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by api 6mo ago
How far could this go? As a thought experiment could you have a publicly traded company with zero revenue and zero assets. It’s literally paper. What would stop its stock from “mooning” if the Keynesian beauty contest or the global stock ca
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by api 6mo ago
You win the Internet today. Congratulations!
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by api 6mo ago
The Italian futurists went fascist. There were also Russian Cosmists who were IMO more interesting and didn’t seem fascist. They seemed more intellectual and heavily influenced science fiction. The Italian futurists were just on speed I thi
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by api 6mo ago
There’s multiple corporations. When you have state level central planning there’s no adversarial check or feedback mechanism. Nothing challenges it to see if it’s actually doing a good job. Of course this is also a strong argument for antit
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by api 6mo ago
Years ago I read about an actual scientific proposal to look for UFOs. A few people in the UFO scene with scientific backgrounds were trying to crowdfund it. The idea was to place very sensitive wide angle infrared telescopes at remote loca
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by api 6mo ago
In that case the corpse is the poop. There are insects whose adult stages do this.
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by api 6mo ago
BoltAI also does this, but a CLI tool is nice. It’s a nice LLM because it seems fairly decent and it loads instantly and uses the CPU neural engine. The GPU is faster but when I run bigger LLMs on the GPU the normally very cool M series Mac
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by api 6mo ago
I could imagine the belters in The Expanse just throwing on suits and venting. Of course that only works if you have a bunch of canned air or something that makes it by cracking minerals on board.
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by api 6mo ago
Speaking of this: let’s talk about space settlement. If you’re going to stay, you are going to be having babies. Any tech tree proposal for a space settlement (planet, moon, spin stations, whatever) that does not address how to make and reu
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by api 6mo ago
The second law of thermodynamics dictates that everything poops. Anything alive that is using energy and doing work and transforming matter must poop in some form or another. We don’t know what form life out there might take, but we know it
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by api 6mo ago
My personal take for a long time has been that the primary driver of most war today is boredom. War today is undertaken for entertainment. It's a special kind of entertainment that taps into deep brain stem circuits and provides a fa
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by api 6mo ago
Oh yeah. I've said for years: smart dumb is much worse than dumb dumb. Dumb dumb is just dumb and ineffective. Smart dumb can do real damage.
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by api 6mo ago
To be fair, when you paired callout culture (a better name than cancel culture) with the toxic herd dynamics of Twitter as a platform (IMO Twitter has always been toxic), the result could be very brutal and unfair. Someone decides you commi
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by api 6mo ago
The New Left / Marxist to neocon or hard right pipeline is a thing. A bunch of the Bush-era neocons were former Marxists. There's a few notable present-day neoreactionaries and other hard-right types that were former Marxists. Bac
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by api 6mo ago
People don't understand the exponential function. Let's say you start adding water to a fish tank drop by drop, and double the number of drops each time. One drop, two, four, eight, and so on. When is the fish tank half full? When
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by api 6mo ago
"Users" is a large set of people. Many don't care about privacy, but some do. There's also a difference between where you post random social media stuff vs what you run with something like OpenClaw and give access to you
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by api 6mo ago
Google Cloud's bandwidth pricing is much more reasonable. That's one thing I see. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon still charge the standard big cloud absolutely ludicrous bandwidth markup, stuff like $0.08/gig. If you know what
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by api 6mo ago
If it’s truly brainless then I don’t see a major ethical problem. But I also don’t see people being allowed to do this because it’s much too far past the “yuck” threshold. It’s gross and disturbing even if technically it is ethical. I also
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by api 6mo ago
Birds are evolutionarily optimized for low mass.
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by api 6mo ago
The basic competence of elected officials and they people they appoint matters.
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by api 6mo ago
Everything in modern life is terrible compared to how it could be. There is quite a lot of room for improvement. But compared to living in extreme poverty in parts of the developing world today or the life of a peasant in the Middle Ages? I
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by api 6mo ago
Not your storage, not your data (unless it's encrypted with keys you control).
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by api 6mo ago
Addictive social media has done infinitely more to zombify and destroy the attention spans of people than AI. AI is more of a double edged sword I think. Depends a lot on how people use it. I think it's actually more likely to have pos
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by api 6mo ago
It's clearly an experiment.
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by api 6mo ago
I'm a little tired of the environmental argument against AI. It feels contrived, like people are fishing for a "problemism" to use to oppose it to avoid harder discussions. Let's compare AI to one typical 20 mile round t
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by api 6mo ago
Nuanced opinions don't get clicks and don't fit in tweets. Algorithms hate context. We've created a communications system bottlenecked by virality and short form text and video in which all nuance and context is stripped from
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by api 6mo ago
Sodium is a lot more abundant than lithium. Scaled up this could be a breakthrough in battery cost per kWh.
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by api 6mo ago
I was thinking the other day about why a "global pedophile cabal" would be a thing. I still think that phrase overstates it a bit, but not that much . Committing a crime with someone bonds you to them. First, it's a kind of
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by api 6mo ago
E=mc^2 and c^2 is a big number.
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by api 6mo ago
You could probably fill a 737 with biodiesel today and fly it. A jet will run on anything combustible within the right ignition temperature, density, and viscosity ranges and diesel is not far from kerosene aka jet fuel. I mean, you could p

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