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by XorNot 5mo ago
Either autocorrect is getting worse or I'm getting lazier...or just phone posting more.
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Why? You can build a clock with any basic oscillator and we're chock full of them.
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Air shows are pilot flight hours training. This could've happened on any random training exercise just the same. Flight hours are one the key differentiating factors in air force quality and a major US advantage is that their pilots ha
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Whether you survive is going to be almost entirely determined by factors not in your control and an obtainable skillset is statistically insignificant. The one critical skill is the one people discount almost immediately: social. You'r
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by XorNot 5mo ago
Ever been stuck in a waiting room listening to the most boring conversation about someone else's melodrama? You don't want to listen to it but you also can't tune it out, and you need to wait and listen for when they call you
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Its irrelevant if you can provide for yourself. The ecosystem cannot support 9 billion Hunter gatherers - period. Subsistence level agriculture is also wildly inefficient and so again: the ecosystem cannot support it. A hunter-gatherer drop
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Although it's worth noting theres evidence the earliest civilizations like the Sumerians did this at least in part as a "fill in the blanks" exercise. The gods were their dark matter - a stand in for the problem that they wer
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Sure and the reason why is they were kids and their parents handled everything. They don't remember when things were better: they don't remember that they were children.
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What do you fully understand then? Because you absolutely don't understand your own toilet by this metric.
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Do you know how to make paper? Can you? Is it any good? Do you really understand it then?
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The entire thing is an amazing exploration of how the concept of time becomes a bit meaningless though with those capabilities: traveling at relativistic velocities for hundreds of years? Several of your backups live out whole lives and als
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I mean I could structure an argument as to why that might be unlikely but that's exactly the point: it's all speculation. We don't know what super intelligence would do. It's meaningless to try and plan for.
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But it only applies for when you have a single data point: it's more likely to be from the middle of the distribution then the edge. So meeting exactly 1 100 year old alien makes it decent odds that's somewhere near the middle of
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That's literally the singularity though - the point past which predictions are meaningless. My "plan" is hope for a benevolent intelligence that establishes a post-human government and then enjoy poat-scarcity society doing w
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Am I the only one who remembers that multiplayer was just peer to peer? Like we had multiplayer before every studio decided they wanted to host their own servers, it was just what the guy with broadband in the neighborhood ran or something
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Yeah damn that takes me back.
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Yes...no one would write any code.
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Ok but I need a job to live. And if I want to do something interesting I need the skills and knowledge which are learned at a college level.
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It's perfectly legal to sell a computer without secure boot.
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When has that ever happened though? LLMs are software there's no plausible way to stop them running locally.
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There have been considerably more dam failures though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dam_failures_in_the_U... Which is the point: any retained body of water like this is a significant geotechnical engineering
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If the market is being driven negative then it means there's an oversupply. Which means overall the price of electricity is higher then it should be - negative prices have to be compensated by higher positive prices at other times, and
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Pumped hydro is objectively worse then batteries. Anyone can install batteries anywhere at a fairly minimal local fire risk. A dam is a major mechanical structure which if it fails will straight up obliterate downstream towns, and as such r
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You can't fire up capacity you don't have. Your scenario implies a massive idle stock of power plants. Who's going to build and run them? They'd be enormously expensive because they'd almost never sell power. (Of
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by XorNot 5mo ago
Which is bad, it's a market and infrastructure failure. Negative prices are to get generators to turn off. A new feature on solar inverters is curtailment mode so they can be remote shutdown when the grid goes negative, since if you&#x
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"Nobel disease" [1] as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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Except some of those would be necessarily suppressed because "it's the X-57" might be the sort of thing you don't want to release a picture of (nor say, F-22 doing some manoeuver we don't acknowledge it's capab
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I'm not unconvinced Hegseth bought wholesale into the book version of Starship Troopers, since Heinlein complaining about calling it the Department of Defense is one of his stand-in character rants. But that is my personal bias since I
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Except "stuff" isn't coming out of the back of aircraft: they're talking about aircraft contrails which is just condensed water vapor from wingtip turbulence. The people who claim they're monitoring chemtrails aren&
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Moreover if you need 1 baby a month you can absolutely stagger your initial startup period to reliably produce 1 baby a month.

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