IIAOPSW

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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   Skeptical of the superconducting magnet component. Main issue I see (when I used to think about fission fragment designs) is that some statistical fraction of the fragments are going to hit your superconducting wires, introducing defects in
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   Using the analogy, they are like loose screws or other basic machine parts that fell down the pipe, got in the engine, jammed a bunch of things cause they aren't supposed to be there, and consequently a bunch more misc scrap metal got
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   NYC already has this. Its called a "bodega kitty". As in the cat that the owners of the local bodega (corner store) keep on premise for exactly this purpose.
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   Rats are the reboot mammals just in case there's another meteor.
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   Will is a tree structure. Things that act due to the design or machinations of known forces are not free will. The computer, sophisticated though it may be, does all it does because the programmer wills it so. The things you are paid to do
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   yeah, but then you'll want the central nervous system to be able to fiddle with the state anyway in order to do things like holding your breath while swimming, at which point the autonomous system is redundant and you may as well just
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   http://playinverse.com/
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   Edit: Fixed Edit: Fixed
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   by IIAOPSW 3y ago

   Its the simple things sometimes [[[[[[[CC[[FF]]]]R]R]R]]]
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    I'll comment from the architect side. Having made a substantial puzzle game about movement through a very escher-esque space. Sometimes subversive "Nakatomi" solutions are intentional. Sometimes they are accidental but I know
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Public private partnership. The city doesn't have the funds up front, so it contracts the work out but part of the payment is a monopoly on running the service for some number of years. This is how the subway was built using the dual c
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Here is a map of the mail-subway I happen to have on file https://imgur.com/PJCnINA
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” Literally the cold opening of "On Bullshit".
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    In other words, LLM's are, in the technical sense defined by Harry Frankfurt, bullshitters. The essence of bullshit (as he defines it) is that it is neither truth nor lie but rather unconcerned with veracity altogether. A bullshitter w
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    I'll chime in. There's 4 things we call "crime" and the only thing they have in common is that the state sends in an agent to physically restrain you from doing it. 1) Rational crime. Someone looked at the payoff to gett
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    The only change I wish to suggest is the substitution of a term I'm trying to popularize. Replace "anti-social personality disorder" with "anus-type personality disorder".
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Maybe he was feeling lucky.
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Mental images are like a movie set. They only build the parts that are going to be on screen, and even then accuracy and level of detail is only a concern for the parts that are relevant to the plot. Everything else is just shoddily constru
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    44 min from where I'm sitting.
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Are you saying the Snowden Leaks were an inside job. I mean, an inside and upstairs job? I mean, screw it you know what I mean.
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    While completely true, I think this misses the point which makes minimal "natural" language interesting. Sure you don't use one of these constructed languages in practice the same way you don't build your websites with T
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Pardon my tasteless skepticism, but are we sure this isn't a social engineering trick of his yet?
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    I feel like it has gotten worse. Your expectations have shifted towards knowing and accepting you have to prompt it a certain way. When you started, "holy shit I can just use natural language". GPT4 is influencing the bar we are s
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    I do not know with what pieces Chess 3 will be played, but Chess 4 will be played with sticks and stones.
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    You should look into Khet (commonly described as "laser chess")
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    No it wouldn't. An actually red object would have the exact same red-cone spatial pattern no matter how far away it is, because the pattern is coming from inside the retina not from the object itself. An actually weirdly striped black
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    Like NTSC/PAL but in a (possibly redundant) basis that is highly optimized by evolution for 3d objects projected down to the 2d retina. Not a rectilinear scanline per se but conceptually similar.
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    I have a simple theory of colors. Look at how the color cells are distributed in the retina. Same pattern, but at slightly different scales (spatial frequencies). I speculate color is coded the same as spatial information. Or rather, the br
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    And if you give it permission to solve issues, expect it to create issues.
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    by IIAOPSW 3y ago

    or it was always just a dice roll, and asking the same prompts again will give you sometimes 1, usually 2, sometimes 3 bananas.