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by blargey 3y ago
Yes, other robots in a fight. And once the robots/factories are out of the way, any human resistance. Armies work to destroy/incapacitate the opposing army, after which they use the threat of destruction to impose their will on th
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by blargey 3y ago
> What this culture really wants is for you to pay attention and understand the people around you This sort of framing highlights the worst case scenario of "guess" culture imo. Where members assume that outsiders to the "
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by blargey 3y ago
What American hackernews nerds think Japanese TV is like: NHK on the benefits of inconvenience What Japanese TV is really like: News, weather, sports, variety shows, crime drama, period drama, standup/skit comedy, Sunday morning kid&#x
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by blargey 3y ago
The majority of this water is just for cooling, right? If the only thing entering or leaving the water is heat, why can’t the pipes just be arranged so it’s all “supply” pipes just passing through the datacenter, with the contents never bei
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by blargey 3y ago
Societies cope with bad tactics by making rules against them, and enforcing those rules.
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by blargey 3y ago
Both underage drinking and smoking rates have gone down precipitously over the past few decades, so quite well? https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast... https://pubs.niaaa.ni
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by blargey 3y ago
Truly, these are strange times. We need to go back to the times where adults scoffed at the robots of Asimov. I mean the time machines and vampires of Wells and Stoker. I mean the electrically reanimated corpses of Shelley. I mean the ghost
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by blargey 3y ago
A human cannot learn from and re/produce work they view at the speed, volume, and scale that “AI” does, nor can that human be infinitely replicated and farmed out. When describing this gap in capabilities, or the consequences of “lea
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by blargey 3y ago
That’s because the author’s concept of “psychological continuity” is looser - “your mind’s rough configuration exists somewhere in the universe some time in the future“, which is different from how you and I define it. Perhaps the ”strict p
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by blargey 3y ago
An actual “good Matrix” would give you the freedom to simulate whatever terrestrial survival-battle fantasy you think is the key to your personal happiness. “Suicide is the only way out”, “there’s only one flavor of heaven” and other such c
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by blargey 3y ago
According to the link, the laws say “class must start after 8:30am ”, and there’s often an earlier scheduled bus pickup to make, so you have to account for that in waking times, unlike WFH business hours where you can roll out of bed and o
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by blargey 3y ago
> it's not incredibly hard to figure out When you’re a core user / minor subject expert, yes. But malicious actors wouldn’t be on the site in the first place if there weren’t a hundred naive consumers for every keen-eyed user
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by blargey 3y ago
You are allowed to use rails and jquery. (You usually won’t even need jquery anymore) That said, I recommend trying the SvelteKit tutorial and seeing if you like working with it. If nothing else it’ll let you skip a lot of that framework-an
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by blargey 3y ago
It’s been a century since that period of Ford, where are those high-paying U.S. factory jobs now? Greenwashing fads come and go, it’s all built on dumb technicalities. Try navigating your way through “cage free” vs “pasture raised” vs “cert
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by blargey 3y ago
People need land. Nobody needs that one painting. It’s pretty clearly a way to allow the artist (or their heirs, in the event of their passing) to benefit from their works being labeled Valuable long after they parted with it for a commodit
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by blargey 3y ago
I assumed they’re referring to “lab grown” meat, not veggie burgers and the like. Literal “vegan meat”, which if successful would put an end to large scale animal farming/fishing, without requiring any change in dietary and culinary ha
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by blargey 4y ago
If you assume that an AI capable enough to replace all knowledge labor will simultaneously be forever incapable of designing commodity robots to let it also replace all physical labor, then sure.
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by blargey 4y ago
Athletic Greens and competitors tend to include a ridiculous “everything and the kitchen sink” cocktail of supplements with dubious sourcing, presumably in hope that one of them has an “energizing” effect on the customer and generates a goo
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by blargey 4y ago
“AGI doomers mistakenly believe that intelligence lets you find the right ethics” “That’s why they can’t see that superhuman AGI will be so smart it will choose to find and settle on the right ethics, like me!”
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by blargey 4y ago
Perhaps. The setting and themes are certainly bleak. But the dialogue I’m thinking of feels more like complete lapses in common sense / social skills / street smarts one would expect even from a loser/misfit, given any of V’s
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by blargey 4y ago
Interesting, I felt the opposite - consistent mismatches between the expectation and reality of Cyberpunk’s dialogue choices. A lot of optional dialogue was just cues to make the NPC roll their eyes and explain obvious “subtext” to the bigg
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by blargey 4y ago
I don’t understand how GPT poetry is supposed to refute the standard refrain that GPT is a statistical parrot that has “learned” what next-word keeps a text sounding poemy. It operates on the same principles as when it composes boilerplate
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by blargey 4y ago
There are many replies and replies-to-those-replies listed, but nothing I would call “thoroughly rebutted”. I’m particularly unimpressed by the amount of hand-waving packed into replies that want us to assume a “simulated neuron”.
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by blargey 4y ago
Applying a hydrocolloid bandage immediately gives you a waterproof seal over the wound, so it basically lets you skip the “dry out and form a scab” part and go straight to the “sealed wound starts healing” part. The “wet” part is really jus
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by blargey 4y ago
Is a fungal disease that ravages crop organisms grown in the open (wild varieties included) supposed to be an argument against growing food in a sterile, controlled environment?
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by blargey 4y ago
Speaking of which, “people prefer” is really vague (if not a weasel wordy) in this kind of studies-say-aphorism. If there were 6 subjects, does it mean “5-6 of them changed their answer depending on the experiment” or “2 consistently prefer
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by blargey 4y ago
That might be it - I’m just using the “saner” parts of the Internet as my reference (at least compared to Politics On Twitter), which usually means “smaller scope of community and discussion / human moderation”, much like HN on a good
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by blargey 4y ago
I honestly don’t understand the consistent (self) praise for HN comments. Perhaps the mods make valiant efforts to enforce some vague standard of decorum and it would be worse without that thankless work, but any topic that doesn’t lend its
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by blargey 4y ago
If your code commits are, like running: regular chunks of interchangeable, repetitive, rote, menial labor that an untrained child can do, where the only benefit expected by anybody is your own personal exertion, and making it a static, mech
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by blargey 4y ago
I imagine it’s like “The US tradition of eating bull testes”. It took me a lot longer than 5 years before I heard about that one, and I suspect you’d get a similar reaction offering those “oysters” to a random US citizen without couching it

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