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by Udo 4y ago
This may not even be necessary. Whether TSMC and high tech manufacturing would survive a military invasion anyway is an open question. It's certainly doubtful if there is going to be heavy fighting for a protracted amount of time. Anal
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by Udo 5y ago
As a techno-optimist myself, I understand where the doomerism is coming from. Civilization-ending wars and disasters are still very much in the cards today, and collectively human behavior shows at best a fluctuating will to live. So far we
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by Udo 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I am an older all-rounder programmer with decades of experience in many areas, available for freelance work. I'm up for: - MVPs, game development - C, C++, PHP, Javascript, some C# - In
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by Udo 5y ago
In hindsight, I should not have included the comment about Roko's Basilisk. It was really nothing more than a personal observation that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. As a result, this thread attracted a lot of people who ha
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by Udo 5y ago
> That's an example of this class of game-theory based ideas. That's a good point on its own, but it's not a response. At no time did I or anyone here in this thread assert that "info hazards" do not exist. What
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by Udo 5y ago
The amount of self-importance on display is what makes it sound like gibberish. A: "I have the most ground-breaking idea ever!" B: "Okay, let's hear it?" A: "No, it's too dangerous, it may well des
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by Udo 5y ago
It's Yudkowsky from LessWrong, he is actually a quite insightful thinker, but his disciples claim stuff like this all the time . LessWrong is an extreme echo chamber. For me the breaking point was Roko's Basilisk, a self-procla
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by Udo 5y ago
Implementing a flag like COLOR=light|dark|none puts the onus on application developers to interpret the user's configuration. I think it would be more reasonable to define a standard set of environment variables based on semantics th
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by Udo 5y ago
I think current algorithms do a version of that, but it has to be coupled together with person/outline recognition and such. Taking the background in just once doesn't work because the pixels still change over time (due to lightin
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by Udo 5y ago
> these 2 points have been on my mind unrelated to your argument. Same here. Could the issue be morale? I heard isolated reports that the lower-rung soldiers appeared to have very low fighting morale, and apparently many had not believed
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by Udo 5y ago
> I find your position ridiculous and clearly from someone who's never experienced war or even heard about it from parents and grandparents. I have. You can forget about your equality crap That's a baseless and uncharitable t
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by Udo 5y ago
> It's fucked up that it was attacked I don't think many people outside Russia disagree with that (including the GP). > it's not fucked up that there are social expectations for its citizens to rise to its defence in
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by Udo 5y ago
You are correct that we are nowhere near that in life support technology, however, there don't seem to be an fundamental hurdles there. If we end up opting for a biological life support system, adaptation would not even enter the equ
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by Udo 5y ago
That's a good point. I have no idea actually where the practical limits would be, especially considering options that arise if the ship has access to a lot of electrical power to generate a protective magnetic field. But even at 0.3c,
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by Udo 5y ago
At 0.9c the relativistic time dilation is such that 2.3 days on Earth pass for every day shipboard time, meaning the crew would experience less than 4 years of travel in total: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.ht
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by Udo 5y ago
I find it enjoyable to think about the technologies that might just be in the cards further into the future. If we ever figure out light-weight fusion drives, we could build light hugger space ships that accelerate to a decent fraction of
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by Udo 5y ago
I'm working on a replacement for PHP, just for my own use. I don't really care if anyone else besides me will ever find it useful. Right now it's just a Git repo: https://github.com/ThingamaNet/uce My pr
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by Udo 6y ago
What a terrible, misleading headline. As expected, the reference to the human brain is there entirely for virality reasons. Whenever charge flows, there will be magnetic fields. It's common for this to occur, because all known life use
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by Udo 6y ago
I know this sounds like an empowering story, and it may even be true, but don't actually follow this example. If you're at the point where they'd rather send you legal threats than pay you, even escrow is not going to help
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by Udo 6y ago
As a transhumanist, I'm fine with this. It's clear that a lot of people would physically transform themselves into whatever illusion FaceApp provides today. I certainly would. I know this is being perceived as "fraud" ri
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by Udo 6y ago
They're open source, but they're not Open Source . As a user, these projects provide more value to me than closed-source solutions for all the obvious reasons. As a developer, I understand why choosing such a licensing scheme may
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by Udo 6y ago
> The world is only changed by individual people At least that's the narrative. People like to rally around a single person pushing a single idea, it's a powerful image of a heroic figure who had nothing but a vision. Almost
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by Udo 6y ago
Judging by how much interest this has garnered on HN, there does seem to be a market. I think people would at least like the option. Every time I buy a laptop, it's a matter of tradeoffs. Some of these tradeoffs are technical (like bat
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by Udo 6y ago
How, without information on the "real" world, could you make a determination as to the fidelity of the simulation? Heck, a simulation doesn't even have to attempt to have the same natural laws as its host reality. If you&#x
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by Udo 6y ago
Not sure if that's typical, but my perspective is this: I know almost nothing about energy infrastructure, and even less about local conditions and history in that field. I do tend to lend credibility to HN users who seem to have detai
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by Udo 6y ago
Proof-of-work's advantage is that it was first and is thus the standard. It's not a good standard, but it'll be around for some time. > why hasn't anybody come up with something better In theory, anything with (arti
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by Udo 6y ago
> Exclusive use of jQuery, not using browser drag and drop (manually edits element position), using JS to animate and fade/transition instead of CSS, etc. What's wrong with any of these? I get that you may not personally want
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by Udo 6y ago
The problem is I often don't think of clicking on the "new" link and I do understand why people may be reluctant to spend the effort of curating a couple of new entries. So, idea: How about everyone gets a random new submissi
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by Udo 6y ago
Unless every single civilization out there is made up of inert sand particles, that's not a solution for why we don't see anyone. You're right of course that we tend to assume somewhat similar properties to ourselves, because
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by Udo 6y ago
In general we don't assume that of everyone. What we do assume is that at least some aliens would be interested, because we assume intellect comes with innate curiosity. In an advanced culture, even a small number of individuals exhi

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