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Comment · 2 years ago
>Get rid of any keybinding or UI convention that is there because that is the way they did it the AI Lab in 1967. Make the UI as familiar to the average computer user as possible (but keep the general design of a large rectangle of text) by using mainstream conventions (which come mainly from the Mac and Windows) for how to respond to this or that keypress or to clicking or dragging with this or that mouse button.

This needs dedicated Prominenz

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Let's make orwell fiction again.
Comment · 4 years ago
the point is that both perspectives are important and helpfull. you shouldnt ignore either side. however destructive behavior can evolve from both.
Comment · 4 years ago
I choose atheism when 16 and rediscovered religion at 35. How? whats the difference between a religion and believing in atheism, psychology, social science? in this sense i overcame atheism and started looking at the interesting concepts of religions, introduced geografically and sequentially in time. naturally i decided to dig deeper in my cultures religion at hand instead of idealising the grass is greener far away. my conclusion is that sciences and religions is just a approach to understand and model the world. it would be stupid to ignore the knowledge embeeded in both and there are wrong conclusions embedded that are not easy to identify in both. maybe it seems easier to identify them with! science but still social "science" nowadays seems to me not much more like a new cult trying new approaches challenging thousand year old cults and knowledge embedded in their religion. Like a kid who challenges the parents. In the end it's a natural selection process that will decide what knowledge / models survive through time. Isn't it a beautiful creation process. No need to condemn either approach. The Bible teaches, you shouldnt use gods name in vain. Exodus 20:7. Isnt it true for science, too?
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Never heard it said this clearly
Comment · 4 years ago
did he know the question to finetune too?
Comment · 4 years ago
This
Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe I am stupid but what's the point in reimplementing lisp in lambda? Just to prove how beautiful simple lambda calculus is? The lambda functionality is allready in lisp. And lisp is beautiful simple!

() is nothing and (is something) What does the implementation show more beautiful than that?

Comment · 4 years ago
What's the point? US and UK keep Julian Assange in one, too. Moral superiority of the west was lost back then. This loss of trust in democracy is hard to reverse.if someone challenges the narrative to much,there is not much difference in treating political prisoners between east and west.you will be hunted down and screwed. Guantanamo still exists by the way. Europe keeps silent.
Comment · 4 years ago
A Berlin News paper reports of the public inquiry of firefighters and emergency personnel to investigate the root cause of a rise in different "heart issue calls" of 27-31% in 2021 (40k calls) compared to 2018/2019.

In german: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/berlin-feuerwehr-herzpr...

They argue to change from mandatory vaccination to optional vaccination for their profession.

Evolution will tell what the right choice was. I am having popcorn while watching the extremists battle each others position.

Comment · 4 years ago
I feel its current approaches (owl rdf etc...) are stuck somehow and there is something like a ontology Winter. Its not dead but the solutions out there do not scale well. I believe something like the gellish language approach must be developed towards a open standard and there needs to exist something like a decentralized registry of ontologies and dictionaries. Maybe like DNS.
Comment · 4 years ago

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