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by ddxxdd 7y ago
This entire comment thread is populated by people who did not read and comtemplate the posted article. James Clerk Maxwell was a genius, likely more intelligent than Musk, who did not take over the world. If James Clerk Maxwell was born 10,
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An AGI, connected to Micro-Electro-Mechanical switches, could learn to let hot air molecules into a box and cold air molecules out of that same box. But such an AGI would function as Maxwell's Demon, and would break the laws of thermod
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Discussions like this are interesting because the arguments on one side seem ridiculous, yet logically valid and simple to understand/articulate; the arguments on the other side are complex and difficult to formulate into words. I just
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Tl;dr there are 7 billion artificial general intelligences in this world, and most of them are unemployed. Time and resources are the bottleneck to change and progress, not intelligence. I agree with this assessment, and I think this is a m
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
What tools are needed to make a presentation such as this?
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I don't live in Los Angeles, but my first thought was that if traffic begins to clear up right when the delivery motorcycle approaches the customer's car, that motorcyclist may be in danger.
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The current is moving in the opposite direction now. Female genital mutilation is now legal in America because federal courts have decided that it's better than abuse of the commerce clause: https://www.nytimes.com/2018
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Questions I had after reading the article: 1. Is there any reason why these researchers are focusing on an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating, instead of an unhealthy obsession with [x: x ∈ anything], or just unhealthy obsessions in ge
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I'm currently reading Griffith's Classical Electrodynamics and Jackson's Electrodynamics, coupled with lecture notes on plasma physics, in order to take a crack at the problem of nuclear fusion. Many other people are doing si
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Yep. IPCC AR4 report claims that climate change will cost about 5% of GDP by 2100. That comes to a net present value of about 0.1% of GDP (assuming 3% growth).
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
The last time I checked, the IPCC ar4 report said that the effects of climate change would cost about 5% of GDP, starting in 2100. Some Wall Street Journal economists ran the numbers and found that the net present value of those costs are a
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Genetic mutations are blind. Natural selection is its walking stick.
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An ADHD diagnosis is based roughly on a 5-percentile standard[0]. In other words, if you are a hardworking, industrious person, but the rest of society is harder-working and more industrious, then you automatically become ADHD-diagnosed by
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
>Except that feminism actively derides both the gender norms that say mothers are better caregivers and the US court system's bias against fathers in child custody rulings. There is literally decades of literature and other sources
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On many of my favorite Youtube videos, that "excrutiating" warm-up is part of the appeal. It feels more like a mysterious build-up towards an exciting payoff, when done right. That can be generalized towards writing or any other m
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>"This may be a particular peeve of mine and no one else’s, but I note it, because it’s my book: Name-dropping, for no better reason than to show off, under-appreciated novels, obscure foreign films, or cherished indie bands by havi
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
What's wrong with making the federal government create a national testing system that allows millions of individuals to self-study in their own free time and prove that they received knowledge without forcing those individuals to pay h
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After reading about half of this article, I have two major thoughts: 1. It's interesting that a Japanese scientist would hypothesize that a high-performing athlete would be considered an "intellectual", since the Japanese wor
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I likely would, with caveats. There could be an even cheaper scheme for climate change mitigation that we haven't thought of (like stimulating plankton growth with iron, for instance). And it's actually possible that the total cos
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
It seems to be more cost-effective than forcing everybody- including the poor- to buy brand new Teslas. Assuming that: * It costs $0.50 per tree planted, * trees absorb 1 ton of CO2 each, * Teslas cost $15,000 more than regular cars * Tesla
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Last time I checked, the Everett interpretation has yet to reproduce the "Born Rule" equation for wavefunction collapse. The Many-Worlds interpretation is nice and fun to talk about, but it hasn't done any heavy lifting in te
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by ddxxdd 8y ago
My alternative suspicion is that SALT harms smaller and poorer states, since they can't lower local taxes to attract large businesses without also raising those businesses' federal taxes.
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I don't think a King George Washington would preside over a young America as affluent as President George Washington did. Tyranny has a way of sequestering innovative spirit.
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I don't know the details, but I do believe that high-skilled labor like Google employees likely have more bargaining power than your local pizza delivery driver. It wouldn't surprise me if we see these kinds of victories in other
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by ddxxdd 8y ago
Someone please explain to me the benefits of having forced arbitration at all; what's the benefit of having disputes (including sexual harassment disputes) resolved behind closed doors without any possibility of appeal?
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>In both cases you do not have enough information to make any conclusions. That's why the field of statistics exists in the first place.
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How much would a jam-proof laser communication system cost? How much would a 99% autonomous ship with only a few sailors inside cost? Robots and explosives are cheap; healthcare and housing for personnel are what make the bulk of DoD's
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Businesses are generally more competitive than people realize. The average person believes that corporate profits are typically in the 36% range, which is 5X higher than what reality shows: http://www.aei.org/publication&#x2
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The same mathematical problem or operation can have several different Kolmogorov complexities, depending on how efficient an algorithm is when solving the problem. I don't think there's any way around it. If I create a Turing Mach
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The same can be said for every other EU law. Net neutrality regulations include vague language that allows "reasonable network management", which is a multi-million dollar legal hassle that stresses small ISP owners. And I shudder

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