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I think any idea that Apple doesn't thoroughly understand the capacity, value, market, price tradeoff is untenable. The most obvious view is that Apple price gouges on storage. But this seems too simplistic. My conjecture is that there
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SPOILER ALERT WHAT'S SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN Much regard heaped upon 2001's effects, including the zero-G sequences, but if you just watch the people, they are so obviously carrying their own weight and the weight of objects: the po
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If you've never contemplated the value of your life, an encounter with death awakens novel feelings and thoughts, and may lead to changes in meaning. But changes can't escape your circumstances, which you must suffer nonetheless.
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Too much efficiency countering too much efficiency makes everything worse. This whole thesis easily tips over into a semantic gobbledygook, as efficiency is not a property of the larger world, but an utter contrivance of thought. Focus on a
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The cause of the Chernobyl power facility disaster was caused by running a test to determine how long power could be maintained with turbine run-down to cool the reactor during an accident under blackout conditions. The reactor control syst
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If the effort of booby-trapping supplies of communications devices was certain enough that enemies combatants would be specifically targeted, why didn't they just stop the shipments? You need possession to plant the trap. At the superf
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Work goes to where it can get done.
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> Meanwhile, in the real world, I've found that I haven't written a line of code in weeks. Just paragraphs of text that specify what I want and then guidance through and around pitfalls in a simple iterative loop of useful work
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A theory has been proposed for the structure of MSM news, called the "propaganda model," which can provide a framework for scientific investigation of ownership bias in news. 1988- PROPAGANDA MODEL https://chomsky.info&
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> Fox news fired Tucker Carlson, the most popular news anchor in the channel's history. This is not an economically driven business Nonsense example. Carlson was the figurehead for a narrative that cost Murdoch $800 million in defam
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Related reading... IdleWords "Rocket to Nowhere A Space Shuttle Rant" https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm "The Lunacy of Artemis" (Use the site's search, necessary) http
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Regarding terminology: What is a simulation in the context of the simulation argument? Is there an example of a simulation which has been confused for the actual? How does that confusion arise? What's the connection between computation
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> I think the explanation is simple: Color is light and it is linear going from ultraviolet to blue to green to yellow to red to infrared. It's just a line. The most common misunderstanding of color is that it has any property extri
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> C) wow page 11 bothers me. Why, why, why… the grid is there for a reason!! Just make it line up with the grid, oh my god Make what line up? LOL! I'm sympathetic to the outrage, but happy to note that measuring the world should nev
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This article illustrates the theory and math that lead to the horseshoe diagram in a very approachable style that is as simple as possible without being too simple. A Beginner’s Guide to (CIE) Colorimetry — Chandler Abraham https:/&#
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Fantastic reference! More to enjoy... The Precession of Simulacra" by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney https://continentcontinent.cc/archives/issues/issue-2
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Q: When's the best time to take your kids to dinner? A: When the graduate from medical school! —Dave Barry
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Inherent vice.
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Funny to think about these costs and the health of the national commons from a point of view of the Federal budget. For example, you point out it would cost 2 billion to migrate Houston's above-ground to storm proof below ground. If we
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From the article: //(Diagram) Josef Albers, Folder IV-1 Actually, the squares are exactly the same color! The surrounding context dictates the perceived color, on top of all that wavelength-physiology we just did.// Ther
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>> Some of those frequencies we detect with our eyes, and the frequency determines its color >This is common misconception. It's not singular frequency of light that determines color, but the entire distribution of intensity o
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> As a side note, I firmly believe that cutting in line (or late merging into a turn lane) is the worst, most selfish thing that people do all the time. Skipping this quip's obliviousness of imagination to what constitutes the worst
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Consider that the lower orders of integration of life are energetic molecular arrangements, then genetically controlled factories which make which make up the components of cells that in turn give rise to cellular replication, then cellular
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> Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement LOL! What's engagement?! Half the embeds I see don't work because the content is censored or rotted. For content that plays, the rush for my attention includes
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I warn that the following comment may amplify confusion because I don't understand how to think about this topic. The OP comment edit asking for an alternative got me going: //Edit: thinking more about this, I would throw it
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This thread is a testament to Dunning-Kruger effect. Every observation listed here can be generalized to a case of worry that AI is stupid, selfish and/or mean. Unsurprisingly, just like what's feared about people! Epic confusion
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Bostrom's accomplishment is to succeed at bamboozling many who felt they were beyond being bamboozled. Bostrom is a charlatan playing rubes with an intellectual version of three-card monty: //This paper argues that at least o
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> Fortunately, none of these qualify as paperclip maximizers I think it's weird that the maximum-paperclip hazard of super intelligence receives wide credence given that the purpose of burying the world in paperclips is so obviously
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The setup of this article promised insightful consideration of the history and progress of intelligence since the Enlightenment, but after a couple paragraphs of un-inquisitive ranting about the philosophy of Descartes with a couple of nods
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> Let's assume that AI is human level (it's not, but humour me) OK > Now something goes wrong. A customer isn't getting what they ordered. What do you do about it? What do you do when something goes wrong with a human?

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