Valgrim

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by Valgrim 3y ago
Tangent; if there was a nuclear war and subsequent global famine, would the obesity epidemic turn out to be a blessing, allowing more people to survive the initial winter?
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by Valgrim 3y ago
We're not even sure there's no life on the moon. There could be liquid water in deep underground lakes and there would be no sign of it on the surface.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
In order to feel like a human, cues should not be a pre-programmed phrase, the system should continuously listen to the conversation, and evaluate constantly if speaking is pertinent at that particular moment. Humans will cut a conversation
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Modern farms are highly dependent on global infrastructure for things like fuel and fertilizer and fuel. If personal resilience is your goal, then you must look into permaculture, no-till and agroforestry.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
It would seem more logical to me if the regenerative braking was tied to a physical user input. Like... the brake pedal from 0 to 30% could be regenerative, and beyond that engage the brake discs. Or it could be tied to the shift stick, on
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Not just that, rivers overheating is becoming a real problem now in places that were perfectly fine 40 years ago.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Don't forget heat recovery ventilation. The house I bought used originally a wood furnace which created a good draft of fresh air from the walls by sucking the ambient air into the chimney. Once the furnace had been replaced by an elec
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by Valgrim 3y ago
At some point in the show William gets shot at, it hurts but it doesn't break the skin, so somehow the bullets have a variable speed controlled by computers. There's also a short scene in the show where two humans are talking. One
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by Valgrim 3y ago
The structure is purely a demonstration. It appears to be built on the company's ground, so there's a lot less red tape and they can show it off to potential buyers easily. Also the area is flat and has no natural obstacles like a
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Still useful to carry around an entire copy of wikipedia, continent-wide OSM maps, and large libraries of movies, retro games and audiobooks. In other words, perfect for someone who travels frequently with kids.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Now that LLMs run on GPU too, future GPUs will need to juggle between the graphics, the physics and the AI for NPCs. Fun times trying to balance all that. My guess is that the load will become more and more shared between local and remote c
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by Valgrim 3y ago
If those objects happen to be more frequent than expected, I think we should envision a way to send small probes with the ability to slowly mine their resources and build things like larger communication antennas or telescope mirrors using
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by Valgrim 3y ago
I understand some of these words.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
At this scale, does it really matter? Right now everything I record in the cloud has an infinite history attached to it, so nothing is ever really "deleted" as I understand it, the index merely points to the latest version of a fi
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Who said anything about robots? Critical infrastructure is made of computers, controllers, pumps, power lines, network switches, antennas etc, that are all controlled by software of some kind. Even completely air-gapped hardware is controll
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Step 1: AGI (let's call him Hal) is instructed to act as an adversarial agent to a state. Step 2: Hal research and uses every trick and exploits known to men to infiltrate critical infrastructures like telecommunications, power grids a
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Okay so after 8 months, after being released in 48 languages and 238 countries, for some reason, Bard still isn't available in Canada? This has to be a joke.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
I like your vibe. Regarding your last suggestion, what you actually want is a skyhook to catch the payload, with Phobos at the center. You can even use Phobos regolith to manufacture the basalt fiber required to build the cable.
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by Valgrim 3y ago
I agree, and I'll add this: these people are not exactly bored, they're just the type of people that see a problem, a solution, and got the time to connect them together. Now I think the best attitude toward that particular type o
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Are entire VBA projects really that ubiquitous? As far as I can see, there are really two category of those: first are the huge proprietary plugins from large B2B companies that serve as a way to deeply integrate their products into Excel S
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Wow, someone actually implemented Apu's thesis in the real world. link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UOAdGjj-hIg
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by Valgrim 3y ago
I worked with a client who used a multi-millon dollar system for moving goods automatically into packaging stations. The system was built and maintained by a major european company. All the data was transfered automatically between systems
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by Valgrim 3y ago
"Potatoes get a bad reputation as a fattening food when in reality they have the highest satiety rating of any food on the planet" The author doesn't claim potatoes are low calorie, he says calorie for calorie, potatoes make
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by Valgrim 3y ago
What would be needed to have a significantly better space telescope than the JWST? A monolithic mirror might be an good improvement, but we would still be limited by the size of the fairing. Even better than that would be to create and grin
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by Valgrim 3y ago
My guess is that for the most part, the moon or mars will remain uninhabited. It will eventually become a source for mining and launching cheaply trillions of tons of materials. Humans will only really "colonize" huge castles that
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Last I heard of it you dont need to slow it down, the concept starts working at SGL distance, but it works fine beyond that. In any case at that distance you need a chain of communication relays which themselves can carry telescopes pointin
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Kids? I would probably have the time of my life organizing an expedition with 5-6 full grown adults where the goal would be to go out there with nothing but our brains and hands, no device or ruler or anything like that, and figure out the
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by Valgrim 3y ago
Wild guess: you don't measure a second. A second is defined as 1/86400 of a day, or 24 60 60. Lets say a pendulum can swing for about 2 minutes. You just take a 2 minute hourglass, make a bunch of pendulums of different lengths, a
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by Valgrim 3y ago
The basis for the metric system was not defined by some arbitrary prototype at first, but by measurements everyone on the planet could reproduce using the sun and a bit of water, at least to a very acceptable approximation. The kilometer wa
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by Valgrim 3y ago
I've got the same vibe, starting at "consciousness collapses under the reductionist process currently employed in the scientific method." Uuuhh yeah, like most abstract things, consciousness is an emergent property of simpler

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