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by bbor 2y ago
The first point is absolutely correct, and (apologies in advance…) was a large driver of Nietzsche’s philosophy of evolution, most explicitly covered in The Gay Science . Not only “selfishness”, but the wider idea of particularized standpo
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Let’s take this learning offline and circle back during the next sync, team
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Yeah, I was dissapointed (and thrilled, from a p(doom) perspective) to see it implemented in Minecraft instead of Civilization VI, Humankind, or any of the main Paradox grand strategies (namely Stellaris, Victoria, Crusader Kings, and Europ
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I mean, we're on a forum. There's not much else to discuss on forums than the past and the future.
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I don't think medication "treats" ADHD in the sense of solving it completely. For one thing, we're living through an Adderal shortage, for another it doesn't last all day, and, most importantly, it isn't a cure
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, hypochondria is definitely not a good thing, tbf! And psychosomatic illnesses are qualitatively different from physical ones, in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Hopefully all doctors are on board with the whole “you can’t just sna
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Sexism and racism are absolutely rampant when it comes to dismissing people’s medical concerns, you’re totally on track there. It’s not “I hate them and want them to suffer” prejudice, it’s “well that group of people tends to be less smart
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She wore a seatbelt and still got hurt in an accident?? I bet the seatbelt caused the accident…
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Huh, interesting! The pure blacks are gorgeous to me, but it’s possible I don’t know what I’m missing. Never noticed a problem with size 8 font
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Same, though I'm also on 49" (5120x1440). They're selling them for extra cheap on Amazon with extended (36mo) warranties because they're prone to breaking, but I had the Samsung contractors out here this month and they d
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Beautiful, thanks for sharing! Looks like I've found side project number 301: Three.js PlantStudio. Combined with the botany-focused image segmentation / mapping models they've got now, you could even work off people's r
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Curious what y'all thought about this -- happened 4 years ago. Obviously it's well within any open source maintainer's rights to quit at any time for any reason, and it doesn't seem like any of the 274 other contributors
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Love the Hossenfelder reference (though she really needs to move to Bluesky...). That said, I'd love if someone could explain some physics to this noob: If you jump out of a plane, at t=0 you'll not be moving (relative to the eart
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by bbor 2y ago
Re: “all of humanities problems”, I think that AI will more productively and safely be deployed in personalized, decentralized contexts. AKA Artificial Self-Instantiation for everyone who wants it, rather than a single Rehoboam god machine[
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by bbor 2y ago
Well put, and I agree with your general approach/skepticism! That said; 1. I don’t think we need to meet “ always can improve itself”; rather, the contention is that there’s a high chance that there’s lots of improvement left to be ha
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if a computer system were able to design a better computer system, how much would it cost to then manufacture said system? I think the implication is that the primary advancements would come in the form of software. IMO it's tr
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If you're ever stuck wondering why a bunch of smart, motivated people with no clear corrupting motivations are being idiotic, that's a strong heuristic that you should spend a bit more time analyzing the issue, IMO ;). "Ugh,
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There’s a very big difference between knowing “how” to solve a problem in a broad sense, eg “if we shared more we could solve hunger”, and “how” to solve it in terms of developing discrete, detailed procedures that can be passed to actuator
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It’s about rates, accessibility, incentives, and other society-level statistics. There are scams that have become much more common thanks to the affordances of untraceable, unmanaged online currencies, which shouldn’t really surprise anyone
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I mean, I was more referencing the big epidemic in the US recently, “pig butchering” — basically catfishing with more money involved. Certainly no system alone can make it impossible, but I think even the biggest crypto fans in the world sh
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Fascinating! I thought this was cool as I clicked through, I'm glad to see that it's been a dramatic topic for 25 years, not just some new idea. Hyphanet seems more openly political, which makes sense but is kinda a hard sell for
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Hmm when has it happened in the past? This is literally the Lemmy creator so it seems somewhat unique! But I could definitely just be behind the times. Are there other federation projects other than mastodon and Lemmy?
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Very, very cool. Will have to try it out! It’s all fun and games until a universal translator comes out in glasses or earpiece form…
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Thanks for the reply! That's a good list. Of those, I would break them down accordingly: - Cool new features - Encrypted direct messages - Video streaming - Ability to edit posts - Communities (IDK what this but it
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I wanted to like lemmy so bad. I lucked into a lifetime ban from Reddit after using it daily for 12 years, so you’d think it would be easy! But there’s just not enough people to make it interesting, not even close. I subbed to every damn in
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Source? AFAIK it is not more stable: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-twitter-to... Twitter appears to be an outlier in that respect. Instead of displaying the usual post-acquisition stability, Tho
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:( I was so, so excited to try this when I found it yesterday, it has like 3 star emojis in my list of models. I’ll post here if I get it working tomorrow, I guess. I doubt they’d release a model on HF without intending to make it useable E
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by bbor 2y ago
Wait until the media gets wind of what the industries been doing this fall… a whole repo on using AI to autonomously use other people’s websites, and not a single paragraph on safety — for the websites or for us. Technically incredible ofc,
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I’d say a large part of that is quickly dissolving —- they had less than 2M users at the time, and now have over 13M. I’m no Matt Iglesias fan and I don’t expect him to ever be given a warm welcome by any zoomer-dominated space, but obvious
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Yup it’s pretty crazy how quickly it’s changing now. Kelsey Hightower brought over a small army of startup/tech influencers last week when he quit Twitter, and I agree the astronomy community in particular is shockingly robust. Casuall

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