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by dsign 3y ago
> Parents having caregivers hardly comes into it at all. For me, it does, an awful lot. Being a caregiver to my parents has implied a lot of existential suffering and emotional agony. Think about it: the people who raised you are going t
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by dsign 3y ago
Let’s assume for a moment that AIs turn up as you say, and that there is nothing nefarious. That outcome will need a lot of foresight and democratic regulation, because market forces will want AIs to exploit people. But, let’s assume we fin
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by dsign 3y ago
This is impressive and amazing. I can already see a press release not too far down the road: "Our new model HoSapiens can do everything humans can do, but better. It has been specifically designed to deprecate humanity. We are working
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by dsign 3y ago
I would say it's very profitable in terms of ideas...if you put the work. The problem is that most main-market sci-fi is not about ideas, but about cool special effects and good vs bad guys.
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by dsign 3y ago
You are correct, but it's capitalism and the adrenaline kick. We are culturally conditioned folk, and all scripts about alien invasions that end up in movies follow a completely implausible scenario. Most don't even bother any lon
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by dsign 3y ago
Would you care to elaborate?
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by dsign 3y ago
Other than child prostitution, is there ever a reason to fight sex work instead of investing in social programs or just giving some basic income to vulnerable people?
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by dsign 3y ago
Alien archeologists from the future: "Earthlings caused a catastrophe by trying to suck every bit of tidal energy. Via tidal acceleration[^1], they made their natural satellite fall into their planet. The curious thing is that the kind
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by dsign 3y ago
> I'm not saying there is a different way forward on a planet with 8 billion people. So, you are saying that the solution is make small habitats outside of Earth :-) ? I would vote for that solution, but it’s so damn unpopular.
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by dsign 3y ago
>> to push for full understanding. The point of the GP is that that full understanding can't happen in a human brain, but reductionism may be a lever good enough for that human brain to use. >> do we need to emulate the fu
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by dsign 3y ago
As far as I can see, you are totally correct. As it is the post you are replying to. Which begs the question: how can the state of all of humanity improve without damaging even more the environment? Will we ever confront that question hones
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by dsign 3y ago
There is so much we don't know. But I would happily engage in speculation: - Without needing to make it to the closest star, we have big problems here. If we solve those problems before we leave our solar system, we may be changed beyo
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by dsign 3y ago
> Apple’s own music player was, and still is, unusably bad. And here I thought it was just me. I really like Dolby Atmos in their airpods, and it seems that it only works with Apple Music. But Apple Music just doesn't click with me.
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by dsign 3y ago
We need a phase transition in our thinking about climate change, because our current way of thinking is taking us nowhere. - All human activities, in different degrees, contribute to climate change. Don't believe me? Say that you bike
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by dsign 3y ago
Great! Damned if we do, damned if we don’t. And now we can feel bad for growing our own tomatoes. I think it’s time we start considering the radical solutions. Not carbon capture, because there is always a way to smear those[^1] too. I say
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by dsign 3y ago
It may be more useful to reason about the consequences of the capabilities of any form of AI, than trying to box consciousness. Somehow connected to the above, one can use "axioms" to understand and predict minds. Here are a coupl
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by dsign 3y ago
I had to use my KVM switch to come from the work Arm Mac to the home X86 Windows to write this comment in a truly dynastic x86 processor. > So if you’re sitting at a PC with an x86 processor right now, you’re using a computer based on a
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by dsign 3y ago
> "immortal" non-replicating cell Many (if not most) end-of-lineage cell in higher mammals are non-replicating. They are, technically, not immortal, but some live a very long time, like neurons. I like your experiment idea tho
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by dsign 3y ago
This must be f*cking really hard with our culture. I for once can say that I have been reading less because Amazon's recommendation algorithm keeps throwing at me books with trendy covers that make me cringe. And same with the blurbs.
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by dsign 3y ago
> So if your pet has been microchipped, you can make it so the cat door only opens for your specific pet. That's horrible! Won't the cat be allowed to bring their friends in for parties and cat-fights? What if the cat falls in
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by dsign 3y ago
> While this is pretty cool I believe generalist robots will not have a fraction of the skills an average human has , at least not within a realistically foreseeable timeframe, let’s say within this century. I'm pretty sure they wil
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by dsign 3y ago
It's a great tool when you are a jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one. You can use to decode phase-modulated signals, calculate stress distribution in some mechanical part, get an idea of how
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by dsign 3y ago
> Isn't skin ageing much simpler - the structural proteins in the extracellular matrix like fibronectin get damaged by sunlight over time - crosslinks are formed and the skin loses elasticity? If that were all there was to it, sunbu
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by dsign 3y ago
Oh, this is good! I’m a bit curious; why are musicians so much against putting note names on their keyboards? It’s like having a computer keyboard with no letters marked on top.
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by dsign 3y ago
Guy Michelmore in Youtube, to make it fun, and his Thinkspace learning platform, for the most formal bits.
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by dsign 3y ago
My point was that there is only so much we can understand. Let me give you a concrete example, one which I have chosen to be easy to understand--the irony!-- : You are a biologist and are given the task of reverting skin senescence in a bil
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by dsign 3y ago
There are currently 251131639 sequenced proteins in UniProt[^1], so, that's a very lower bound on the number of things a modern biologist has to amuse themselves with. Many still consider biology as the study of each individual biolog
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by dsign 3y ago
I happen to agree with most of what you said. But I'm curious about this bit: > We’ll likely go back to operating this way in a generation or three anyway. This is actually the argument of a work of fiction I'm working on, and
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by dsign 3y ago
The capability of "being social" is so important that crows play social games, and their brains are not much bigger than an eyedropper. Homosexuality and polygamy are present in all the species where being social is not just a sta
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by dsign 3y ago
> self-published Amazon eBook market of garbage genre novels "Even after two months on their prolonged, glamorous, non-sleep shopping spree, she couldn't resist the allure of his white shirt over his hard pectorals. He wasn&#x2

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