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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I wasn't supposing that the insurrectionists would succeed in murdering Pence, or that the entire Republican party would unanimously back Trump, just that enough Republican-run states would raise questions about the legitimacy of the (
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Perhaps you should reach out to Gary Marcus and offer him the chance to take the other side of that version of the bet. If you're really confident, you could change the conditions such that 5 out of 10 images (for 3/5 prompts) are
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"A lightbulb. Surrounding: some plants." https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E18/562995.jpg
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> How do you honestly think this would go? They destroy the certifications of the electoral votes from the states (as almost happened[0]), causing various states to (disingenuously) disagree about how to replace the lost documents. Enoug
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> this is a Section 230 problem Can we really not draw a distinction between an internet service provider passing messages between users, and a tech company receiving money from a content company to show their ads to users who didn'
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> The offer is supposed to help him prove he did not cheat when he beat Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-ranked chess player, in a tournament last week. How would such a spectacle prove he didn't cheat, unless they also persuade
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> the left, with its eternal desire to monitor what everyone says or even thinks. Would you say that the NSA is a left wing organization then?
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Suppose there is a 1% risk of nuclear war this century killing a billion people. That is in some sense equivalent to a 100% chance of a nuclear war killing 10 million people. To put that in perspective, "Between 2030 and 2050, climate
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The move away from passwords (especially replacing them with biometrics) is basically an attempt to implement DRM for human identity, and should be resisted. https://nitter.net/sleevi_/status/1392903827712512001
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The people who believe "line go up will fix everything", need an article that doesn't give them false hope that the problems we face won't really become serious until after their lifetime.
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> There are other much sooner limits. Yes, that's my point. Arguing about the economic problems of the 25th century is at best a toy exercise in sci-fi mathematics/physics, and at worst a dangerous distraction from solving rea
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It may be lavish, but if an executive paid $350k is 35% less likely to make a mistake that would cost the organisation $1m (which is about 1% of their budget), compared to a volunteer working for free, then maybe, from the organisation&#x27
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Speculating about what the "real economy" will look like in 400 years is as meaningless as asking what the most valuable website was 400 years ago (or 4 million years ago, if we're assuming progress is exponential).
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To give a recent citation, from April of this year: > The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by McKinsey & Company. https:&
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> What makes us more special than other animals? Also nothing, in my view. If you really believe that then you should go live out in a field and eat grass like oxen rather than writing that comment on the internet. If humans aren't
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Sadly he's still at it. To save people from subjecting themselves to all of his tortured logic, here's just a sample from the article you linked: > The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 1
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> the Paris agreement was a minimal effort, California and all other governments are on track to fail miserably at following even that. Could you clarify what you mean by "on track"? According to the Guardian[0], "Californ
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> When China’s population stops growing To put this in context, here's what a recent article[0] from Fortune has to say: > On Thursday, Yang Wenzhuang, the head of population for China’s National Health Commission, told a confere
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> taking "Rapture" literature and replacing a few words and publishing it as Singularity literature What if I told you that's not a coincidence? https://www.christianevidence.net/2019/01/gods-7000
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I think the idea would be that when you click on a link to a 25 year old page, the browser brings up a little warning saying "This page is 25 years old and has some errors that may stop it displaying correctly. Press the Refresh butto
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It sort of turns the age old philosophical question on its head. Instead of asking "Would you let the AI out of the box?" we need to start worrying about "Would someone even bother to put the AI in the box to begin with?&quot
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I'm looking forward to such a model being announced too, as I'm sure people must already be working on it. I did think, though, that a pre-requisite for such a model would be a system which could separate a track into its componen
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> more like a dictatorship than a modern democracy. Always has been.
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For memorials, it could be as uniform as firstname.lastname.disambiguation.birthyear.deathyear with the requirement that each person could only register one domain under the birthyear.deathyear root. To get around the problem of a numeric T
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> the free speech argument is unreasonable once the speech turns into targeted harassment and threats For what it's worth, I agree with that. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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I must admit, I've never visited KiwiFarms, so I can't defend the contents of the site even if I wanted to, but I still think it's a weird framing to suggest 'KiwiFarms is against free speech because it supports killing
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I'm imagining that people will do the opposite because it is known that people usually buy more of a desirable commodity when its price goes down. Of course there are limits to how much latent demand there is, and how price-sensitive c
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> If Russia goes into full mobilization, tides may well return If Putin starts sending unprepared and unwilling citizens to die for him, it won't be the tides returning, it will be a mutinous army returning to carry out a military c
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
No, FiberHub is hosting KiwiFarms specifically to make money, and incidentally to provide free speech to people who like discussing certain taboo topics, and even more incidentally allowing some minority of users to dox people. But doxxing
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To give you an idea of how plausible this is, I recommend reading the facts that came to light thanks to the work of Privacy International taking the UK government to court. Here are some quotes from an article[0] written in 2018: > The

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