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zephyrthenoble | 1 year ago | on: 'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue

> I don’t personally think that other animals will have a verbal inner monologue in the way that I do

I find it funny that this article and the quotes within state that humans have a "dense internal monologue" as if that is some requirement of the species. Some quick Googling indicates that people with internal monologues might only make up 30%-50% of people [0].

There are frequent Reddit posts with some variation of "TIL people [have|don't have] an internal monologue" full of comments of people from both sides, and a significant portion of people who don't have the classic internal monologue, but something in between instead.

We can't even begin to truly describe our own minds, how could we possibly know how all species would think?

0: Hurlburt, R.T., Alderson-Day, B., Kuhn, S. & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Exploring the ecological validity of thinking on demand: Neural correlates of elicited vs. spontaneously occurring inner speech. PLoS One, 11(2), e0147932. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147932

zephyrthenoble | 2 years ago | on: Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies

I liked the article but there was a lot of statements about the case with not a lot of explaining explanation, such as, the Android app market was considered a relevant market but the Apple app market wasn't. Why? What are the differences? Did the jury explain that reasoning?

Additionally, I feel like repeatedly calling the charge to bill through the app stores a tax misleading, since there are plenty of similar service charges for things like credit cards. Maybe I'm wrong about that, though.

However, this was a good article for laying out the relevant information on a tidy list.

zephyrthenoble | 2 years ago | on: LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

That's a fair point. Maybe people did react similarly, but the LK-99 hype was at the very least grounded in scientific methodology.

I should keep that in perspective and be a little less harsh.

zephyrthenoble | 2 years ago | on: LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

Watching this unfold on HN has been eerily similar to watching r/UFOs whenever someone comes forward with "proof" of UFOs/coverups/whatever. I never want to rain on anyone's parade, as proof of ETs or room temperature superconductors would be great, but the hype only serves to obfuscate the truth. At this point, I'm prepped to disbelieve because of the obvious over-hyping.

People want these things to be true so bad that they will twist every detail to fit the narrative they want. It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.

zephyrthenoble | 2 years ago | on: We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less

What kind of person would interview at a company, probably go through multiple rounds of interviews and coding questions, get the job they were looking for, and turn it down because they were offered more than they expected?

Why did they interview at the company in the first place?

zephyrthenoble | 9 years ago | on: Nevertheless, She Coded

You bring up a fair point that the study is not perfect. I would be interested to find a better study, but to be honest I'm not sure where I would be able to find one... I'll see if I can find a more objective one after work.

zephyrthenoble | 9 years ago | on: Nevertheless, She Coded

I'm frankly quite surprised by the initial wave of comments disparaging this message.

The facts are that women are poorly represented in the tech community[1], and do make less than men[2]. Any attempt to let women feel more accepted and bring about much needed change should be championed, not picked apart and belittled because you feel like you are personally being attacked when people are just asking for help.

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/05/28/google-release...

2. https://www.cnet.com/news/biggest-pay-gap-in-america-compute...

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