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by aeternum 3y ago
The safeguards and caution are even more immoral from a rationalist point of view. By delaying potential medical breakthroughs you cause many future humans some amount of additional suffering because medical breakthroughs build on one anoth
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by aeternum 3y ago
No, in an arms race either you win or your laws don't matter.
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by aeternum 3y ago
That's never the proposal but is often the outcome. Firing your engineers and outsourcing or eliminating large amounts of QA most would agree was likely to make Boeing planes less safe. Yet no lawyer raised an objection. They lawyers
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by aeternum 3y ago
Those responsible will golden-parachute out and will simply be replaced by similar.
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by aeternum 3y ago
This is why regulation is rarely the answer. Corporate lawyers are ultimately more clever and better-paid than the congressional staffers that are writing the laws. It's also much easier to find a loophole than it is to predict and av
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes, since GPT-4 is the one to beat, everyone is basically doing the equivalent of p-hacking their benchmarks. If you roll the dice sufficiently many times then only report on your best roll you can make it look like your model is better t
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by aeternum 3y ago
Agreed, but "Do no evil" shouldn't be the kind of thing you just scrap. Isn't doing that in and of itself somewhat evil?
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by aeternum 3y ago
Just like Google's "Do no evil" *only applicable to certain definitions of evil
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by aeternum 3y ago
It's the same with Venmo, I have a few friends that have sent money to random people never to see it again. There's really very little crypto-specific here, convincing someone to transfer funds to a scammer-controlled account is o
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by aeternum 3y ago
Ah yeah clearly not ready in fact neither is traditional finance: https://www.aura.com/learn/i-got-scammed-on-venmo-what-do-i-... https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235171088-Cancel
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by aeternum 3y ago
You're also putting a lot of trust in the immune system of the animal you're eating. Sure most are fine but you'll eventually get one that is just naturally immunocompromised and when you do, you're in for a bad time no
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by aeternum 3y ago
One major problem is that PII/Personal info is uselessly broad. Legislation like this would be much more useful if it had clear rules or fines for various levels of PII. For example, getting your social security number stolen is signi
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by aeternum 3y ago
There's no way the average person is washing their grocery bags in the clothes washer. Sounds like that could coat your washer with microplastics that might end up in your clothes and against your skin all day. That may not be the bes
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by aeternum 3y ago
I've thrown away a ton of polypropylene bags because stuff leaked or you just accumulate too many. Those bags are so thick that throwing away one is like throwing away 500 of the other super thin plastic bags. There's no way the
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes, a better headline would be something like: Behaviors, drugs, and even foods rewire your brain via the epigenome But modern science is all about what's in vogue and securing funding. This study was funded by the national institute
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes, these kind of "paint the street" solutions give pedestrians a false sense of safety. Sure most cars pay attention but that actually makes things more dangerous as you start to let your guard down when walking and think of th
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by aeternum 3y ago
The larger the distance, the more it actually works as a navigational source so you won't see those insects since they are navigating just fine. The insects you see are the ones that happen to get too close and thus their nav gets &#x2
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by aeternum 3y ago
I believe Ambrosia was the (real) startup that was the inspiration for that story arc. Looks like they're still around but have pivoted to boring wearables and of course AI. A supposed win for the FDA, but perhaps a loss to humanity si
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by aeternum 3y ago
It makes it more likely that bad drivers will be caught. It's much better to catch a bad driver before they run over a pedestrian rather than after. Many drivers believe that getting to their destination is more important than yieldin
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by aeternum 3y ago
So much rabbit hype when it should just be an app.
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by aeternum 3y ago
Ok so is climatology the new scientology? Much of this dribble is unfalsifiable and unscientific. There are some real climate issues to solve over the long term and this kind of planetary boundary BS is completely counterproductive.
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by aeternum 3y ago
It's pretty ridiculous that any passenger with a smartphone and ADS-B viewer app like FlightAware has a better view of the nearby planes than the pilots do in many cockpits. We rarely consider the lives lost due to regulation that slow
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by aeternum 3y ago
It'd be more interesting if its not conscious as then humans would still be useful as uploaded consciousness agents to guide the machines.
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by aeternum 3y ago
The humanists might turn out to be the weird ones. After all, it's kinda strange to be so attached to meat https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes, the interesting thing here is that it's the germ cell mitochondria that seem to be the originators of the signal. The article's findings are also backed by data on Eunuchs who live almost 20 years longer than non-castrated me
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by aeternum 3y ago
Medical Spa - A single place where you can get all preventative stuff done in a single day. Simple physical, blood tests, dental cleaning, eye exam, vaccines, imaging. Charge a premium but make sure everything is efficient.
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by aeternum 3y ago
Wasn't there also the whole runaway trim issue leading to un-commanded climb and stall? Supposedly fixed with software when the root cause was retrofitting engines too large for the airframe leading to pitch instability under high thru
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by aeternum 3y ago
Rebasing would be so much better if Git just had better defaults. Having to fix the same merge conflict for each of your commits is one of the leading causes of developer burnout :D
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by aeternum 3y ago
What a terrible name for this. Cold blooded animals are highly dependent on their environment whereas the body of warm-blooded animals eliminate the dependency on external temperature via metabolism. In any case, it's unnecessarily am
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by aeternum 3y ago
>Also, planes use engines differently. They basically run flat out for hours, while cars only use peak power when accelerating. This is often said but isn't really all that true if you dig in. Most planes have a cruise power settin

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