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by chr1 9y ago
There are easier methods to control the climate. E.g solar updraft towers can be used to create cloud cover, and to increase convection in the atmosphere.
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by chr1 9y ago
And some time after that a future where all of these are produced in the same factory from cell culture, and real sheep are rare.
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by chr1 9y ago
> virtual torture typically drives victims insane. Is that self evident though? It seems like the difference between pleasure and pain is that pain is a signal that is interpreted as "get out of here, or you may die". And brai
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by chr1 9y ago
Sure, but if you do not have the proper painkillers, it's hell of a lot more painful than the pain it ends. You are trading long term nagging pain, for short intense one, which is totally worth it, but is a lot of pain.
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by chr1 9y ago
> I absolutely, 100% would not volunteer to go through a "horrible torture." Even if it was to unlock a new level in a game, or to remove a tooth? :) More seriously though seems like i didn't manage to express what i wante
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by chr1 9y ago
Not volunteer for it alone, but try it as a part of a bigger package. Kind of like a more realistic version of a horror movie/game. Do you think i am entirely wrong, and suffering is worse than death? Do you think it is better to die,
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by chr1 9y ago
What is worse, causing pain or killing? If we consider an extreme case of someone going through a horrible torture, but the next day waking up as healthy as before, and without some kind of mental illness, and without losing significant amo
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by chr1 9y ago
You can't make people forget technologies you don't like selectively. The more we advance in adjacent technologies (like in autonomous driving) the easier it will become to advance in face recognition, to the point where just a ti
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by chr1 9y ago
By eating animals you save lots of plants from being eaten in the future!
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by chr1 9y ago
That's more of a problem with _not_ having them. When you lose prominent contributors you notice how the things were better before, but you are still better off than you would be if they never existed.
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The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century(youtube.com)
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by chr1 9y ago
> "Science advances one funeral at a time" This is mostly due to age related brain function degradation, most scientists now have to relearn and try new things several times in their middle age. Unfortunately many lose that abi
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by chr1 9y ago
I think the scenario of a despot like that keeping rejuvenation technology to himself and ruling for a long time is not likely. First of all that would assume rejuvenation is very costly, more costly than raising a child, which is unlikely
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by chr1 9y ago
The question in this case is "what is a perfectly identical clone" and what is time. If the thing works like a computer, that is clone is truly identical, and time is just a counter, then there is nothing to resume the clone won&#
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by chr1 9y ago
The future where only wealthy get to live forever is indeed very bleak, but there is a future worse than that: the one where everyones life is short (like now).
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by chr1 9y ago
http://jsnice.org works well, though misses many oportunities of restoring variable names based on property names which cannot be minified.
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by chr1 9y ago
Not likely. Calling from javascript to webassembly is slow, webassembly can't create js objects, and usually it is not much smaller than the equivalent js code, due to lower level of abstraction.
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by chr1 9y ago
The comparison with linux distros isn't quite fair, as they are not full reimplementations of the same standard. They are are better compared with chromium based browsers, which are easy to create and of which there are many. What do y
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by chr1 9y ago
In the winter seals have to use holes in the ice to breath, which makes them very vulnerable. Without ice it is much more difficult for bears to catch them. http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-seal-breathing.h..
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by chr1 9y ago
True, if we go specifically searching for the answer to the second question, we may not find much interesting, but when we know more about the first question we can gain some insights about the second one. So if by not interesting you mean
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by chr1 9y ago
Say it is possible to calculate future of a sufficiently complex physical system like a person on a Turing machine by knowing the current state of the system. Then, according to this idea, the calculation can not be simplified by using some
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by chr1 9y ago
It is hard to do the same work for someone else, because they don't need you as much as your child would, and they won't be near you as much.
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by chr1 9y ago
That's a terrible thing to do for the environment, 3bln people can ruin it just as easily as 7bln (maybe a little bit slower). But having less people, especially in rich parts of the world, means they won't be able to develop tech
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by chr1 9y ago
> with analytically predefined series of events. This doesn't make universe less interesting or more predictable. Consider Mandelbrots set, it is fully analytically predefined, but only way to find it's details is to perform t
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by chr1 9y ago
The question "whether we live in simulation" is indeed a new dressing. But the question "is simulation possible, and if yes what it can look like" is new, and can have useful answers.
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by chr1 9y ago
You can look for contradictions, inconsistencies or for macro scale phenomena not explainable by micro scale laws.
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by chr1 9y ago
You don't need to simulate the entire universe, just the tiny bit where interesting things are happening (read surface of earth), places farther away can be simulated with much lower precision as long as they look plausible. In that se
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by chr1 9y ago
Indeed cities of mediterranean and baltic seas are luck to be able to escape raising sea levels by building on dam. But the sea level doesn't rise fast enough to motivate enough people to build a dam, so people will end up slowly leavi
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by chr1 9y ago
Why would they become parts of mainland turkey? The land around islands would become part of Greece.
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by chr1 9y ago
Yes a big part is under the sea level, and would be a good first step. But the most of the potential for storing water is in higher level lakes and aquifer.

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