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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Usually this happens after the naysayers have been forcibly evicted from economic and social life
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
What? iO research is an active field in cryptography
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
The formalisms are not an invention of the blog post, just the formal definition of iO
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
The number of times this happens in a year is negligible. It’s also quite difficult to do it safely: airlines won’t allow you to fly when heavily pregnant, and emergency deliveries are incredibly expensive due to the American healthcare sys
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
The US is unlike most other countries in that it is built on the recent genocide of the native population, with ~most of the current population being immigrants in the last 400 years. Under what moral rules do genocidaires get citizenship b
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Well maybe then they should have done quality control. We’ve gotta stop making excuses for these companies that are making money hand over fist.
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Cool. Do you still use computers, or?
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
There are plenty of solutions to this problem. See eg the Zerocash paper and the Zcash chain, both decade+ old now
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
How do we maintain large urban communities is a squarely social problems, and parts of it are amenable to technical solutions such as wastewater management, supply chains, large scale agriculture, etc.
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
There are plenty of technological solutions to social problems. This is a tired trope.
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Please don’t say things which reveal how stupid you are. Essentially all technological advances today stem from fundamental research. It’s fine if you don’t want these advances, but then don’t complain when your life expectancy regresses.
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
This is not a positive change. Applied research that makes profits is for industry. Industry will never fund curiosity-driven research in any amount, so the government needs to do it. Redirecting government funding for a function already se
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Please. Per capita energy usage of western countries is way higher than either India or china
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Plenty of poor people across the world have scientific curiosity
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Whatever diversity sections were required in grant proposals are nothing compared to the situation right now. If your guy couldn’t say stuff like we will do outreach to local CCs, will design summer research programs, etc, then they’re just
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Almost all advances in deployed PLs come from academic research. Not sure what kind of point you’re trying to make
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
Maybe you should complain about the other leeches on your economy, like, eg, the military. Science funding is a minuscule part of the US budget
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
That’s explicitly not what’s happening with uutils; they have contributed fixes and test cases back to upstream
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
That is just exponentiation, eg squaring. They’re just putting symbols instead of numbers there.
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
First of all, science is good in and of itself. Second of all, this science in particular seems helpful to predict the impact of potentially disastrous climate change.
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by Ar-Curunir 4mo ago
The human body is much more complex than any software system devised to this date. We don’t have good ways to even start thinking about such simulations.
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
"Teetering on the brink of nuclear war" Sorry to be rude, but what exactly are you smoking?
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
A: Weights had to remain trustworthy as they were distributed elsewhere for use in the trade. B: Someone was obviously "in charge" lol B can imply A, but A does not imply B.
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
Broader Impacts sections can be quite, well broad. You can put in there standard things like “we will design new grad and undergrad courses that train new students in this tech that we will develop”. You can put wider-impact things like “we
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
Ask any scientists, and you will find that no, grants weren’t being cancelled randomly, and no, scientists were living in fear of that.
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
I agree with you, but most people aren’t ready to engage with basic anarchist arguments
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
Unfortunately, LLMs might lead to the demise of the primary institution that allows for people that are in it for the love of intellectual activity to do that activity, namely research universities. Certainly the people proposing the tech
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
No, because now Google controls entirely what you see. They could decide to show you the recipe after all. Also, at some point even the ad-laden websites will die, and then Googles sources will be extinguished.
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
Newton did a lot more than just calculus, you know.
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by Ar-Curunir 5mo ago
Whatever Mamdani is implementing is also not USSR-style socialism. It’s at best similar to the system you live in Europe.

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