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baseraid | 10 years ago | on: What Little Babies See That We No Longer Can

It's weird to call it an ability of babies to perform well in a very contrived task, but perform worse in any real life object recognition.

It is the other way round. We adults have a great capability to identify similar real life objects in various lighting conditions. Hints like the reflections on the snail tell our brain about the lighting conditions and we automatically correct for it.

baseraid | 12 years ago | on: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

The author has a very interesting point. Still he oversimplifies and so I didn't find the article very insightful.

For example lawyers are there for good reason. Modern society needs a way to officially settle conflicts. But our law system creates arms races and draws more and more resources this way.

I think few jobs are as zero sum as SEO from their beginning. The problem is that when we start arms races and pour more and more resources into them, they become almost zero sum.

So the interesting question would be how to avoid arms races. But that is not even mentioned.

baseraid | 13 years ago

Summary: Because I don't use your software. Please no more ads on HN.
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