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by api 4mo ago
Off another power bank probably. Tip: if you plug two power banks into each other in a loop you can create infinite energy and destroy the universe.
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by api 4mo ago
This assumes the chips don’t get exponentially better. GPUs are actually bad for AI. TPUs too. They’re available and general purpose but what you really want is something like a specialized tensor FPGA that can be loaded with the model. Mem
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by api 4mo ago
Yes, even today it’s rare. Docking with the ISS or initiating the trans lunar burn on the most recent mission were all completely automated. The pilot arms the engine and authorizes it to proceed. I can imagine it being possible to grab the
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by api 4mo ago
The books are more realistic than the show. The show takes liberties to look cool, I think, which is okay. Not only does it mess with scale a lot but it also adds a lot of sound and visual effects that would not be there.
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by api 4mo ago
Agreed. It's not "rock-hard sci-fi." It's "medium-hard sci-fi." The background world building was pretty good from a hard SF point of view. Fusion rockets are possible and the high performance ones in the serie
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by api 4mo ago
Only if exponential growth continues, but population growth is already falling off a cliff and that is the ultimate driver. If population stabilizes or contracts, then the only way this could happen is if per capita energy use continued to
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by api 4mo ago
Even sci-fi writers that try to get this right have a hard time wrapping their heads around it. "It's called space for a reason." When I saw the series adaptation of The Expanse, it was really obvious they played a lot of art
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by api 4mo ago
If we tame fusion at scale this could become an actual issue in the far future. As it stands we have nothing that can out-scale solar or wind. Fission maybe if we went all in on breeders and stuff but that would not be cost competitive wi
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by api 4mo ago
That’s what solar energy does when it hits the ground or the oceans. It turns into heat or evaporated water. The latter is why it rains. Harnessing it and piping it through extra steps only to end up as heat does nothing to the planet’s hea
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by api 4mo ago
OP did not say this is what we were doing. Said this is what we should do. What we are doing is attempting to hold back progress on generation while subsidizing demand, which is literally the absolute dumbest possible thing. Unless you are
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by api 4mo ago
One of my big gripes with the film Oppenheimer was the blast itself, obviously a climactic moment in the film. It looked like someone set off a bunch of chemical explosives. That’s not how it looked in real life. Totally bizarre decision. I
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by api 4mo ago
Are those things because of speech? Or would they be worse if America did not have free speech? Imagine if Trump could outright ban criticism of him or his policies, or if protests against unjust wars could be banned, or if we had UK style
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by api 5mo ago
Ahh but it requires the laws of physics as a runtime.
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by api 5mo ago
I think part of the answer is that AI shows that intelligence and consciousness are unrelated phenomena. Humans happen to be both. I think this has been obvious from the other side of the argument forever. Animals obviously have consciousne
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by api 5mo ago
A lot of people think the “great silence” from SETI means something, unfortunately. A civilization using only low power radio wouldn’t be detectable in the Centauri system.
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by api 5mo ago
Earth has been screaming it has a very likely biosphere for at least 500 million to a billion years. To anyone with huge space based telescopes. So why no visitors? If there had been, we wouldn’t know. Any probes that dropped into our plane
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by api 5mo ago
I live in Cincinnati and thought at first glance maybe somebody set up some kind of weird indie radio station and somehow got those call letters, which would be epic. Sad.
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by api 5mo ago
It's mind blowing that we've allowed the development of a de-factor personal ID device absolutely controlled by an oligopoly of two private corporations. Do people realize that this means either of these companies, since they can
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by api 5mo ago
There's a sizable Cuban-American community that hates the regimes and wants to use the USA to overthrow it, and they're a swing voting bloc in Florida which has a lot of electoral votes. That's the point. Deciding the Cold Wa
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by api 5mo ago
People forget that all the training data to make these things was harvested with little concern for copyright or proper licensing. A dividend or basic income or something funded by a tax on this stuff is not at all unreasonable. The technol
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by api 5mo ago
It was fun. Was a bit younger but played it like crazy too on my 286. Rollers! Lava! It’s like the author started with a simple tank war game and then just threw in every weird little effect they could code as a creative weapon. There were
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by api 5mo ago
If anything, my use of AI (admittedly not as a companion or a psychologist) suggests that it is on the whole significantly less toxic than the seething cess pit of social media. AI is positively affirming by comparison.
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by api 5mo ago
International politics is familiar to anyone who has supervised a group of 2-4 year olds.
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by api 5mo ago
Then we never go. What if expanding helps us coexist peacefully? Maybe being in a crab bucket with no frontier is part of the issue.
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by api 5mo ago
Simple is harder than complex.
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by api 5mo ago
Nobody’s tried because they are a short flight away from South America. No point. It’s cheaper and easier to fly it in. There are skeptical arguments against Mars settlement but the Antarctica thing is kind of a weak one. To point out one m
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by api 5mo ago
Why does this kind of thing need new hardware? The stuff I saw here could be apps running on any OS.
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by api 5mo ago
“The nuts are always the loudest” has been an observation forever. This is showing how in the social media system the dynamics play out.
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by api 5mo ago
It's a protection racket born of fundamental weaknesses in the Internet's bedrock protocols.
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by api 5mo ago
I would not have believed the shoplifting thing if I hadn’t seen it. Walked into a CVS midday in SF. There were even cops not far away. Poor rent a cop in there is just yelling “police have been called” while three or four people are roamin

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