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  • If "death of the author" applied to every facet of life and not just writing and art, what's the weirdest implication you can think of that would come from it?

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  • if Beethoven had been a Nazi, it wouldn’t take away from his work.

    It would have made him more impressive in my eyes, as he would have had to have been able to see the future, or time travel!

  • Gents, where do you get your clothes?

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  • New clothes, often Uniqlo is my first stop. But more and more I go to Vinted and Charity stores for anything that isn't sportswear.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • There was a period in my life when I had to remind people frequently that NoSQL stood for 'not only SQL'.

  • UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration

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  • Cowardly from Keir’s Labour

    That's seems to be a theme. I thought I would be underwhelmed by this government, but at least thankful for a period of sensible leadership who understood the benefit of a strong public sector.

    Actually I'm more than disappointed. Cowardice is their watchword. Cowardly hiding from the right wing media, from US authoritarianism, from market fundamentalists. We'll get Reform next at this rate, because we'll be encouraged to give up by astroturfers who will similarly be whipping the rarely engaged into a frenzy.

  • How do we rule out wrong answers?

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  • This is a fairly good summary of my argument against why we are in a simulation.

  • How do we rule out wrong answers?

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  • I'm certain (indeed more certain than I likely should be, which may be meta-meta memory?!) that what you say that the end is the case. There's almost certainly a bias towards error correction over direct recall. Certainly my experience is of testing wrong answers in my head before alighting on the right one.

    That implies a set up more like an adversarial neural network (I'm not saying this is actually how it is, just trying to draw an analogy from something I understand), as opposed to a function in code. But that seems like a bit of a waste, but also means that two (or more) distinct processes could be working on the same task?

  • How do we rule out wrong answers?

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  • That's very helpful thank you. I read the abstract of the paper, I think it might take me a couple of goes to really grok it. I think it's testing why are more likely to correct a wrong answer given on a test (in a subsequent test), if they are enthusiastically told it's right the first time. This is compared to if they are told that they might be wrong!

    Given it's the first time I've heard of this, I'm finding even the premise a challenge! 'Hypercorrection' apparently, for anyone not going to the paper.

    What I've read of the article, meta memory seems to be more about our ability to judge how well we know something, rather than evaluate if our recall is correct.

    I say 'rather'.... The concepts are obviously (or maybe not obviously!) related, but that sounds like assigning a score to the information we possess. While my original question was around evaluating knowledge as incorrect after recall.

    That's why the engine analogy doesn't quite work for me. It's not one answer, it's two! So if it is an engine, it's one that drives the car both forwards and backwards initially, and then switches off the one it doesn't need.

    I'm definitely going to read more into these concepts though. Thanks again for the links!

  • 'I am not going to apologize': Bishop who confronted Trump speaks out

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  • I'm hardly a biblical scholar, but that interpretation doesn't feel like it fits with the rest of the passage...

    38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

    It says turn them the other cheek also, after 'do not resist'. So it's about offering even to the worst, rather than resisting.

  • Despite our differences in social upbringing, nationality, language, religion, etc... We all agree in 1 thing, that Die Hard is a Christmas Movie, right?

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  • Jumping on here, because this is often overlooked. If you didn't know the title of the film, and someone played the first 20 mins to you you'd expect a hallmark film. Going to see the estranged wife, trying to repair a relationship, the awkwardness at the Christmas party.

    The whole thing subverts Christmas movie tropes. It's not just an action movie set at Christmas. It's a Christmas movie which gets hijacked.

    Even the final scene plays on the parody with the 'snow' falling, the comedy comeuppance for the nuisance bad guy, and then they kiss and drive off as 'let it snow' plays.

  • Ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin’s Ukraine invasion dies in fall from building in St Petersburg

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  • There's another issue too. In perfect conditions, self-driving cars are a lot safer, but they aren't 100% safe. So when an incident occurs it's newsworthy. (In the same way that we hear about plane crashes anywhere in the world, but won't necessarily hear about someone getting run over in the next city).

    My hypothesis is that adoption would be throttled in even near perfect conditions. Just because we've internalised the risks of driving, but haven't for the risks of being driven by a computer.

  • Realistically... How fucked is the US?

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  • All that, and you may have left out the most damaging of all.. Trump will likely pull the US out of Copenhagen, leaving no chance of limiting temps below 2C let alone getting anywhere near 1.5C. The excess deaths from this will likely dwarf COVID.

  • Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave

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  • I've only watched the first of these, but having done so, I'm not sure I want to bother with the second. The guy in the first video repeated the (likely true) claim that WFH impacts commercial real estate value and then dunked on a couple of articles about return to work policies. But the question was, why does that sway Amazon's thinking?

  • Enterprise-D(ebunking)

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  • Still my favourite game of all time, so it didn't really spring to mind for 'underrated' games. Pleasing to see it mentioned all the same.

  • “Communism bad”

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  • My concern with this line of argument is that it bundles consequences from a system of government up with the consequences of trade embargoes and other hostile actions from capitalist economies. That doesn't make the actions of the dictators in those countries justifiable in any way, but might have precipitated conditions that made them more likely.

    How would communist nations have fared if the US had taken a 'live and let live' approach to them? The approach during the cold war was that they couldn't be allowed to succeed. That led to the sort of standards of living where dictatorship tends to thrive. Note this isn't unique to communist countries. Look at the Republican party in the US, now that Neoliberalism is failing.

  • The number 1 easiest way to convince carbrains to support non-car-centric transportation infrastructure (in my experience)

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  • The point seems to have gone quite a long way over your head. The person above is advocating for a system where transit/active travel is the easy option. Not one where you have to up your commute by 500% to do the right thing.

    It's not, "just use transit", it's "please make it easier to do so".

  • Which consumer grade printer should I buy?

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  • Opinion: Emma Little-Pengelly's common sense reaction to the chaos, violence and protests.

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  • It's up to you. You could add context to those concerns, you could tweak the phrasing, you could undertake a heroic quest to reclaim the phrase if you want.

    I'm just adding some context as to why some people react to the phrase.

  • Opinion: Emma Little-Pengelly's common sense reaction to the chaos, violence and protests.

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  • Using the phrase 'valid concerns about immigration' today is a little bit like waving a St. George's cross in the 80's though. I mean, it can be done with the purest of intentions, but you're using a symbol that people (taking you at your read) you'd rather not be associated with use to identify each other.