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601.
by dqpb 5y ago
Finally, a reliable way to control large populations of disagreeable people!
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by dqpb 5y ago
I’ve always thought of myself as being fairly good at visualization. For example, I can imagine multiple 3D shapes at one time, rotate them, keep track of which direction a face is pointing on each one, etc. However, I don’t really “see” an
603.
by dqpb 5y ago
So, Durham University is asking professors to be racist?
604.
by dqpb 5y ago
Or at least the end state of Durham University.
605.
by dqpb 5y ago
I bought a good CO2 monitor a while back, and since then I’ve discovered how difficult it is to maintain an optimal climate in a common house.
606.
by dqpb 5y ago
Are vibrators really the best option? I would think small actuators that apply pressure, with a dull point perhaps, would be more energy efficient and could provide higher resolution.
607.
by dqpb 5y ago
Use a monorepo, but organize your code as if it will someday be split into many repos.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I predict the next super weapon will be an AI that generates content so captivating, that it acquires everyone’s attention, and/or induces unhealthy biological response. Proof of attack vector: https://www.thegamer.com/
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by dqpb 5y ago
Indeed, once you start down the path of technological development, you enter a race between exponential progress and exponential resource consumption.
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by dqpb 5y ago
HBO’s Chernobyl does an excellent job illustrating this dynamic.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Juergeb Schmidhuber predicts the “Omega point” of technological development (including AGI) to be around 2040 https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg The MIT Limits to Growth study predicts the collapse of global civilization around 2
612.
by dqpb 5y ago
It looks to me like the faucet sprays water sideways toward the bowl, which is genius, because then you aren’t bumping up against it when you’re washing your hands!
613.
by dqpb 5y ago
Surely it’s ok to do some things in the extreme, no?
614.
by dqpb 5y ago
Any time I say race is a bullshit concept, inevitably someone calls me racist.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Facebook is just a public square
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by dqpb 5y ago
> Facebook continues to be the single greatest threat to Western society outside of Russia. No it’s not. The greatest threat to any society is its own ineptitude.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> The cost of fertilizer has gone up so much due to the Ukraine War that some farmers are not even planting. The rising fertilizer cost and impending food shortage has been in discussion since 2021 due to the global supply chain crisis.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Money is the API of a market. A market is a protocol for massive heterogeneous multi-agent coordination. It’s effective because it requires minimal transfer of information between agents.
619.
by dqpb 5y ago
Nice. Any time you submit a bug, you give the maintainer a little bit of cancer.
620.
by dqpb 5y ago
The problem is that there are legitimate attack vectors on both sides of the freedom/control spectrum.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Like NFT’s perhaps?
622.
by dqpb 5y ago
Adults want autonomy. Surprise, surprise.
623.
by dqpb 5y ago
Three words are not enough to convey the biography of a cow.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Money is not a delusion, it’s a data structure. The distribution of money is the state of a market. A market is a protocol for multi agent coordination. It’s effective because it minimizes the amount of information-exchange required to part
625.
by dqpb 5y ago
This title is stupid. It appears to be asking "Is there a theoretical limit to how much value can be produced?" but it's really asking "Will we destroy our planet and/or run out of resources?". Also, this artic
626.
by dqpb 5y ago
I continuously increase the economic output of my computer without any increase in consumption of physical resources. In fact, my output has increased near exponentially over the last several years, while my computer has remained the same,
627.
by dqpb 5y ago
Let’s say you confiscate a computer. What do you gain by bashing it against a wall?
628.
by dqpb 5y ago
CIA employees who engaged in this behavior should be treated as terrorists who sought to undermine the legitimacy of the US government.
629.
by dqpb 5y ago
There are clear parallels between school and work, but I don't think school is setup this way purposefully to get them ready for work. I think there has just been a dearth of creative engineering to solve this problem.
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by dqpb 5y ago
The worst part isn’t the homework in my opinion. It’s that they have to sit through eight hours of mediocre live performance art every day. That’s the biggest waste of time.

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