Veedrac

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by Veedrac 3y ago
Anti-car sentiment, including their banning, is a growing movement. Even in this very comment section there are people calling for it.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Can OOD (out-of-distribution) be added back into the title?
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by Veedrac 3y ago
I think you may be reading the term ‘monopoly’ in a nonstandard way. SpaceX being a monopoly just refers to them being a single dominant supplier in active launch, which is a position they built by fairly outcompeting other companies.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Since SpaceX entered the market, ULA has stopped selling both its flight ready rockets with no replacement ready, Ariane has finished flying with no replacement ready, the Space Shuttle has stopped flying and its role has been replaced by S
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by Veedrac 3y ago
There's a useful principle of focusing on the big picture items first, moving off non-renewable methane by doing the easiest thing that works. Hydrogen is at least marginally cleaner than methane, but if it's cheaper to change met
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by Veedrac 3y ago
You're ranting at the development approach of the company that runs the safest rocket ever flown. Heck, at 130 consecutive successful landings, their first stage touches down more reliably than most rockets have ever flown.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
NASA was broadly happy with technical feasibility for Red Dragon, which pretty much just repurposed Dragon 2's biprop abort motors to land >1 ton on Mars for their estimate of $150-190m/launch. They didn't go forward with
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by Veedrac 3y ago
No, the point is that this constraint is dominantly a mass margin issue, and if NASA wasn't politically handicapped their mass margin would look very different.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Mass to space is a little expensive but not that expensive. NASA's refusal to just fly more payloads and join or coordinate them in space is a political one moreso than technical, and if they took the opportunity to get more payload ma
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Sourced cells can be (and are) immortalized. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line This alone removes almost all of the downside suffering. Additionally, for those of a more more absolutist moral bent,
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by Veedrac 3y ago
You are correct, and the parent comment is confused. Nanite does support faster instancing but its unique advantage is being a fast software renderer for assets with very large polygon counts.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
If true that's even more convoluted than I would have guessed. And I agree with the other comment; if you want to subsidize b&bs but you instead subsidize furnished rentals, it's on you when it's treated as a furnished re
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Which raises the obvious point that a specifically carved out exception for a good on the basis of its assumed positive externalities is not a ‘loophole’. It is at most a subsidy. (Though, obviously, not enough of one. Land ownership should
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Quick way to fix this game to make it actually approximate the test: award a point also if the other human correctly guessed that you were human, and a failure if they guessed you were AI. That would align incentives towards cooperation.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
I don't think that's correct. > a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) > The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. > The object of the g
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by Veedrac 3y ago
As the saying goes, the best way to convince yourself of AI risk is to look at the quality of the arguments against it.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
The basic argument is trivial: it is plausible that future systems achieve superhuman capability; capable systems necessarily have instrumental goals; instrumental goals tend to converge; human preferences are unlikely to be preserved when
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Noise pollution, local air pollution from exhausts, and local air pollution from tires are all far more directly costly to human wellbeing at scale than water use in lithium mining.
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by Veedrac 3y ago
And to clarify in a child comment, yes I dislike Facebook and think it has huge harmful externalities, yes I dislike advertising and think it has huge harmful externalities, but I also dislike that the justification from the FTC I read in t
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Truly disgusting to allow an under-13 to talk to an unapproved friend. Companies were never meant to have incentives to provide products to such people and not their guardians. There is a reason we make it illegal for that underclass to own
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by Veedrac 3y ago
> nuanced remarks of individuals such as LeCun and Marcus Literally guessed it from the title. > In no corner of industrial AI does anyone seem to care whether such programs are going to achieve intelligence. > [...later...] > p
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by Veedrac 3y ago
I'm not considering such concerns at all; my comment holds even considering perfect orbits followed by frictionless point objects of zero mass. You can of course pack into the height-dimension trivially when using circular orbits; the
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by Veedrac 3y ago
Space is not really 3d in the intuitive sense from a packing perspective, because satellites take up orbits rather than stationary points and orbits don't pack densely. It's more like an embedded 2d space, the intuition for that b
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by Veedrac 3y ago
You mean Saturn V? I'm struggling to see the relationship to Atlas V.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
I think what they were alluding to is their long fairing option being, well, fairly long. F9's is maybe a bit undersized in part due to starting out a lot weaker than it is today, albeit it is a good size for Starlink.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
As farmers' jobs were safe because farmers can use farming tools. These arguments don't track even vaguely. You are doing the equivalent of analyzing the future of solar power by assuming solar will cost the same in 10 years as it
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by Veedrac 4y ago
‘Artists' jobs are safe because AI is bad at hands.’
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Counting also also didn't develop in a vacuum, then get poured into the body; counting was developed equally evolutionarily and equally in response to physical interactions of a person to the world. But as photosynthesis works too ou
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Hence “empirically disproven, at least separate from any disproof that wasn't ~equally true at its peak” and not “discredited by argument from principles”.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
I'm not a crypto advocate, but I don't understand on what basis people think crypto has been empirically disproven, at least separate from any disproof that wasn't ~equally true at its peak. It's not like Bitcoin has fai

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