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by dTal 4y ago
>the accessible food biomass was high enough for the relatively small population without planting This seems circular. Why was the population small?
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by dTal 4y ago
>Today, you can just stay inside and order everything online Then think of the punishment as essentially house arrest, with the small relaxation that you may leave your house if you wear something humiliating.
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by dTal 4y ago
Which one do you mean? They can both keep time, with various caveats.
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by dTal 4y ago
The precision is probably worse, actually. You're paying for brand cachet, not good engineering. In any case, no mechanical watch will outperform a 1$ qwartz movement.
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by dTal 4y ago
>FM radios have all but gone from modern cellphones Is this in the same parallel universe I keep reading about where all modern phones don't have headphone jacks? Because every smartphone I've ever owned has had both.
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by dTal 4y ago
"Politician chimes in on the overwhelmingly more popular side of an internet pitchfork mob" Nothing to see here folks.
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by dTal 4y ago
Regarding 2 - I think we need to regard these things with a holistic eye on centralization in general, rather than narrowly focusing on government / not government. True, government didn't order the change - however, government do
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by dTal 4y ago
>IngSoc was even a socialist party, he was perfectly aware of the authoritarian streak in his own ideology. A nitpick here - Orwell didn't have static views. The Orwell who fought in the Spanish civil war was not the same Orwell as
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by dTal 4y ago
"It seemed like Rolex had spent millions marketing this $5,800 watch directly to us. So I popped down to my nearest authorised dealer to pick one up." How on earth does someone so suggestible accumulate enough money to buy a Rolex
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by dTal 4y ago
You may enjoy the satirical short story "Down Pens", written in 1914 by Saki, which extends this concept to thank-you letters for Christmas presents: https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/sh
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by dTal 4y ago
LMM's don't inherently have a monotonous style - that's simply a function of the prompt, which more often than not instructs them to pretend to be an AI .
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by dTal 4y ago
Not that bad?? I'm sorry, but that's horrifying. Imagine if you couldn't run any code on Linux without uploading it to Linus's servers first.
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by dTal 4y ago
That assumes that nobody contributed to the software while it was GPL, unless there was an explicit contractual copyright transfer.
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by dTal 4y ago
Nope: https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
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by dTal 4y ago
Moxie Marlinspike - and Whisper Systems - have assumed a variety of concerning positions over the years. Concerning, because their flaws are obvious, yet Moxie - a very smart guy - pretends not to notice them. For example, Moxie defended di
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by dTal 4y ago
Paper especially was very expensive until approximately the 19th century.
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by dTal 4y ago
I'm talking about villages, not hostels. Villages are not toxic.
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by dTal 4y ago
I think your "hippie anarchist commune" (aka "society") is the closest answer. They say "it takes a village to raise a child". Very young children need at least one dedicated caretaker, it is true, but by age 5
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by dTal 4y ago
It's sleight of hand because the sentience of the human in the system is irrelevant . The human is following a trivial set of rules, and you could just as easily digitize the books and replace the human with a microcontroller. Voila,
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by dTal 4y ago
Worse, you need only plug a chatbot into itself , with some kind of basic bash script and very simple "goal prompt", and suddenly you get an agent with long term context. You could do that today. I don't think people realize
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by dTal 4y ago
Saying we shouldn't "tap the brakes" on AI out of safety concerns because Russia/China won't is a little like saying we shouldn't build containment buildings around our nuclear reactors, because the Soviet Unio
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by dTal 4y ago
It's not a ball, it's an idealized "particle" (0-dimensional point).
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by dTal 4y ago
Not really. They're qualitatively the same product: a head mounted binocular USB-C display with accelerometers/gyros. It's much easier to make such a thing than a full tracking VR system. If this is a VR headset, then so is t
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by dTal 4y ago
So "lightest ever VR headset" is a lie. The LG R100 pips it at 113 grams. It's inferior in every other respect, but that wasn't the claim...
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by dTal 4y ago
The regulation is there for a reason, but it doesn't have to be a sensible or proportionate reason. Nuclear power is held to a ludicrously higher safety standard than fossil. You are right to suspect that business interests had a hand
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by dTal 4y ago
>Clean metal, like aluminum cans from the galley can go overboard Aren't food cans typically plastic lined?
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by dTal 4y ago
I'm afraid you are mistaken. It does not output a triangle mesh, and the project page says no such thing. It does not even construct such a mesh internally. Its "notion of volumes and surfaces" is implicit and constrained to
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by dTal 4y ago
Maybe not. But honestly, they're so massive and slow and visible, and visibly loitering over sensitive sites, that they practically scream "shoot me down". There must be some advantage gleaned from it, because they can't
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by dTal 4y ago
The previous balloon was steerable, as it could control its altitude to catch different currents. I don't think we know enough about this "unknown object" to definitively say what it could and couldn't do.
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by dTal 4y ago
This is a very reasonable explanation for the otherwise mysterious question of why even use an (obvious, provocative) balloon in the first place, when China has perfectly good satellites. It may not be exactly what they have in mind, but I

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