Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
Tragically relevant story to accompany this article: the Goiânia accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
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I agree. I just think it's a missed opportunity for the government to keep the status quo indefinitely.
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I can't believe I'm defending some random New York Post author, but that's not what's happening here. The article is deliberately employing a rant-like, tongue-in-cheek agony aunt style and sharing open-ended observation
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The building and launching approach makes intuitive sense, but it runs against the feudal nature of large tech companies. This point is perhaps clearer if we take Google as an example instead. Mid-level engineers attach themselves to a proj
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The discursive style of the article isn't meant to be taken so literally.
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These positive traits you cite are defined by human minds and have no meaning outside of them. Their value is determined by humans. The mere fact that these are seen as valuable by humans is already a good indication that humans do these th
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I've noticed that HN is very critical of young prodigies. It's hilarious that we are doing something similar here but this time with nuclear weapons insteasd of regular science fair fare.
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With virtualized currency and literal microwave pain rays, I don't see this remaining the norm for every boom and bust cycle. There will soon come a time where revolt is no longer possible.
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There's nothing overblown about being forced out of a neighborhood you've lived in all of your life. Now the problem is reaching epic proportions all over the world. I also do not understand how the second sentence and the last ar
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If hundreds of millions care about it, it would make more sense for the government to keep it as a focal point for the population during economic crises instead of actually invading it.
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As someone from outside either country, neither the US nor China developing AI sounds particularly appealing.
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That might be true in the anglophone world, but plenty of other populations aren't hostile to the idea of regulating the internet, and I don't mean the totalitarian countries. The GDPR is a ray of hope in this regard. What prompte
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I don't really see the point of appealing to morality or to what ought to happen. They're not going to relinquish power willingly. Few individual do, and for groups it's vanishingly rare.
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What incentive have we given them to stop?
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As a thought experiment, let's assume the best or worst intentions of the participants depending on their relation to the case: - The blogger is cynically making money by appealing to conservatives - Hacker News commenters are privileg
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I honestly think the only rational reaction to brain upload technology existing is to erase as many traces of your existence as possible before self-terminating. Bet Pascal didn't picture this wager
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I agree with his view overall, but the current atmosphere seems to reward boundary-pushing more and more. There's never been a better time to be a stress-resistant psychopath or its company equivalent.
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I wasn't familiar with Oberlin before reading this story, but I found it nonetheless interesting as an example of how your life can be turned around quickly. I don't doubt that modern day businesses make decisions based on whether
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From a non-American perspective, these sums are ludicrous in any case. However, they don't seem to be inconsistent with other big American payouts for various life-altering incidents, whether aligned with one end of the political spect
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The actual TL;DR of the article is that the author wants to increase the political power of the elites while decreasing the power of the other classes. Mentioning Uber as the greatest invention of the last 30 years tells us all we need to k
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I don't see how it can be termed a disaster if the end result is that infrastructure companies received more money and the population received a higher (if temporary) standard of living. This also increased the probability of decreased
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The commenter at the top of the tree was implying a degree of unsafety in their premise that was sufficient to overpower other possible statistical causes. In the current discussion, this is a very close equivalent to stating that the vacci
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Very few people refuse to talk about aging, and it's not a problem we are equipped to solve or something unfamiliar to us as a species. Plenty refuse to talk about rising obesity rates, and it's not only something we can address n
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It's fairly obvious when you travel to places with high obesity that the problem is environmental, but microplastics aren't even going to be in the top 20 reasons for that. The food culture in those places is just completely buste
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I think it's unfortunate that there is all this mutual venom between the literary and genre fiction worlds. It's about as unnecessary as the cultural animosity between the hard sciences and the humanities. Anti-intellectualism mak
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If you want real horror, I can't recommend this short story enough. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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Do you have any other recommendations? I really enjoyed this one.
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My recommendation is to watch speedruns of that game as I recall them being hilariously insolent.
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Looks like visual artists will be rewarded in the future for creating new styles and templates that can feed prompts. Instead of developing a single style and producing from it over a lifetime, developing multiple types and spreading them l
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Whenever I read articles like this filled with buzzwords and a LinkedIn way or looking at the world, I am always under the impression that the main driving force behind the busyness and burnout is just the fact that it's all unimportan

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