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by ajuc 8mo ago
It's useful to have a word for cumulonimbus and models based on that even if you know it's just a particular configuration of the wave function. Whether personality is entirely based on laws of physics or not - is a separate quest
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by ajuc 8mo ago
Yes. That's the point? Your personality might change and you're still you.
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by ajuc 8mo ago
I think of it this way: Person me = new Person { body: { ... }, personality/soul: { ... }, emotionalState: { ... }, memories: { ... } } The "me" is very small - it's just the structur
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by ajuc 9mo ago
Replacement will be 80% worse, that's fine. As long as it's 90% cheaper. See Duolingo :)
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by ajuc 9mo ago
This is like reading somebody's linkedin vs working with them for a month. BTW the value gained from travel is dropping with every new country. The single biggest lesson is just noticing everything you assumed is obvious and natural th
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by ajuc 9mo ago
Mosquitos and flies are much more harmful than spiders.
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by ajuc 9mo ago
Use glass and a paper sheet, much easier and less harsh on the "bugs".
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by ajuc 9mo ago
I like Tim Snyder's take on this. Communication technology is critical for everything else, it changes how society functions, what forms of government and country sizes are viable, what people can think of. Every time there has been pr
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by ajuc 9mo ago
So the compiler could have debug mode where it checks the invariants and release mode where it assumes they are true and optimizes around that without checking?
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by ajuc 9mo ago
> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business I think mostly they don't because people already have steam installed, and creating a new account on some other website to buy 1 game is too much
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by ajuc 9mo ago
When a dictatorship uses police to imprison innocent people the correct response isn't to say "but in Sweden there is police as well, see how many people they imprison a year". Details matter. Media laws already penalize trad
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by ajuc 9mo ago
> Instead of trying to frame things in terms of a mood or a feeling, it's better to try to understand things in terms of what is likely and unlikely to happen. Emotions are influencing your thinking, whether you realize it or not. I
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Internet is working exactly the opposite way to what your describing - it's making everything more centralized. Once we had several big media companies in each country and in each big city. Now we have Google and Facebook and tik tok a
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by ajuc 10mo ago
What thermal energy sources actually exploit is temperature difference, not heat. And in the end that difference averages out.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Corporations have way worse track records than countries, tho. Compare colonies run by countries to colonies run by corporations for one example. The difference is that in corporations you don't get to vote on who is the CEO. And your
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by ajuc 10mo ago
> power-crazed career bureaucrats Choosen by elected officials. Consistently underpaid. As opposed to famously power-awerse and accountable middle management in corporations :) > Why should a random government bureaucrat be trusted to
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by ajuc 10mo ago
My main problem with EA is that it's used as a pseudo-alternative to proper public services and redistribution under the pretense that if we let rich people do what they want to - they will be "more effective" at it than the
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Stanisław Lem predicted Kindle back in 1950s, together with remote libraries, global network, touchscreens and audiobooks.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
If the organism is too efficient at preventing mutations - it would evolve slower, right?
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by ajuc 10mo ago
It doesn't. It takes an application of geometry. It does not require understanding. You can use things without understanding them. See people asking chatgpt to do sth for them.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Which increases how much people can import and invest into R&D and automation (fixed vs variable costs with regards to number of menial workers). Which again grows the economy in real terms. The worst thing for the economy is slave labo
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Redistribution doesn't need to increase productivity, it suffices that it increases consumption for the economy to grow, if that's your only goal (it isn't the main goal for me). I recommend reading this https://e
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Why would you think I want "unlimited" democracy? I was specifically arguing for regulation and institutions? Any system requires maintenance and breaks eventually. Oligarchy and dictatorship too.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
1. It isn't 0-sum (see the effect of Henry Ford paying his workers more for 1 obvious example). 2. But that's irrelevant, because the reason some people are poor is not lack of resources in the whole economy. We have way more stuf
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Every building breaks eventually therefore cities are impossible - that's your reasoning basically :) You can repair and rebuild and then cities and democracy are possible. There's nothing inevitable.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
The problem is oligarchy not inefficiencies. In the absence of regulation, with these levels of inequality - democracy becomes a facade. Whatever the few oligarchs want - happens, no matter if people like it or not. And yes, redistribution
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Asthma counts?
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by ajuc 10mo ago
mostly because they were trained to say yes
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Less bad at least.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
A data structure that requires you to change the data to use it. Like a linked list that forces you to add a next pointer to the record you want to store in it.

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