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by RC_ITR 3y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/05/2... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-stage-w... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Well, as this CHATGPT answer [0] states, it's all theoretical (since we do live in a supply constrained world), so I focused on the two key enticing properties of goal. If you are interested in speculation, the ChatGPT response is pr
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sure, but again to your own point, the share of voting Americans who don't earn income (and therefore pay no taxes) because they are over 65 is already 1/3 and only going to increase.[0] [0] https://www.kff.org/oth
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Some interesting points here: >I would like taxes to be due about 4 Tuesdays before the Election Day Tuesday. Most people pay taxes in small increments every 2 weeks then get a refund around tax day, so your plan may not do what you th
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>That leads me to the heart of your comment. Sure you could institute some kind of dystopian dictatorship that makes sure nobody dies of the causes we deem preventable now. But it would be a cure that kills the patient (free society). &g
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sure, but have you ever been on the London Tube and noticed it's notoriously small and uncomfortable in parts? Have you also noticed how windy some stations get because the small trains fill most of the tube and act like an air piston?
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Some crypto maximalists ignore many of the intrinsic aspects of crypto (decentralized consensus, cryptography, etc.) because in their use case, it's just 'digital money.' So when a completely dissimilar example of 'digit
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Yeah, what would we possibly do with a near unlimited supply of one of the most conductive metals that is also extremely resistant to oxidation?
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
The scenario you're describing is one of extreme wealth inequality, which is a real problem, but one that's supposed to be solvable through democratic means. Stopping technological progress isn't going to solve it.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
The broken window fallacy is a controversial axiom that implies demand generation isn't a meaningful way to increase GDP (it comes from the camp that believes output capacity is the only true measure of GDP). This concept became partic
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
A common fallacy is thinking that transactions exist without a human at either end of it (usually due to many layers of complexity in between). You can talk all you want about companies selling to companies, etc., but at the end of the day
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> a car can never navigate a single-lane one-way tunnel safely without a driver (ie, The Boring Company). I think the criticisms of the Boring Company are more "small diameter tunnels are a bad way to build high-throughput undergrou
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> half agree with you, but if we're only talking about death and accident prevention it would be worth it to look at other highly developed countries that have much lower accident rates (there are quite a few that have much lower nu
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
How is contrastive learning done with one model, exactly? I agree only one is used in inference, but two are needed for training (otherwise how do you calculate a meaningful loss function?). Notice in the original CLIP paper, there&#x27
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>The US death rate is 1.04% per year. So in that sporting event example, statistically 313 of them will die within a year's time. Yeah but only some of those deaths are randomly distributed across the population and not correlated
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>You're being downvoted because you are attempting to mislead with statistics. How?[0] Your implication is that 100% of deaths are preventable and the 2% of those deaths that are car accidents are therefore unimportant? It's i
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> The things you do for fun almost certainly has an externality as well. About 45k people died in car accidents in the US in 2022, which if treated as it’s own category outside of accidents would be just outside the top 10 in causes of d
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
If you can retrieve an image using a latent vector, it’s trivial to reconstruct it (decently well) with a diffusion model.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> To achieve the goals of retrieval and reconstruction with a single model trained end-to-end, we adopt a novel approach of using two parallel submodules that are specialized for retrieval (using contrastive learning) and reconstruction
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Did you choose to be part of Western culture?
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
But surely you agree that those people who vote for it do not live in Marxist societies/cultures? They live in cultures completely counter to Marxism. In practice they reject Marxism because they do not live its principles.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>Choice is fundamental to rejection, and rejection is fundamental to counter culture. Most Westerners 'reject' Marxism, but that's not because we choose not to live in Marxist societies, it's because none exist that w
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Romani culture developed and maintained a nomadic lifestyle in areas where non-nomadic people already lived. To the point of choice, most Romani people are born into it. If that's not a counter-culture, then what is a counterculture
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Well, and it's somewhat glib to make this point, but surprise surprise the epicenter of this phenomenon is the SF Bay Area...
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Anti-development. One way SF planners made it hard/less economical to build towers was to force the higher floors to be smaller than lower floors (Transamerica pyramid being the near-satirical example). That has contributed significant
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
So the Roma aren’t a counterculture? I agree homeless people aren’t a political movement that’s trying to abolish homes, but they are completely rejecting mainstream culture (by choice or not). > Countercultures are often described as
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> The designed lifetime of yer typical neopostmodernist glass box office tower is about 25 years. Many of them are 50 years old at this point. They get torn down and replaced all the time. I mean, can you provide a list of all these 1973
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I always think it’s so interesting that on the threads about counterculture, nobody brings up the obvious counterculture that is a huge topic of conversation in America: Homeless people. A large group of individuals who live their life ve
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> it would be easier to knock the building down and start anew. Idk where this meme started but it’s very far from reality. We as a species have only ever voluntarily demolished like 30 or so building above 35 stories because it’s ins
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Apparently not because these are the hottest days in sf history: 1. September 1, 2017 – 106 degrees T-2. June 14, 2000 – 103 degrees T-2. July 17, 1988 – 103 degrees T-4. September 2, 2017 – 102 degrees T-4. October 5, 1987 – 102 degrees T-

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