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by chr1 5y ago
> and specifically, by too many people "Too many" is relative to the available space and rate of resource production. The ocean is huge, so it will take us a while to fill the capacity, especially if we use genetic engineering
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by chr1 5y ago
GDPR is not simply dead, but also wastes time of billions of people daily by displaying useless prompts that do not provide any real benefit. OPs reasoning is that when government tries to regulate complex things that it doesn't unders
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by chr1 5y ago
They know how much time and resources a typical ci run for the project is going to take, so why not limit pull requests from new users to that time, and ask the maintainer to manually approve only if that time is exceeded? This way most of
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by chr1 5y ago
This is unfair, if parents want something, doctors are ready to do, and the government is not providing disability payments for the condition, the government should not meddle with what people do with their lives. Sadly there are too many
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by chr1 6y ago
There is a simple test to decide whether deafness is "just a difference", and whether causing people to not become sign language natives is good or bad. That test is to consider the reverse of corrective surgeries. How many people
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by chr1 6y ago
Most governments on earth are of certainly known criminal origin. In the best case they are taking away 2-5% of your money every year by printing more. And in pathological cases, like Erdoghan, they take 30% and spend it on mega-palace or w
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by chr1 6y ago
> Socialist China and USSR had no qualms about using technology against their people and I imagine it scared the hell out of their citizens. USSR was a rather techno-optimist place, and to this day Russia and other post soviet countries
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by chr1 6y ago
> Given the amount of anti-asian racism/crime/murder we've seen spiking in the last year, I think the publications' stances (and the more mainstream media) to lean heavily towards option one is understandable So we st
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by chr1 6y ago
There is also a probability that either longevity research [1] or a technology to grow humans from any cell artificially [2] will be developed soon completely changing the population dynamics. [1] https://www.sens.org/ [2]
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by chr1 6y ago
Is Netherlands an overpopulated and polluted country? It is one of the best countries i have seen and its population density is 10 times higher than world average, so we can have 70 billion people living on earth without even discovering a
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by chr1 6y ago
One thing to consider is that the sciene problems we have to solve now are much harder than what we had to deal with 200 years ago at 1 billion population. You are correct that what matters is mostly the population living in soceities orga
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YouTube tests hiding dislike counts on videos(techcrunch.com)
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by chr1 6y ago
That's not a techno solution worth to dream about, the real techno solution is a fine grained control of weather (like https://viento.ai ) and in that case the extra CO2 in atmosphere will be naturally sequestered in fields
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Aubry de Grays 'moonshot’ nonprofit for targeted weather control(viento.ai)
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by chr1 6y ago
I have learned Russian at around 10 years and Engish at 22 and in both cases grammar tables and rules were waste of time. After accumulating some initial vocabulary, the best route was to read books and watch tv.
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by chr1 6y ago
Do you mean that images that are hand drawn or generated by neural net should be handled differently?
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by chr1 6y ago
What are the alternatives to explaining everything about the brain? As far as i can tell the possibilities are that it is equivalent to a 1. computation that can be performed on reasonably sized Turing Machine 2. computation that requires t
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by chr1 6y ago
Why do you need it to be overland? Cables can go under the sea without much problem.
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by chr1 6y ago
Yes, but it is a slow and gradual process, and will be useful in unfinished form too by providing extra fish and electicity, so we'll have plenty of time for debugging.
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by chr1 6y ago
We could eliminate winter on most of earth in a much simpler way, and generate lots of electricity as a side effect, using ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1]. Using thermal gradient of ocean near equator they generate electricity an
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by chr1 6y ago
It is a mistake to call the form of representative government used today "democracy". The system is designed in such a way as to keep the influence of ordinary people, who are not heavily invested in the system, very minimal. Usua
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by chr1 6y ago
It's not completely random, e.g. it would be very hard for a politician in USA to convince population that it is a good idea to bully Canada. And it would not require any convincing for Turkish citizens to accept any action against Gre
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by chr1 6y ago
There is a very simple explanation for this not mentioned in this article: well meaning people have pressured legislators to ban for-pay restrooms, and since not many people feel joy when maintaining a free public restroom, not many restroo
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by chr1 6y ago
That's a very optimistic point of view on the ability of people to learn from examples. No matter how hard SF fails, there will be lots of people going around and telling how it have failed because of not building enough social housing
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by chr1 6y ago
Situations where the choices cannot be predetermined, are not free will, they are just randomness, because they do not depend on the one making the choice. That said, knowing that the choice is predetermined and knowing the choice, is often
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by chr1 6y ago
> If numbers cannot have infinite strings of digits, then the future can never be perfectly preordained. Why? A simple cellular automaton like Rule 30 doesn't use any infinite data but it's future is perfectly preordained. But
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by chr1 6y ago
There is a group actively working on this [1]. Most exciting part is the work on constructing an artificial uterus to gestate the embryos, which can be a first step for doing the same for people too. [1] https://reviverestore.org
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by chr1 6y ago
More carbon in the ground is also good, and in arctic permafrost can store much more carbon than trees. Russian and Canadian forests are bigger than tropical forests, but they are much less productive, contain much less life and therefore m
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by chr1 6y ago
1. We do not have any megafauna to introduce yet 2. If we find a method to restore mammoths, producing large enough number of these animals will take hundreds of years 3. the meat that we do not produce in arctic, is produced in tropics at
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by chr1 6y ago
That's not so much about converting the forest as about restoring the old ecosystem that have been destroyed by people in stone age. Both tundra and taiga are very low productivity desert like environments that have replaced rich natur

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