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by chr1 6y ago
So if iron accumulation is bad does that mean the medieval doctors with their bloodletting were on to something after all?
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by chr1 6y ago
There is a lot of empty space on earth even before we start terraforming deserts or building floating cities, or colonizing other planets. So the malthusian fearmongering that we are all going to die due to lack of resources is simply false
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by chr1 6y ago
Could you explain what do you mean? If you think that majority of people are not smart enough to have a say in how they should be governed, you need to propose some mechanism, of reducing their voice, because the mechanism which we use no
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by chr1 6y ago
> worthlessness of these goals, it's time for him to leave That's why supporting SENS foundation, and any other research aiming to prolong human lifespan is the most important investment now. But i can't agree that the des
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by chr1 6y ago
The example with creating a person and then destroying it is different, because after creation it can continue to live independently from yourself. But if you create a person in your computer, that person can exist only as long as you provi
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by chr1 6y ago
With brexit people had only one opportunity to vote, so it was possible to mislead a large number of them, about unknown things happening in the future. With a system like this they could change their mind as the situation changes, so agita
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by chr1 6y ago
Sure, our imagination does not have enough computational power to be simulative now, but in principle there is nothing preventing existance of a living creature with vastly more powerful brain.
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by chr1 6y ago
If you torture someone then use a time machine to restore him to the initial state, did you do anything bad? You can't do this to anyone real but you can easily save and then restore the state of the simulation at any point. Torturing
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by chr1 6y ago
While individual trajectories of non-linear systems are not predictable, they all end up on an attractor and usually all we are interested in, is the attractor. That is when performing a test on a mouse we are not measuring what a particul
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by chr1 6y ago
Instead of trying to silence the loud minority, a better solution would be to return a proportional voice to the silent majority. One way for that would be open voting where people vote not for political parties but directly for laws, and c
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by chr1 6y ago
It's interesting that he suggests to use open vote and to allow trading votes. On one hand this is against all we know about voting and selling votes or even taking a selfie with bulletin is considered illegal. But on the other hand ma
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How to escape two party monopoly in USA using technology(twitter.com)
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by chr1 6y ago
The difference is that a store doesn't spend significant amount of their resource on you when you just look around, but most of websites do. Suggesting that sites do not have right to retain information about what you asked them to do
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by chr1 6y ago
On the other hand it may help the society to understand that the law is wrong and fix it. The fact that police is enforcing poor laws poorly does not help anyone, and instead of trying to ban police from using modern tools, in hope that po
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by chr1 6y ago
A simple way to fix incentives would be to allow private prisons, and to allow inmates to choose the prison they will stay at.
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by chr1 6y ago
Apparently both rubber bullets and pepper spray can be lethal/cause serious harm. Are there any safer methods for the police to use? I am not arguing if or when police should be able to use such methods, but having safer methods seems
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by chr1 6y ago
I disagree, this will save us from situations like Brexit, because if referendum is not an expensive and slow process, you can hold it multiple times, until the vote stabilizes, you can require significant difference for decisions changing
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by chr1 6y ago
First of all they should say that they are not related to any of the looters, that anyone even throwing trash on the streets is against protesters. Use every opportunity to show how peaceful the protesters are. Not gather at nights as at ni
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by chr1 6y ago
Now we pick politicians based on feelgood promises they make, which they do not intend to keep. This way we avoid "tyranny of the majority" only by lying to the majority of people which cannot lead to a stable situation. If you b
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by chr1 6y ago
Unfortunately most people do not really believe in ability of other people to make rational decisions, even though they say that they support democracy. There is zero hope that any politician at power to suggest an idea that would remove al
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by chr1 6y ago
Exactly, i had tried to describe this in the linked submission by saying "you can put your vote to follow someone else" and you described that better. The fact that many people come to the same idea independently means that time i
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by chr1 6y ago
If you have continuous voting it may be better to vote for decisilons instead of voting for people. Because politicians usually happily pretend to support whatever policies they think are popular. https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by chr1 6y ago
The idea about presentations is very good, but it alone won't fix the problem. We need to be able to vote for individual decisions instead of people, and we on hn are best positioned to fix the democracy https://news.ycombi
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Ask HN: Is there anyone working on 'Uber' for politics
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by chr1 6y ago
China itself is a colonial relic, it just happens to be a relic of a much older and much more cruel empire. In a more lucky timeline, it would have crumbled similar to Roman empire, and now, instead of one mega-dictatorship, there would be
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by chr1 6y ago
I am not really sure about the value of this philosophical positions, since the ones i have seen, simply suggest to ignore logic for a little bit, to obtain the result they feel is correct. The suggestion by Penrose that consciousness is co
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Turing machine can make insulin that works on cells created by the Turing machine.
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by chr1 6y ago
That's why i say "if we agree that the brain is described by physics". If you argue that a brain cannot be described by computation and there is something supernatural like soul, that's a fine theory, and the only way to
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by chr1 6y ago
ML algorithms have very beautiful dreams and halucinations https://www.google.com/search?q=neural+net+dreams ;) More seriously though, if we agree that the brain is described by physics, then all it can do, a turing machin
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by chr1 6y ago
Preciousness of a resource depends on it's availability. Consciousness is precious now because it is fragile and non-replicable. With AI it would be possible to copy any state and undo any change, so who cares if you create a copy of a

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