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by carapace 4y ago
Dealing with climate change is going to be expensive. Efficiency is good . If Priya gets to stay home and e.g. tend a Permaculture food forest while a computer does her job for her at a billionth of the cost (resource usage) that should
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by carapace 4y ago
Twitter is run by a guy who is becoming Emanuel Zorg before our eyes, eh? The fact that it's still useful makes it more important to switch, not less. You're putting career before your basic values (I'm guessing) and as
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by carapace 4y ago
> Copyright in the US is horribly fundamentally broken, and the idea that factual information about our history and world should not be referenceable and accessible for free is a pretty heinous one. I (mostly) agree with you, but remembe
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by carapace 4y ago
If we still read/watch it in a century?
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by carapace 4y ago
California is only about a hundred and fifty years old. It was like Siberia, but with an awesome climate. Gold was discovered and a hundreds of thousands of 49ers flooded the state and San Francisco became a major port city overnight.
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by carapace 4y ago
It's not. For one thing, rental prices have been going up in a steady trend for over half a century. The tech industry didn't cause the rise in prices per se , the general economic growth of the region did (and does) that: &g
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by carapace 4y ago
> The whole political mess in the US is driven by a clash of ideologies. Not really. When you actually analyze the situation what you have is a bunch of folks who would like to just live their lives (you know, people who are gay, or non
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by carapace 4y ago
It's a bit rough, maybe, but this old Buddhist story helped me: The family had finished the new house and went to the monk to get a scroll to sanctify the hearth. The monk worked for some time, and then called the family to see the sc
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by carapace 4y ago
The brain uses something like 20% of the oxygen you breathe. (Sorry for the factoid, I don't have a good source for that at the mo'.)
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by carapace 4y ago
> Well, I like this comment better, and for the record I have no problem with you being condescending, so please speak plainly as need be. Cheers! > Could you expand? What is the benefit of keeping 9 billion resource hungry inferior l
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by carapace 4y ago
> SF isn't a hippy city anymore. Right, and that's my point: the old timers resent the new wave. The hippies didn't give us the city, we took it from them. The argument that sways me (as an oldtimer who misses the way
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by carapace 4y ago
SF is roughly three hundred years younger than NYC.
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by carapace 4y ago
Someone went and collected data going back to 1948. > Today's outrageous prices are exactly in line with the 6.6% trend that began 60 years ago. https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme.
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm a hard core computer nerd and I'm from SF, grew up here. This is not the nerd city (although we have many fine nerds here!) It's the hippie city. Anyway, we nerds help the normals despite their bullying and lack of
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by carapace 4y ago
Good. As someone who grew up here, it'll be nice to get back to our original role in American life: open-air asylum for the rest of the country. Literally that's an old joke here: "If you're too crazy for the rest of t
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by carapace 4y ago
You're doing it yourself! Right now, with that comment you just made, you're complaining about complaining, you're "[reading] into the author's intentions and assume the worst of their character", are you not?
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by carapace 4y ago
> I mean no offence (sic) None taken. > such an unthoughtful take No offense, but if you were 10 in 1999 when Iron Giant came out then I have been thinking about this for longer than you have been alive. > Of course there's a
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by carapace 4y ago
> We are made of atoms that the GAI can use for something else. Yeah I get it, but this is silly. The minuscule amount of atoms in the thin bubble-shaped volume between Earth's magma and the hard vacuum of space are engaged in the
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by carapace 4y ago
There is no overlap between the ecological niches of humans and GAI, in other words, there is no cost to the GAI for allowing us to continue to exist. GAI will feed on information. Humans are the densest source of information in the known
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by carapace 4y ago
There's nothing novel about highly contagious respiratory virus? We have had disease since before we were human. The novelty is how swiftly and comprehensively we reacted (I'm not dismissing the problems with our reactions and r
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by carapace 4y ago
In the USA at least there's always the Second Amendment argument to be made: if these computer programs are arms we have the right to bear them. Same argument as for encryption programs, eh?
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by carapace 4y ago
The open letter is so foolish it invalidates itself. For one thing, it's pouring fuel on the fire. The obvious reaction to such a letter is to accelerate and hide one's own progress, eh? Yudkowsky's fear-mongering about sci
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by carapace 4y ago
> Braess's paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox Please make sure you're
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by carapace 4y ago
Therac 25 is so serious that jokes are one of the very few ways to discuss it at all, eh?
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by carapace 4y ago
Learn (self-)hypnosis. You have lots of brains, so to speak, you just have to organize them coherently. Also, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223 by Douglas C. Engelbart, October 196
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by carapace 4y ago
Okay, you're clearly trolling. Good day.
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by carapace 4y ago
Weak tea. If you're gonna sass at least put in some effort. Are you really trying to say "hypocrisy is okay because everyone does it"? And hypocrisy is the good interpretation: that they know what they're doing and d
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by carapace 4y ago
The shuddering irony of hosting this on Google Drive. How are you supposed to take this seriously?
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm personally much more concerned about humans using these systems to reinforce the current messed up conditions on Earth than any kind of sci-fi Skynet.
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by carapace 4y ago
> if there was a human that was 27 times smarter than anybody else (and could self-replicate at will), how long would it be until that individual took control over the world? Sometime in the mid-90's. The problem is, what do you do

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