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by dqpb 4y ago
Well, if you're at a startup which hasn't gone public yet, then really it depends on what the strike price is, what the fair market value is, what your confidence in the startup is, what funding rounds are expected, what your tax
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by dqpb 4y ago
These are known to leach microplastics: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940
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If the answer isn’t “exercise them” why are you working at the company?
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> Rome was just a few sparks away from triggering an industrial revolution a thousand years early That’s a pretty amazing idea.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Ok > the fall of Rome was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. So it’s exactly wh
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by dqpb 4y ago
Surely consciousness can be gradient no? The more complete or complex your self-model and environment model are, the more conscious you are.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Neither LaMDA nor any of its cousins (GPT-3) are remotely intelligent. Also nonsense.
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by dqpb 4y ago
What does the “Fall of Rome” actually mean? It’s not like everyone died or disappeared. They just stopped being ruled by a particular government.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Personally, there are only two things they would have to add to convince me that the model might be conscious: 1. Tick the model regularly (eg 30fps) with inputs that represent itself and the environment. 2. The output of this ticking shoul
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by dqpb 4y ago
This is both a dumb essay and good reading for an HCI course (human computer interaction).
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Capitalism is decentralization.
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by dqpb 4y ago
In my view, the worst part is not that people are getting scammed (if you don’t do your research, it’s at least half your fault). The worst part is that it: - deprives non-scammers of the investment they “deserve” - mis-represents the viabi
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by dqpb 4y ago
I don’t think Algorand is a scam.
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> TerraLabs were able to execute on something that many people tried and failed to do. Weren’t able.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Here, let me save you some time. When a new technology comes along, a lot of people want to invest in it. That’s a big opportunity for scammers. People who are unable to discern scam from not scam get scammed.
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by dqpb 4y ago
You could make this same argument every time someone gets phished on the internet.
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> the cost of storing fuel rods onsite for decades This environmental remediation cost is generally missing in comparisons with all other energy sources.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I would like to see a comparison of energy sources that includes environmental remediation costs.
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At least they were caught.
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So, if there is a glitch and it stays on too long, do you just vaporize?
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How minimal can the body be? How abstract can the environment be?
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Maybe this is how long it takes to get there, and everyone is developing it around the same time.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I agree, and this is not an argument I would normally make. But I think it’s the quality of response the parent deserved, given their ridiculously hyperbolic framing of “a foreign occupying force”.
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by dqpb 4y ago
The US and Germany are allies. In fact, I believe “German” is the largest ancestry group in the US. Besides which, it’s extremely common for entities to invest in mutually beneficial agreements with other entities.
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Charge per token like OpenAI does. If the article is going nowhere, bail.
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Whoa, wtf happened at the end?
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> First off not everyone is even interested in having children Pregnancies happen, regardless of whether or not you’re interested in them > They'd just have a bunch of uncles and aunts more than monogamous parents would bring to
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Amazingly, no mention of children.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> When I see "No Haggle, Fixed-Price, Online Only", I think "Rip Off", and I can't be the only one. One thing is certain - the more middle men you have, the more expensive it will be.
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> competence is much harder to check for than status Is it? I've always thought that competence is much harder to cheat than status. The way I see it, the whole point of status is to decouple authority from competence.

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