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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by swiftcoder »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #212
swiftcoder wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't think his comment is "an assumption put forward for the purposes of discussion"? That seems a fairly low and generic bar for a comment to reach...

I don’t think the parent meant that interpretation, as that would also apply to the output of sufficient chimpanzees bashing keyboard and LLMs too… Which would be practically meaningless without some attached non-zero credibility.

I mean, we're all chimpanzees bashing keyboards around here, at least till proven otherwise

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by peterfirefly »

codr7 wrote: post #121
daedrdev wrote: post #19

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France has a massive welfare state and pension system (which is causing a crisis as they cant afford it in the long run). People probably are getting 28x more from the government than before those existed.

I'm pretty sure they're paying for it though.

Yes, but they are mostly letting younger people pay for it. Younger people who are unlikely to receive similar pensions at such an early age.

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by codr7 »

peterfirefly wrote: post #222
codr7 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure they're paying for it though.

Yes, but they are mostly letting younger people pay for it. Younger people who are unlikely to receive similar pensions at such an early age.

True, I have yet to witness a generation who get what they were promised.

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by MichaelZuo »

swiftcoder wrote: post #221
MichaelZuo wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think the parent meant that interpretation, as that would also apply to the output of sufficient chimpanzees bashing keyboard and LLMs too… Which would be practically meaningless without some attached non-zero credibility.

I mean, we're all chimpanzees bashing keyboards around here, at least till proven otherwise

Yeah, hence why I asked… otherwise anyone on HN, including me, could say their opinions are hypotheses too, to be taken just as seriously as the parent’s.

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by MichaelZuo »

andrewflnr wrote: post #216
swiftcoder wrote: post #201

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You don't think his comment is "an assumption put forward for the purposes of discussion"? That seems a fairly low and generic bar for a comment to reach...

Truthfully, I hold those ideas a little more confidently than purely "for the purposes of discussion", but I suspect you at least understand that the real-world usage of "hypothesis" is quite broad. I'm kind of tickled at the idea that a "hypothesis" is some hyper-specific thing with trappings of "credibility", and that anything less would be an insult, like we're not all just a bunch of nerds arguing on the internet…

Still seems closer to noise/LLM ravings than substance.

Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by andrewflnr »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #225
andrewflnr wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Truthfully, I hold those ideas a little more confidently than purely "for the purposes of discussion", but I suspect you at least understand that the real-world usage of "hypothesis" is quite broad. I'm kind of tickled at the idea that a "hypothesis" is some hyper-specific thing with trappings of "credibility", and that anything less would be an insult, like we're not all just a bunch of nerds arguing on the internet…

Still seems closer to noise/LLM ravings than substance. Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?

I did, comprehensively, but you're apparently not smart enough to understand.

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by timewizard »

karparov wrote: post #218
timewizard wrote: post #168

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It seems like you want a diversity /of/ teams, not specifically /in/ teams, as human competition is the best known way to advance the scope of the frame in general.

Hm not sure. Workplaces which have multiple teams compete on the same thing tend to have quite toxic cultures.

This site embodies monopolistic thinking.

No, you'd want the teams in different companies, so a diversity of companies as well.

The Google corporate model is bad for society and labor.

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by MichaelZuo »

andrewflnr wrote: post #226
MichaelZuo wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still seems closer to noise/LLM ravings than substance. Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?

I did, comprehensively, but you're apparently not smart enough to understand.

Are those who downvoted enough to grey your comment out… not “smart enough” either?

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by andrewflnr »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #224
swiftcoder wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, we're all chimpanzees bashing keyboards around here, at least till proven otherwise

Yeah, hence why I asked… otherwise anyone on HN, including me, could say their opinions are hypotheses too, to be taken just as seriously as the parent’s.

You still don't know what a hypothesis is, after I linked the dictionary definition.

Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Post by patcon »

bwfan123 wrote: post #188
patcon wrote: post #107

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I always think of it as learning to see hidden dimensions, and once seen, investigate deeper or just imagine transformations of that dimension -- extrapolation, inversion, etc. Once found, you can drag around these hidden dimensions from one domain or one instance to the next. Like sometimes I seem to be in alignment with someone, but things feel off. I once realized the "off" feeling was because I was running toward…

very nicely articulated.. so, you are suggesting to be "sensitive" to "feelings" - such the one of being "off" - since feelings primarily provoke thought. Another feeling that i have is one of "inconsistency" - again it feels like something is off, and you are suggesting to pursue this feeling rather than to brush it aside.

aw hey thanks. haha yeah, "feelings" are maybe just the subjective experience of a mind interpreting high-dimensional data. so I guess I'm arguing for using "feelings" as a dowsing rod for a truer dimension hidden beneath, to which the feeling is drawing your attention :)
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