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The context of art extends beyond the artifact. I image both PhDs would have trouble contributing meaningful novel work.

Quick note.

>One of the main characteristics of fractals is that they are self-similar

This is only almost true. A fractal is characterized by having a fractional dimension. This is what allows measurements to be different at different levels of detail.

Do we know this is true? Could the loop back also be an illusion? From a cursory glance it seems like "free will" is massively exaggerated. However, the belief of free will seems to be healthy.

Also relevant, the Behavioral Immune System and it's many vexing consequences. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_immune_system

That's how you get orbits.

This is going to end in a social media monitoring SaaS. Get curated alerts for "problematic" behavior. Completely transparent. Inevitable customer pressure will make current LGBT discrimination look quaint. Wonderful.

If it really were about children's rights, then they would also be all for supporting families economically and putting resources into education. But they do not. The most probable explanation is still control over female reproduction.

We can't forget that "error handling" is a civilization-level hard problem. Do you set up support structures to catch them when shit hits the fan, or do do you preventatively and excruciatingly suppress them?

It's as much a theoretical problem of what errors are as a practical problem in how to represent these intricate models ergonomically, and what will be sacrificed. In some sense it's an almost moral question!

The human condition?

It's almost as if there's a kernel of truth in the criticisms of capitalism. Incentives rule the world.

It's hardly a coincidence that we're missing laws that would be useful in this case. The bankers and politicians are too similar for this to be probable.

My partner swears by it and uses it a lot.

That just means everyone is suppressing wages to some degree. The whole class thing, you know.

What? This has no basis in reality. What religious extremists call themselves left? They are normally radical conservatives and eschew progressive "leftist" ideals.

The left made up with communism and matured, focusing instead on social justice. The right didn't do the same with nazism. When the white majority feels cornered by progressive ideals, white supremacy grows.

We just mourned the 10 year anniversary of the Utøja massacre where a radicalized nationalist killed at over 60 children. Their only crime was being socialists. Several phychologists had to work him until they realized he wasn't crazy. He just believed the far right conspiracies like cultural Marxism, eurabia and white genocide. This is not a game.

"Men" is both a social and biological differentiator. They are the only ones with power to stop this if they want to. We can play philosophy but reality is what it is. Sexism continues because men look the other way, not because women endure it.

Readers might be interested in the following philosophy subjects https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_dualism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervenience

Might be true, but it's complicated by mental illness being defined in terms of ability to participate in society. This includes various deeply irrational behaviours.

Valve have been nothing but competent and financially successful. In sure they know exactly what they're doing, and it's not optimizing for customer ergonomics.

It's a little more insidious than that. The great majority of people will never personally replicate a finding. They will depend entirely on the honesty of/faith in the entire chain between scientist and messanger. it just turns out it mostly works.

With the exception of being based on analysis and generally welcoming genuine inquiry.

Treatment of minorities in Sweden is no joke.

This is a chart of age-corrected excess mortality between the least affected European countries for 2020. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyH8yiZWgAkgt6k.jpg

Not necessarily if the coast is fractal, no?

Is this clever use of SLAM or something even more interesting?

Promise of Violence.

My illusions of technology were lifted after a course in advanced computer architecture. The true technical complexity is unfathomable enormous. I mean, correctly flickering 3 billion times per second on nm scale and being super sure you got the designs right? Cannot imagine.

You have to frame your statements correctly. It's not they who are hard to photograph. It's the hardware which has a hard time photographing them.

There is a deeply prevailing western misconception that systems that work for white people should also work for everyone else. When it invariably doesn't, it's always the fault of the minority. Funny how that is.

Well, the simplest reason I can imagine is that not all good things can be measured in dollars.

Who's talking about cosmic justice? Don't be ridiculous. We can identify instances of harm and that's about it.

Every system dealing in dichotomies (including binary) will eventually fail in reality, which always is more nuanced. Exactly how it fails depends on our knowledge, biases and our ability to account for them.

The problem is that flawed, biased AI systems are presented as neutral and fair, when they can never be. Ethics is what you get when you genuinely care about other peoples reality, not just following the law.

This is unhelpful reductionism. Like science, it's an ongoing project to minimize harm in a very real way. No one is pretending that we are done or that forcing ideas o people is a good idea. The point is just to systematically think about the consequences of our actions. Ethics provide tools for this.