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by b800h 4y ago
The author assumes that these phrases portending doom ("they have cut off his arm"/"after he vomited his constipation was relieved") suggest something about people's attitude to foreign cultures. I think it&#x2
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by b800h 4y ago
Except now the vast majority of people pay for music via Spotify.
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by b800h 4y ago
This feels like circular logic to me. "We are early because later on the universe will have been colonised", but we don't admit "We are not later alien members of a grabby species because... ?" By the logic in this
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by b800h 4y ago
I was going to put it on here but thought better of it, tbh. Buzz me on Twitter? I'll leave my username in my profile for a while or until I hear from you.
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by b800h 4y ago
There's a huge monitoring industry lobbying for it.
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by b800h 4y ago
And some people want and need leaders. It's not a matter of "letting it happen", it's a ore function of humanity. And in the absence of formal hierarchy you get informal hierarchy which is much worse and more tyrannical
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by b800h 4y ago
We were in exactly the same position in the UK, putting our twins into nursery from a very early age so my wife and I could continue our careers. In retrospect we regret it somewhat, as it clearly affected them negatively. But it has been p
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by b800h 4y ago
The researchers couldn't find enough users to get significant data, because no-one is using it. They called the player base "small and precious".
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by b800h 4y ago
The levels don't seem huge, and you need to be a fairly committed consumer of wild mushrooms to see a effect comparable to regular flying. But it is interesting to note that the relevant consumer laws prevent the sale of eg. derived wi
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by b800h 4y ago
From the article: "Over longer routes, the relative hassle of getting to and from an airport instead of an HSR rail terminal is eroded by the higher speed of aircraft, even in places where the rail terminal is in a densely populated ci
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by b800h 4y ago
Yeah, there's a big disparity between UK and US terminology here. I'm the UK, a "contractor" is typically in business on their own account, applying for jobs directly to the end client. In the US, it seems like a "c
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by b800h 4y ago
Final year of UK junior school is ten years old. By eleven, I was taking the train to another town for school. With a few other children, but no adults. I think the acceptability of this stuff comes down to the area you live in.
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by b800h 4y ago
We keep on complaining in the UK about the economy being damaged by people retiring early, but the expansion of higher education, and notably further education was a tactic of the 1997 Labour government to reduce unemployment. It's pro
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by b800h 4y ago
This is a lovely project, given that the original Beeb wasn't "damaged" per se. I have a few Beeb mainboards with unrecoverable cases, and this sort of thing might be a very good destination for one.
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by b800h 4y ago
Isn't this reverse causation? Selecting for a set of autistic children with imaginary friends selects for individuals with the set of conditions on the spectrum which affect social skills the least. Junk study?
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by b800h 4y ago
Is HEX another of these words which gets erroneously capitalised, like SCRUM or GAP analysis?
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by b800h 4y ago
My guess would be you just get an annoying banner and click "agree to all" on it by habit, then it does the same thing.
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by b800h 4y ago
There used to be a website where someone gave homeless people money to fight each other. Perhaps it still exists. Is that ethical?
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by b800h 4y ago
Can't raise the site right now: https://web.archive.org/web/20220927224436/https://connortum...
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by b800h 4y ago
Well I'm hedging my bets. If it really is true that the market in a particular area (microblogging for instance) can only be dominated by a single company, and also that left-wing users are more active, then absolutely, I'm arguin
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by b800h 4y ago
I think there's a potential argument against this. 1. Network effects mean that there's only space for one platform in a particular niche. 2. There are reports (are they reliable?) that people who are more left wing are more habit
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by b800h 4y ago
Time alone mellows out most people.
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by b800h 4y ago
Well, typically not cleverer than most people, until you combine them with AI.
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by b800h 4y ago
At what cost? Perhaps the WMD comparison continues to work here.
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by b800h 4y ago
Okay, so there's a sense in which AI essentially destroys knowledge culture by performing a reductio-ad-absurdam on it. Examples: 1) Social content. We start with friend feeds (FB), they become algorithmic, and eventually are replaced
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by b800h 4y ago
I think that used to be on Saturday morning TV in the UK in the 80s. Edit: 1991 apparently.
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by b800h 4y ago
The classic example is that they make a capital purchase, like a building, for which they can't afford the ongoing maintenance.
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by b800h 4y ago
I think there's a strong case for arguing that we may actually completely ban AI and any sufficiently strong ML algorithm. AI hasn't even realised a millionth of its potential yet, and it's already running rings around humans
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by b800h 4y ago
Sidenote here: A lot of charities have serious problems with out-of-scale donations like this. They often encourage the organisation to grow in a way which is unsustainable and can have a damaging downside once the capital is exhausted.
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by b800h 4y ago
Random speculation here - could someone who actually knows the answer comment? Given the Russian war on Ukraine, and the price of energy dropping in BRIC countries, does the Ethereum merge actually help Western interests? Ie. Does this mean

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