Quik
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- Comment on Cum 1 month ago:
I think you might mean “post hoc…” which is a more specific case of “cum hoc…” and sets focus on time/order of events
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 2 months ago:
The “problem” here (if you think so) is that if law enforcement in Germany gets to know about a case like this, they cannot choose themselves not to act on it.
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 2 months ago:
I would suspect because there is probably space for errors in the detection system
- Comment on On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? 4 months ago:
As others pointed out, having the feeling of knowing (about) things without actually having experienced them yourself is a core feature of what one might call intelligence, and as such not insane.
I would argue instead that the problem isn’t with arguments over stuff you haven’t experienced yourself, but rather people caring too much about their fixed opinion and not about actually trying to find the truth (e.g. though argument) as they might proclaim.
(I am relatively certain of this point as I’ve seen seemingly good counter examples to this provided by the LessWrong community, where people often discuss topics they do not necessarily have experience with, but rather try to find the truth and therefore not have a fixed opinion beforehand.)
- Comment on Relationship advice? 4 months ago:
I’d like to actually discuss the problems I perceive with Yudkowsky‘s take for a moment, before everyone can go on with telling each other how crap his opinion is.
First, quantifying emotional states is hard, if not impossible at the moment. This could easily lead to misconceptions and misunderstandings, as it is not clear what x% “better” means. Second, people probably don’t always want to live in constant fear of getting dumped by their partners. I mean, I get it, if you are in a relationship where you would leave your partner for someone else it’s definitely not a bad idea to be clear about that, but I don’t think that is the norm at all in relationships “even” apart from marriage. So his tweet about marriages being an agreement to ignore other options is not wrong itself, but he seems to lack the understanding that many relationships outside of marriage include this social contract as well.
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 6 months ago:
Logseq, it’s a lot like Obsidian as it also has knowledge graphs, tags, is markdown-based and self-hostable but, in contrast to Obsidian, it’s fully open source
- Comment on Motivational 6 months ago:
Unfortunately doesn’t look too promising on that front and it seems I’m kinda late to the startup/low interest loans and investment party.
- Comment on Motivational 6 months ago:
Jokes on you, have years left until then.
- Comment on Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. 6 months ago:
Crazy stuff
- Comment on Baby how cold is it oitside? 7 months ago:
Is there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?
- Comment on abandonware empires 7 months ago:
and UDP never did anyway As a CS student I’ve laughed way to hard when reading this
- Comment on SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer 7 months ago:
I think what’s meant is there isn’t an official ISO to download as it’s not yet that polished for PCs
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 7 months ago:
Or you update your uBlock Origin blocklists and declare YouTube the war.
- Comment on Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ 8 months ago:
Which doesn’t make this any better of a future to live in.
- Comment on Pure Evil 9 months ago:
The reason is in fact not only because of this exact symbol, but because people tried to change program’s behavior in a malicious way by replacing legitimate code with same looking symbols.