Verdex

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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, this is a good point. However, I'm wondering if you can't bring things into alignment. Like, if the IRS wants to get money from you, then all of your financial parts of you need to be considered alive. And maybe that'
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by Verdex 6y ago
It's something that sounds like a great twist in a drama. The bad guy looks on in horror as he realizes that the people who he's been maliciously declaring dead so that he can steal from them are also immune from legal consequenc
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by Verdex 6y ago
> It kind of turned into a mini-cult around Yudkowski I think this transformation had already happened when I first heard of rationalists. Some of the things that they were saying seemed vaguely interesting. But I couldn't quite p
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by Verdex 6y ago
Carbon nanotubes seem to be the real life version of chemical vat accidents or radiation exposure in comic books. I think they also fed some carbon nanotubes to a spider and managed to get stronger silk. Like what's going on here? I&#
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by Verdex 6y ago
From the article: "In the simulation, four AI workers are each controlled by their own reinforcement-learning models. They interact with a two-dimensional world, gathering wood and stone and either trading these resources with others o
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by Verdex 6y ago
It turned out that some things were just too hard to really understand. The weird thing is when you realize that actually we never understood how to do these things. People doing them are as competent as they need to be AND good storytell
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by Verdex 6y ago
I mean a little bit yeah. But problem solving through peer pressure is a real thing and it's totally legitimate. You do get some weird artifacts (because it functions via a weird distributed statistical function) and it can be exploi
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by Verdex 6y ago
My first reaction when people want to take their ball and go home OR charge unreasonable prices for the 'honor' of playing with their ball is to thank them for their time and then let them go / decline to pay or play with the
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by Verdex 6y ago
Coal can have radioactive materials inside of it. There's radioactive carbon (c14) and it looks like also a bunch of more concerning materials. [] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at with my "in the age of automation" comment. If you go to a period in history without automation, then obscurity is going to be a lot more effective. And that's why I think peopl
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by Verdex 6y ago
> This has it completely backwards. Security through obscurity's goal is not to signal predators, it's the opposite. The goal is to obscure, to hide. The "signal" is there is nothing here (or nothing here worth your t
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by Verdex 6y ago
In nature, prey animals will sometimes jump when they spot a predator[1]. One of the explanations is that this is the animal communicating to the predator that it is a healthy prey animal that would be hard to catch and therefore the preda
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by Verdex 6y ago
I wrote a parser that needed it. But yeah for the most part whenever explicit lifetimes came into the picture it means that I have made some sort of mistake and need to rethink my approach.
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by Verdex 6y ago
Hear hear. System languages don't grow on trees. Rust has had a lot of non-trivial effort put into it and is very usable right now . Somebody is going to see the value just lying around and is going to pick up the financial slack. I
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, but only if you use them to compute significant items during compilation. The upside of course is that any computation you compute at compile time is a computation that you don't compute at runtime. For some applications this tr
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by Verdex 6y ago
Sometimes this type of long form journalism is nice because it lets you marinate in a different world. Here I can't help but feel like I just want them to get to the point because I don't really want to marinate in the Flat Earth
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by Verdex 6y ago
The first time I watched the video my response was that he was literally doing magic or that it was some sort of joke. Over time the video has become more approachable and I have a pretty good idea of what is going on. However, if I was a
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by Verdex 6y ago
I've learned a bunch of different languages[1], but J (and its friends APL and K) has been both the one that I don't feel I have the patience to learn AND the one that I feel like I might fall in love with if I actually learned it
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by Verdex 6y ago
I don't know dude. "You can't fish anymore." "Then what are we going to eat?" "Well, I presume that instead of going fishing once a day you can start a farm. Watch over and feed some chickens. Whatever.&
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by Verdex 6y ago
Top of the google search. https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/sustainable-seafood... . From a website that's trying to support sustainable fishing practices. (I actually thought the number was 2 billion until
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by Verdex 6y ago
> Author will be on the right side of history. Nope. The author wants to pay top dollar to eat fish and chips while people with less means go hungry. The author wants somebody to feel bad enough about the whales so that they will figu
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by Verdex 6y ago
> moral values and policy preferences I really like the idea that things could be better. If you tell me that you've got a way to fish and all the other animals that you like end up safe, then I like the idea that we could be using
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, I thought the silver surfer quarters that came out a while ago ended up with a fine: https://www.coincollector.org/silver-surfer-quarters-declare... . Although, I suppose someone has to go after them to make it a probl
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by Verdex 6y ago
I think canceling your digital subscription makes sense and doesn't really feel like cancel culture to me. I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but I am a fan of canceling. I've got similar feelings about boycotts. If you want t
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by Verdex 6y ago
I really like property based tests. They feel like they're everything that unit tests without them were supposed to be. * More closely encodes the behavior you want the code to have * More likely to find weird edge cases where some in
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by Verdex 6y ago
> (and, usually, anti-unit-testing people are anti-type-safety people, too) This is the opposite of my experience. Most of the anti-unit testing people I've talked to are very much pro-type people. I wonder if anyone has done any
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by Verdex 6y ago
Similarly, the unit tests never catch bugs and you're always changing them because of refactors or changing requirements. At some point it's like 'hey this set of tests have been rewritten 3 times and they never caught anyth
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by Verdex 6y ago
I feel your point here is important. Facebook has a lot of power. To the point where I feel they owe the public more than they would if they were a small entity with a narrow reach. There are two principles here: 1) it's a problem if
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by Verdex 6y ago
Well, I don't they did this, but it's an interesting technique used for this sort of scenario. Unfortunately, I can't find a wiki article to explain it (I think it's something like the hugh-jones coin or something). Any
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by Verdex 6y ago
That's really not a useful distinction though. If you drive or ride in any sort of vehicle that uses gasoline, then you're helping big oil get away with the deepwater horizon oil spill. ... Or even if you purchase any good or se

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