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That'll change. They'll get as many knobs as e.g. photoshop for image editing. You'll also be able, if not already, to use your own voice to communicate the emotion and tone you want but then have it re-render it in the voice
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That’s totalitarian communism. Parent is talking about social democracy with a larger safety net. I’m not aware of gulags in the Netherlands or Sweden but maybe I haven’t looked hard enough. I was just in here a while ago calling leftist cl
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They work so well for some they are miracle drugs, and for others they do nothing or have negative effects. This is typical. We still don’t fully understand why or even why they work at all.
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Says someone living better than an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Get off social media and the world is suddenly less dystopian.
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We blocked YouTube, and when we did our kids were suddenly alive again. They had friends, went outside, did activities, played. We also blocked TikTok and lots of other stuff before they discovered it, thankfully. We do allow Netflix, Amazo
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Except that when you comparison shop, you are helping construct those incentives. When you sell your labor you want it to cost as much as possible. When you buy the results of others labor you want them to be as cheap as possible. The syste
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I can type a URL on today's iPhone just fine.
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The smoking gun here is that they actually hired psychologists and experts in creating addictive stuff from e.g. the gambling industry. It clearly shows that their intent was "make this as addictive as possible." Then they ignored
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Solar would make it worse because the religious dogma says we must de-industrialze and do degrowth. Replacing fossil fuels with solar or anything else is like wearing condoms or using PReP instead of abstaining from sex. To the faithful tha
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There are even more reasons to phase out fossil fuels. They are non-renewable, meaning the more we use them the more we have sunk cost in an energy infrastructure that in the long term can only get more expensive and more scarce. That'
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My previous post sucked because I didn’t say the second part. I’m worried that this is a harbinger of dollar collapse. Inflation doesn’t show up evenly everywhere. It shows up in assets and hot areas first.
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I grew up thinking there was a decent chance we would run out of oil and civilization would collapse. EVs were not a thing and I remember reading about how an economical battery big enough to give a car good range was not possible, and that
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Isn’t this just inflation? We are in a highly inflationary environment. Everything is going up in nominal terms.
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That could be said about everything including things usually not associated with futurism like romanticism. Everything carries at least a little political baggage. I was responding to what seemed like the implication that futurism was fasci
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That’s Italian futurism, which was a specific movement. I think the term was being used more broadly here. Go find some Soviet space art, or mid century American “space age” stuff, or less dark forms of cyberpunk / cyber culture from t
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Yes he does, and he’s also a social media addict. With X the alcoholic bought the bar.
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I think the root of the problem is “vetocracy.” We’ve created a system where small minorities can hold everything up, sometimes for ideological reasons and sometimes for financial reasons. The classic case of the latter is homeowners opposi
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That’s just a microcosm of everything. The culture war ate the entire public discourse to the exclusion of practical concerns and even coherent ideas. It’s all vibes and tribalism and bashing the other tribes, while the tribes themselves be
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Internet access sort of has a reason: the US is geographically huge and more sprawled out. But that's not enough to explain all of the difference.
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We are still building renewable energy even with a stupid government because it's now cheaper than fossil fuels in many markets.
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I call degrowth "abstinence based" environmental policy in allegory to abstinence based sex education. The latter is the "we don't need condoms or birth control, just teach people not to have sex" thing, which doesn
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita Still a ways to go but trending down for some time now. India and China are trending up and might cross us by 2030-2035 unless they reverse direction.
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> Even the worst of people do something good every now and then. But if you reward that, they won't change. Scratching my head on that one. I mean... is something not better than nothing? Or do you only get rewarded if it's 100
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Finding out NFTs were just links, didn't even embed the asset, was such a moment for me... like either the people pushing this are complete fools or 100% conscious grifters who know it's total bullshit. I suspect it was a mix. Ins
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Along with 4chan back in the day (less today) I'd add pre-porn-ban Tumblr (non-mainstream due to having porn). That was the other huge one and was a point of origin for a lot of today's gender-fluid stuff and the overlap it has wi
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True right now, but what happens if it mutates? A few thousand is nowhere close to pandemic but it's enough to give the virus many opportunities to evolve against its new environment. On the plus side, most viruses become less deadly a
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This needs to be taught in school. I’m shocked at how many people don’t get it. I’ve believed this forever which is why I follow the “strange” including weird cultural spaces, fringe para-stuff, whatever. What it really is is the interface.
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Pretty solidly false. Some have a thesis. Some have rules about what they will not invest in. The theses and rules vary, of course, because there are many investors. This one seems to have a thesis of “make 80s and 90s noir cyberpunk real.”
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What is the hook for them?
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Another criticism of this book is that it seems to give Wolfram credit for a bunch of discoveries made by a huge array of people in math, CS, and areas like complexity, game theory, artificial life and AI, etc.

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