EliRivers

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by EliRivers 1y ago
Genuine question; what even would make going to Mars economically viable? It we mean by economically viable something like "when the amount of wealth we generate, where wealth is stuff that makes the lives of humans better, exceeds
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by EliRivers 1y ago
If we're chucking in on these, which seems to be the case, also Black Arrow; the UK's nascent space programme which in 1971 put a satellite into orbit (which is small beans now but in 1971 was still a serious achievement) and was
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by EliRivers 1y ago
I expect someone will just hand a huge amount of money to some AI snake oil company who will fuck it mightily on their behalf in a "nobody could have seen this coming, we're not at fault" manner.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
"most bidets starts leaking after 6-12 months." Well that just doesn't sound true at all. I would definitely remember if it leaked every year. Do you have any evidence for this? A bidet is pretty basic plumbing, and basic plu
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by EliRivers 1y ago
To be fair, there's a reason for the pattern with init methods you're describing. Without prejudice on any other reasons, the most common reason for this pattern I've seen is people thinking in languages that basically don&
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by EliRivers 1y ago
One of the common pitfalls I've seen in my time is someone writing a language they are familiar with in a language that just doesn't fit; trying to apply idioms that flow well with one language to another language where that'
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Maybe the system needs a rethink; an expectation that everyone able to will pretty much work their whole lives, but making work much less miserable and time-consuming so that's just fine. Ha. Total pipedream. It is easier to imagine th
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Sounds like you should use those other languages. Right tool for the right job.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
If you're taking priority requests: "How coding FPGA differs from GPU and what is High-Level Synthesis, Verilog, and VHDL? #36" Yes please!
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Would AGI be recognisable to us? When a human pushes over an anthill, what do the ants think happened? Do they even know the anthill is gone; did they have concept of the anthill as a huge edifice, or did they only know earth to squeeze thr
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Yes, we do seem to have a very high opinion of ourselves.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
I'd expect it to be generalised, where we (and everything else we've ever met) are specialised. Our intelligence is shaped by our biology and our environment; the limitations on our thinking are themselves concepts the best of us
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by EliRivers 1y ago
A bit poorly named; not really very general. AHI would be a better name.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
I'd accept that as a human kind of intelligence, but I'm really hoping that AGI would be a bit more general. That clever human thinking would be a subset of what it could do.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Would we even recognise it if it arrived? We'd recognise human level intelligence, probably, but that's specialised. What would general intelligence even look like.
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by EliRivers 2y ago
provided they continue to go through with the investment I recall the Foxconn Wisconsin situation, and I have no doubt Apple et al are well aware of it. String out a pretense of building factories in the US for the next three and a half y
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by EliRivers 2y ago
People say they want realism in games. They don't. That's just a thing people have learned to say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Indeed. While the UK and the USA have comparable levels of dental health, in US television actors typically require very good (or rather, cosmetically appealing according to local norms) teeth in order to succeed. In the UK, it's less
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Genuine question that may come across as snark, but I promise it's not! "you don't grow up until you have to balance a check book." Is that just shorthand for "be properly aware your own budget and finances" or
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Every so often, it saves me a few hours on a task that's not very difficult, but that I just don't know how to do already. Generally something generic a lot of people have already done. An example from today was using XAudio2 on w
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Free from anything that stops him extracting all surplus value from consumers and suppliers both.
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Seeing Bezos advocate for free markers is a massive dissonance, until I remind myself that he hasn't said what they should be free of. Bezos would like to be free to run competition out of town, force brutal terms on suppliers, all tha
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Indeed. Other commodities have other strengths; oil can be turned into a huge range of products that make people's lives better, wheat can be literally used to make food to radically enhance people's lived experience, aluminium is
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Other commodities have a physical existence. That's quite a big difference.
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Perhaps they feel that tobacco farming and harvesting causes significantly less distress to the tobacco plants than animal farming and slaughter does to the animals.
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by EliRivers 2y ago
I suspect (but cannot prove) that if two children were swapped at birth and placed in a completely different culture on the other side of the world, their behaviour would be very different and would match that culture far more than that of
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by EliRivers 2y ago
Nah. Just don’t want to work with negative Nancy. You bring everyone down. Are you aware that your attitude also affects everyone in a negative way (and you just don't care?), or are you oblivious to the damage you do to people? Or m
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by EliRivers 2y ago
It pairs really well with free speech How does it pair well with free speech? If I think that you might be recording me without telling me, I'll stop talking.
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by EliRivers 2y ago
It can be so very valuable. I was at a conference in the last quarter discussing the effects of the Houthis on shipping in the Red Sea. There has long been rumour that it's possible to pay a few hundred thousand dollars, funneled to t
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by EliRivers 2y ago
If you really believe something, say it loudly and proudly and sign your name to it. And then wait for the lynch mob to come round because they disagree that {people shouldn't be property / women should be allowed to own propert

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