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by cosheaf 5y ago
All of them. The science is clear on this. Anthropogenic global warming is real and is currently a major existential threat that is not being properly addressed because people are in denial about what's coming and ignoring what's
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Consume less in general and develop cooperatives that utilize local resources as efficiently as possible. This is going to become a necessity in the coming decades and the communities that start now will have a head start on the changes tha
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by cosheaf 5y ago
I agree it's never too late to stop making things worse but global CO2 output is increasing so it's only going to get worse. To make things better would require large scale changes to the economy and consumer habits which is not g
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by cosheaf 5y ago
It's only going to get worse from here on out. The weather models have consistently underestimated second order feedback effects. We're going to blow past 2C and there is very little anyone can do at this point.
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The Parable of the Paperclip Maximizer(hackernoon.com)
1 points by cosheaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
If you take this to its logical conclusion then you're essentially describing the paperclip maximizer from Bostrom's book about the dangers of artificially intelligent systems that destroy humanity at the expense of maximizing the
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Technical debt is a vague and very ill-defined term that can be used by both engineers and managers to cover for dysfunctional organizational dynamics. So to avoid it requires a functioning organization whose members are committed to techni
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Because they've been optimized by commercial interests. What you hear nowadays is the sound of money.
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If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive(youtube.com)
2 points by cosheaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
There's Zig and Rust.
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Presheaves as co-limits of representable functors [pdf](github.com)
2 points by cosheaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
You should start by buying a book about Swift: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swift+software+development+on+ios+... .
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Sets for Mathematics(cambridge.org)
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Cool experiment and a good demonstration of why neural networks are not a good fit for problems that have a discrete logical structure.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
As an author should.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Much better than paying interest on monetary loans.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Do you have an example?
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by cosheaf 5y ago
So libraries are banks?
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Consciousness is not reducible to symbol shuffling is my point. Computers at the moment can only perform mathematical operations, i.e. they can only shuffle abstract symbols. Neither intelligence nor consciousness can be defined purely in t
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Then maybe Harvard is not the best place to learn mathematics.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Yes, that's clearly much more fascinating than saving lives with artificial hearts.
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On Folk Theorems (1980)(dl.acm.org)
8 points by cosheaf 5y ago|2 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
The character limit on titles prevents adding "2014". The code should be modified to allow adding dates at the end of the title even if it goes beyond the character limitations. It's 2022, HN should be able to manage somethin
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by cosheaf 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/google...
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Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit(theguardian.com)
4 points by cosheaf 5y ago|4 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Because by muddying the waters about what counts as intelligence and consciousness AI researchers are making it harder to actually discuss these topics in a coherent way. It's a self serving agenda that serves no purpose beyond aggrand
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by cosheaf 5y ago
It's amazing that free access to scientific papers is still controversial.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
If OpenAI's code is conscious then it's definitely insane which should make people wonder about what exactly they're saying when they say things like "Neural networks are conscious". AI researchers constantly use wo
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by cosheaf 5y ago
There aren't any. Whatever you can do with NFTs you can do with vanilla cryptography without the overhead of proof-of-work and proof-of-stake mechanisms.
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Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization (2020)(sciencedirect.com)
9 points by cosheaf 5y ago|0 comments

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