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by aeternum 3y ago
What is the source of the energy for this 'forbidden' light? Is it from the rotational energy of the black hole?
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by aeternum 3y ago
Indeed, what's next, putting all of one's personal email correspondence on the cloud? Some kind of personal device that one carries around in his/her pocket with constant cloud connectivity and gps?
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by aeternum 3y ago
This is definitely not true. Pregnancy for example is known to cure myopia in some cases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519268/ Furthermore there are contact lenses that temporarily reshape t
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by aeternum 3y ago
Why do fogged edges slow or stop myopia?
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by aeternum 3y ago
Does it actually provide worse health outcomes? American lifestyles especially in certain states are generally not conducive to good outcomes but the US healthcare system itself is still generally world-renowned for cutting edge procedures.
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by aeternum 3y ago
This is not well-known but the vast majority of hospital visits are non-emergency. People used to have choice but now due to 1950s tax code, your employer chooses a health conglomerate which chooses an insurance company which influences the
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by aeternum 3y ago
One of the key things OpenAI does is very small scale model experiments. You can iterate a lot faster if your training run takes on the order of minutes. So vet ideas there, only allow proven ideas to be part of the longer training run. M
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by aeternum 3y ago
Mouse gestures, opera had these back in the day. The right-left click to go back, ability to close a tab from anywhere on the page with just a single hand, etc. Maybe it's no longer possible due to all the click hijacking introduced b
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by aeternum 3y ago
Oil and gas can be thought of as a giant battery. In both batteries and hydrocarbons, energy is held by chemical bonds. We can either break the bonds (burn it) to get energy out, or reform them by putting sufficient energy back in under t
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by aeternum 3y ago
How much control over something is required until it becomes ownership? The company of Theseus.
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by aeternum 3y ago
It's because the amount of story telling and wordiness in an interview is often inversely proportional to the amount of output produced by that engineer. I've learned the hard way not to hire the big talkers. Doing is much more i
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by aeternum 3y ago
Interestingly, the college board might be the best entity to do this. Colleges are apparently no longer using standardized tests so why not put that towards the AI? It's really exactly what we need. Novel questions with minimal re-use
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by aeternum 3y ago
The issue is you really need to create a brand new benchmark with each release. Users will invariably test variants of existing benchmarks/questions and thus they will be included in the next training run. Academia isn't used to u
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by aeternum 3y ago
Germany is still using Lignite, Hard Coal, and Natural gas to generate 50GW vs. 4.1 GW of nuclear. How is too much nuclear and exporting it a problem? Europe is heavily reliant on natural gas which is generally produced by Russia, (transac
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by aeternum 3y ago
"Science" has been twisted recently into a kind of witchcraft that can only be practiced by those anointed through the rigors of academia. "Trust the science" In reality, that is about the furthest from what you should d
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by aeternum 3y ago
China is not immune from the international environmentalists. Most of those reactors since 2008 were Westinghouse and thus subject to plenty of (non-Chinese) regulatory pressure. They are now switching to much more modern designs and even
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by aeternum 3y ago
'carbon budget' is not the way. If these environmentalists didn't push to shut down the nuclear reactors, we would have more than enough energy. We should be set on using more energy, not less and there are plenty of ways to
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by aeternum 3y ago
With health insurance you could also just give individuals the tax breaks directly. It would really help fix the system and simplify the tax code. It makes no sense for 401k nor health to be managed by an employer. Almost all companies ju
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by aeternum 3y ago
Wake turbulence is mostly a concern for small planes following large planes. In the right conditions (pilots visually maintaining separation), planes do get quite close and at many airports like SFO, it's the only way to accommodate a
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by aeternum 3y ago
Airspace is used very inefficiently right now. With today's tech it's ridiculous we're still using primarily human vision for collision avoidance in most conditions, and in instrument conditions, spacing is typically 3nm. If
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by aeternum 3y ago
Seems like this was a terrible waste of time for a foolish feature. A major miss for product. Why not decide if it's generally seasons or episodes that need to be sorted above and introduce a simple tag to accomplish. IE: Black Mirror
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes, this is key. This idea that humans also require sequences to think was popularized by Jeff Hawkins even before all the LLM hype. He was able to show that the equivalent of place cells (normally used to determine one's physical lo
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by aeternum 3y ago
Interesting that Media Matter is trying to double-down on this. Seems non-profits might be even more corrupt than for-profit companies. It's clearly a weak argument, and why are they focusing on X only when they could expand their cri
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by aeternum 3y ago
Even the allegation against Greg is carefully worded. Could be as simple as an issue of using the wrong pronoun for awhile.
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by aeternum 3y ago
This just in, upon further research: Every orbital rocket launch in history has ended in an explosion or a crash Oh the humanity! Why isn't some company trying to solve this?
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by aeternum 3y ago
Completely agree, this is why I am banning my son from all reading and listening to music until he becomes an adult. He may want to be an author or musician someday and it is clearly in society's best interest to ensure his mind remain
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by aeternum 3y ago
Some good points but lots of sweeping generalizations. I think the issue is everyone reads this, agrees with some, but then everyone in SV believes it is referring to someone else or other companies. Specific examples are much more useful.
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by aeternum 3y ago
Many don't have homes and the shelters don't allow drug use.
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by aeternum 3y ago
The same argument was made for Eugenics. Less human suffering if we sterilize people now vs. let them starve later. Turns out all it took to solve food production was inventing a process to extra Nitrogen from the air. Even scientists are
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by aeternum 3y ago
We have the technology to make energy both cheap and clean.

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