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by chr1 7y ago
585.84% [1] inflation in 2005 would correspond to (1-100/585)*100~=83% fall in economic output. Besides the main part of inflation was in 2008 - 79,600,000,000%, which could be explained by shrinking economics only if everyone except t
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by chr1 7y ago
If they don't include anti-democratic clauses in the contract the result will be exactly the same as if USA bought Denmark, that is Denmark will become a small state in USA.
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by chr1 7y ago
The drop in productive capacity of the economy was much smaller than the drop in the value of their currency, so going crazy and destroying agriculture was responsible for the first part of inflation, but staying crazy and printing money wa
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by chr1 7y ago
The logic is that people have always found ideas about the end of world, heaven, salvation, immortality, enticing. Singularity predicts analogs of these things in a manner that is compatible with atheism, so some atheists believe there wil
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by chr1 7y ago
Vernor Vinge actually tells an interesting analogy in the last part of the video: the parable of blind tribe and the wise man. The blind sage of a blind tribe, gathers everyone and says, "my friends, i have found that we are living at
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by chr1 7y ago
This kind of pessimism is not justified, environmental conditions near most large cities are much better than were in 50s, serious issues from climate change that can cause dark age are predicted to happen only after this century, if we kee
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by chr1 7y ago
In the video the author specifically talks why this is not a realistic scenario, plants we can't get rid off in our fields are specifically adapted to the way we handle the fields, without us they will be outcompeted by other plants, t
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by chr1 7y ago
It's not really clear that large empires are better than national states: two nearby countries that ended up in an empire, xinjiang and tibet, are not really in a much better state, and the previous empire that contained turkmenistan,
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by chr1 7y ago
If removing dams is so beneficial, would elimination of natural waterfalls (e.g. Niagara) be beneficial as well? If not why?
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by chr1 7y ago
But they are much cheaper, can be useful even when partially deployed, and allow fine grained control over weather instead of making everything uniformly colder.
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by chr1 7y ago
We need to be environmentally conscious, not because of CO2, but because of real pollutants that are harmful for human health. For CO2 we need technology to control weather, which is not as crazy as it may seem at first. Even the most naive
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by chr1 7y ago
That's assuming we block all the sunlight, but what we need to do is reduce sunlight in places like sahara, antarctica, middle of australia, and increase in places that are too cold. This can be achieved by satellites orbiting at lower
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by chr1 7y ago
A better alternative to a sunshade at L1 is a swarm of autonomous hot air balloons, which can change their reflectivity. A nice thing about this is that they do not need to be built all at once for the whole earth, but rich cities in north
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by chr1 7y ago
They have potential to become the first widely used GMO, as it will be easy to add immunity to this fungus with a small CRISPR edit.
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by chr1 7y ago
Would it be useful to protest about Xinjiang instead? After all if unsuccessful many of the protesters may end up in the same kind of reeducation camps.
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by chr1 7y ago
We can solve this if we focus on what we want to achieve: 1) We want to prevent heat waves of 40+ C, hurricanes, droughts, very cold winters etc 2) We want to prevent antarctic ice sheets from melting and increasing the sea level 3) We want
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Nuclear Reactor for Mars Outpost Could Be Ready to Fly by 2022(space.com)
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by chr1 7y ago
Entanglement would allow to send information if it was possible to clone quantum states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem#Some_... . If we are looking for a hidden variable theory, we need an explan
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by chr1 7y ago
Yes, if a hidden variable theory like this is constructed, it will not have a wavefunction and will be deterministic.
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by chr1 7y ago
Leonard Susskind has several interesting lectures about it which can be found by searching for ER=EPR, but i hope the final theory would explain more of the strange behaviors of quantum mechanics, something like the theory outlined in http
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by chr1 7y ago
Yes, the idea is that the particles themselves are connected to each other like two ends of a wormhole, so the signal about applied measurement doesn't have to take the 3km long path outside, but can directly go from one entangled part
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by chr1 7y ago
Bells theorem rules out only local hidden variables. Quantum mechanics itself works around the issue not because of indeterminism, but because wave function collapses everywhere at once in a non local way. But perhaps we do not even need to
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by chr1 7y ago
I didn't like one aspect of the book, when he was trying to show that what simulated people feel doesn't depend on the way simulation runs, he was mainly focusing on computing later timeframes of the simulation before earlier ones
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by chr1 7y ago
Only the theories that are local in euclidean space. If we allow the entangled particles to transmit information between each other, or use non-locality (the way quantum mechanics does by allowing wave function collapse at once in the whole
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by chr1 7y ago
Not just any simulation, but only a simulation with thinking creatures would imply that god exists. And not in a sense that our universe is created by a god, but in sense that creator of the simulation would be the god of the simulated univ
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by chr1 7y ago
Also children. Despite all the rhetoric europe and usa are the least likely places to be intentionally used as targets.
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by chr1 7y ago
The notion of "means of production" is not applicable to modern economy since now a simple computer can be "means of production" in the right hands, that's why modern states redistribute some percentage of produced
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by chr1 7y ago
> Let's say USSR at 1941 That's a very good example of a case where people were not acting as a single group at all. Most of the soldiers were simply leaving everything and retreating, because at first they were not sure if Hit
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by chr1 7y ago
> Social ownership: can be public, collective or cooperative ownership, or citizen ownership of equity. The problem with all of this, is that if someone works better than others, and creates his own "means of production" there
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by chr1 7y ago
It is not comparable at all, first of all walmart handles only one specific field, unlike the state having monopoly on everything. Second, there are competitors to walmart so when walmart starts to do crappy job a competitor that does bette

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