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by djokkataja 5y ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is almost exactly what Mountain_Skies is describing. If I remember correctly, Peter Watts has a somewhat more realistic take on this in his Rifters trilogy (under the Novels section here: https:&#x
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Obesity rates are significantly higher in the United States than in Europe. https://ourworldindata.org/obesity#what-share-of-adults-are-...
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Obesity is a big factor cough but there are others. I found this article ( https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low ) that shows a number of factors that contribute to the higher American mortality rate. Unfortunat
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> It appears to be something that the author completely made up in order to support his revisionist interpretation of the history of ancient Sparta. The author addresses this VERY directly and at length in a "Conclusions: Who Matter
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> Understanding is beyond GPT-3’s reach because understanding cannot occur in an isolated computation or behavior, no matter how clever. Understanding is not an act but a labor. Labor is entirely irrelevant to a computational model that
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by djokkataja 5y ago
The "possibility of recovery", as you put it, is a moving target depending on the specific situation and the technology involved. For some examples: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/revive-the-dead/ Th
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by djokkataja 6y ago
They've also got Tunisia in the list twice, and the number for the first instance is 39.5M, when the population of Tunisia is not even 12M.
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by djokkataja 6y ago
That's the only Worm I'm aware of that could fit the bill. I second the recommendation; there's nothing quite like Worm (though if you enjoy Worm, the author has written several other serial works since then and afaik intends
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by djokkataja 6y ago
I think the grandparent meant that the only mystery is that consciousness is supposedly a mystery, not that consciousness doesn't exist.
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> Some researchers argue that in order to build real common sense into computers, we will need to make use of phenomena outside language itself, like visual perceptions or embodied sensations. ding ding ding Of course, once we start crea
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> Todd: I’m thinking of something a bit like erm the flap on a video tape This doesn't sound like his design thinking operates in terms of analogies. It sounds more like he's imagining something which he feels he can best desc
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by djokkataja 7y ago
It doesn't make sense to evaluate someone's abilities to interact with other people based on how they talk to a camera while alone.
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by djokkataja 7y ago
I also dislike modern design, but I dislike it because of how boring and meaningless it is. Architecture's a good example: brutalism conveys meaninglessness in a heavy-handed way, whereas modern architecture does it effortlessly. Smart
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> Trading with China is, for now, beneficial to EVERYONE No, it's beneficial from an idealized economic perspective for economies. Economics makes no guarantee that all individuals within an economy benefit economically benefit from
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by djokkataja 7y ago
Sure, it would cost the US to make a point to China that they find some of China's policies unacceptable in a trading partner, but it would also cost China - that's the point.
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by djokkataja 7y ago
There are multiple cases where an increase in money supply doesn't lead to inflation; the United States in recent years comes to mind: "A good example is in a recession, the stock of money may rise 5%, however, people will be maki
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> One of the most celebrated successes of Deep Learning is image labeling, using CNNs, Convolutional Neural Networks, but the very essence of CNNs is that the front end of the network is designed by humans to manage translational invaria
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> And it feels like a category error to ask which accountant, or political pundit, is the Greatest of All Time, but the answers surely matter more for the human project than the ones for Scrabble or League of Legends—where data and answe
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> I believe that this is an aspect of communication we need to talk way more about, since large parts of the population are currently handicapped like this. > People often have good reasons for being mean, they could be tired, hungry,
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by djokkataja 7y ago
I think it's about the sense of personal meaning and importance one gets: if God personally crafted you down to the tips of your toes, that makes you feel more important and like your life is more meaningful than if God created some sy
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> And it means employees can get closer to the work they love. Wow these people are all in on the koolaid. Am I interpreting the meaning here correctly if I think they mean employees can work even longer hours to incorporate this?
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by djokkataja 7y ago
> I'm coming to see this generally as a late-stage dynamic in many technological areas, one in which the unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated, often not) simply rise to a level of major significance. You might think of t
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by djokkataja 7y ago
I was thinking that when buying books, people often take notice of recommendations from Amazon or random sites through Google or discussion sites like this one, but a recommendation from someone I know or interact with is preferable when I
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by djokkataja 7y ago
So how do you find "the right book" these days?
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by djokkataja 7y ago
If we consider ourselves as computational systems, I think there's a fundamental limit on our ability to understand ourselves. With an extremely accurate model of our bodies, we could simulate ourselves and see what our mental state wo
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by djokkataja 7y ago
I tried both of those out in the console in firefox and chrome and found that in chrome the optimized version was about 10% faster, but in firefox the unoptimized version was about 5% faster. Also it ran 30x faster in chrome... (~200ms vs
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by djokkataja 7y ago
Because it would save money, presumably. For example, in a 10,000 ton boat: "While the kite was in use, the ship saved an estimated 10-15% fuel, $1,000 to $1,500 per day." (From the linked article)
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by djokkataja 7y ago
Fundamentally, all that I am is built from electrons, protons, and neutrons, but if you think I am "just a collection" of such things, you might struggle to differentiate between a human and a rock. I also think that thinking of o
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by djokkataja 8y ago
> What does all this mean? Watson may beat us at Jeopardy, but we are convinced we have something AI will always lack: We are agents in the world, whose decisions, choices, actions are made meaningful by the content of the belief/d
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by djokkataja 8y ago
An initial value of 100 what? And over what time period? It's common practice to not label graphs correctly or at all, but without labels, graphs don't offer any representation of a model of reality (so the author is free to claim

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