richardatlarge

No he did not. What he did was suggest that betting against FTX was equivalent to betting against the idea of electric lights or indoor plumbing

What is most overlooked about behaviorism, here and elsewhere, is what Skinner called the generic nature of stimulus and response. Reinforcement acts not on behavior directly, but rather shapes the me…

Cool code. Typo and grammar error in first sentence won’t encourage many to participate. I’d think.

Hah, I have that book, have Envisioning Information too

Another way of saying we are all a great distance from absolute truth about the world. Which my cult says is absolute nonsense. Some cults are better than others

Yes, and now the question: how did inanimate chemistry come together to form life? We still can’t create life out of non living ingredients.

The recent article (described in the Guardian) shows Cartesian dualism lives on in psychiatric science https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/05/study-finds-.…

After reading all this about Musk on HN, I would pay $8/m for the rest of my life to never see his name in ‘print’ again

Sci-fi? Title sounds like a book on camping outdoors I see a lot of reviews on Amazon though

It doesn’t take an app, it takes a village

I’m probably wrong, but it seems like you either have a poorly policed site that attracts a diversity of views, or you have a socially responsive site that, by curbing bogus BS, becomes a PC echo cham…

As wise as a man or woman can be, it doesn’t take much to solitaire away the hours, or years. As a friend used to say about Tetris, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated

This article offers no new information. I actually went back and looked at the date, thinking it was published several years ago. But no, Nov ‘22. Pass

Don’t listen to other people’s advice

There is the iPhone on the one hand and Google glasses and the Segway, on the other. VR may have a big future in gaming, but it’s no threat to real life.

Yes, box should link to that entry. What is really needed in this and the app on my phone is a decision tree before the results to narrow down in terms of adjective, verb, adverb, etc. This shortens t…

Quote: “… physics and survive their 2.4 billion year journey to Earth” Sloppy writing

This comment reminds me of a song by CT Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet

The “medium” is the message

Quote: This suggests that metastasis isn’t an abnormal process limited to cancer as previously thought, but is a normal process used by healthy cells that has been exploited by cancers to migrate to o…

I would have thought that myth was long ago shattered. I’ve never heard the man posit anything intelligent, or intelligently.

More on the elusive mystery of how matter exists than on the real mystery of matter, which is that it exists at all. Physics answers the first mystery, seems ill equipped to answer the second, it itse…

Instead of approaching the author as right or wrong, approach the article in terms of how it might be useful for thinking about the future of the internet. Many even here on HN frame things in a divis…