Windchaser

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by Windchaser 4mo ago
No, this isn't correct. The Scopes Monkey Trial would like a word. I grew up conservative and evangelical, and there was always an opposition to "liberal science" simply on the basis of what the science presented. It didn&#x2
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
Yeah, while it's particularly bad lately, I'm remembering Richard Hofstadter's book, "Anti-intellectualism in American Life", which one the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction for tracing the religious, cultural, a
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
> Scientific interest didn't magically change the day Trump took office. What did was the economic realities of scientists in the USA. The character of the wheeping and gnashing of teeth from the scientific community took on a new f
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
> Eg. Fe-/male and racial differences. They exist, yet they cannot be admitted to and any reference to them will have the political left call you a nazi, racist, sexist and pedo to boot, because the other terms are already less impa
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
Eh, I think there's a bit of a logical jump between "professors hate Trump" and "professors are expounding left-wing ideologies". Yes, most professors are opposed to Trump. But when you're talking to a professo
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
No, no, they're definitely correct. There's no hard limit on the amount of money created. Excess money creation just results in inflation. More to the point: Congress is being profligate in other spending, and miserly w.r.t. scien
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
> I mean, there's zero chance my research would have fallen afoul of any such terms, but let me put it this way: my field was completely up-ended by DeepMind. They not only won a Nobel for that work in record time, but used an appro
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
I don't follow. Are there not sciences that primarily study a type of human relationship? Economics, for instance, which covers our financial relationships with each other.
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> It is best to say that it is a religious topic. Everybody has strong opinions about it, but nobody has ever bothered to look into any details of atmosphere physics. Everybody thinks he knows everything about the subject, but nobody eve
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
I think this misses the mark. The outrage or sadness is not primarily over "I'm going to lose my job", but the harsh reality that much of your country is not that interested in scientific reality and realizing that your count
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
In Star Trek, also, there was a huge world war with hundreds of millions dead. WW3, which almost killed humanity, before they united and created the sci-fi utopia. The hard part is that we don't know if we'll ever get the utopia.
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
It's one hospital, how much could it cost? $200 million?
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
I mean, the better point there would be "we could scale back on our cost of living, if we wanted to". That is what I figured the "we don't have to ship fruit around the world" was trying to get at, even if bananas a
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
You're getting downvoted, but roommates used to pretty common (meaning, multiple people in each bedroom). I'm happy to work more to have my small flat to myself; the lifestyle creep is worth it to me here. But I'm still aware
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
There was a really neat article here a while back comparing AI to previous tech/industry revolutions. The article compared market conditions to argue that the current revolution is similar to the shipping container revolution of the &#
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
I think the better Luddite position is "what can we do to protect humans?" Which can be channeled into making the change healthy . I heard a statistic that the average QOL and life expectancy didn't increase for most of the
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
Yeah, I got through about 2/3 of it, then called it quits. I wonder if the author tried to sit down and read the whole post, from beginning to end in one go? The AI-written posts feel sludgy, like plain oatmeal that's been cooked
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
> If AI was truly strong, we would be seeing signs in the job market. Recalling past business cycles, the job market can look "strong" with low unemployment, even while a lot of creative destruction is going on. Look at the 200
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
If it’s fractally wrong, you should be able to summarize the wrongness with one simple equation that captures and reproduces the wrongness at each level
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
Yes. Even to this reductionist, “neural activity” is insufficient to describe to consciousness in the same way that “it’s physics” is insufficient to describe how a car works. I could put a bunch of metal and rubber and gasoline in a pile a
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
It seems just obvious that it's at least a sampling problem. Assuming an average protein length of 400 amino acids and 20 possible amino acids, that's about 10^520 different possibilities for sequences, which is a mind-bogglingly
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by Windchaser 4mo ago
> If you're shipping consistently and high quality nobody is going to care if you're occasionally reading through a book chapter or watching a lecture online. Or if they do, it's a toxic workplace.
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by Windchaser 5mo ago
I don't think it's necessarily correct to think of sleep in terms of "it is necessary for animals or they will die". It might be more useful to think of it as "it was so useful that animals who slept outcompeted all
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by Windchaser 5mo ago
Much of Europe is close to the ocean, high in latitude, or mountainous, and climates there are more temperate. You don’t need AC there; AC is a luxury. Southeast or central US has considerably higher wet bulb temperatures than Europe does i
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by Windchaser 5mo ago
Aye, but it’s also possible for people to find their own purpose and meaning. Some find it in religion, some in art, some in love or nature. It will be a transition, for sure - there would no longer be meaning in “winning the game” in a cap
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Or biochemistry. It’s complex, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
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Ok, if we’re only taking absolute numbers, let’s flip it around. How many people live happy, peaceful, healthy lives now? Orders of magnitude more than in prehistoric days.
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the wall? or... like, the nail?
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by Windchaser 5mo ago
Ahhhh, I love this food experimentation and the food data. Of my friends, I'm the one coming up with weird combos and being like "try this!", and it gives me a splash of the warm fuzzies to find other experimenters. I swear,
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by Windchaser 5mo ago
> As listed here, they are sorted in descending desirability for inclusion in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Surely you mean ascending! Preserves > marmalade & jam > jelly I want maximal fruit flavor for combination with m

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