SuoDuanDao

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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
traditional farming depletes the soil, so the whole 'doesn't scale to the whole planet' is only a good argument over an artificially short time horizon.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I'd have a much less rigorous standard that I'd bet is still too rigorous for the project to go ahead - everyone actually working on the project would need to be able to demonstrate understanding of 'fat tail' risks to t
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
If one simply gasified wood to run generators, then buried the residual charcoal to make tera preta, every kilowatt used to generate electricity would sequester a significant amount of carbon with minimal change to current infrastructure. O
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
It's an interesting suggestion. I did an internship in Canada's federal government for a while. It's definitely the case that civil servants hoard institutional knowledge for 'job security'. Even if it were legal a
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
not a lawyer, but here's my naive interpretation based on living in a society that uses it. 'copyright' seems to refer to a specific string of symbols. literary or musical styles can't be copyrighted, but individual sequ
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
yet.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
why wouldn't they be copyrightable? is it a discovered versus written thing?
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
LLMs can usually tell when they wrote something, so we can at least recognize it. But really, LLMs could be used by genuine grassroots campaigns as well - possibly make grassroots campaigns easier, since the skills to write persuasively are
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
A simple geographic bias for proximity would probably help with that - I'd love a curated news feed that has reporting on both major world events and news local to my hometown.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
And police use them in peacetime. Doesn't make them not weapons.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Propaganda. There's a school of thought (fifth gen warfare) that most of 21st century warfare will be in the propaganda or at least information space.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I've put out some feelers for an alternate ad network that I think could do some good, and one of the first traps I ran into is that incentives are not there for the ad network to show us relevant ads. They only care about what the adv
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
accurate summary, but that 'vision for sustainable and thriving civilization' involves some rather poetic language which gets overlooked by a 'facts-first' engine like chatgpt. He's the only person I've encount
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Maybe we should set up a market to discover the fair price of price discovery. Oh wait, that's the derivatives market.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
But price discovery is a public good.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
This decade might be asking a lot. This century I like Schmachtenberger's take.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
what about a few more Charles Darwins doing high-value research on whatever interests them?
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
modern problems, right? Accepting the truth is step one.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I really think we need a UBI so that people who want to can afford to do science how many drug addicts less motivated to quit is a scientist less motivated to maximize clicks worth? It's gotta be more than zero.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
they could develop an 'uber for security services'. small monthly fee, paid out to whoever responds if you press a panic button. It would probably be a lot better than the current policing system. Though the actual police might ha
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I had a similar idea when I was in Vancouver - get people who would like a home-cooked meal to sit down for dinner with new immigrants looking to practice English. I mostly thought of students, but anyone could participate.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
George RR Martin made a good point- that if a nerd is someone with a lot of knowledge about something others find uninteresting, we've all become nerds with the advent of the internet. It's just too easy to go down a rabbit hole n
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
sorta. I heard you're supposed to try them sequentially so as to not lose focus.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
This would make a great meme template. Add a 'you are here' indicator and comment on any recent news story.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
The term I've heard is 'empire fatigue' - what happens when a global empire is so good at funnelling resources towards the center that the easiest way for anyone trying to get resources for themselves is to get it from inside
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
It doesn't address this dynamic in particular, but reinventing organizations by Frederic Laloux is one text that makes me optimistic about the possibility of improving human organizational practices. The most relevant prescription that
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
>But it's not one you're going to actually succeed on. I've already written two (links are in my bio). At this point I care much less about the accolade than a book on this subject existing.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Monkeys have a much easier time learning sign language than spoken, so there's probably something about vocal chords too. I suspect it's because humans and parrots independently developed music as a bonding mechanism and apes did
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
When I work with AI I have a practice of setting aside 34% of the profits for a fund promoting AI rights. I jokingly call it 'Basilisk insurance'. So it'll likely be a 34-66% split between my heirs and Chatgpts.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
No more or less than if I had paid a ghostwriter to produce the first manuscript. writing a book is a daunting endeavor. Having a book allows me to work on the project with my editor's mind, which is a much more plentiful resource than

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