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by chr1 3y ago
I don't see how randomness can make anything non-computable. Sure you may not know the exact random numbers but you get a similar enough universe with any other sequence of random numbers. Also continuous doesn't mean uncomputable
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by chr1 3y ago
In physics you never have measurements differentiating between distance 2 and say 2+10^-20, and that gives enough space to hide any 'bell curve' you want.
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by chr1 3y ago
You don't have to imagine an ordered grid. If grid unit is small enough (say plank length 1,6 10^-35) and the grid is chaotic, for the distances of ~ 10^-16 that we can measure, everything will look the same in all directions. This hap
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by chr1 3y ago
On the contrary, it indicates that truly talented and capable people are rare. Having more of them would allow the rest of us to live under less adverse conditions, find a way to become smarter and live longer. The point is that we could ha
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by chr1 3y ago
No matter how well you eat and get educated, you are not going to be able to do even a fraction of what John von Neumann or Srinivasa Ramanujan were able to do. And very often people like them were able to do that despite all the odds, not
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by chr1 3y ago
A very important part of this frontier is ability to create genetic copies to see which part of a trait is genetic. It is crazy that we ban research on cloning, and still don't have many clones of successful scientists.
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by chr1 3y ago
I am saying that so far progress in metaphysics came not from philosophers but from physicists, who actually do experiments or math calculations. Similarly progress in understanding AI will come from people who actually build and experiment
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by chr1 3y ago
Unfortunately it is not possible to find out new questions or develop new tools by just thinking about stuff. You need to also do something concrete, at which point you cease to be just a philosopher and become also a mathematician, physici
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by chr1 3y ago
Richard Feynman also did not see value in philosophy, and he was right. The submitted article is a good illustration why. There are two hypotheses: one is that consciousness is essentially a computation, the other that it is an unknowable s
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by chr1 3y ago
No, they have developed new software wich works much faster. See a few paragraphs above the one you are quoting.
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by chr1 3y ago
Or maybe they have good reason to believe that all the talk about "safe development" doesn't contribute anything useful to safety, and simply slows down devlopment?
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by chr1 3y ago
The most promising way to reduce the use of pesticides is development of gene drive to eliminate common pest species, and precise genetic editing of crops transplanting existing pest resistance features from one variety to others. Sadly bot
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by chr1 3y ago
N1 designers did not have good computers. Chaotic behavior does not mean that system is impossible to control (e.g. double pendulum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vr1x6KDaY ).
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by chr1 3y ago
A swamp near seashore is not going to help to provide water for people or agriculture. The whole seashore is covered with swamps like this that do not have any particularly interesting ecosystems.
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by chr1 3y ago
> The only way we're going to find another planet "close enough to Earth to live in" is if we invent a real, working, practical FTL drive. That is not the only way, extending lifespan would work as well
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by chr1 3y ago
The default option worked not by conscious thought but by desire for sex. Now we have found a way to decouple that from procreation, so people have to actually think, and they often end up choosing a path that leads to dead end.
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by chr1 3y ago
> Child doesn't have enough money Yes child has the amount of money that parents are able to provide. > Keep searching for the boogeyman who wants kid to not exist, and not horrible parents to not procreate. Why do you think that
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by chr1 3y ago
Moral thing is for the child that doesn't have enough money to not go on that trip. It is a valuable lesson that to get something useful from other people you need to do something useful for them first. The difference of what you did a
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by chr1 3y ago
Median compared to which group neighbourhood/city/world? What you are saying is basically equivalent to selling one child in order to buy a toy like the neighbour has for another.
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by chr1 3y ago
In several occasions, after very intense and new visual stimulus, (e.g. being the first time in a forest, watching "where dreams may come", playing a beautiful video game for the first time, strangely, playing checkers for almost
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by chr1 3y ago
What is the definition of "reasonably comfortable life"? From the point of view of most of human history and most of the people currently living on earth, even the poorest people in US and Europe live _unreasonably_ comfortable li
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by chr1 3y ago
A related question is if the same idea can be used for a deodorant: make a type of skin bacteria that does not produce odour and can outcompete other types of bacteria.
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by chr1 3y ago
To be fair among people with appropriate qualification, there are many more americans who think USA is an "evil capitalistic empire" than immigrants who would support in any way the country they have escaped from. Also Soviets got
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by chr1 3y ago
If they care so deeply about non-citizens maybe they should pull a Caracalla move and grant citizenship to everyone in their empire?
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by chr1 3y ago
Hopefully in 2380 uncontacted people will still live in North Sentinel Island. and some other places.
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by chr1 3y ago
To fix issues like this we need more work on gene drive. Targeting doublesex gene in insects has a very promising results in different species from mosquitos https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24790-6 to fruit-
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by chr1 3y ago
200M is not enough to maintain the current level of technology. There simply won't be enough people to develop new cpus, build rockets, maintain enough communication cables and satellites, research new treatments. On the other hand 200
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by chr1 3y ago
Government agencies secretly communicating with people is not a free speech, There are many more cases when government employee can't talk about work with other people, so i don't see a reason to be horrified.
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by chr1 3y ago
The cross product of continuum sets is also equivalent to a continuum, so it does not fall apart, it forms a space-filling curve on complex plane. See z-curve section of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary
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by chr1 3y ago
The article says it can differ from cuff device reading by as much as 8mmhg, but cuff device itself can have lerger error if it is not weared on the hand correctly. So if the figure in the article is correct, this would be very useful for p

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