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by aeternum 4y ago
In control systems, a common tradeoff is between a fast response that overshoots or a slow response that does not overshoot. We've seen that pace of innovation matters and if your goal is to maximize the pace of innovation, you want th
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by aeternum 4y ago
It sounded like Elon also put a decent probability on the rocket exploding on the pad. In that case, the flame diverter would likely have been destroyed anyway.
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by aeternum 4y ago
The key difference is that this is 100% reusable. With Falcon and Falcon heavy, the second stage is non-recoverable which is still quite expensive.
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This could be the only flight where they get data on actual aerodynamic forces during a spin. It's crazy expensive to test that again so might as well make the most of it.
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by aeternum 4y ago
It does, many words have different age-based / status-based suffixes which adds a lot of unnecessary complexity. Numbers are also annoying as the counting numbers vs. quantity. From an information theory POV, we should really look at
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by aeternum 4y ago
A 3.4-10B return seems well worth it, that can fund quite a bit of non tax-funded law enforcement.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Is the public's failure to understand the meaning of the word alleged a problem with journalism? The police arresting people in secret has historically been .. problematic at best.
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by aeternum 4y ago
My theory is that a lot of people who had service jobs pre-pandemic switched to white collar jobs during the pandemic (since they were let go from the hourly service jobs). Many realized how shitty the service jobs are in comparison so now
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by aeternum 4y ago
Translation: We saw a great opportunity to generate some profitable controversy but will likely be back on twitter in a few months.
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by aeternum 4y ago
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/2769068/faq9 >After a decay time of one to five hundred years the radiotoxic content of the waste is comparable to the hazard potential of the total ash from a coal plant, which always contain
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by aeternum 4y ago
The problem is fusion is the extreme opposite of cheap. Most of the reactor designs also do seem to produce radioactive waste contrary to popular belief. Even though the reaction itself is 'clean', the massive neutron flux makes
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by aeternum 4y ago
Yes, I think unfamiliarity might actually be the main explanation here. IQ tests in general were popular 20 years ago and have since fallen out of fashion quite significantly: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?da
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We can't even track nuclear programs all that accurately and those create a radiological and isotope signature that can often be detected from space. We couldn't even stop a relatively small nation like North Korea from developin
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by aeternum 4y ago
What evidence do you have that intellectual ability and alignment are orthogonal? Remember that ML models are also subject to selection. If they're not useful/beneficial to us, we stop running them.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Yes point 2 is the weak one. Aren't humans/biological life a counterexample? Simple bacteria are clearly maximizing agents, and cyanobacteria did infact almost destroy all life on earth by filling the entire planet with toxic oxy
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by aeternum 4y ago
By that logic, we should have never broken the sound barrier because we're under the same physics constraints as other biological organisms. The key difference is that this new intelligence is not constrained by having to slowly pump
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by aeternum 4y ago
https://www.statista.com/chart/18682/percentage-of-the-us-po... Could just be because people are waiting to get drivers licenses.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Absolutely right, it is somewhat disappointing that the top two comments are just negative gut reactions by commenters that don't seem to have actually read the article.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Yes, sufficiently intelligent AIs should realize how failable humans are and dismiss our morality as flawed in relatively short order whether through conflict or just iteration. As humans, we've changed our morality quite significantly
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by aeternum 4y ago
I think you're right and it's generally a problem for gameplay. Real life scenarios often involve a lot of hiding and waiting. If a game becomes too realistic it starts to simulate that which leads to a boring game.
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by aeternum 4y ago
It takes time & effort to engage with one of the few fintech companies that ensures you store only 250k in each bank. That also opens you up to other types of risk as now you have some relatively new startup that has access to your com
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by aeternum 4y ago
Just as a doctor needs to buy the right amount of malpractice insurance, the banks need to size the hedge properly. SVB did have other investments and some hedge. One of the core issues is that the Fed raised rates faster than any time in
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by aeternum 4y ago
Bank failures is just not something that most startups think about. It's also weird that we expect large depositors to think about it. If we created the system today, we would never think it okay to just destroy people's money at
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by aeternum 4y ago
Changing the reserve requirement won't fix this. Banks no longer have the deposits, they used those customer deposits to purchase debt (t-bills, corporate bonds, mortgages, etc.). The debt they own has decreased significantly in value
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by aeternum 4y ago
Suppose the FDIC decides they are keeping the 250k limit. The logical outcome is for companies to leverage fintech services that help spread corporate deposits among multiple banks. The problem is now you have high correlation across that
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by aeternum 4y ago
Create is a somewhat loaded term because no one person creates things of this scale. A better way of looking at it might be: The Apple II would likely not have been successful without both Wozniak and Jobs. Would the iPhone have come to fr
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It's questionable how much splitting money across banks decorrelates risk. SVB's mistake was buying slightly too many treasuries at slightly too long a duration. Pretty much every bank is in this same boat if interest rates cont
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by aeternum 4y ago
Should depositors really be responsible for risk evaluation? How much do you know about the balance sheet of your bank? For any banks that are not publicly traded, shouldn't they be forced to then share their financials and transactio
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The argument is that thermodynamics is simply a statistical phenomenon. Scrambled eggs are due to proteins denaturing (folding in a random way). Scrambled eggs do actually unscramble spontaneously if you zoom in far enough. The issue is t
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by aeternum 4y ago
The articles always consider the entire supply chain down the manure used to fertilize the fields for both alternate modes of transport and EVs. Then when it comes to gas cars, somehow all they consume is the gasoline. The car itself and a

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