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by allemagne 4y ago
>“There are times when it seems autonomy is around the corner and the vehicle can go for a day without a human driver intervening … other days reality sets in because the edge cases are endless …” Self-driving cars (and AGI in general) m
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by allemagne 4y ago
So far us guinea pigs seem to be pretty safe from vague concerns around, say, GMOs. I'm pretty open to specific concerns about lab-grown meat, but until then I'm happy to take calculated risks on many things in life.
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by allemagne 4y ago
>Then again, you also wouldn't intentionally hit your finger with a hammer to experience this feeling This actually sounds related to some of the reasoning behind "cutting" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by allemagne 4y ago
Absolutely. Higher prices for the same goods, plus a stimulus to domestic industry. Unless you are a savvy technocrat who knows where production bottlenecks are better than the market does, protectionism is just a welfare program at best an
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by allemagne 4y ago
Whatever attitudes there are in regards to GDP across a diverse set of societies is essentially a deliberate and sinister choice by someone . That much is obvious. However, the thrust of the article is actually pretty much the opposite, th
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by allemagne 4y ago
Prices don't have to fall back down to pre-inflation levels for inflation to end. I'm not at all following why it's obvious that mortgage payments will have to be the same for the same house as they were at ~2021 for rate hik
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by allemagne 4y ago
>From what I've read, life before agriculture was decent. I've read arguments in both directions and I'm extremely suspicious that they are almost all basically politically-driven. It goes like this: If hunter-gatherers ar
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by allemagne 4y ago
I'm guessing you might be from a non-western country like India if there really isn't anyone around you who sides with Ukraine. I'm curious about how a population across the political spectrum (i.e. not just marginal politica
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by allemagne 4y ago
In my understanding, it's all true that: - Alfalfa is an especially water-thirsty crop - The vast majority of Utah's water goes to agriculture - The Great Salt Lake is rapidly diminishing, endangering over 2.7 million people - The
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by allemagne 4y ago
They are fundamentally the same problem -- profiting off of owning something fundamentally scarce that you did not produce, i.e. rent-seeking. When the taxes are proportional to the most productive use of the land you own it is less profita
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by allemagne 4y ago
>[the human brain] cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer. This would be one of the most significant discoveries made in the last century. For me, a layman in the relevant fields and subf
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by allemagne 4y ago
How certain can we be that that's the case? Seems like thermo-regulation and burrowing in particular could have been helpful traits in the immediate and long-term aftermath of the asteroid impact
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by allemagne 4y ago
Were some of these adaptations a major factor in mammals largely surviving K-T?
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by allemagne 4y ago
There are useful ways of calling things out for being "dystopian" but it can also invoke a clarity that is necessary for narrative fiction, but not necessarily a useful lens for specific real life events. The line between a good s
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by allemagne 4y ago
"Significant reduction of energy consumption" is only a possible answer if you're able and prepared to suppress the lifestyles of billions of people through any means necessary.
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by allemagne 4y ago
Appreciate the link to the primary source. Also from that statement: >The Committee discussed key issues related to the outbreak, including: current observations of plateauing or potential downward trends in case numbers in some of the c
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by allemagne 4y ago
WHO doesn't do something? Criminal negligence and/or cover-up. WHO does something? Power-hungry bureaucrats fueled by hysteria and ideology. The only thing we know for sure is that they're definitely not well-informed yet sti
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by allemagne 4y ago
Anything notable about this article I'm missing? Just seems pretty tame for being on the front page
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by allemagne 4y ago
Not to totally disagree, but while the first psychedelic trips would be extremely confusing and profound to the first person who experienced them with no knowledge, prehistoric humans would already have a baseline understanding of altered s
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by allemagne 4y ago
Of course there are plenty of metrics by which other species exceed humans, even some cognitive ones, and human intelligence in the end might just mean quick world domination followed by a quicker extinction, but the power and planetary sup
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by allemagne 4y ago
The possibility of extremely exotic new types of life has to be a given, but with Earthlike starting conditions turning out to be relatively prevalent and the robustness of convergent evolution (not to mention the possibility of some kind o
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by allemagne 5y ago
Sounds like you have a great method of shooting down ideas based on something besides their own merits.
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by allemagne 5y ago
Yes, they do. From both quotes (emphasis mine): >"_Climate change and_ the transition to a low-carbon net zero economy will have significant macroeconomic consequences ... " >Separately, Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Toni G
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by allemagne 5y ago
The Bank of Canada also seems to recognize the economic costs of doing nothing. Full context of both your quotes: >"Climate change and the transition to a low-carbon net zero economy will have significant macroeconomic consequences,
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by allemagne 5y ago
If you tax CO2 emissions by everyone, and then distribute the money equally among the population, normal people end up with more money afterwards because they tend to emit less CO2 than rich people. It is also better at reducing emissions,
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by allemagne 5y ago
Most Canadian households do get back more than what they paid. The way that there are net losses to households is by calculating the "economic costs" of lost investment and jobs. This is exactly what carbon taxes are meant to do
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by allemagne 5y ago
From a pure fiscal standpoint, there is still a net gain to most households. The net loss here is calculated by subtracting the "economic cost" of lost investment and jobs due to carbon pricing. This is kind of the point; you woul
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by allemagne 5y ago
No, the two claims are not at all inconsistent. Households are seeing more money than they would otherwise, which was the point of the comment you're replying to. See page 10 of your link: >Taking into account only the fiscal, or
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by allemagne 5y ago
I think this is a great and useful perspective. The most salient point being that "fake news" and "bias" and "balance" is a red herring to the much bigger problem of "news" in general. The near-univer
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by allemagne 5y ago
Dreams being caused by random static doesn't need to mean that there isn't something transcendent, significant, or purposeful going on. For any given pet theory about what dreams "mean" or what they're "for&q

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