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New comment by moistly in "Ask HN: Should we be concerned about the current H5N1 outbreak?"

moistly — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 08:11:33 +0000

Shame on you for supporting the clowns. Their anti-rational, anti health measures claims are detrimental to your site and your society. Protecting them from even mild criticism is clown moderation. Shame!

New comment by moistly in "HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (2022)"

moistly — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:36:13 +0000

HSBC exists because of Opium. It has always been the bank of the drug cartels.

> HSBC was founded after the second of the Opium Wars, by which time the trade was already well established. The founders included several opium traders who recognised the profitable banking opportunities presented by the new market.

https://taxjustice.net/2015/02/27/hsbc-and-the-worlds-oldest...

They’ve been in the thick of it since forever, unrelentingly.

https://www.cadtm.org/HSBC-the-bank-with-a-shameful-past

https://unpublishedarticles.com/hsbc-hong-kong-shanghai-bank...

New comment by moistly in "HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (2022)"

moistly — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:30:12 +0000

The fish rots from the head down.

New comment by moistly in "ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think"

moistly — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:09:57 +0000

ChatGpT does not know anything. It vomits words that are statistically likely to convey meaning, but there is no guarantee that it is truthful: it is always a probability, not a certainty.

New comment by moistly in "Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatbot with GPT-3"

moistly — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:06:48 +0000

These AIs tell lies. Do not believe them with blind faith. If they say something true and valuable, it is not because they know something. They don’t have knowledge: they have word vomit that is statistically likely to have meaning.

New comment by moistly in "The chancellor’s hesitancy over Ukraine is no joke"

moistly — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:04:24 +0000

It ends with a cruel and thieving dictator being deposed, and a free democratic nation remaining so. No nation should fall to Russian dictatorship.

New comment by moistly in "Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatbot with GPT-3"

moistly — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:21:48 +0000

Really good, until the day it hallucinates a novel answer that suggests doing something bad.

New comment by moistly in "[dead]"

moistly — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:04:22 +0000

Why would the school need anything more than, if so concerned about a student’s health, a doctor’s note? “This girl is healthy and can participate in whatever.”

New comment by moistly in "Tesla tells investors it’s being investigated by the Justice Department"

moistly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:03:57 +0000

That makes so much sense. So much sense.

New comment by moistly in "Do we live in a society without a counterculture?"

moistly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 02:22:32 +0000

A subculture is generally hidden from the mainstream culture. Few are those who display their BDSM subculture in obvious public fashion.

A counterculture is in the face of the mainstream culture, trying to change the cult. It is countering the mainstream. It is activist or, at the least, unabashed with the intention of normalization.

New comment by moistly in "Do we live in a society without a counterculture?"

moistly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 01:28:03 +0000

Gathering space: The Men’s Shed

New comment by moistly in "Do we live in a society without a counterculture?"

moistly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 01:27:13 +0000

The Signal: You do not carry a Phone.

You definitely do not carry a smartphone. You might be excused a flip phone, if only because you’re not likely to b super-connected with it, but honestly that’s pushing it; even the most primitive cellphone has sms.

New comment by moistly in "Ask HN: Are browser bookmarks dead? What alternative(s) do you use?"

moistly — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:44:19 +0000

I stuff everything into Safari’s “reading list” and then never read them :-/

New comment by moistly in "Tesla tells investors it’s being investigated by the Justice Department"

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:21:12 +0000

The idea of needing the car to know how to keep me in-lane is bizarre to me. Never in my life have I found it difficult to stay in my lane. The day that I need a car that helps me stay in my lane, is the day my license needs to be revoked and my decrepit ancient ass settled into an old age home.

New comment by moistly in "Ask HN: How far are we from a TikTok-style app with 100% ML generated content?"

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:24:41 +0000

If it entertains, distracts, or zombifies the viewer, they will watch it obsessively, regardless the originator. The masses love their soma.

New comment by moistly in "The Do’s and Don’ts of Dating Your Boss"

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:56:55 +0000

Bosses, don’t date your employees. You’re playing with career suicide.

New comment by moistly in "Ask HN: How often do mobile users hit the wrong HN button?"

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:54:19 +0000

All. The. Frickin. Time.

iPad Pro, circa 9” model, vertical orientation. The prose text is very small. The grey name, time, “buttons” headers are very, very small. I suppose I could use custom css or increase the font size, but I have good eyesight and like the information density. It’s always a crapshoot as to whether I can hit the teeny tiny touch target.

New comment by moistly in "Computational Philosophy"

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:19:56 +0000

Computational Philosophy is to use software to prove theorems. The FP link is to an overview of the field, below is a link to descriptions of the software systems:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/different-theorem-proving-syst...

New comment by moistly in "The limits of "computational photography""

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:03:18 +0000

Computational Philosophy: “the use of mechanized computational techniques to instantiate, extend, and amplify philosophical research. Computational philosophy is not philosophy of computers or computational techniques; it is rather philosophy using computers and computational techniques. The idea is simply to apply advances in computer technology and techniques to advance discovery, exploration and argument within any philosophical area.”

The word “simply” is doing a lot of work in that last sentence, I’m sure!

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-philosophy/

(BTW, I just posted same to front page, if the subject interests you & we’re lucky, it’ll generate some discussion)

Computational Philosophy

moistly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:00:47 +0000

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-philosophy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34590822

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