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by dTal 2y ago
Government is the avatar of collective action. People vote for and otherwise tolerate a strong executive when they believe in "all for one and one for all". FDR was elected by a landslide on a platform of heavy government interven
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This seems like a massive "something must be done" can of worms. How do they define "deepfake"? How realistic does it have to be? Does there have to be pornographic intent? Does it need to involve a computer? A GPU? If t
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How do you know? The pump could be primed with all sorts of obscure, non-obvious things the importance of which only becomes evident after the fact when someone combines them.
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I wouldn't hold your breath on being wrong. A device that converts heat into electricity without a gradient is a perpetual motion machine. Consider what would happen if you popped such a device on one side of a thermoelectric plate, an
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Although it's about wire transmission of photography - which, as pointed out, television is not - it's still well worth watching this 1937 newsreel explaining how it works, mostly because 1) they devote a LOT of time towards exp
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>driven by a computer with the power of modern car key I appreciate the sentiment, but perhaps it is the car key which is impressive here...
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A dance is a kind of negotiation. The "decision about how things will be" is what move should be performed next. Success is achieved by both parties, or neither - never just one or the other - and may even entail a "surrender
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> user: what is a mouse > guide: in the cosmic kitchen, a mouse is just a very small ingredient with enormous potential to spice up any intergalactic adventure. I laughed. The unexpected context shift is very Douglas.
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The complexity of this solution just shot up from "2 minute hack" to "2 month research project, minimum". It's understandable why they didn't do this.
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"Mere discovery" in general is a gray area, which many jurisdictions do not recognize as eligible for patent. Patents are supposed to incentivize creation . It's much less helpful to society to grant a monopoly on a naturall
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Alternative title: "Global shortage of ADHD medication caused by DEA restrictions"
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I don't think that's true, but in any case it doesn't have to be "community developed" to not be Android.
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I bought one recently for less than half the price of a cup of coffee. The electronics are so small that it is impossible to tell where they have been hidden, and any audio imperfections that may exist are below my personal threshold of aud
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Perhaps the text itself is functioning as working memory. Both ADHD people and neurotypicals have deeply structured thoughts. "Serializing" those thoughts without planning ahead leads to the "stream of consciousness" wri
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City Infrastructure(cityinfrastructure.com)
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Now this is a real website!
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The result is the same if you replace the cat with a physicist. The relevant distinction is whether the animal in question is inside or outside the sealed box - not species.
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We do know what measurements are. "Superposition" and "collapse" are only really valid concepts in a particular reference frame. A "measurement" is an interaction in your preferred reference frame. The cat ca
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Well yes. That is many-worlds.
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There's an enormous amount of information if your GoPro placement includes all the flight instruments. Humans can and do predict aircraft state t+1 by parsing a visual field that includes the instruments; that is what the instruments a
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>What's also interesting about this work is it's basically saying you can rip a game if you're willing to "play" (automate) it enough times and spend a lot more on storage and compute That's the least of it.
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I think you have misunderstood Searle's Chinese Room argument. In Searle's formulation, the Room speaks Chinese perfectly, passes the Turing test, and can in no way be distinguished from a human who speaks Chinese - you cannot &qu
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Worth noting that pattern matching and term rewriting are a sufficiently general combination that it forms the basis for Mathematica.
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His point is that question ultimately boils down to a semantic argument over the word "think/swim", which may be interesting to a linguist but is not philosophically meaty in the way the question implies.
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>His “Little Exterminator” operated through a delicate watch mechanism that moved a tiny saw, releasing a chemical that smelled like cayenne pepper, killing anyone within one hundred feet. A 100 foot lethal radius sounds utterly unbeliev
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Indeed, domain-specific reasoning ability is a seminal psychology result: people are in general sucky at a specific type of logic puzzle, unless you frame it as enforcing a social rule - then they're excellent. https://en.
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Not at all. If enough people refuse to compromise their principles, the labor supply will shrink for that org, and therefore their hiring costs will increase, leaving them fewer resources to achieve their unethical deeds. "I'll ch
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Right, we all have a responsibility to act ethically in all parts of our lives. Refuse to work for organizations that do unethical things; if you are in an organization, refuse to do unethical things even if it gets you fired. Do not facili
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Thing is, once you're in the military, you don't get to choose who to kill. You are not permitted to say "I do not think violence is required to solve this particular problem". You are not afforded the privilege of consc
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I don't think they said they were "bad people". But it's a fair objection that anyone who is content to sign away their personal autonomy to a violent organization may not represent "the best" of us, in some ph

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