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See, that kind of comments don't contribute anything to the conversation.

All you're doing is portraying yourself as a victim and hijacking the issue back into the bullshit "are we too pc" debate again, which quite frankly most people are already sick of.

So your friend can't get a job because... there are immigrants who are collecting more in welfare than doctors? Is that how welfare works now?

You've somehow managed to put the phrase "they're stealing both our jobs AND our welfare" unironically in the same sentence, kudos.

Can people rename this to something that makes sense? Seeing a post on the front page saying "A brief update" is so vague. An update by whom? About what? There's literally not enough information to gauge whether or not I should pursue this further without clicking on it.

That is one region of the world that I do not know much about. Would you have any links about the history that led to the current state of the affairs that you've described?

Thank you for your insights, this has been useful! (I was actually hoping to ask this to a linguist for some time now, so I was happy when I saw your message!)

You surmised my current situation well, I've been focusing a lot on the 5 categories and little on the locutions. I shall remedy that :)

One thing in your answer that I'm a bit fuzzy on is what you meant by the confusing thing in the brackets (act/force and [or vs] intent)?

Why do you think that sharing buttons are crap?

What? Where do all of these conjectures come from? Is there any evidence?

Do you agree with Searle's classification of speech acts into five different types? Or would you use a different way to classify them?

I What would it mean, statistically, if it's getting it right less than 50% of the time?

That is such a messed up and privileged attitude.

"Homelessness isn't a problem, you just need some seeds. Ergo if the homeless are starving they must be too lazy or maybe they spend all their money on drugs so they can't even afford a few seeds!"

Try being homeless, then go back and tell us how "easy" it is. (Speaking as someone who has been homeless before).

I'm Dutch, and bluntly calling out flaws in each other's work is not considered all that rude over here; it's almost the opposite: not calling someone out on their flaws implies we either consider them a lost cause or not worth the hassle of educating.

Woah, I do that too! Maybe I should move to Netherlands.

eyeroll

I'm surprised by people saying "well how could AirBNB end racism?!"

It's not like they have access to all the data from who the hosts accept and reject and the profile pictures of each.

I know right. It was obvious from the start that he's full of shit, how are people still arguing about this?

I like your analysis, thanks.

We may never reach the stage of Strong AI because it turns out that what we actually do is not intelligent enough to require Strong AI. That's interesting. If we find a rigorous enough definition of "Strong Intelligence", would humans necessarily qualify as one?

Very wisely said.

People in AI try to replicate the "power of the human brain" when there are billions of "human brains" that are surviving at a subsistence level or working in mind-numbing menial tasks.

I can't understand the cognitive dissonance that makes a person marvel at how "amazing the brain is" while simultaneously ignore the suffering of billions of those brains.

Well said. +1 for mentioning Aubrey.

I wasn't sure what to make of riprowan's above accusation that /r/bitcoin has become a toxic environment, but you've pretty much confirmed it.

Sorry for your loss.

Does anyone have data for how many companies from the previous batches have survived so far and what their valuation is?

Nice! You got a link?

Wow, thanks for sharing! I did look at CoreNLP before and the fact that it's in Java has put me off, so this will be useful :)

Heh heh, I see what you did there ;)

Thanks for the compliment!

Yeah, I did not intend for my "this was funny" comment in a negative light, it was a genuinely fun thing to read.

I often wish that more people came up to me with proposal of developing domain specific formal systems, so when it actually happened in reality, I was a bit taken offguard by the unexpectedness of it :P

Yeah I did not think that me and rustynails really disagree on much either!

Yeah that's very interesting, we should defo chat more! I'll send you an e-mail after work.

Oh! Sorry, I didn't mean to misunderstand. The reason I found it funny was because it reminded me of something a close friend would say, because that's exactly the sort of thing that I'm into.

I'm totally with you on the whole "wasted a lot of time in my youth pursuing unsuccessful paths" thing. And looking back, yeah, it's the stuff that the adults/authority figures in your youth don't tell you that really throws you off. So many times in the ten years that I've left school I've had those "aha" moments, and then I thought "well, that would've been pretty useful to know a decade ago". And the annoying thing is, is realizing that there were people my age who already knew that thing back then, due to a slightly different upbringing. It would be nice to minimize that sort of unpredictable randomness from the process.

Do you want to chat more about this off-site? I think we could come up with some interesting ideas between the two of us!

Yeah, I actually like that a lot. I was thinking of something along the same lines.

Do you think it would be cool if there was a way for people to choose which lists to post their tweets to? Like, I follow some people who do research on type theory and I love their insights, but I really don't care what they've had for lunch, or if they find some cat picture funny. So maybe if there was a way for them to tag things in such a way that when I filter by "type theory" I only see their posts related to type theory and nothing else.

I like the idea in general, but my fear that it might be a bit too complicated for a lot of people? I think it's important to have a really simple and intuitive user interface, and something like that could just overcomplicate things.

I don't know, what do you think?

Hey! I was replying to your comment on my other thread and then it disappeared :P You sound like you're going through a lot of the same stuff that I am. I'm 27 also and my mind is a maze of incomprehensible things. Let me know if you want to chat about it, my e-mail is in my profile. Might be something that we can both share insights on!

Interesting! I will ask my friend in the neurology department if she knows anything :)

That's fascinating, thanks for sharing.

Where would one go to try out TMS? I would be quite interested in finding out what my brain is like so long as it was done in a safe manner.