cameldrv

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by cameldrv 6d ago
Something like this only costs $15m because the incentives are crap. You know it if you've driven past any road construction project. 90% of the people at any given time are standing around. You have to pay just as much for a person
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by cameldrv 8d ago
I'm saying 40k per year per kid per year. That's not a magic number, but it's something like where if you have 2-3 kids, one parent doesn't need to work because their income is replaced by a child subsidy. Alternativel
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by cameldrv 8d ago
The problem is that if Japan ends up with a population of 64 million in 2100, that is nothing like the situation 100 years ago. Almost all of those 64 million people will be retired and not creating any economic output, but requiring a lot
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by cameldrv 8d ago
Ultimately the problem is that Japanese people are not having enough kids. It's a huge emergency. It is recoverable, but it has to be done very soon or it will be much harder. Right now, 5.1% of the population is 25-29, prime childb
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by cameldrv 8d ago
Depends on the person. Some people will say wild stuff like Neptune exists or black holes exist and they will be right.
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by cameldrv 8d ago
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Few people have the ability/temperament to reason about things that have never happened before. Those that do have a weird psychological profile. Usually you can ignore them. Every onc
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by cameldrv 10d ago
Strong agree. I don't believe AIs can become conscious in the sense of subjective experience/qualia, but they can certainly learn to emulate the behavior of a person that is conscious. When they do that, there will be an AI righ
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by cameldrv 14d ago
It’s interesting that a lot of U.S. law requires intent. If you just give AI your objective without specifying the means, and the AI violates a bunch of laws requiring intent, but neither the AI nor the person can be prosecuted, this is ve
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by cameldrv 15d ago
They made a whole song about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccq30minme8
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by cameldrv 16d ago
If you’re using it, you should plan to migrate off ASAP. I’ve been a long time user of Harvest, and after Bending Spoons acquired it, they increased our pricing by 800%.
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by cameldrv 17d ago
We can model physics and chemistry pretty well, just not beyond small scales, because the computational effort blows up. You could just as easily say that if you can write a python interpreter that you can understand every program written i
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by cameldrv 17d ago
You’re just a bunch of molecules following the laws of physics. It’s all just physics and chemistry, and those are well understood. Now explain the causes of World War I using chemistry and physics. Simple, right?
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by cameldrv 18d ago
There are different strategies. One is to have cheap dry food plus some canned food in 5 gallon buckets. If you buy dry food like beans, rice, and pasta, you can get them from Walmart/Costco for about $1 a pound. This type of food w
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by cameldrv 18d ago
They have video surveillance signs. Audio is a different category in a lot of states. In California, it's illegal to record audio without consent of all of the parties, and I believe you can get a civil remedy of $5000 for this.
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by cameldrv 22d ago
When the AI does something good, the human takes credit. When it does something bad, blame the AI. Take as old as time.
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by cameldrv 22d ago
This is really obnoxious. I've used this feature for a couple of decades so that my email is not beholden to Google in case I decide to stop using them someday. I guess that day is coming sooner than I had thought.
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by cameldrv 22d ago
However, there is another factor at play, which is that people who are more image conscious drive nicer cars at the same level of income/wealth, and in my experience, people who are more image conscious also tend to act more like jerks
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by cameldrv 25d ago
Yes! The Claudisms do seem to have this slightly uncanny clickbaity feel to them.
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by cameldrv 26d ago
The real problem is the climate, the fuel, and structure hardening. In some big fires, it was power lines, but in others it was a cigarette or arson, or a camp fire, or lightning, or a car parked on dry grass, or people using power tools t
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by cameldrv 26d ago
I really like the GE Sun Filled soft white bulbs (not the daylight version). They’re pricey and only 60w equivalent but they’re the closest to incandescent I’ve found.
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by cameldrv 26d ago
To a degree you might say that they live too much in the space of the abstract and not enough in the concrete, or too much in the general and not enough in the specific. I think that's a fair criticism a lot of the time. Most of the t
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by cameldrv 1mo ago
Honestly I think American scientists not speaking in Fahrenheit units to an American audience is an incredibly simple and stupid, but very significant cause of the problem. If I tell you the Earth is going to get 2 degrees C warmer, America
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by cameldrv 1mo ago
There was also the Qualcomm pdQ and the Kyocera 6035 I think that combined a Palm and a phone/cellular modem. It’s surprising to me that it took as long as it did for smartphones to really get popular. Some of it was just that the typ
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by cameldrv 1mo ago
This is my frustration with AI coaches, specifically Garmin. They want me to have a 10k time goal or something when I don’t ever run competitive races and don’t directly care about times. I just want to get healthy.
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by cameldrv 1mo ago
My guess is most of those are passengers from Milwaukee connecting in Chicago. You could take the train, but then you'd be in downtown Chicago, and have to take Uber or the El to O'Hare. That's a big hassle and takes a whil
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by cameldrv 2mo ago
The parent commenter's experience pretty much sums up my experience with every IVR system, AI or not. The IVR cannot do anything I can't do on the website or the app. I wouldn't be calling if I could get the job done withou
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by cameldrv 2mo ago
There are names for all of the features. It would be cool if there were some sort of color code or physical indication of a cables capability, but one of the cool things about usb-c is that the same connector works for really cheap stuff a
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by cameldrv 2mo ago
For airline tickets, it's mostly not about wealth yet, at least on U.S. domestic routes. I know that for some international tickets, especially between a rich country and a poor country, the price can be different depending on whether
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by cameldrv 2mo ago
I’ve seen a lot of people on the internet over the years say things like “the government can’t make x illegal, it’s just y.” For example, the government can’t make wiping your phone at the border illegal, it’s just punching four numbers in
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by cameldrv 2mo ago
I've been thinking very similar thoughts. Without going into too much detail, a couple of observations: When carpenters moved from mostly hand tools to mostly power tools, it didn't take away much of the need to understand the te

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