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by chr1 3y ago
Stress or being passionate can not explain all the difference between what people can do. They sure help, but if you then compare average person to someone like John Von Nueman or Ramanujan it's almost as if they are on different class
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by chr1 3y ago
Well if power goes out 99% will already be dead because of current dependence on technology. And for the remaining 1% the religious conservative groups like Amish or Hashidis will be the ones who survive.
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by chr1 3y ago
For evolution you need to actually wait while the organism becomes an adult and see how it behaves. Without it you don't know in which direction your changes move the organism. If you could know it only from genes you could simply edit
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by chr1 4y ago
Or maybe most people like silencing those with whom they disagree, so the same type of people who were becoming religious zealots before, and were against frrespeach, are becoming other types of zealots now who are still against free speech
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by chr1 4y ago
Why is it game over though? AI is already used for self-improvement, and will be used more as it becomes more capable, but that won't magically solve all the problems in the world and create omnipotent AI. If there are many people and
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by chr1 4y ago
While this may be too expensive and too disrupting to build in the near future, building similar hydroelectric plant in Qattara Depression is long overdue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
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by chr1 4y ago
Yes, if they droped height h to the side of isoscales triangle, then from similar triangles they would have h/A=c/C and h/b=2a/c and would get the result without mention of sine rule or areas.
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by chr1 4y ago
> I'm not sure what nuclear deterrent looks like when you have AGI resources. Other people who have AGI resources. That's why it is very important to have multiple groups of people who will reach AGI at the same time. That way
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by chr1 4y ago
Have you considered that maybe this wholhearted support of social system is what allows the leeches to come and causes everyone to suffer?
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by chr1 4y ago
It is good that different groups in society behave differently. People not using technology like hunter-gatherers and Amish provide safety net, and people jumping to everything new are the explorers. Both extremes are needed, and HN crowd b
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by chr1 4y ago
Well, there is still similar chance of an asteroid hitting Mars instead of Earth so it's not like they are moving to a safe space leaving "the rest of us to die". In fact if you are so worried about going the way of dinosaurs
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by chr1 4y ago
Using [1] temperature difference between deep water and surface water may be even more efficient [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_convers...
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by chr1 4y ago
It's not that dynamics of plates gave him insights about QED. Working on a simple problem have helped him to get back into working rhythm of his phd years.
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by chr1 4y ago
Chemical weapons are rarely used only because they are not very effective. If they were effective they would not be outlawed. When we invent a version that will be practical to use, (e.g. small hard to notice drone capable to spray highly p
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by chr1 4y ago
Longevity is not about keeping people with dementia alive indefinitely, it is about repairing damage caused by aging, before that can cause degenerative diseases, cancer, etc.
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by chr1 4y ago
Why do you think that population growth is a bad thing and giving up getting new kids is in any way a rational decision? Earth could easily carry 100 billion people, we could build cities on venus and mars, and if people could live for thou
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by chr1 4y ago
Coming up with ideas is only a small part of progress, we also need many more people who will use the results of these ideas, converting them to widespread technologies, instead of leaving them as weird useless curiosities the way it have h
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by chr1 4y ago
Different people define it differently for themselves, if as a result of these definitions one of the groups grows exponentially and others don't then that group had the correct definition.
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by chr1 5y ago
A structure to "wall out" the atmosphere would be pretty heavy, and if it existed putting launcher on top would be easier. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain of around 20km of height, is rather
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by chr1 5y ago
I don't think the issue is only the history. Surprisingly large number of people believe that if people in the neighbouring city vote to speak on their language and govern themselves locally, they deserve punishment up to death. And th
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by chr1 5y ago
It is also worth to mention that before that 300,000 Armenians were expelled from Azerbaijan, and people from the regions around Artsakh were expelled during a war which have started because Azerbaijan have attempted to deport the remainin
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by chr1 5y ago
Not pre-Columbian, but the Iroquois history and legends podcast https://www.longhousepodcast.com/episodes also tells about less well known history.
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by chr1 5y ago
I was in a similar position a few years ago. What helped me was having kids, life becomes much easier when you are around people who still don't know that it is pointless.
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by chr1 5y ago
I am saying that if we condemn such behavior in all cases (even when neutrality is violated in our favour) we'll reduce the situations when that second strategy becomes profitable, and that will benefit everyone. We don't even nee
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by chr1 5y ago
Are you implying that existence of these tax-exempt organizations and politicization of issues is a good thing? I don't see anything positive in tax breaks and tax code complexity in general as it is a method to obfuscate spendings and
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by chr1 5y ago
When you have several groups of people who distrust and dislike each other, and you start using your business as a means to support the fight of one group against the other, you only increase the enmity between the groups and harm all busin
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by chr1 5y ago
> You're willing to risk the lives of the elderly and people with people with a less-effective immune response if you think the lives of the general population would be "better off" And you are willing to risk lives of peo
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by chr1 5y ago
But people were debating about all these things, war on Germany was not declared for a very long time, war in Vietnam was abandoned not sure if consider that good or bad. The initial stance on masks was to lie that they are useless so that
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by chr1 5y ago
Why can’t you have an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty in decision making? Doubt is always better than false certainty. Public figures lying during pandemic have only prompted more people to be distrustful of science and the official pol
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by chr1 5y ago
Funny how "don't believe, always question everything" have transformed back into "believe in science". Believing in science is a very old thing, Maya have believed in their eclipse prediction science so much that we

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