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yawpitch··on Permacomputing Principles
If you see a substantial amount of bolted on extra politics on that page there’s a good chance you are experiencing the symptoms of polarization.
yawpitch··on Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
Of course Richard Dawkins would also conclude that Richard Dawkins is conscious, even if Richard Dawkins doesn’t know it.
yawpitch··on [dead]
Continuing the same paragraph: “Applying a 10-year lag period […] and comparing versus prostate cancer screening […] but not breast cancer screening […] attenuated the risk increase.“

The “attenuated” in this case means “weakened the case for”.

Or, in other words, we found a correlation without finding any causation.

yawpitch··on [dead]
Headline does not match the title or the paper.

Moreover, actual conclusion of the paper: “Common vaccines were not associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Unmeasured confounding and detection bias likely accounted for the observed increased risk.”

yawpitch··on Intelligence Buying Intelligence
Or, confirmation bias purchasing bias confirmation.
yawpitch··on Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's 10 Step Guide to Clearer Thinking Through Essay Writing (2017)
Jordan Peterson cannot credibly be accused of clearer thinking.
yawpitch··on Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
Funny how if the inverse applies to programming languages the strong normal form kind of does too…

For example, in Python you can’t avoid talking about the Python object model, and that implies you also can’t actually express anything in Python outside the Python object model.

And, fundamentally, you can’t — even `object` is an `object` — unless you stop expressing yourself in Python.

yawpitch··on Ask HN: Should AI agents have their own legal entities?
Why would it be a good idea - or, indeed, just an idea — to shield the promptor from the prompt’s consequences?

If you think about it to any great degree what you’re asking is should Two Face’s coin should be held responsible for which face it lands on?

yawpitch··on Ask HN: Should AI agents have their own legal entities?
So all we have to do is wait for the bar to have been sufficiently lowered?
yawpitch··on Prompts Are Like Prayers
Well, no, because now instead of you hallucinating a response, you’re paying a GPU to do your hallucinating for you.
yawpitch··on A Time Traveling Superintelligent AI tried to warn about correspondence dinner
The proof that time-traveling superintelligence doesn’t exist, and never will, is the continuing moment-by-moment existence of any club — or species — that would have Donald J Trump as a member.
yawpitch··on Trump's Final Term Ends in 999 Days (Countdown)
Oh ye of any remaining faith.
yawpitch··on Archaeologists find copy of Homer's Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy
tl;dr: earlier Ancient Greek manuscript found in later Roman-era sarcophagus == still no ancient aliens.
yawpitch··on How does Shazam work?
This has been explained so many times… a wizard imbued the kid with the powers of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.
yawpitch··on Ask HN: Why did your government attack Iran?
Money. Oil. Racism. Oil. Religious ignorance. Oil. General ignorance. Oil. Trumpism. Oil. The Bigger Dick Foreign Policy (TM). Oil. The vacuum between Mike Huckabee’s ears. Oil.

Oh, and trying to get Epstein out of the news before Melania throws him under the bus.

yawpitch··on There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind"
Excellent. Now do “superego death”.
yawpitch··on Iran's Lego Slopaganda Creator [video]
Actual title is more informative.
yawpitch··on Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
Sorry, don’t you mean senior war reporter Ellen Mitchell?
yawpitch··on Seeing Trump Clearly
Ahh, but now everyone knows you’re a cuck-sucker.
yawpitch··on Seeing Trump Clearly
Stop imagining 5th dimensional chess from a (purported) man who is playing tic-tac-toe.
yawpitch··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
Merde!
yawpitch··on Chuck Norris has died
He hasn’t died, he’s just moved on to an eternity of roundhouse kicking Satan.
yawpitch··on Direct kinetic impact. a flying sword. 450km/h
For the right (and it’s always right) kind of techbro, those are one and the same thing.
yawpitch··on Britain's Populist Right Has Surrendered Its Mind to America
One cannot surrender what one never possessed.
yawpitch··on There Are No Psychopaths
Alternatively, there are only psychopaths.
yawpitch··on A White House Staffer Appears to Run Pro-Trump X Account
A White House staffer appears to pay for all pro-Trump accounts would be less of a surprise.
yawpitch··on Self-improving software won't produce Skynet
No, but self-destroying wetware still might.
yawpitch··on Ask HN: Why is there a negative sentiment towards crypto?
Good god(s), what would it take to make you eat that cake?
yawpitch··on Ask HN: Why is there a negative sentiment towards crypto?
When the thought leaders on your subject include both the Trumpogarchy and Logan Paul, your subject tends to draw negative sentiment.
yawpitch··on Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed
tl;dr: woke bad and our confirmation bias confirms our begging the question.
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