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Drones will upheave society like we haven't seen for 700 years (2014)(qz.com)
5 points by OgsyedIE 1y ago|1 comments
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
That's a mischaracterisation of programming. The goal of programming is to communicate exact specifications, as any text on Pascal, Agda, Rust, C, TLA+ or Lustre will show. Exactness comes before all else.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
One of the most prominent examples among many others of presenting as extreme a false persona in western culture is the phenomenon of "closeting" in right-wing communities. One example of a TV show on the topic, popularly regarded
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
Such phenotypes would fail to reproduce, leading to the genes for those phenotypes dying out.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
This is exactly what you'd expect if the hypothesis that depression is an evolved adaptation for surviving no-win scenarios that can only be waited out holds. In a scenario where a disaster has negatively affected the primary productiv
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
You might like Ajit Varki's 2013 book which is entirely devoted to using evolutionary biology in answering that question.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
It's just an abstracted and bureaucratic repackaging of the difficulty with searching for prey and forage during a succession of harsh seasons that some of our unluckier ancestors experienced, such as those who lived at the time of the
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Rolling Stone magazine lays off critic Alan Sepinwall, among others(bsky.app)
3 points by OgsyedIE 1y ago|0 comments
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
Most chiefdoms, proto-monarchies and monarchies in human history have had totally inalienable rights for a select few people and it's arguable to say that some states in the world today continue that tradition. A more grounded criticis
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
Most of the members of the human race present on Earth, Jupiter, Saturn etc. during the events of Accelerando are murdered by their posthuman descendants. This includes the vat-grown population of conservative humans used to sway the electo
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
To be a human person is to have: * autonomy * internal (mental) sovereigneity * some degree of legibility to other human persons (e.g. a name, capacity to enter social games, a consistent personal history) * a tolerance for information thro
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
You can only get 12,000! concepts if you pair each concept with an ordering of the dimensions, which models do not do. A vector in a model that has [weight_1, weight_2, ... weight_12000] is identical to the vector [weight_2, weight_1, ...,
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
The US says they had over 300 illegals. Last time I checked, the US was not an omniscient teller of truth.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
No really, transonic flow and turbulence are less complicated than what's really going on underneath the quantity theory of money. If it was easy there would be fewer economists.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
Structurally there's only a few ways disruption can happen to a platform that has existing centralized hosting of metadata and centralized hosting of data. Either the disruptor also centralizes both, decentralizes just the data or dece
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
The steady state idea that most people have about civilization is just not applicable once there is oil-dependent information technology. Either we go up and eliminate the oil dependence but acceleration eats YouTube in a transformative way
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
Not even most economists do, by analogy to how opaque the questions of lifting bodies and rayleigh scattering are to physicists.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
I'm not fluent in this topic. Is there much overlap between these scaling laws and dissipative structures in thermodynamics and/or systems theory?
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
Hartmut Rosa coined the term and theory of social acceleration. You've heard of accelerationism, the political idea that people should make the rate of change of society go as fast as possible. Social acceleration, if you take away the
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
I'm not familiar with the the named platformer titles beyond word of mouth and I may not have the free time to become so for a while but anecdotally I found some years ago that the movement controls in the games Titanfall, Doom (2016)
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
I believe there should be a broader family of terms besides rug pull for when the intentions of vendors and developers change over time to become extractive and negative. No, enshittification is not the right word.
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
You want an aviation accelerator firm like jetBlue Ventures, not YC. Go look around their website and get some ideas. Once you're done, go ask Claude or DeepSeek some questions about how they operate, what their competitors are and how
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
You may wish to do some cursory searches with an llm like DeepSeek or Grok. You'll find a few, but the most approachable introduction to the topic I'm aware of is Tainter.
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In praise of buying cheap knives instead of a single expensive chef knife (2021)(web.archive.org)
5 points by OgsyedIE 1y ago|0 comments
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
The above post listing fallacies is entirely AI-generated and is likely a sleeper agent account that has been woken up from a pattern of posting non-content to disguise inactivity to start astroturfing for Google. The cost/benefit of d
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Google URL Removal Bug Enabled Attackers to Deindex URLs(searchenginejournal.com)
1 points by OgsyedIE 1y ago|0 comments
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
This is one more step towards the commodification of the public good we know as legible contracts. I can't believe I might see Economics 2.0 in my lifetime.
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University insures itself against a drop in Chinese students (2018)(insurancebusinessmag.com)
2 points by OgsyedIE 1y ago|0 comments
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Why DSM is mostly false (2023)(ghaemi.substack.com)
14 points by OgsyedIE 1y ago|2 comments
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by OgsyedIE 1y ago
The author analyses thermodynamics in the context of life almost half as deeply as Bataille, G.C. Williams or Odum yet neglects to put the same rigor to dissecting the moral qualifiers they throw around like benevolent, joyful, horror and e

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