popnroll | 5 years ago | on: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
Today you can follow the movements of anyone with technology. You're already screwed. The messages could not organize a resistance
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popnroll | 5 years ago | on: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
All these points already exist today and for a long time.
popnroll | 5 years ago | on: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
But in that case you've already lost all freedom.
What can be done in a fascist country by sending encrypted messages?
popnroll | 5 years ago | on: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
I think Gates is right. What is the problem with the government controlling communication?
There are clear advantages, like handling illegal things.
What are the disadvantages, the nude photo of your ex-girlfriend being analyzed by a machine?
popnroll | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 to 4 learn logic
What about "none" instead of zero?
popnroll | 6 years ago | on: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
Sonic the hedgehog is also blue.
popnroll | 6 years ago | on: ChocoPy: A Programming Language for Compilers Courses
What?
I don't know what "chochopy" is, but this project is called Chocopy.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
There is a big difference between a 8 bit computer and a 8 bit FANTASY computer.
But you don't get it, sorry!
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: Functional programming in C++ (2012)
First time I hear about this guy.
Interesting.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: Brouwer–Hilbert controversy
I'm really clueless about logic and mathematics theory, but isn't this the Gödel's incompleteness theorem?
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: John Conway: Discovering free will (2011)
I don't know if this adds anything to your comment;
The input of a program is neither predetermined nor random.
If there is an input "out of our reality", then our reality would not be predetermined nor would it be random. (Which makes sense for the simulation hypothesis, which I enjoy having that conversation with my colleagues)
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: John Conway: Discovering free will (2011)
I'm not assuming free will exists.
To be honest, I'm personally a compatibilist.
I'm determinism and free will agnostic.
No evidence for free will doesn't mean determinsm is true.
No evidence for determinism doesn't mean free will is true.
Is an unpopular opinion. But I see no gap in the logic.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: John Conway: Discovering free will (2011)
Oh boy, I know this is arrogant;
It's pretty easy to show evidence of determinism.
1) Read my brain, check if in ten seconds I will say yes or nothing.
2) Don't tell me.
3) Wait ten seconds.
4) Compare results.
I'm aware of the experiments of reading brain decisions faster than our consiousness (machines telling which button we will play "before we realized"). No, no psychomotor tricks. Just read my brain, don't tell me until I made my choice. If you get 100% I believe you, meanwhile, no evidence.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
I am confused :S
From your other post: "In both Gluon and Haskell, functions without arguments can be represented as functions over the unit type: f: () -> SomeType"
Isn't `f` a constant here too?, how is this different than getChar? (I get I don't understand something here but not sure what)
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
getChar is a Haskell function without arguments.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?
Most of professional therapists are highly empathic, they are not like the average person.
You will never be dissapointed, even if you feel you need another therapist, the experience is worth.
Don't overthink too much, a therapist is not a friend, your problem is not strange for them, they deal all the time with people suffering the same problems you are experiencing.
Good luck.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind?
I haven't read enough about consciousness, but I think the most important modern thinker with "eastern paradigm" is Bernardo Kastrup:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-...
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: GitHub removes IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT repository from Trending
This should be removed from HN.
If you dislike Github because Microsoft acquired it, then migrate to GitLab.
There is no point on this fanatic and paranoid dramatization; It adds nothing to the Open Source productive community.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?
Your cats are an unrepresentative sample of the mammal population, your conclusion is biased.
popnroll | 7 years ago | on: The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?
I never said to ignore the question.
Experiments require resources which are limited. And after the falsification of intelligence genes, it makes sense to find a psychological cause for delay of gratification first, and test other logical explanations second.
Edit: I was wrong. Reading Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ), it seems intelligence is related to both genes and enviroment.
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