the beginning of maths that it must be taught by teachers who understa…

"guy" comes from the ancient Roman names "Gaius" and "Gaia". Note carefully how the one name had two gendered forms since ancient Latin is gendered. As a Lojban speaker, it is incr…

Hi, to be gentle and brief: Lengthening telomeres can provoke cancerous behavior. Therefore we cannot simply lengthen telomeres by giving people more telomerase; we need a more hol…

Do your analysis per-capita, please; as a former gigging musician, I assure you that it doesn't matter how much money is being given to the Big Four by streaming services, it only …

There's evidence against strong Sapir-Whorf in the logical-language subculture. They originally wanted people to learn logic by learning Loglan, but today the speakers of Lojban an…

Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24766148 Unsure how Aeon is doing this; some sort of URL trickery?

It is essential when we look at deep time, or any sufficiently high-dimensional and detailed time series, to remember that we are only looking at a tiny slice. We always like to ta…

Relax already. Count your karma; I'm pretty sure that you're positive in this thread. Please, instead, reflect upon why you've felt the need to post multiple times in this thread w…

It's all a matter of how wrong you want to be, and what information you want to use for deduction. If you see a humanoid approaching you, do you start with "that is a human (99.99%…

I'm not going to argue Python politics with you, but suffice it to say that only a few communities have had such a bad major version upgrade experience. Here are some off the top o…

No, the entire point of critiquing the author's qualifications is to break apart the idea that, because the author is well-spoken, they are therefore correct or even reasonable. If…

I've written Python for over a decade. There are two problems with Python. First, the excellent readability leads directly into hard-to-read code structures. This might seem parado…

Please pay attention. I did not say "cancer or whatever". I said cancer [0], a specific family of diseases characterized by normal cells becoming cancerous [1], a state marked by u…

I'll put to you what I put to Bostrom in my analysis further downthread: What, exactly, do you think we should be doing which we aren't currently doing? Everything he implies that …

Yes: http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-... Sibling comments are completely correct. Graphics simulations often require quasirandom sequences; the particul…

We aren't completely starved yet of the bottom-up approach, but I agree that it's somewhat limited. We can explain choice and free will in bottom-up terms, which complements the ar…

...Are you suggesting sacrificing the old in order to save the old?

This is a very difficult question. We know somewhat his preferences, because he worked on implementing ALGOL 60 [0][1], but unfortunately we are blocked by a bit of incommensurabil…

Ha, hilariously naïve. I still have the "Black Dragon Fallacy" written down as something that deserves a full writeup, but in short: What's the missile made of, and how does Bostro…

We shouldn't be charitable to racism, sexism, delusional religious beliefs, or fascism; they are too harmful to the world. In this case, you're asking me to be charitable to a sexi…

Some of these have aged so perfectly that I only need substitute a few letters: > Python —"the infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 30 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatev…

I'm not exactly being Gettier over here; if y'all have reasons why my counterexamples are wrong, then speak up. Otherwise maybe sit back and consider exactly why it's interesting t…

Biological sex has more than two configurations of sex chromosomes possible, in humans. This isn't rocket science, although it is biology. Also, on your other points: Objective tru…