Ginden

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by Ginden 5y ago
> The example I like to use is that a dragonfly brain uses just sixteen neurons to take input from thousands of ommatidia and track prey in 3D space, plot intercept vectors, and send that data to the motor centers of the brain. Human opt
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by Ginden 5y ago
> 1.28 trillion transistors So, basically, 45 x RTX 3080?
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by Ginden 5y ago
> If you showed somebody from 1921 a page of text produced by GPT-3, told them that it was written by a machine, and then told them that we'd made no progress towards artificial intelligence, they'd laugh in your face. You can
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by Ginden 5y ago
Certain places use more complex methods of counting heat used, exactly because you leaving apartment unheated incured additional cost on neighbours. Heat is transfered from their apartments, so they must pay more for your comfort.
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by Ginden 5y ago
I think sex offenses are strongly related to "toxic masculinity" mindset (though, I don't like that name).
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by Ginden 5y ago
> I don't know about stealing but is it not the case that most sex offenders are men? That seems like an actual risk wherase the accusations at play in racism are just made up. This conclusion seems to be quite controversial, becaus
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by Ginden 5y ago
> the logic of Enlightenment values has led to increased social control. Despite that, fundamentalist Christian communities, closest surrogate for "good days before Enlightenment", espouse much stricter social control than main
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by Ginden 5y ago
It can skew results, because poor (by income) people can own some wealth in land, because they don't want to sell it for legal or sentimental reasons. My own grandmother keeps some wasteland, because she believes that someday her child
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by Ginden 5y ago
> I assume by "rich" they are talking top 10% or whatever of society? I live in the UK and it's well-known that you can't just get there through hard work. In UK, you need to have wealth of £176,221, excluding persona
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by Ginden 5y ago
> We can see easily that no human has an IQ of 10x the average. IQ is by definition normally distributed. If you define wealth the same way as you define IQ (basically as position in normal distribution), not even Jeff Bezos will have
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Most wealth in the world is inherited and grows over generations. According to "Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth Or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom?": > Of the total wealth of the population, Kes
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Because he's being generous: the 11% difference was on a baseline seroprevalence of 0.76%. Wait a second. > In other words: you'd have to get 1300 people to wear masks to prevent one seropositive (in case you're wonde
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by Ginden 5y ago
> (a) we're in the universe we're in, so by definition it must exist and there's a selection bias there; This has basically 3 possible explanations - insane coincidence, multiverse (with many versions of constants; certain
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Why couldn't Javascript have ever built a halfway decent standard library? Because it's consensus-driven, and that consensus is achieved on meetings organized every ~3 months. And because of strict backwards compatibility rul
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Now, the fact that IEEE754 is insane is something else, but JS does nothing wrong (aside from not having not-floats) JS has BigInt - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Each is as smart as it needs to be. Petter Watts formulated it in different manner - "all animals are under stringent selection pressure to be as stupid as they can get away with". > Would it benefit the squirrel species s
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by Ginden 5y ago
> if they knew that the experiment would be 10x the duration, and each of those stars were instead dollar bills. There is catch - adding money into equation can trigger "avoid risk" behaviours.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for! You miss confounding factor, children have abysmal cognitive performance compared to adults. So you compare 1 heuristic algorithm running on weak CPU
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by Ginden 5y ago
Many animals aren't under strong pressure to increase efficiency of their brains, because these brain are small and majority of metabolism is put into very basal structures like brainstem. Birds for example were under such evolutionary
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by Ginden 5y ago
It's plainly untrue. I worked on ECMAScript proposals and TC39 takes backwards compatibility really seriously. Browsers too take backwards compatibility very seriously and features stop working almost only if these are serious security
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by Ginden 5y ago
> programming languages where if you write code now - you will be able to compile and use that code ten years from now (a software lifecycle eternity) Fun fact: code written in JavaScript in 1995 will work in 2021, after 26 years. If you
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by Ginden 5y ago
Author is quite clever in reinventing solutions for solved problems.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> What's the strength of effect? You are acting like anyone cares about effect sizes. As civilization, we transcended past such nuances, you can write alarmistic abstract about 3% effect size, as long magic p < 0.05.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Increasing the CO2 concentration in the air we breathe, even by the relatively small amount caused by burning fossil fuels, has been shown to lower human cognitive function. Does that count as poisoning? Very minor cognitive impairment
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by Ginden 5y ago
> They wouldn't need to break TLS 1.3 if they have access to root certificates, they could use them to perform MitM attacks. It's trivially easy and almost undetectable for any nation-state to perform targeted MitM against HT
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by Ginden 5y ago
Climate change due to CO2 emissions is not a form of poisoning. Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. Fossil-fuels powerplants produce surprisingly low air pollution due to all required by law filters,
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by Ginden 5y ago
> The question is whether “doing it wrong” (Fukushima) outweighs the benefits of “doing it right”. As of 2021, nuclear powerplant accidents killed less than 2 people per year since 1970s. As of 2018, nuclear powerplants produced 10% of e
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by Ginden 5y ago
It's unusable for anyone but few highly qualified sysadmins. If good security isn't easily obtainable for tech-savvy person in one hour, there is basically no security.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Unless you are writing nuclear warhead management system, writing UUID collision handling is waste of time. Client can retry on top level if request failed.
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by Ginden 5y ago
How about carbon tax?

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