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A lot of comments here seem to be overlooking the point of the article. That brains predict their sensory inputs isn't new. What seems to be is that a NN where correct predictions …

Did they? I thought slaves were mostly used in the ancient world, the undeveloped world, and for non-mechanized agriculture. None of which is really building the modern world, beyo…

You don't want to live in a city with poor people because it's cruel to have rich and poor living near each other? It kind of is because relative poverty makes people feel worse, b…

You want to replace highest bidder wins with first in first served? Is that really better? How? This sounds like naive market manipulation, which ends up being whack-a-mole or just…

No matter how many new languages we invent, this problem of surprise sub-languages being parsed from strings never goes away. It's almost as if program code should be somehow impos…

That common problem is the arbitrary classification of false narratives as good and false facts (fake news) as bad. The narrative based journalists can act smug for not directly ly…

I suspect a 2nd factor is competitive vs well-defined. CEO for example is people-oriented but 70% male. Maybe because it's also competitive.

Though it does seem obvious, it's pretty dangerous to go looking for patterns in the data. More scientific to define the criteria before knowing the results so you can have a hypot…

From TFA: "the people vs things dimension is a continuous scale, but in our analyses we only used categories that are predominantly one or the other. All things-oriented jobs have …

100 years later, we're rediscovering what we already knew. Common story in social sciences. Coming up next, Jews are smarter than blacks. Oh no, not yet! It's still taboo to even t…

Is that really why eugenics is demonized? That the human race (not any living individuals) is giving up its freedom to some sort of fallible authority? I guess, like censorship, pe…

Excuse me. It was this "a society allowing people to suffer from treatable illnesses is completely unnecessary and cruel considering that providing free care to everyone is somethi…

Its distributedness is still worth something even if only a small number of people control most of it. If they go rogue or get stopped by the government, others can take over. That…

Do you have a real concern with eugenics or is it just because your culture demonizes it? We already have little bits of eugenics baked into law and culture. Why not a little bit m…

Seems like he wasn't a "lowly country rector" since he had a masters degree from Cambridge, was a member of the Royal Society and had many other scientific accomplishments. The rec…

Sure, there's balance. The idea that it was working fine so why change it leads to gigantic bloated software that nobody can really understand. As an anecdote. I developed a produc…

> The amazing thing is 'which' was working perfectly fine for everyone. 'everyone' = existing users. New users are generally harmed by redundancy and mess.

It's becoming like USB version names. If you're familiar with them from working with them all regularly, you can just remember what name means what. But for newcomers, it's a massi…

You mean gold?

Really? Can you point to any hype from the last, say, 5 years that even hints at thinly spread mining or ownership? Individuals were mining on their PC in its first couple of years…

I guess you're also not OK with all of society bearing the cost of the 10% or whatever that doesn't work hard enough to get a job and stay off social welfare? Disadvantaged people …

That's false. America has probably the most advanced healthcare in the world. Almost every new treatment is invented and made available there. Other countries don't provide that cu…

People are so prissy about the unicode representation of their name while forgetting that even that is a machine-only representation made to approximate the technical limitations o…

They might have jumped the gun since new passports can't have accents but older ones might.