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Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by gwern on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:14AM (#38735521)
It is not 'balderdash', it is a reference to Scott's longstanding interest in Karl Friston & predictive processing paradigms in neuroscience & psychiatry. If you don't get the allusions, that's your problem, not his.
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Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by CoffeeOnWrite on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:35AM (#38735797)
There's a segment on HN that comes out of the woodwork to poo poo artful writing. Parent commenter was not going to appreciate this article. I'd say it's a testament to the author's writing ability that they were able to pull parent commenter in a couple hundred words before they recognized it was "balderdash"!
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Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by rolisz on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:33AM (#38735785)
Oh, it is Scott's problem. I got the references and I still found them to be too much.
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Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by glitchc on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:47PM (#38737175)
When the writing sounds like something you'd hear on an episode of Frasier, it's overwritten. Reading Strunk and White would greatly benefit the author.
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