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by chr1 7y ago
Private property and decentralisation are good ideas. 50%+1 liking the way someone talks doesn't mean that the person is fit to manage the whole economy for four years.
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by chr1 7y ago
"No food required" is quite nice. Technology for full robots may require quite some time, but before that it is probably possible to create artificial stomach that can replace your stomach and gut, and instead of eating 3 times a
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by chr1 7y ago
This assumes that applying edits is hard and expensive while finding what to edit is easy and can be done without multiyear tests. But the reality is exactly the opposite. More likely outcome is that genetic editing companies will be paying
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by chr1 7y ago
Sure developing laws that would protect people and not allow monopolies is the job of lawmakers. If they were suggesting laws about users being able to take out their information, crossposting from competing platform, finding out why an add
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by chr1 7y ago
Why should Canadian parliament be able to summon a US citizen? Should other countries like China Turkey or Armenia be able to summon them as well? And should hacker news delete your profile if you do not follow 'lawful summons' to
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by chr1 7y ago
There is a simple reason why governments can't 'Call their bluff', because they are the ones bluffing. They brag about representing 400 million people, but in fact they are mostly corrupt bureaucrats who take money from vario
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by chr1 7y ago
That way the same binary could run on machines with different architectures. There is also work in progress to define common system api for wasm, which would allow to run the same binary on any platform.
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by chr1 7y ago
That's a bit exaggerated, if illumination could kill all insects, there would not be any insects in arctic, which is false.
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by chr1 7y ago
On the bright side Starlink is something that can help to solve both of this issues by helping to lower the price of rockets and by improving the antennas.
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by chr1 7y ago
Propaganda usually doesn't work or has the opposite effect. It may be better to pass a law that would link pension of old people to tax paid by young people who have chosen them. This will make having many successful children profitabl
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by chr1 7y ago
Perhaps they should invest more into developing artificial womb https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-ar...
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by chr1 7y ago
That's why there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation
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by chr1 7y ago
This is equivalent to asking to ban glasses to prevent short-sighted people from identifying "masculine" features. If people can learn to handle the information they see, they can teach the same to the algorithms they use. So whi
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by chr1 7y ago
Perhaps it would be better to build something that the original designers would build if they had our technology. https://www.designboom.com/architecture/vincent-callebaut-no... looks like a good direction to me (needs
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by chr1 7y ago
> It's clear that to Boeing, their numbers are more important than lives. That would not be bad by itself. It is only important that regulators and customers make sure that this leaves really big dent in their numbers.
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by chr1 7y ago
Why do you think any other people would want to die? I would expect wanting to die to be be as anomalous as it is now unless the life extension therapy doesn't work well. Also "stagnating the status quo for centuries " sounds
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by chr1 7y ago
> what does a total lack of free will mean for the criminal justice system nothing, the goal of justice system is to prevent repetition of the crime, and it works the same whether the behavior was willful or not.
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by chr1 7y ago
My hypothesis is: computational irreducibility => free will. Unfortunately i don't see any way to prove it other than creating a simulation that contains a real human that can pass turing test. But perhaps arguments in https:/
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by chr1 7y ago
Perhaps i didn't formulate my hypothesis well. What i was trying to say, was that if combination of complexity and chaotic behavior makes the system computationally irreducible (that is any method to compute its future is fully equival
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by chr1 7y ago
I don't know of any good definition of free will, intuitively it should be something that would allow to say "this person made a choice and that choice wasn't something that i could predict simply with some machine or equatio
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by chr1 7y ago
If you put a person into exactly same situation, with same memories, why would he make different choices? Making different choices would not be free will but absence of will/random choice. After running the simulation once you know the
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by chr1 7y ago
The chaos is not related to the number of variables, it is sensitivity to initial conditions. Even system with one variable, and the simplest evaluation rule can be chaotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map . T
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by chr1 7y ago
This sentence indeed doesn't make much sense, but it has a grain of truth in it. Indeterminism at the physical level can't be translated to free will, it could be translated only to randomness, because if say your choice is affect
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by chr1 7y ago
The article doesn't propose any practical ways of reducing the number prisoners. Simply letting everyone out and hoping for the best doesn't seem to be a good plan. One thing that could work for non-violent crimes, would be a brac
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by chr1 7y ago
> we know it will lower yield of crops that is true only for one kind of geo-engineering: emulation of volcano eruption, and that's indeed not the kind of geoengineering we need. What we need instead is a much finer control over wea
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by chr1 7y ago
None of the things you mention would make me happy. Things that would make me happier are: autonomous colony on mars, 1000 year or more life expectancy, huge floating cities in all oceans, faster computers, better batteries, 100 billion peo
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by chr1 7y ago
That may work, in Europe Netherlands is planning to invest into updating natural gas infrastructure to work with hydrogen, as they have lots of wind, and possibility to store hydrogen in empty gas caverns in Groningen.
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Not heavily forested but covered by a lake and vegetation very different from current one with many juniper trees see for instance i https://www.jstor.org/stable/41424512?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co... https://en.
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by chr1 7y ago
The question is about choosing what to protect while we can't protect everything. There are enough lunar and martian landscapes on moon and mars. Do you think these places were less impressive/worse 10K years ago when they had for
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by chr1 7y ago
Yes, if it means one less mine in tropical regions or near the places where people live, that is a net benefit. Arctic region is not even in its natural state, but is a result of human intervention from 10K years ago, when by eliminating ma

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