indrax
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
For many cognitive processes, I don't see a clear survival value to conscious awareness of that process, so I don't expect that awareness to be a reliable feature. The survival relevant result of that cognition can still come through.
I also think that an internal voice that doesn't get conscious awareness is likely to become a process that doesn't present as voice. So it's not like someone can just pay more attention and hear something, because it stopped talking a long time ago.
Comment · 5 years ago
I look at this like Multimedia and the web in 1995. Yes some of this is a shadow of Microsoft Bob. We don't know what we're doing with VR yet but the technology has crossed over the line from being a toy or experiment. Skeuomorphism is a temporary workaround until we (users and designers both) learn what conventions are most powerful and port more applications to VR.
Comment · 5 years ago
They're paying for credibility, but assigning the credibility to an organization instead of an open and understood process of vetting. This confuses me.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think this is a reference class problem. One could also say software replaced work done in offices with work still being done in offices. (until recently) Most of the work was still done on literal desktops. but significant changes have been happening within the subset of the office and within the use of the desk.
Comment · 5 years ago
Software is also part of the world, just a very different part.
Comment · 5 years ago
Do you think abundance requires the current system?
Comment · 5 years ago
Mirror: https://imgur.com/OPVQstH
Comment · 5 years ago
It's conceptually gridbeam. https://gridbeam.xyz/
General construction kit for real world applications. In theory you could take a machine apart and use the beams for some other machine. A smaller kit could build any of the machine designs as needed.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is the relevant paper.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
Comment · 5 years ago
If someone is subsequently charged with fleeing, having a reasonable belief that someone was impersonating officers could be an easier defense than merely fearing danger, however founded those fears may be.
Comment · 5 years ago
Friendly suggestion to all that Bayes Theorem is the right way to deal with this kind of weak evidence. We should not adhere to arbitrary legal standards in our own thinking about the truth.
Comment · 5 years ago
I just signed up to prolific. Their onboarding tutorial/example survey references prescreening and eligibility. I'm guessing it was on researchers to filter the demographics to what was relevant to their study.
I think this is actually the right approach. Some 'balancing' algorithm would have to make assumptions about what's normal, then then the excluded participants wouldn't even show up in the research data.
Comment · 5 years ago
If 2x programmers are paid ~2x then the company is using some performance metric to influence pay, but then for pay to remain secret the performance metric also has to be secret.
* Low friction, nothing to install, near instant feedback.
* Fun starting at simple shapes, gradients, distortions, all the way to absurdly good looking rendering.
I did have that experience of growing up with fun programming, for me shader programming brings that back.