don_esteban

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by don_esteban 4mo ago
Or China?
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
Spamming solar in Sahara + DC cables to Europe still feels more realistic than fission. Not destabilising Libya would have helped ... whole another can of worms. Geoengineering (depending on how it is done) is prime hubris. Are we sure we w
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
Because there is so much less to cut down? And what is remaining is harder to reach/extract from?
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
How much of that reduction has been achieved by outsourcing the production to China/other places? Are there good links to articles/papers where proper accounting has been done?
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
Technically, not illegal. Practically, the sanctions/restrictions will be imposed, due to fear of losing access to US market/US infrastructure.
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
Jews and arabs lived there peacefully together for hundreds if not thousands of years ... until the British arrived and started their games...
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
> Keeping the politics of AI-driven unemployment aside, The is doing some very heavy lifting. > US exports as a whole is only 10% of the GDP and has a deep trade deficit ... maybe there is a connection?
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
Hm, is this still true in the age of nukes? Would Russia/China/US not use their nukes if in risk of being overrun by conventional forces of another superpower?
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by don_esteban 4mo ago
In China, they hang those that are responsible. In US, they get slap on their hand.
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Thanks, this is what I wanted to say, but perhaps I was a bit too terse. Perhaps a good coolant with a good flow speed can gain you a decent constant factor versus a classical heat sink, but once the third dimension of your chip gets bigger
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Great post! Thank you. Is it conceivable that instead of water, some other solvent can be used? Those ethane/methane lakes on Titan ...
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
This does not scale, due to square/cube law (the energy is generated in a volume, but has to leave via surface -> the energy evacuated per surface area has to grow)
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
There is no contradiction: simple amino acids as a basic building block being coopted by replicating RNA to build more sophisticated structures. You can conceive other than nuclear-acids based replicant, using the same ubiquitous amino-acid
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
> History books (well, not books) will write about this stuff. History is written by the winners. I will leave to your imagination what an AI-winner will write about this.
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
EVs work in cold weather, just the range is reduced. If it is a second car in the family, used for short range commuting ... or if your lifestyle does not involve frequent long-distance trips, EV is perfectly suitable even in Finland.
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Norway is not damn cold. It sits next to a warm, Gulf-stream ocean. Rarely gets much (<-10 Celsius) below freezing. Finland, that's another thing.
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
as opposed to media that don't tow the official US foreign policy line, and don't uncritically parrot the official US narrative?
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Look at the map. They have mountains. Not much rain/fog in that area to block the sight lines. Maybe haze.
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Is it truly 'US Navy securing safe shipping for everyone'? From whom? Where? When was the last time they actually did that? > 'because there would be no America to come help and save the day' No more American meddling
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
You have abstracted things a bit too far. Unless your interceptor system is unobtainium laser system with unobtainium cooling system, backed-up by unobtainium power source, you are going to run out of interceptor missiles (or even Phalanx b
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Do you have supporting evidence they are still there? I though they exited toward the Gulf of Oman around May 6/7 https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-V...
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
How fortuitous of you to provide me with more ammo to prove my point. :-) All the 'possible alternative routes' remain in 'conceptual' stage. The east/west and Fujeirah pipelines are operational, and, as discussed b
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
I disagree. Lets go over this slowly. For almost all purposes, x + epsilon is not fundamentally different from x. Still, 1 is fundamentally different from 10^100, while you can get from 1 to 10^100 by adding epsilon. Perhaps, one can argue
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
a) massive parallelism (although the current AI HW is getting there) b) clever structure/organization (we are nowhere near close) c) it is still buggy as hell
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
> The point of the philosophical zombie is that they don't experience anything, nor do they convince themselves of anything. If they're "experiencing" or "convincing themselves" then they're not philoso
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Eh, not recursion. Self-reflection. Monitoring the state of the execution, and taking the action to guide it towards the desired outcome.
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
> But, the question we can ask today is: what kind of explanation would explain away the hard problem of consciousness? What is the signature the model must satisfy? I don't think there's a good answer to that. I think that is
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
What about this: Let us classify the information processing along two axis: a) low-level (evolutionarily ancient), direct stimuli-response, vs high-level (involving prefrontal cortex) b) processing stimuli from the outside world (sound, lig
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
> The point is that it's not clear at all what empirical knowledge we could acquire that would explain consciousness. What about this: - this class of brain circuits are not not firing when the person is (unconscious, in deep sleep,
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by don_esteban 5mo ago
Here's my question: Is our consciousness fundamentally different than a gorilla's? > If the answer is no, then I'd ask if a gorilla's consciousness is fundamentally different than a baboon's? I think that answer

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