DubiousPusher

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by DubiousPusher 1y ago
A stream of linguistic organization laying out multiple steps in order to bring about some end sounds exactly like a process which is creating a “plan” by any meaningful definition of the word “plan”. That goal was incepted by a human but I
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by DubiousPusher 1y ago
This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect. For example, we have certain films to thank for an escalation in the tactics used by bank robbers which inf
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy. The choice isn't between total exploitation of the biosphere and poverty. Nowhere did I say that European development should have been minimized. I simply said the example of European development was not a go
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
More habitable for whom? The point is that we do not need this land. There is plenty of land all around the United States that is "habitable". And given the trend of birth rates and urbanization there is virtually no reason to go
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
If you think this is a convincing counterpoint, I assure you it is not.
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
As a life long resident of the American West, I can imagine few ecological crimes more horrifying. This is one of the most unique geographies on this planet. The life here is thoroughly adapted to a fragile balance of long want and occasion
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
But we literally don't know the variability. Unlike the numbers of stars in the universe or the number of planets, which we have some statistically board observational evidence for, we have no such statistical evidence for the developm
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
It's a matter of water being a great place for carbon based chemistry to occur. Why carbon? Because it is so dynamic. It readily forms complex molecules which interact in interesting ways. Looking at other forms of chemistry we don&#x2
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
But it spent 1.5 billion years trapped in a low energy trap. Only the unusual process that brought proto-mitochondria inside bacteria made it interest. The branches that didn't follow have remained trapped with a severe limit upon thei
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
It's not even clear that the ants haven't won.
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
The Drake Equation is a fun idea and all but I think it should go up there with Sagan's Nuclear Winter work as more thought experiment than reality. It's just too arrogant to think we currently can place odds on all the important
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
Absolutely. This is a huge trade-off. The constraints you place on the model output is all about how much your app and user experience can tolerate bad LLM behavior.
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
Pretty good. Despite my high scepticism of the technology I have spent the last year working with LLMs myself. I would add a few things. The LLM is like another user. And it can surprise you just like a user can. All the things you've
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
This article is literally about a permeant or semi-permenant cure for diseases which are currently treated with drugs costing as much as tens of thousands of dollars per month. The profit motive would be not to bring inverse vaccines to mar
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
If inverse vaccines work, they will end the most lucrative drugs in the history of medicine. Humira the OG biologic treatment for autoimmune conditions costs $5,000/month. There has been a gold rush by pharmaceutical companies to creat
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Why is the person who treats most autoimmune diseases called a rheumatologist? Because the people who documented and categorized these diseases in Western medicine were believers in Humorism. That is a belief that human ailments stem from t
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Yes, Swype keyboard fail.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
You can have people with Psoriatic Arthritis creating legions on their skin. You give them an immune suppressant and the legions go away. Please explain to me your alternative hypothesis for this mode of action.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Well, considering that current treatments for these diseases involve a broad based suppression of the immune system which lead to substantial increases risk from routine infection, they would have to be pretty bad to do worse than the curre
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Just a heads up for anyone who finds themselves with a similar requirement, there's a very robust set of office APIs available in .net. I would be surprised if you couldn't open and run a whole workbook with them though I have onl
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
It's complicated but most of it comes down to two things. First, was Napoleon III's domestic situation. He had fashioned himself as a second Bonaparte and there were two main aspects to Bonapartian politics, domestic modernization
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> One of the biggest mistakes that people tend to make is looking at the current population and using it to fill in the gaps in the archaeological record. I think this is good to keep in mind but let's be real, humans have tended to
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
You are interpreting reality through a television show...
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
If you want to understand 20th and 21st century European history, you really do need some background in the Franco-Prussian war. There's obviously no specific moment when Germany became ascendant. It was a process that took several hun
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
It should be a fundamental human right to have and communicate secrets. That's the end of the story for me. There should be things the state simply cannot touch not just things which it should not touch.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
The technical aspects of this don't matter one way or the other if you believe that it is a fundamental human right to have secrets and communicate them. That's the root question here. If you say, "well yes but only for legal
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
This is a good point. I should have said, in the absence of law, there is only power through individual domination and vassalage. Law does not guarantee a more equitable distribution of power but it can allow for it.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I disagree. Law (not in a vacuum but as practiced) can distribute power and thus unseat the power of strength alone. In many places throughout history, a strong person could hit whomever they wanted excepting the rich and aristocratic. A ma
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
In the absence of law, there is only power.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
For me, McCarthy is among a few authors ( Sherman Alexie, Edward Abbey, Octavia Butler, etc) who truly broke the Northeastern cultural stranglehold on American literature. His voice is brutally and uncompromisingly continental.

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