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I don't exactly disagree, but I don't think your analogies work. Machines can lift more weight than humans, but we all encounter situations where strength is useful and machines ar…

I reckon there's an important difference between a challenge being frustrating because it's hard, and a challenge being frustrating because there's no interesting way to approach i…

Does this mean the inertia only applies if you remove your finger at the end of the movement, and so non-flicky movements are interpreted normally, with the cursor stopping as soon…

My first reaction was that it was ridiculous, or at least hysterically framed. But the claim is that the whole point of the bubble colour thing, from Apple's perspective, is to tak…

"Belt and braces" (UK) vs. "belt and suspenders" (US). I'm pretty sure the phrases have the same meaning, they just use a different word to refer to the thing that holds pants|trou…

I think I agree, but I hedged because I thought one could argue that it's not 'cheating' in the same way as, say, sneaking into the scorer's shed and writing in an extra goal would…

Yeah I totally agree. Perhaps pedantically, though, I'd say this isn't a counterexample to 'playing to win': > During swim training, if our coach wants to setup a relay race, he’ll…

I'm reading a book at the moment ( https://academic.oup.com/book/32137 ) in which the author makes a point of the distinction between "the goals of a game and our purpose in playin…

I understand this attitude, but I think the line between tactical progress and (the bad kind of) exploiting the rules can get very fuzzy. It's arguably more interesting to do whate…

I think that's too strong. The underarm ball was a case of playing within the rules, but against most people's notion of fair play. The hand of god would fit most people's definiti…

There's definitely an argument for just exploiting edge cases in the rules as hard as you can, seeing how the game evolves from there, and relying on the governing body to fix it i…

Underarm bowling was nothing new, but I reckon some had never even thought about literally just rolling the thing.

In context, it was a bit like taking advantage of a videogame exploit that others variously hadn't discovered, thought was forbidden, or assumed would not be used by tacit agreemen…

The Aussies were simply adhering to the TLC-Sirlin credo.

If you can't actually say explicitly what your argument is, that is a very strong signal that you don't know what you're talking about and are likely to be wrong. If you claim you …

I'm not in the US, so maybe things are very different here, but I still wonder if the absolutist advice is helpful in situations like this: One night, while walking, I was stopped …

"There is nothing worse than very highly intellectual people thinking they are entitled to make decisions for the rest of us." Very powerful people are making decisions for the res…

> or why the narrative here is all about this being payback The 'narrative' is focused on the corruption because government corruption is a big deal! Even when it's not truly surpr…

Is your primary goal to punish/incentivise the teacher, or to accurately determine how smart the children are? If the latter, you would ignore the 'cheated' answers and judge them …

Yeah it seems harmless in isolation, but I'm pretty sure that lacking a norm against it it is one of the ways you end up with Reddit. And because HN doesn't have an actual anti-hum…

> Before you did this, was literally every hour of your waking time spend thinking about LLMs? They said "writing and thinking without LLMs", not "not thinking about LLMs". I think…

> If the thing can solve complex math problems and at the same time be so dumb as to fall for "social engineering", then that means that it is not "smartness" or "reasoning" that i…

Depends what you mean by 'recently', but for me they are much worse than they were several years ago. There was a period when people were complaining and I didn't really see why, b…

I blocked it because I found it was in the sour spot of being good enough to be tempting to rely on, but bad enough to be risky to rely on. When the search results are bad, usually…

> So no, ”very often works on depression” is not a characterization I would use. I'm (genuinely) sorry about your friend, and I don't deny that it's worth sharing these anecdotes. …