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by csours 1y ago
People over-estimate the short term and under-estimate the long term.
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1. LLM interactions can feel real. Projections and psychological mirroring is very real. 2. I believe that AI researchers will require some level of embodiment to demonstrate: a. ability to understand the physical world. b. make changes to
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1. Some people definitely deserve to be cancelled/ostracized/socially punished. 2. Social media cares about engagement, not right and wrong. If content of a type is sought for, content of that type will be made. 3. Social media ha
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> Cancel culture is not compatible with democratic norms This one is VERY morally and emotionally weighty, and I think you have to do quite a bit of work to ACTUALLY understand what is going on here, but I agree. In the middle of a fight
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I feel like we're in the middle of a crisis of satisfaction - that is, the human mind seeks satisfaction, and the internet provides satisfaction of all sorts. For instance, there is a very satisfying story about the origin of a certain
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Are those even his titles? Authors generally don't make up the title themselves. Sometimes they can help pick one from a list created by a title editor.
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Not in that course, but I've done it at a "STEM" day; it's just about the most fun I've ever had teaching.
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ctrl+f "moat" Hmm. So why can they have a 3x markup? What is the moat? Who will overpay by $1,000? 1. People who are required to use a product with very specific certifications. 2. People who want to use a product with a desirable
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In the USA, 'Liberty' is now a strong nationalist dog whistle. > and an offer of a peace of mind for activists and journalists Sounds like a trap.
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This feels like one of those things where context changes over time and takes a product outside of it's original use case. Fire retardant is an emergency measure, one that would rightly be expected to see exceptionally low usage overal
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My dude paid taxes one time and got so mad about it he decided to blow up the whole government.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search the Egyptian pyramids for unknown chambers. Using naturally occurring cosmic rays, his plan was to place spark chambe
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> And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users. I'm sure. The customers they do not have are like Pebble users, and they don't want customers like Pebb
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"Love it or leave it" - why not make it better?
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If I buy one of each will you consider adding all the sensors to an e-paper watch?
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If we're being reductionist, it's just corporations being greedy! This is a fun game. IV fluids aren't difficult to produce, but it IS difficult to produce PACKAGED IV fluids consistently, every time, in such a way that they
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by csours 2y ago
> how to make airspace more dense without compromising safety. My suggestion would be to make things as repeatable and consistent as possible. This would mean forcing some airports to change their practices to be consistent with everyone
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by csours 2y ago
The current rash of airline incidents reminds me of the assembly instruction: Torque fastener until you hear expensive sounds and then back off a quarter turn. We've accelerated past our capabilities and need to slow down. ATC has ince
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"Don't go away angry, just go away" It's entirely possible that it's cheaper than a lawsuit and potential further reputational harm. Perverse incentive alert: If you want to fire an exec cheaply, just do an internal
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> In computational terms: ... Agreed. I do not mean that these facets are completely separable, but that they can be evaluated as their own "thing"/schema/clade/subgens. After all, even though a von Neumann compu
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by csours 2y ago
If we're going to talk seriously about intelligence, I think we need to have a multi-factor understanding of intelligence. Too many people think that intelligence means doing well on tests (this was my view as I grew up). In the SciFi
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Cosmic distance scaffold?
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by csours 2y ago
My view of genius has changed quite a bit as I've gotten a bit older. I think the word "genius" best describes a body of work, or an accomplishment that changes the world in a surprising way, that is, genius is not just intel
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I'm sure I agree. I think the point I was trying to make was about public discussions across moral lines. Another example: it's certainly possible for a pro-choice person to be uncomfortable with trying to define when personhood b
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Neat! There is no scientifically imaginable form of life that could evolve or survive in or on stars. (So to be clear, this is all a flight of fancy) Anthropic bias suggests that liquid water and carbon are essential to life. BUT! I do thin
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They don't go into detail, but Cepheid stars are amazing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable Consensus mechanism for pulsation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%E2%80%93mechanism
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Yes, some conflicts are just so old and obscure it's hard to see why anyone cared. I wonder in the future how people will explain the "woke" panic, because even right now, it's a bit hard to explain. My best effort is: C
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Well, on first glance it's not so bad - you may just have to put up with someone who doesn't really care about the job. It's why some systems are adversarial. But sometimes, some people learn what they can 'get away&#x27
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Heresy isn't a sin against a man like a pope or a president. Heresy is a sin against the moral convictions of the in-group. > They're making a public gesture of submissiveness. Submissiveness, as seen from the outside. Loyalty,
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For every fallacy there is a fallacy of that fallacy. Words mean what they mean as intended by the people who use them, but they also have history. Also and especially, phrases have history. Keeping not only the original language but also t

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