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by aeternum 1y ago
Excellent writeup. Is there any aggregator that focuses on "let's look at the actual data" articles like this?
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by aeternum 1y ago
Remember however that their charter specifies: "If a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project" It does have some weasel wor
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by aeternum 2y ago
but evidence doesn't matter because I am morally right!
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by aeternum 2y ago
>Which is a long way of saying the executive can blackhole anyone it wants Do you have examples of the executive doing this to citizens or are you being hypothetical here? Countries generally grant far fewer rights to non-citizens. Have
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by aeternum 2y ago
Yes, the problem is you have more money chasing that same quantity of goods and thus you get inflation. IMO a better way to achieve the UBI goal is to instead focus on universal basic goods. We're already nearly there with staple food
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by aeternum 2y ago
DHS claims he admitted to having confidential info from Los Alamos that violated an NDA https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1902881013220385220 It also sounds like the guy was actively and openly trying to convince re
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by aeternum 2y ago
IMO the USA is not becoming one of those countries and people are just fearmongering. But legally they can do it so it's better to take precautions anyway.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Then don't travel, in many countries the penalty for disparaging the leader of that country is quite severe.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Pretty much every country you travel to can detain you at the border simply for being suspicious. You generally have very few rights as a non-citizen and have to decide if you will really risk being detained vs. giving up your phone passco
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by aeternum 2y ago
There is interaction with other stellar bodies. Massive and uneven amounts of thermal radiation from the sun. Black body radiation out.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Why would angular momentum be conserved? Rotation within an atmosphere should cause friction would should convert angular momentum into thermal loss. Interestingly, it looks like the upper atmosphere generally rotates faster than the plane
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by aeternum 2y ago
Isn't friction from the atmosphere already slowing the planet's spin? Many weather effects like hurricanes ultimately derive their energy from a combination of the earth's rotation and thermal/uneven heating effects so
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by aeternum 2y ago
The issue is how quickly they cycle the full cabin air volume.
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No because switching costs are too high which distorts the market.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Your reasoning is flawed. Potential wealth is infinite. Cumulative wealth at any given moment is finite but growing rapidly. Currency will always have a function because there will be certain services that will never be infinite, for exam
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by aeternum 2y ago
Simplify the tax code, don't add even more complex bureaucracy in a misguided attempt to make the awful tax code understandable. Citizens need to understand the tax code themselves, they shouldn't need an entire government divisio
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by aeternum 2y ago
I think many were also against those wars. I would prefer much more surgical strikes rather than war, ultimately those special ops were the ones that were successful against those involved in 9/11. There also was no forced conscriptio
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by aeternum 2y ago
I really don't understand this take, any other European country could fund the Ukraine war to continue. The US no longer wanting to fund someone else's war is about as far from 'forcing' as you can get. Plus it doesn&#x
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by aeternum 2y ago
I'd argue grid scale batteries are sensitive to energy density as a second order effect. Higher energy density -> More EV demand -> Eventual increasing flow of last-generation cheap used cells that can be used in the grid.
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by aeternum 2y ago
So the simplest answer is that he is giving up immediate recurring transport revenue to the existing station for a chance at launch contracts for a future station that may or may not be built? Quite the galaxy brained idea indeed. Keep in
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by aeternum 2y ago
If anything his interest is to keep the space station since SpaceX is the preferred, and now the only provider of transportation to/from the station. It's actually a pretty clever way to avoid the conflict, have others push to kee
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by aeternum 2y ago
>Only by understanding why they currently choose to use Springer et al, can you understand what is lost by requiring free publishing. Because we're stuck in a local sub-optima. Those journals are currently prestigious because top r
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by aeternum 2y ago
Many of the prestigious journals do require an exclusive license: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/policies/jour... Under the Springer Nature Subscription licence agreement Share the final publi
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by aeternum 2y ago
We could fix it all with a single law: All federally funded research papers must be published with full open access. The issue is the models can mostly only access abstracts (same as the majority of humans!) and thus we are back to the dar
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by aeternum 2y ago
This seems useful for issues early in the convo but what if the AI responses diverge from the recorded convo prior to the issue being hit?
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by aeternum 2y ago
>More realistic solutions are going to include tightening up the building code to make structures more fire resistant Problem is this makes building more expensive. A better path might be the Japan strategy. Houses are designed to last
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by aeternum 2y ago
Click on the article and see for yourself. Schneier didn't author it, apparently his blog is now more like a publisher. >This essay was written with Davi Ottenheimer, and originally appeared in Foreign Policy.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Why is Schneier now using publications like wired as tech sources? That post is filled with what look like SEO links to publications funded by USAID. Is Schneier himself now in on the take? I used to trust him. (edit: oh I see it wasn&#x
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by aeternum 2y ago
Are you saying that authoritarianism happens without threat of decrees being enforced? That's an uncommon perspective. In any case, what lines would you draw, what specifically would you refuse to prevent authoritarianism?
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by aeternum 2y ago
This sounds good an all but you're incredibly unlikely to be asked to murder someone. Instead, suppose you're the government bureaucrat who must decide whether this vaccine hesitant individual gets medical care or keeps their job

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