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New comment by JacksonGariety in "LLM discourse needs more nuance"

JacksonGariety — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:45:01 +0000

Reading this article is like walking through deep mud. This is largely due to the author‘s excessive and baffling use of commas. But also due to myriad grammatical errors and ambiguous sentence constructions. Parsing some of his sentences is like looking at an optical illusion or an ambiguous painting. All things considered, I had a bad time attempting to read this article. I do not look forward to reading more of this author‘s writing in the future.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group"

JacksonGariety — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 07:03:07 +0000

Comparing states is fallacious because there are so many confounding factors. The lowest vaccinated states, in the Bible Belt, are highest for almost all health conditions. People in those states are less healthy period. One cannot draw conclusions that way.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"

JacksonGariety — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 05:06:25 +0000

In my view it should be decided by a class of philosophers. People who from an early age were possessed of a duty to the whole.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"

JacksonGariety — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 05:04:35 +0000

I prefer Hegel’s critique. In his Philosophy of Right. It’s a difficult read but very much worth it. This is from the Editor’s Introduction:

“Hegel's liberal critics are in the habit of saying that he does not believe in founding a social order on the conception of individual rights. The element of truth in this assertion is that Hegel thinks personal right, apart from a developed system of ethical life, is an empty abstraction; he believes that a social order founded (as in liberal political theory) on such abstractions will be unable even to protect individual rights, much less to actualize the whole of concrete freedom. In fact, Hegel thinks that the greatest enemy of personal and subjective freedom is a 'mechanistic' conception of the state, which views the state solely as an instrument for the enforcement of abstract rights; for this sets the state up as an abstraction in opposition to individuals. In Fichte's theory, for example, Hegel sees the state as a police power whose only function is to supervise and regulate the actions of individuals through coercive force. The only real guarantee of freedom is a well-constituted ethical life, which integrates the rights of persons and subjects into an organic system of customs and institutions providing individuals with concretely fulfilling lives.” (p. xvi)

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"

JacksonGariety — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:40:30 +0000

This is the problem generally known as liberalism. Hobbes said the foundation of the state was the arbitrary Will of the individuals in the state. Modern states are thus founded on caprice. The solution is as JFK said: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Just use Postgres for everything"

JacksonGariety — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 19:55:52 +0000

The graphic is misleading:

- You can easily do prerendering and asset packing in the frontend build step

- You don't need MVC on the backend

- You can use a third party for authorization

- Frontend can just be a React app

- VirtualDOM doesn't add any complexity in addition to the frontend View

- You don't need MVC on the frontend

- Frontend can fetch data from the API and cache it with cache-control header

The simplest setup is actually to host a React app from an S3 bucket and use Lambda / Cloud Functions to respond to network requests.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT"

JacksonGariety — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 21:42:04 +0000

> People simultaneously refuse to accept what they're really good at and attribute to them capabilities they don't really have.

That's called neurosis generally.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Last.fm turns 20"

JacksonGariety — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 07:55:16 +0000

I made a website to create a collage from your lastfm albums: https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/

New comment by JacksonGariety in "My take on Elon's offer for Twitter"

JacksonGariety — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:01:40 +0000

This doesn't make sense. If Twitter isn't politically biased, then why do they have elite progressive news agencies doing fact-checking? If Twitter "doesn't censor topics, only behavior" then why do they explicitly state that they censor misinformation?

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Combating disinformation with humility"

JacksonGariety — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:53:38 +0000

>Corporates, Business Rivals, Nation-States, and Criminal Organizations alike want to influence their target crowd in one way or another to achieve a diverse set of strategic objectives. And they absolutely do not hesitate to employ the means of Disinformation.

>Be it the denigration of Covid vaccines or promotion of a particular election candidate, we have seen the usage of Disinformation time and time again...

Pretty ironic. Wouldn't business and government want to encourage people to get vaccines? It gives them an enormous amount of leverage over the herd. They'll use disinformation to make vaccines seem safer and more effective than they really are, in order to secure universal compliance from the masses. If you control people's immune systems, you win.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Hegel Today"

JacksonGariety — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:38:43 +0000

He says things you can't say in the academy.

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Hegel Today"

JacksonGariety — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:27:52 +0000

You caught me!

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Hegel Today"

JacksonGariety — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 19:50:09 +0000

Yes! Also, plug for my Hegel blog: http://hegelsbagels.net/

New comment by JacksonGariety in "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)"

JacksonGariety — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:56:50 +0000

Check out my blog: https://hegelsbagels.net/

New comment by JacksonGariety in "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)"

JacksonGariety — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:56:34 +0000

I write the best philosophy blog: https://hegelsbagels.net/

Dialectical Solution to the Liar Paradox

JacksonGariety — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:16:26 +0000

Article URL: https://hegelsbagels.net/posts/dialectical-solution-to-the-liar-paradox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28532217

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What Is Happening (Hegel's Chapel)

JacksonGariety — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 20:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://hegelsbagels.net/posts/what-is-happening/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437994

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by JacksonGariety in "Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans"

JacksonGariety — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 08:27:35 +0000

If you want to always be on the side of truth, learn Hegel's Logic. See my blog for more info: https://hegelsbagels.net/

Spirituality and Homelessness

JacksonGariety — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 05:29:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality_and_homelessness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27708086

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by JacksonGariety in "The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics"

JacksonGariety — Sun, 09 May 2021 02:54:02 +0000

This supposes Hume was a great philosopher, and that skepticism is an admirable philosophical position. These are questionable suppositions.