UnFleshedOne

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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
That 1%, if they are loud enough, can move overton window for the whole society. Recall how fast vaccine passports moved from a crazy right wing conspiracy theory to an obvious and necessary measure. Last year is full of such examples.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
I guess anything involving lifting, manipulation and narrow places.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Much easier (and already being done) with drones.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
I think the main reason for making a humanoid and human-sized robots is that all infrastructure is made for humans. So keeping a similar form factor is an advantage if you expect it to work in human spaces.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
"It looks like you are working on genomics data, should I direct you to a search engine to find appropriate tooling instead?"
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Kids these days are buying jeans with holes in them already. They don't even have a decency to get them worn down personally...
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
I think they make a category mistake when they do then. Values tell you where you want to be, rationality is a most accurate process to get where you want to go and maybe to check if you want to be there before actually getting there and ch
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
A soulless and mathematically applied principles is a good was to actually reduce the number of people suffering. Assuming that's what your goal was from the start. If you only look at "lived experience" and then make a rando
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
I think you are confusing the original purpose of our thinking apparatus (social proof first, discovering true facts distant second, unless facts can eat you quickly) and rationality as a system for discovering facts as true as possible wit
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Deciding when to stop overthinking is also a rational process. Some choices truly don't matter, or not matter enough to spend time and energy on them. If consumer ethics is important to you then it obviously warrants some deliberation,
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Midwits (which we all are to one degree or another) can be mostly fixed by applying Chesterton's Fence principle though. We just need a knock or two in both directions to better estimate a relative weight of that rule as a heuristic.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
2 years ago I would agree with you 100%. Lately though conspiracy theories become conspiracy facts with alarming frequency. And the speed with which media reaches "We've always been at war with Eastasia" zeitgeist on each shi
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
You can't say values are irrational -- they just are. If you really like paperclips, no amount of logic can tell you otherwise. What logic can tell you (and other people could), is that your values conflict with each other and you have
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
> you chose to walk away from the people who were telling you the truth. To be fair, a combination of heuristics that say "distrust people with proven record of lying" and "ability to detach your opinions from reality is a
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
There is also a major group that would be severely disappointed if technology did magically save us (say if 10 years to fusion was actually this decade), because it would deprave them of the possibility to solve other societal problems or p
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Problem is that a lot of activists and politicians don't want to solve it -- they instead spend time replacing nuclear with coal, tacking on unrelated social issues and so on. All of those are about power, and correlate with taking the
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
You have an outdated view on social justice issues -- in fact dangerously close to a view a classic liberal would hold. Current gestalt moved past this outdated view and is now about equal outcomes.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
> but I don't think anyone wants that I really hope that's true...
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
And that's way worse than erroneously flagging the link itself.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Doesn't seem to ignore it for me -- on the first page I only see "headphones" word in the search string itself, in "related searches" and in google maps listing shops that sell them.
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Unfortunately on some sites even generic google search (not limited to that site) is better than on-site search...
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Right now climate situation is not scary enough even for activists in the area -- they spend their time mixing in unrelated social justice issues and protesting nuclear plants. Such frivolous notions will fall off once it becomes clear we a
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Parent organisms do influence the way their children develop, at what extent is a different question (I understand it is fractal spaghetti all the way down). It seems planaria worms can do something like that [0]. [0] https://www
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
> Also - the baby brain is not really a 'pruned', smaller version of the adult brain, right I think it is the other way around -- adult brain is a physically pruned version of baby brain. We start with lots of connections from
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Yeah, because MS sometimes fixes or shims those too, if they are too popular (or fixes bugs in their own API if those led to the crashes). Of all the questionable telemetry this one is actually useful...
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Have you tried running anything on new Apple architecture -- even running your own apps built locally works half of the time, and that's _with_ the full moon out and correct number of goats dully sacrificed...
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
The problem is that you also need backup bank accounts and probably a backup identity after disaster strikes...
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Re crash data: MS actually provides crash data to 3rd party providers who set things up correctly. So if you have a desktop app you don't need to roll your own crash collecting system if Winqual [0] is enough. Apps that roll their own
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by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Instead of a pile of machines, imagine a vast opaque bureaucracy, where any individual participant doesn't have any decision-making power and must follow a prescribed set of steps. I think this is partially what fuels nightmares of you
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Nobody lives there, so I fail to see the problem even if the whole surface of the moon gets covered with various constructions Coruscant style...

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