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What "the food chain"? IMHO there are many relatively disconnected food chains. There are many natural ecosystems which could and would be severely disrupted as the food chains there break up. However, the food chain for homo sapi
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Arguably the job of democratically elected politicians is to represent the interests of their constituents - so when there's internationally a "prisoner's dillema"/"tragedy of commons" scenario where there
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This scenario is not a zombie apocalypse where the hordes are literally at your doorsteps and it's individuals protecting themselves from other nearby individuals. The climate change may easily cause large scale international conflict
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I'm just saying that there isn't a safety net that provides a better alternative, such a high-school dropout without a supporting family becoming homeless does even less for their core traumas than being told what to do in the arm
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They are rare, but if you build a specific toilet targeted for people with disabilities (next to ordinary, simpler, smaller toilets) then you generally try to make it as accessible as you reasonably can and target a wide variety of differen
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On the other hand, on a country level, countries generally do have enough guns and ammo to greatly limit any chaos coming over their border; uncontrolled immigration happens not because countries can't control it but because they effec
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I agree, but there is a meaningful difference between having dispossessed hordes on your doorstep and being among those dispossessed hordes having to find a place for yourself; and if the price of grain doubles, for a poor community that me
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The context here is toilets specifically designed for disabled people. Some disabilities make it very hard to operate latches or levers, and in that context pushing a button is considered the more accessible control option.
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While you may be technically true, it is obviously clear that some places are far safer than others, and moving to another place will have a very high impact on how global warming affects you, as some regions will be affected much more hars
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We don't expect or desire (or IMHO even consider it acceptable) for these places to stay poor - the less developed countries on average have had steady improvements, a major reduction in poverty and the associated increase in consumpti
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I'm saying that if you look at, for example, the IPCC reports, then out of the various scenarios considered, the very most optimistic ones, the most ambitious goal they consider worth discussing, amounts to stabilizing global warming a
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I think you shouldn't equate "didn't graduate" with "can't graduate" - I feel that a large part, perhaps most, high school dropouts didn't drop out because of various social issues, and for a young pe
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If we magically went netzero tomorrow, the greenhouse effect from the already accumulated emissions would still cause a significant climate change in the upcoming decades. And, of course, we won't go netzero tomorrow, there's no &
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We could measure the effect of historical wars which exploded a much, much larger quantity of explosives than any current conflict, and assume that the current impact isn't any larger than that. Like, the intensity of current wars isn&
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That's not going to be sufficient to prevent climate change (well, nothing we'll realistically do now will be sufficient to do that - it's too late, just as scientists were warning us decades ago), so probably the question
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The art cannot stand alone, but the relevant part is the audiences and what they make of the art, the fan subculture(s) and what they build on top of it - in contrast with that, the corporations which made them are far less relevant.
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It would be complicated and expensive (yes, WiFi is that complicated), and you likely couldn't sell that open hardware adapter so there's no motivation to make one. The law states that "an intentional or unintentional radia
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Providing my own templates is kind of a weird feature, because that's not really what I want (in the sense "people don't want to buy drills, they want to buy holes") - obviously that's a necessary feature, but I nev
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Thing is, you can't really cut the feature set much. Nobody needs 90% of the features but for almost everyone there's some 10% of the less-used features that's a must-have, a total dealbreaker if the other tool doesn't h
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Promotion generally happens when there are very few pieces on the board, and often the opponent's king is the only piece they can move, and it often is close to the promotion square since it was likely trying to block it. If the promot
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I would not automatically treat all the things that people do consciously as intrinsically linked with consciousness, unless there's some clear reasoning why consciousness is required to do that particular thing - and not in the sens
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Yes, computation as such is sufficiently universal that it's very reasonable to assume that a larger number of simpler neurons would be equivalent to a smaller number of "complex emulated neurons".
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Nobody is attempting to have one-to-one correspondence between neurons and artificial "neurons", the fact that a single biological does much more doesn't imply some limitation or incompleteness (as long as the same computatio
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Analysis of what-if scenarios and simulating likely expected outcomes of proposed actions is a very useful ability, but IMHO that is not part of what we'd call 'consciousness'.
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The original article already mentions 'leotard bias' as the problem that athletes from smaller countries face some prejudice in judging compared to the ones representing a superpower, and letting viewers judge would amplify that p
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Every data science team should have a wall decoration with John Tukey's quote "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.&qu
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It is somewhat similar, but substantially different - we can make a solid argument that the likelihood of getting invaded by hostile aliens in the nearest century is far lower than 1%, and also if such an invasion does happen, then building
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Repairs are expensive because of extreme economies of scale. The marginal cost for Samsung to make another injection-moulded plastic front face for a washing machine is literally a few cents, including both material and labor; the cost for
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To clarify, plastic welding generally implies melting the plastic not with heat but with specific solvents. It's kind of "gluing" where there technically there is no glue (i.e. some substance that stays between your two parts
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They are not the same thing. A ticket is something where there is an understanding that we want to do it if time and resources permit, something where it would be okay for someone to grab it and do it. On the other hand, an idea or suggesti

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