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by davesque 5y ago
Sure, although it sounds like there's been a pretty strong trend in this direction at SA for a while. The Scott Aaronson blog that people have linked from other places in this thread ( https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202
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by davesque 5y ago
I'm willing to spend a few internet points to say things that people don't want to hear.
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by davesque 5y ago
In a way, that seems to suggest that the investigation is about ascertaining the facts instead of avoiding upsetting powerful allies.
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by davesque 5y ago
Nice. That theory seems quite a bit larger in scope. And intuitively it makes sense. What I had in mind was a more localized version of this which is sort of like a game of telephone within a language. It's not surprising that one&
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by davesque 5y ago
Only slightly related, it recently occurred to me while journaling that the dictates of English grammar do a fair bit of work in forming opinions. You might think you believe one thing, but when you set about describing it, the linguistic
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by davesque 5y ago
> How do I pay with cryptocurrency? > Easy, you just need to convert it to USD first. > Is this for real? > Sure > Is this performance art? > Maybe? Love it. I think Roy's making a killing off this.
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by davesque 5y ago
I suppose I meant it felt silly in the sense that it would probably come across as seeming vague. And I may as well say a few more words. If I had anything specific in mind, it was the possibility that the JWST could find evidence of comp
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by davesque 5y ago
ESA and CSA to name a couple. Probably also lots of other uncredited, small cross-institutional interactions. Not to mention all the details of the launch. I was partly trying to speculate as to why the comment appeared to be getting down-v
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by davesque 5y ago
In that sense, doing things properly requires some detachment from the end goal. I think the CCP is too fearful of the imagined outcome of cultural dissolution and loss of control to achieve the patience required for that detachment.
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by davesque 5y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I think some people might take issue with the suggestion that this was entirely NASA's achievement.
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by davesque 5y ago
This feels perhaps like a silly comment, but I have this intuition that the data collected by JWST could prove to be some of the most important ever collected.
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by davesque 5y ago
Also, I guess in theory an employer could pass through the savings of paying for your insurance to your salary. Of course, I'm pretty cynical about that.
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by davesque 5y ago
Honestly, I feel like the reaction would be similar.
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by davesque 5y ago
I think it's because Omicron spreads more quickly and confers some immunity towards Delta. So before Delta has had a chance to infect a given person, they've probably already gotten some immunity from Omicron.
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by davesque 5y ago
I'm not sure about this case, but wouldn't it be okay to say something like that if none of the diagnostic criteria for a disease are met?
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by davesque 5y ago
Lifelong Boulderite here. No snow on the ground is very typical during winter. If it does snow, it often doesn't stick around for very long since Colorado gets a lot of sunshine. However, it has still been unusually dry. Fires have
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by davesque 5y ago
Yep, restricting things to coming from the outside might be more of a realistic challenge. I think I had a more academic version of the question in mind. Seems like we already have tech that is designed to handle a certain degree of pure
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by davesque 5y ago
This makes me wonder. If cells were occasionally activated in random positions, what sorts of modifications to the architecture would be necessary to make the system robust and still able to carry out its computations with a reasonable pro
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by davesque 5y ago
Fascinating. Thanks so much for this! Natural biology really is miraculous (to use a loaded term).
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by davesque 5y ago
One interesting thing about this is that it serves as a kind of simplified demonstration of the kind of computation that must be occurring or could occur with actual cellular biology. DNA really seems somewhat like a tape in a Turing machi
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by davesque 5y ago
I think you're completely misunderstanding my comment. I was saying that the fact that the model missed the truck can be described as an edge case. It's an edge case in the sense that it could end up being a strange and rare out
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by davesque 5y ago
Because the car had radar. There are plenty of other car brands that ship similar emergency breaking features that wouldn't have missed this. Also, I, as a human viewing a video with crappy color balance (much inferior to human night
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by davesque 5y ago
Honestly, my take away from this as a pedestrian and a driver is that I should keep a very close eye on Teslas driving around me. How could I not do that after seeing this footage? I don't think it's a stretch to say that we hav
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by davesque 5y ago
However, the car was equipped with radar. Twitter author also said that the truck was seen by radar. I don't see how something like this could have been missed by a radar-equipped car. I chalk it up to the black-box nature of thes
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by davesque 5y ago
It doesn't really strike me as incredibly outlandish to call someone like Aaronson simply correct, as he says at the end, albeit jokingly. He's always struck me as eminently rational. For that reason, he's established a gre
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by davesque 5y ago
> in this case I have a little bit too much knowledge about the field and I have to say that it's "not even wrong"... it reads like gibberish. Good to know I guess. I should clarify that the information I get actually doe
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by davesque 5y ago
As much as people sometimes react negatively to stories like this (where some technology shows early promise in a research lab), I just now realized that I actually really like this kind of popular science reporting. It's concise, incl
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by davesque 5y ago
When the government imposes such pitiful fines, it really comes across more as seeming like they just want an extra cut every once in a while. It doesn't feel at all like they care if JP Morgan ends up doing things any differently.
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by davesque 5y ago
I've found that there's a weird internal psychology I have with any news relating to Webb. I'm just as excited and hopeful as everyone else. But somehow the whole story underscores the perils of singular hope. It also seem
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by davesque 5y ago
Apart from the subject matter, I love the 19th century prose style of this text. It comes across as seeming so heightened and well-intentioned, at least in this case. Sets the mind at ease, depending on the mind I suppose.

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