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New comment by phy6 in "We could have universal Covid vaccines soon"

phy6 — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:54:57 +0000

I would have added some data points to your original comment, but then mods deleted your comment while I typed. Seems they've got to suppress single anecdotes so no one has the bravery to add a second.

New comment by phy6 in "GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers"

phy6 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:24:53 +0000

If you don't know the truth, at least try not to lie. Nothing I've seen in the dozens of downtown live streams jives with the smearing I've witnessed on places like r/pics and the news. It appears from the commentary that there is such vitriol towards the protesters that I wouldn't put it past some opposition group to fly defamatory flags that have no apparent connection to why they are protesting. A prominent trusted newspaper even ran a cartoon presenting the trucks as fascist... for protesting against a perceived government overreach. What kind of cognitive dissonance is going on there?

New comment by phy6 in "Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel"

phy6 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:40:08 +0000

Of course, voter ID opponents have let out the private partisan internal logic lots of times when they thought only people aligned with their faction were listening, so we don't need to speculate why the rules are inconsistent with the public logic.

New comment by phy6 in "Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel"

phy6 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:38:58 +0000

When you show up to vote in a non-voter-id state, you only have to give your name. Any one could have shown up in my place and voted in my name, because no ID was allowed to be show. This was made more apparent when I reached for my wallet instinctively as I gave my name, and they gestured with hands out that "we don't check for ID".

New comment by phy6 in "Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension"

phy6 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 07:54:53 +0000

"They're just doing what they were told to do"

New comment by phy6 in "Twitter starts to require login to view tweets"

phy6 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:16:43 +0000

Especially when accounts could be hacked to say anything, like the incidents a couple years ago. Imagine the POTUS account pissing off an unstable dictator in some country, or posting of some sensitive information.

New comment by phy6 in "Twitter starts to require login to view tweets"

phy6 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:10:33 +0000

This is a positive change for world mental health, bravo.

New comment by phy6 in "Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?"

phy6 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:29:08 +0000

AGI draws upon dozens of fields. The facet of AI Safety and Risk Mitigation consulting is where I started, and I was heavily influenced by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy. By the time we met in person I was already designing a bootstrap. It was a joy to get my hands in the code. When you find your real meaning for being on this earth, you won't refuse anything to go after it.

New comment by phy6 in "Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?"

phy6 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 07:02:41 +0000

I left my lucrative cybersecurity startup job to pursue full time independent research in AGI. Several months in and it's been great progress wise, and I have to live more frugally. Being on the cyber startup was like being on a cruise ship headed to some destination that was "just okay", all the while seeing an island off in the distance that we were slowly passing by, which is where I wanted to be. I jumped off the bow and started swimming towards the most meaningful goal I could hope to apply my skills toward. Will I advance the field of artificial consciousness? I hope to. There's so much I don't know, and even more no one really knows. COVID was a gift. Political and economic turmoil is a gift. I was already focusing on the goal of AGI, but the strife of the world gave me the will to leap for it.

New comment by phy6 in "Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”"

phy6 — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 03:05:42 +0000

It's worth seeing who else besides Facebook funds the fact checkers. https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/

New comment by phy6 in "To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook"

phy6 — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 07:04:35 +0000

I agree. My revenge as a user has been to scrape entire channels I want to watch, as I can only imagine things getting worse than they are now (less free, less intrusive, more thought-police). I now have a lifetime worth of non-perishable knowledge/wisdom stored up in video form, which compliments ebooks. It's like prepping but for data. Shot out to r/datahoarder.

New comment by phy6 in "To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook"

phy6 — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 05:16:43 +0000

I deleted my real account earlier this year, but if I want to get to the marketplace I use a fake account (I had set up several years ago for political research.) I then use FBPurity and some uBlock Origin code to remove all "ship to you" ads.

The uBlock codes are on reddit, search for "Blocking "Ships to you" posts in Facebook Marketplace"

New comment by phy6 in "A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years"

phy6 — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 01:48:59 +0000

Meme stock apes have claimed this as the new destination of their portfolios.

New comment by phy6 in "Capturing Reality is now part of Epic Games"

phy6 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 06:53:57 +0000

I was in the back room of Epic Megagames in 97 when Tim Sweeney showed me his automatic LOD on the Skaarj model. It was pretty basic compared to the current tech, but I think remember him saying it didn't require lower poly meshes/maps to be generated by the animators/artists. I don't know if the LOD was pre-baked or not at the time, but given that we were running the first MMX chips it probably was.

New comment by phy6 in "Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research"

phy6 — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:05:45 +0000

I've been loving Foam as it lives inside VSCode, where I spend most of my days anyway. Obsidian was nice too, but I ended up moving back to Foam. The only feature I wish Foam had is to apply force directed layouts to only selected nodes at a time.

New comment by phy6 in "Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)"

phy6 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:28:09 +0000

My dear friend, it's asteroids all the way up!

New comment by phy6 in "Hubble Captures Photo of Asteroid Worth 70k Times the Global Economy"

phy6 — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:16:33 +0000

Yeah they forgot the paragraph where NASA brings the rock home by hurling it towards Earth, killing 99% of humanity after impact.

New comment by phy6 in "Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications"

phy6 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:41:26 +0000

Just make sure the slaves are Slavs, that's probably the only way to include it in the game.

New comment by phy6 in "Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims"

phy6 — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:44:49 +0000

They are trying to drag down Biden by implying he is the person mentioned in Hunters family texts, saying that half of their salaries go to "Pops".

New comment by phy6 in "Don't write documentation in Markdown"

phy6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:06:41 +0000

Beware of things that are fun to argue.