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Postmodernism
Soundness: How can one decide\know if premise is true or false
Not-for-Profit vs. Nonprofit: What's the Difference?
The Science of a Kundalini Awakening
Wound Healing, the Salamander Way
Counterfactuals
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Speculative Fiction Novels?
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:32PM (#44323478)
Why is it... the only? Do you think Dick was riffing off this precarious history when he wrote Man in the High Castle?
Re:Brain Study Shows ChatGPT Makes You Dumber
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:20PM (#44323404)
This feels significant. What if, without understanding how AI works, or even clearly understanding how cognition works, treating is at oracle or deity, or simply just a really weird calculator, theres a tendency to allow the LLM to reason for us, or else reinforce biases (and hence pathways?) My programming ability has certainly declined, but I am also thinking with scope, and with patterns more than in the past, solving work related problems more quickly. What to do with this extra energy is a wholenother matter. If I engage in other activities not requiring the computer, would this compensate for whatever the negative effect this loss of complexity entails?
Re:How AI Is Ruining the Electric Grid [video]
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:57PM (#44323293)
Should this problem be solved (as it very well could be) or, should ecological and environment constraints and limitations drive policy considerations here?
Re:How to Build an Electrically Heated Table
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:33PM (#44323146)
There are designs around the web for using tea candles for warmth (when paired with a thermal mass like a terracotta pot.) I tried this but it was not efficient enough. I have some other ideas along these lines but, priorities. You know?
Emergent Prefigurative Politics and Social Psychological Processes
We Do – and Must – Go into Space
Ask HN: Favorite Speculative Fiction Novels?
Re:Cognitive Assessments for Autism: The Best Tools and Methods
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:33PM (#44322729)
A disease is only real if its physical?
How to Do Open Source and Right to Repair Advocacy Successfully
Cognitive Assessments for Autism: The Best Tools and Methods
Intelligence on Tap: Redefining the Human Role
Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to generate a ton of money as a dev?
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @04:10PM (#44322121)
Cool cool... what would you do with a ton of money?
Ask HN: How often do you come up with disruptive ideas?
How do you know an idea is disruptive? Do you validate or test your hypotheses? What do you do with them?
Re:The Word Hacker (2004)
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:52PM (#44321967)
Generalizing here, and this certainly deserves scrutiny, but if I was an old man advising a young man, my advice:
Be like Kant, not a c*nt.
Re:Filial Piety: An Important Chinese Cultural Value (2019)
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:50PM (#44321948)
Oh, for sure. Is there not a significant difference between willingly adopting these values and being compelled to adopt them by an external force?
Filial Piety: An Important Chinese Cultural Value (2019)
The Word Hacker (2004)
Deterministic Model vs. Probabilistic Model
Re:There Is No A.I.
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:14AM (#44319439)
This is a poignant observation. What if there was real tender love and care put into gathering these training materials? (Y'know, truly free and open source, with a deep understanding of what it means to be human.) If you are working on this, we should talk.