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by dsign 4y ago
It's not about simulation theory as in "we are living in a simulation," but about consciousness. My reasoning goes like this: - 'A' is a computing entity and an organism: it takes information in, it reacts. Its gene
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by dsign 4y ago
It's not inevitable. We know how to create nuclear bombs, and generally how to kill each other. We are not doing either of those wantonly. And forgive me, but what agriculture has to do with AGI?
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by dsign 4y ago
It's an article on a psychology journal, those folk tend to use different ontologies than computer scientists. That said, it's a very substantial review and I don't necessarily disagree with it. No, causal reasoning won'
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by dsign 4y ago
This is a good comment that is being suppressed :-) >> Is that not the very definition of democracy? Majority rule easily and frequently overrides and marginalizes minorities. Its kinda the point. Yes, so much this. And it's not
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by dsign 4y ago
Pretty interesting article I happen to agree with. As other commenters have noted, we no longer know if any content we read in the Internet is legit. Soon enough, the problem will go beyond text and encompass image and video[1]. Give it a
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by dsign 4y ago
I have a total of three days into forced labor killing chickens and 0.0000 days into gainfully having sex for money. I have 20 years into doing software for money, and 20 years into doing sex for free. During my (paid) professional life, I&
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by dsign 4y ago
You kidding? When I was 17, I was conscripted into the military in a shitty country. There, I was forced to kill and prepare chickens. I couldn't eat chicken for a year afterwards. If my economic circumstances had forced me to take t
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by dsign 4y ago
Nobody should have to sell sex to make ends meet, period. But the content of this post...wow. Here is how I read it: * Young girl has a rough childhood and gets into prostitution and drugs. * "The Nordic model", the gist of the la
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by dsign 4y ago
HN people has three orders of magnitude more technical background and education than politicians, yet when it's about fusion, fision, renewables and climate warming, we only manage to output a miserable 0.01 % consensus and the rest di
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by dsign 4y ago
Earth will continue to be suitable for life as we know it, same biochemistry. The most important question is how we are going to adapt. Does anybody know of any science fiction which is not silly-cliche-postapolcalyptic and that deals with
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by dsign 4y ago
Kind of the Devil's question, but what would happen if one were to use a model of the size of ChatGPT, keep it on all the time, and have it connect to the Internet and try to make money online?
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by dsign 4y ago
iCloud was convenient and I was even paying for it, but when the "we will scan your photos and snitch on you" debacle I started backing up my photos at home and removed all my spreadsheets from iCloud (who knows what crappy softwa
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by dsign 4y ago
"Attractive" is in the eye of the beholder. But going to the gym regularly could be a good idea. One aspect this article didn't mention is that people who are smarter than average may have an asocial reason for it. For exampl
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by dsign 4y ago
This. And no, it's not just the baby stage. Just yesterday, in my team of five, three work colleagues were counseling each other about how go get help for their kids. The two children of one colleague suffer from anxiety and attention
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by dsign 4y ago
This topic is absolutely fascinating. Here are all the ingredients for the bomb: - Demography department: a) fertility, b) pension systems, the link between economic growth, population growth, and productivity growth (how can you have a saf
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by dsign 4y ago
This. The majority of companies I know of are evil in just one way: they want your money, and sometimes they will go to great lengths to get it. The big villains in USA are not that powerful in some other places, because people and their
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by dsign 4y ago
As others have pointed out, AI's are not needed to produce crappy repetition which is eagerly gobbled by the masses, i.e. Hollywood, Netflix, and werewolves and vampire stories by the penny. And there is a huge audience for those. What
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by dsign 4y ago
> It turns out media/social/economic technology can shape our world a lot faster than can the technologies grounded real things. Arguably it has been for the negative recently. Yeah, it's not a technology issue anymore, or
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by dsign 4y ago
> The researchers plan to further investigate the entire process of red blood cell formation, which may lead to insights about genetic alterations that underlie certain red blood cell disorders. I'm using to reading this type of par
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Red blood cells nuke their nuclei (2008)(wi.mit.edu)
1 points by dsign 4y ago|1 comments
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by dsign 4y ago
Oh well Kite team, may your members find well-paying jobs and exciting adventures elsewhere, you deserve it well.
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by dsign 4y ago
To those of you struggling with the meaning of life and death, here is some food for thought: the probability that you are going to die in the next 150 years is 99.999999 % or lower. It used to be 100.00... percent, with infinite zeros afte
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by dsign 4y ago
Nothing like some good news to start the day. Just for some fiction that I'm writing, how many people do you bet are living/working on the Moon by 2050?
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by dsign 4y ago
Long winter-night and extreme cold accounted for, I bet that living there is far more enjoyable than living in certain "tropical paradises," like Cuba. In that regard, the Governor of Svalbard has more power than planetary weather
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by dsign 4y ago
Despite what the article says, this can't be more complicated than producing 5 nm process chips. It's just less funded.
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CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments(nature.com)
780 points by dsign 4y ago|287 comments
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by dsign 4y ago
Well I do hope that this succeeds beyond the wildest expectations, and blood-donations go the way of the horse[^1]. We can cultivate ethics in everything else. -------------------------------- [^1]: We still have horses. So there is a chanc
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by dsign 4y ago
The last time I searched for jobs, there were two competing automotive makers among the prospective employers. The one that offered the C++ position for programming Lidar systems offered a lower salary than the one that just wanted a genera
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by dsign 4y ago
You can have artificial habitats which are almost in any way better than a planet. Even bigger, by a few orders of magnitude, if that's your metric. Maybe that's not something that will be readily available to you during your firs
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by dsign 4y ago
My favorite solution to the Fermi Paradox is that star-shaped gravity wells are difficult neighborhoods for anything that needs to exchange huge amounts of data. Think about it: electromagnetic data-beans degrade with distance, so one must

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