andrewflnr

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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
GP described multiple reasons it didn't help them fix their brakes.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
This seems like it requires such narrow definitions of things like "closed environment" that it loses applicability to the real world. It's a heuristic worth considering, but not a universal principle.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Peaceful use of weapons is cool. But that's exactly what avalanche-triggering guns already are, in full. They and trebuchets are both military artillery at heart. As far as I know they still need explosives at the terminal end, too, ev
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
That's not entirely true though. There are sometimes true wins in things like finding better perspectives, e.g. models that are both simpler and more accurate, good abstractions that separate concerns cleanly, stuff like that.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
> without requiring fire-arms training. You'd need trebuchet training instead, which is probably not better in the long run. I bet there's still lots of ways to kill/mangle yourself with one of these, especially once you&#
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
There are long standing systemic issues, and then there's also one man making things dramatically worse in new, stupider ways.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
For what it's worth, metals are still critical catalysts all over biology, they just tend to be encapsulated in biomolecules.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
It is definitely in the Bible. Cynically, God seems to swing wildly between mercy and vengeance, but it's clear he would feel justified in a lot more vengeance than he takes but doesn't because he loves people. Less cynically, he&
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
The headline is a little confusing. They're still talking about a "split" between bacteria and archaea, so even under this theory, the very roots of metabolism and (I'm guessing) genetic code etc still have a single orig
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
In case it wasn't clear, I'm only talking about whether the universe is logically consistent.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Stuff like a field-reversed configuration comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-reversed_configuration Conceivably, more complex plasma configurations could exist that are self-stabilizing enough to, you k
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
You are not grappling with the full consequences of the universe being inconsistent. If the universe is inconsistent, science is dead. Why the fuck on HN of all places do I need to defend the idea that science is possible? Back to philosoph
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
I kinda like the waffles, actually. The main aesthetic problem IMO is the dim lighting (and litter).
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
> > the fact that the universe is consistent > We don't know this either. See this is what I'm talking about as far as being too open-minded. Consider what it would mean for the universe to be inconsistent, particularly i
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
It's inherent to the math that defines the entire concept of a black hole, or "spacetime" in general. So to the extent we can contemplate the question at all, we can be pretty confident that creating black holes is Very Hard.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Leaving aside the fact that there's no evidence superintelligence is even possible, no amount of intelligence alone will let you "trivially" create black holes. Creating black holes requires a ludicrous amount of energy. Plan
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
In what way? This is discussing, as far as anyone knows, an entirely natural phenomenon.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
Many jobs have been repetitive and brainless since long before LLMs. I hate AI as much as the next guy, but come on.
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by andrewflnr 2mo ago
I can tell you if I don't stretch, my muscles feel bad and stiff. No doubt this is partly because I did karate for a few years, where stretching to increase your range of motion is absolutely required. You're not going to "ju
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
I'm afraid this is a situation where the first halfway plausible solution will "stick" and sap the pressure to change even if it doesn't do a good job.
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
PEs are demonstrably a partial solution at best. Fields with certified engineers still have financially motivated disasters ( boeing goes the door plug). For better or worse, I think we'll see more political support for increased over
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
But as you've made clear, the root of the problem is not with the engineer. Personally I think a corporate death penalty strikes a nice balance of holding companies and individuals responsible. If a company exercises sufficient malfeas
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
The black bars can stretch. They can stretch really high.
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
Motivated reasoning, especially by emotion or fear, especially when the simple answer is unpleasant. Missing information. Irrelevant information. Plain stupidity. Lots of ways to be confused about simple things.
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
Speaking of perspective and nuance: violent self defense is justified to defend one's safety. But a slap by, let's be honest, a relatively physically weak person is not a credible threat to safety. It's just an insult. On the
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
> Bad actors desire complexity because it leads to indifference. This is an extremely dangerous idea without being counterbalanced by fact that reality is often complex and good actors want to be honest about it. Bad actors desire con
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
It'll be nice to have that precedent in place when we finally institute the Hunger Games.
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
Presumably because of potential network effects that would result from everyone being able to work in a single system. I don't think it's strange or implausible for people to want that.
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
Humans do that because we're big and extra complicated. The closest analogue is probably a hybrid car, though ideally you'd want one that can create synthetic fuel from its battery. But I suspect cellphones are properly analogous
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by andrewflnr 3mo ago
There's a (terrifyingly) large number of developers who don't qualify as "security-oriented programmers".

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