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by civilitty 3y ago
Just detonate the nukes high enough to cause an atmospheric EMP that reverses the stratosphere’s polarity and attracts the ions in the water vapor. That should slow down the exowater cycle enough to cool us down a bit. (I’ve been reading r&
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by civilitty 3y ago
Water vapor becomes ice when you nuke it high enough into the atmosphere.
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by civilitty 3y ago
Water vapor = clouds. We can just use a chain of nukes to make sure it makes it even higher beyond the troposphere.
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by civilitty 3y ago
We’ve still got like 12,000 nukes left worldwide - this would be the perfect time to test Project Orion in atmo! With all that water vapor that would enter the atmosphere and increase the albedo, we’d probably solve climate change for a few
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by civilitty 3y ago
I agree. Availability is a pain in the ass which might a dealbreaker for urgent interactive use cases but a 48GB A6000 on LambdaLabs is $0.80/hr [1]. A newer 80GB H100 is $1.99/hr so especially if you're trying to do batch pr
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by civilitty 3y ago
The author added granite surface plates at atomic #69 (way out in the lanthanides) because: > Granite flats can be used as mounting surfaces for machines that need to stay very accurately aligned. Dozens of these huge precision granite
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The Supreme Court 'Shadow Docket' (2022)(brennancenter.org)
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by civilitty 3y ago
Jet engines constantly pump oil under pressure between the stator and rotors to provide lubricant for the radial bearings while sealing and cleaning them. It’s a completely different kind of oil to the kind you’d find in a piston engine and
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by civilitty 3y ago
> And how many are just straight up lying to trump up their public image. A few names come to mind. Considering how often some of those individuals trump up manic tweets at 3 in the morning, the answer might surprise you!
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by civilitty 3y ago
To shreds, you say?
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by civilitty 3y ago
> When I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this was before I had even heard of one, or seen one. I just drew a picture, of a horse, that could fly over rainbows, and a had a huge spike in its head. I was
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by civilitty 3y ago
People keep pointing that out as a counterargument but it's really suspicious when F-35A availability rates drops below that of an F-22 Raptor after only a few years and the annual flying hours for a five year old F-35A drops to that
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by civilitty 3y ago
As is tradition! With the exception of the Sojourner in 1997, all of the American rover missions have far outlasted their expected lifetimes. Spirit and Opportunity were only supposed to last about 90 days each but ended up operating for si
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by civilitty 3y ago
If research is not worth replicating, then how could it be anything but a useless contribution meant only to bolster someone’s publish or perish career? It just seems that the entire scientific publishing industry is there to support a jobs
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by civilitty 3y ago
By dumping it on the public after it IPOs.
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by civilitty 3y ago
> The test can't be that* expensive, especially in the context of public health.* The tests are free in almost any other context. Planned Parenthood and tons of other NGOs offer them no questions asked and Obamacare made their cov
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by civilitty 3y ago
How many dollar bills does it take to make a pile worth sleeping in?
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by civilitty 3y ago
What is an “alexander” and why is it toxic to dogs?
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by civilitty 3y ago
AGI Silicon Valley style: Fake it till you make it, just like everything else.
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by civilitty 3y ago
Paging your friendly neighborhood phrenologist! Have you measured the shape of Altman's head yet?
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by civilitty 3y ago
$50,000? More like $400,000: https://shop.lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/servers/hyperplane...
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by civilitty 3y ago
Wayback version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231121210833/https://gist.gith...
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by civilitty 3y ago
Just because a government doesn't have an extradition treaty doesn't mean they won't extradite. Most countries with non-extradition policies only apply them to native-born nationals and sometimes citizens in general. For some
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by civilitty 3y ago
You don’t need to render the whole video, just the frames between the last keyframe of the content and the first keyframe of the ad. The rest can just be cached as is.
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by civilitty 3y ago
IANAL but regardless of whether they’re actually infringing, even the appearance of impropriety would give OpenAI cause to sue the employees directly. Most people simply aren’t equipped financially and emotionally to defend against a well r
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by civilitty 3y ago
Hopefully it wasn’t the children themselves self reporting their screen time
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by civilitty 3y ago
It helps that their corporate structure [1] is better equipped for it than OpenAI’s. [1] https://imgur.io/XLuaF0h
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by civilitty 3y ago
Oh I’m not saying there’s a clever mastermind, I’m just hoping they’re all incompetent and Gordon Levitt wants to amp up the drama for a possible future feature film, instead of them all just being wildly incompetent. Although maybe the l
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by civilitty 3y ago
That would at least make a more damned sense than "everyone is wildly incompetent." At some point Hanlon's razor starts to strain credulity.
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by civilitty 3y ago
I think it’s a mistake to confuse either of them for greed.

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