ajuc

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by ajuc 2y ago
This is code golf, not algorithmic beauty tho. I'd say it's like a limeric - short and witty, but not deeply moving. But I admit I also remember this :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
Algorithms can certainly be elegant. A greedy algorithm with a lot of special cases added to force it to work feels yucky. A simple algorithm that does the minimal amount of work to get the job done and handles all the special cases without
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by ajuc 2y ago
Medicine isn't weakening natural selection any more than birds' nests, bees' hives or beavers' dams are. It's all part of the optimized function.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Yeah, the funny thing is - transistors depend on QM as well. But it's "magic" when it's in our brains.
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by ajuc 2y ago
His argument was based on the fact we don't know how it works, so the "magic" part of my description is warranted :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
Penrose basically thinks that biological neurons do QM magic and therefore classical computers can't do what they do.
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by ajuc 2y ago
This is parody of "superhuman AI is impossible" essays.
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Although the technical details from this point onward are unfortunately too dense to include in a general-audience essay of this sort, assuming as they do familiarity with constructive non-standard analysis, it suffices to say that sup
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by ajuc 2y ago
If you believe the figures from totalitarian dictatorships but think that EU figures are faked I really can't help you :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
Inflation in EU is like 2%?
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by ajuc 2y ago
With markup. That slows down the economy and makes everything more expansive. Whcih makes the economy not competetive on the international market. Keep it that way for a few decades and you get North Korea.
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by ajuc 2y ago
The "rewriting" is literally what happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military... And it started
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by ajuc 2y ago
> RWNs in Europe also tend to be pro-Russia. Possibly because Russia is paying them, possibly sheer contrarianism. Both, but mainly it's because of a common enemy - the liberal-democratic west. Russia has very little in common with
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Russia is currently spending over 7% of GDP on its military. The EU averages around 1.5%. GDP of Russia was about 2 trillion USD in 2023. GDP of EU was about 18 trillion USD. 1.5% of EU GDP is still double the russian military budget.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Yup. Lead is less common in Earth's crust than: - lithium - cobalt - neodymium - lanthanum - ytrium - scandium - cerium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... We simply had far more uses f
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by ajuc 2y ago
France alone has 100s of planes capable of launching nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. Looking at russian success rate in Ukraine at shooting down these - 2 will suffice :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
You argued if NATO doesn't back down ww3 is more likely. I argue the opposite. As for 2+2 - my point is that some things are simple, and making them seem complex is an excuse not to do anything about them. This is what happened in 2014
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by ajuc 2y ago
A historian I know rants a lot about the fashion to write historic books in anything but chronological order. There's a lot of machinery in our brains that automatically parse chronological stories for dependencies and correlations. If
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by ajuc 2y ago
The alternative is a new nuclear arms race. Look at it from the POV of neighbors of China and Russia if UN and NATO backs down from nuclear blackmail. In that world security guarantees mean nothing. If a nuclear power invades you - the worl
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by ajuc 2y ago
It doesn't matter who started. It matters for morality, but you don't even need morality for this. For politics it matters how both sides estimate their chances and what in their opinions the other side will do. And it's very
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by ajuc 2y ago
Nitpicking. If Russia is at war with NATO - it ceases to exist. Why would it enter that war then? It can just go back to 1992 Ukrainian borders. Some bruised pride. Lots of money wasted. That's it. > I have my own opinion to that, a
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by ajuc 2y ago
If we responded in 2008 or 2014 like we responded in 2022 - there wouldn't be any more russian agressions. Instead we let them think they will win easily. The easiest way to avoid further wars in Europe is to help Ukraine win quickly.
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by ajuc 2y ago
There's probably 500 more important cities to bomb in Europe before they get to my city. Which is 9th biggest in Poland, but still. The point is that Russia can't hope to win in either conventional or nuclear war. So they won&#x27
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by ajuc 2y ago
You have 2 important cities in Russia. Moscow and Piter. You bomb that and Russia's over. There's more than that in Germany alone, and then you have 20 other countries in EU. Russia is in an uniquely bad position to start a nuclea
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by ajuc 2y ago
In Poland they built "1000 schools for 1000 years of Polish state" in 60s. The plan for these schools was to use them as military hospitals, so they also have these features. Among other things every classroom has tap water, there
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by ajuc 2y ago
Russia can't win against Ukraine supported with about 0.5% of NATO military budget. If it started a war against actual NATO it would end in Iraq-style massacre of their army. Even without significant USA support - European NATO countri
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by ajuc 2y ago
Poland has been threatened with nuclear apocalypse by Russia every few years since 1989. It's just how Russia does politics, ignore it and send more weapons to Ukraine to end this quickly. One example from 2008: https://www.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Initial thesis was - inner monologue is required for reasoning. If you define inner monologue to include everything brains do - the initial thesis becomes a tautology.
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by ajuc 2y ago
With that definition even bacteria have inner monologue.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Yeah, these things are almost never as simple as they are supposed to be. Poland has PESEL numbers since 70s. It was supposed to be unique, only apply to Polish citizens, never change, and have a checksum digit. Every Polish citizen gets on

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