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> what we're talking about here is a protocol for performing eugenics... No. What we're talking about is if it's ethical to essentially create a race of monster-people by altering …

Harder to track down the person. Unless the hotel is logging every packet on its network and paying to archive the TBs of encrypted video streaming data that goes through every day…

The threat to the perpetrator -- of 90 days prison time and a permanent criminal record of being a mischief-maker -- prevents people from pulling the alarm. Same way sheepdogs herd…

> We’re so focused on grades because they are a believed to be an important part of the credentialing process for getting jobs. Various colleges (ex: Reed, Brown) in the U.S. don't…

> How are they protected against that, exactly? You can literally walk up to any fire emergency button on any wall Cameras near fire alarms and it's a crime in the U.S. to give a f…

> At least one point of those ethicists is to stop people who are naive from doing things with permanent consequences without first checking to see what those consequences would be…

Sorry I edited out all the discussions about WW2. Assumed this was a dead thread and it was safe if I did it quickly. I'll edit this and address them here... please forgive me. Edi…

Anonymity is the forgiveness of the internet machine. > The broader question is how any of us – but especially children and young people – can become comfortable with our own freed…

Agree with everything you said. I also did the same thing basically, undergrad CS and grad math classes. The author basically did all of undergrad math and physics, and now apparen…

If you go through for the "great books" approach, just be aware that it's not the same curriculum as a major in mathematics: > Mathematics is one of the many subjects studied in th…

> Who is this? Brilliantly gifted high school student it turns out. > https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2023/02/21/diego-vera-mit-c... > Interviewer: Tell me a bit about your life s…

> but the claim made by several people in that thread (at least one who said they are a hiring manager) that Databricks has recently hired multiple people who were laid off is veri…