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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
They scrubbed him on the grounds that he was an alchemist and charlatan. He wasn’t the only one to claim he had created a perpetual motion device in those centuries before thermodynamics was discovered. The French patent office banned perpe
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Drebbel patented his device as a "perpetuum mobile." However, the definition of a perpetual motion device as a "machine that operates at 100% energy efficiency in perpetuity from an initial one-time energy input" — well,
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Dutch alchemist Cornelis Drebbel got a patent in 1598 for the design of a perpetual motion machine. It was a clock that was powered by daily changes in barometric pressure. In the early 1900s, he was largely scrubbed from the history books
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Man, if people aren’t on the plateau of productivity by now with genai, it’s their own damn fault. Trough of disillusionment was like, 2020 AI projects.
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“This website is blocked European sanctions The Council of Europe has decided that the websites of RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik News may no longer be transmitted. The website you are trying to visit falls under this European sanct
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And the physical library is conveniently located at 123 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam. It’s a beautiful location—and an amazing community of people. Anyone can become a member—but the secret rituals are ofc invite only.
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Post exposure vaccine is costly: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/7/16851134/ra...
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> accidentally conjure a horde of demons. If we have a certain perspective on demons as self-sustaining information processing loops—we’ll, yeah, demons abound. And, yes, this hn post from BenBreen — is amazing. We’ve been in touch! And
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Oh, cool! I don’t recall a “primary” in the book — he suggests a range of different possible configurations that he was open to. What struck you as not matching? Personally, I do think that the immaterial world of ideas must be primary—at l
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A good place to start is Cornelis Agrippa’s “Three Books on Occult Philosophy.” Agrippa was a lawyer and esoteric feminist (eg, he wrote “on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex”) and defended women accused of witchcraft throughou
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Most of the books are the outcomes of the Renaissance. The relationship between “science” and spirituality was much closer then than now. Further, most books published in Europe between 1300-1700 were written in Neo-Latin. Most of these boo
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One of the founders of the royal society, John Wilkins, wrote a popular book about magick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Magick Stems from the then popular interest in Natural Magick. Evolved into science
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Ethics of AI necromancy; under which circumstances is it ethically appropriate to summon the souls of dead classical philosophers?
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My son recently had to get rabies shots. Well, that was the recommendation because there was a bat in the sleeping quarters of his camp. The probability that the bat had rabies is vanishingly small. Just like the probability that the bat bi
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AI is what people think AI is. In the 80s, that was expert systems. In the 2000s, it was machine learning (not expert systems). Now, it is LLMs — not machine learning. You can complain, but it’s like that old man shaking their fist at the
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Actually, do living persons have the right to die? That's really not firmly established legally — the state has been saying no to suicide for a long time. Not making a moral claim here, just pointing out that something that seems to be
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
There is a major carbon credit opportunity that I hope is financially engineered by the right people. Restoring the kelp forest would sequester more than €1.5B worth of carbon every year. That’s because the kelp grows so rapidly and then is
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
And it’s a massive distillation of the mother model, so the costs of inference are likely low.
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Lizard people?
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Yesterday I gave a presentation on the role of harmony in AI — as a matter of philosophical interest. I’d previously written a large literature review on the concept of harmony (here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x
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Circles are easier to mathematically encode than crumbs, which are super complex. Ease of encoding will be relevant to any living information processors. You are speaking like you are afraid that there are real fundamental structures in the
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When we don’t sleep, we can lose sensory and cognitive coherence. Mild visual hallucinations begin and reality can start slipping. Sleep itself is characterized by coherent neural activity— the large number of brain regions with synchronize
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My argument is that ALL civilizations will discover circles. They aren’t human arbitrary. They are discoverable mathematical forms.
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But within any civilization that develops within the more than hundred billion plus galaxies (or even within the uncountable number of simulated universes), they’d discover circles, spheres, triangles, the Platonic solids, normal distributi
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Caffeine is still the only outlier? I remain optimistic.
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When will the average person benefit from all the interesting performance enhancing drugs that have been secretly developed?
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Most of the green reflectance is an illusion because the human retina amplifies green light as much as 25× more than red (think of a green 5mw laser vs red). On the other hand, leaves do absorb green light: nearly 75% is absorbed, in cont
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It would have been a LOT more famous if it hadn’t been null. But, yes — they provided giant shoulders for Einstein to stand on.
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Hansa wasn’t a democracy or an autocracy — in my understanding, it was an entirely consensus-based organization. At the Bremen town hall, I learned about the tagfahrt, where they would wait for the representatives to come to consensus. Once
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Man I hate to ask for a non-video resource after your link generosity, but if you know one, I’ll be that guy.

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