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by api 3mo ago
People no longer believe in the possibility of reforming institutions or good governance. Most people believe all politicians -- all of them -- are con men, liars, degenerates, or incompetents, and that nothing good can be achieved throug
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by api 3mo ago
Street crime is tangible, visceral, and visible. When someone physically accosts you or physically invades your space, you feel it. Incestuous "robber baron" state-capitalism that privatizes gains and socializes losses, or outrigh
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by api 3mo ago
> 2012: When Everything Started Changing I have independently dated it to that same year. Two things happened at least near that time: (1) mobile phones began to eclipse desktops as the primary devices for interaction online, and (2) soc
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by api 3mo ago
Depends. If we get explosive inertial confinement fusion to work you could build a pure fusion version of a nuclear pulse rocket. Look up Project Orion. Orion (in its fission bomb form) is impractical and would be insane to launch from Eart
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by api 3mo ago
$10/kg isn’t fantasy land if we have fusion rockets, but then we don’t need fission power anymore. :)
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Economically absurd, much more expensive than reprocessing or fast waste burning reactors.
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by api 3mo ago
Is anyone working in the US on a waste solution that isn’t a big hole with a straight out of cyberpunk sci-fi warning plaque? The French reprocess and recycle fissile material but that’s kind of a gnarly industrial process. Still they do it
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by api 3mo ago
China is also still building coal and has passed Europe and will (if they don’t change course) soon pass the US and Canada and the other big ones on a per capita emitter basis. They already passed everyone as top emitter in an absolute se
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by api 3mo ago
Both. We should be investing in all non carbon emitting sources and we should have been doing it since the 1970s when we figured out pretty conclusively that this would be a problem. Instead we had right wing fossil fuel shills on one shoul
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by api 3mo ago
Have you tried them recently? They absolutely 100% produce usable results for large classes of problems. Usually problems on the more "boring" side, but that's most code. Even local ones are getting "usable." As an
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by api 3mo ago
> other quests we may not know about. Back then an interface between terrestrial computer systems and a Zeta Reticulan spacecraft required a small supercomputer on our side.
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by api 3mo ago
I wonder if people said this about compilers. Some day they’ll replace all that compiler generated junk with hand crafted ASM. This reminds me of that. The spec is the new high level language. Code is ASM. ASM is like CPU microcode.
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by api 3mo ago
It's largely a wealth inequality issue. Rich parents can have nannies, expensive software, or a parent who stays home from work. Poorer parents do not have time or energy to police this stuff or supervise their kids. They're too b
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by api 3mo ago
Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The gun and the bomb are not engineered on
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by api 3mo ago
I'm telling you why ordinary people support this, and I can tell you they overwhelmingly do... at least those with children. I'm also aware of what you're talking about. That's called regulatory capture. They know this k
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by api 3mo ago
EDIT: about half to two thirds of the responders didn't catch "I'm not a fan of these proposed solutions." I am not saying I like these solutions. I am trying to explain why they have support among the general public. Ma
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by api 3mo ago
Sending a microscope is easier said than done. Many natural structures can look like bacteria, and vice versa. If there's more complex single celled life then we might see stuff swimming around but that's considered unlikely close
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by api 3mo ago
I do this manually with a desktop app called BoltAI that lets you continue the whole conversation at your LLM of choice.
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by api 3mo ago
Why is this a hard rule? I know people who have had miraculous benefits from psych meds. No downside. Using them for years. Or if there is a downside it’s massively outweighed by the upside.
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by api 3mo ago
A central flaw in the Nobel is that it rewards one or two people for what is often the work of teams.
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by api 3mo ago
Liars like to lie, and you often see them express what's called "duper's delight" at fooling people. Dark triad types (narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths) will often lie about petty things just to get off on their abil
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by api 3mo ago
To me it looks like the periodic table. There's an underlying set of levers in terms of quantum characteristics of fields, but not all settings of these levers are stable. This is just like how only atoms with certain combos of protons
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by api 3mo ago
Fine tuning and updating is far cheaper than training from scratch.
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by api 3mo ago
The point I was making is that this isn't bad AI books made by people trying to make books. This is scam content made by spammers and hustlers.
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by api 3mo ago
The big companies want this. It's a moat for them, a way to keep competitors (especially overseas) out of the US market. They might try to extend it to downloadable open weight models, but honestly they might not even bother with that.
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by api 3mo ago
There was a window where new authors could break in with blogging and self publishing. Andy Weir (The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and the bad one that shall not be named) got started this way I think. That window is now closed. If I wanted
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by api 3mo ago
The category of thing is not new. The level of industrialization and quantity is new. Slop on social media also predates AI but at least back then someone had to make it… usually people in poorer countries using it to game algorithms for mo
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by api 3mo ago
These are not made by people who care. It’s a scam basically. Spamming Amazon with slop is a current hustle culture thing. There’s guides, probably AI generated and not proofread, explaining how to do it. They obviously have tricks to game
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by api 3mo ago
Media seems like one of the domains where capitalism and the profit motive works the least, the other being a lot of health care. In media it seems to be an immediate race to the bottom that converges on dopamine generating chum and slop. A
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by api 3mo ago
This is definitely a dated comment, yes. I believe it is true today and probably will be for a while, but probably not forever. The spec is the new code. I expect that in 5 years I will rarely write actual code. I will write specs and herd

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