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by dsign 4y ago
> The trouble is that all these pollution speech are always about disasters, they give no hope for future generations. This is the main issue in my opinion, there is no dream to look forward at the moment. Where are the dreams about flyi
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It's going to leave all those artists without a job, you just wait!!
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This is a really great point. I want very much their effort to succeed, but I suspect epigenetic is so important for higher organisms that the chances of this working are rather low.
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What I mean is that as the (probably justified) climate furor goes up, so will go hopelessness. According to the current civic discourse, it's all our fault (well, it really is) and therefore we are a blight for the planet. People ma
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by dsign 4y ago
The Dune-sized worm in the room is how the religion of these friars assesses these findings? Why is it important? Because they coded the moral and cultural foundation of the Western world. How could they be right regarding, say, whom you sh
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by dsign 4y ago
There is some debate now in Sweden about how much of a good idea is to use nuclear power. The greens are absolutely convinced it's a bad idea. Their arguments against nuclear make no sense to me. But their arguments pro-renewable make
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by dsign 4y ago
I don't think that AI is going to replace those artists, but if it does, maybe some will be convinced to become AI researchers :-) ? These art AIs are very good at driving the point home that our DNN AIs are seriously capable. But thos
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by dsign 4y ago
I get that there is some suffering involved, and some broken egos. But people are having jobs and getting paid, aren't they? That's important; specially for artists and technical artists who don't have many well-paying opport
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I don't get Microsoft. Come on, the game is up. Everybody knows that the bloatware is because Microsoft derives money from it. That annoying screen at installation time asking you to sign your soul and those of your loved ones? MS gets
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The problem with longevity research and its funding is not so much the research or the science, but the cultural stigma[^1]. Secretly, everybody wants to feel, look and be healthy and young. But as virtue-signaling and because otherwise we
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I'm willing to believe it is good nutrition and low footprint for the environment. But the cultural footprint is too high, just look at this forum! Our cultural archetypes are rich, see which you would do for a few days and which you w
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by dsign 4y ago
I think that you nailed it. I would add that as long as we don't reach for rocks to throw at each other (or the online equivalent), having and respectfully expressing diverging opinions is okay.
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Going naked to the forest: Hemingway vs. Hard Sci-fi(w.ouzu.im)
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It is easier in Europe to have people-friendly politicians because companies can’t get away so often with buying them. It is both the laws and the culture. Case in point, Stefan Löfven, who was Sweden’s prime minister until a few months ago
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by dsign 4y ago
First get a job offer an interview. If you are senior enough, a recruiting agency can get you connected in no time. Heads-up: salary for very senior software developers in Europe are between half and one-third of what they are in USA.
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by dsign 5y ago
> While that is noble, what isn't is their arrogance and stubborn belief in their own correctness While a lot of very cutting-edge physics is just mathematical theory without experimental proof, another whole lot of it do have enoug
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by dsign 5y ago
Well, I for one believe and amuse myself with the findings of this paper. It reminds us that nature is not a divinity of perfection working in our favor (if anybody had any doubt at this point, that is).
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by dsign 5y ago
I like CUDA, that stuff works and is rewarding to use. The only problem is the tons and tons of hoops one must jump to use it in servers. Because a server with a GPU is so expensive, you can't just rent one and have it running 24x7 if
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by dsign 5y ago
> Can technology affect human morality? This is a bad question to start the article, because the average Joe needs only two seconds to answer it in the affirmative. A society with plenty of material wealth facilitated by technology (elec
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Writing is incredibly difficult and pays incredibly bad. Inspired books are often written for the pleasure of it, and any money from it is a big optional unknown. The author may want to finish the series, but they still need to pay their bi
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by dsign 5y ago
So, the gist of this article is "oh look, machine learning can be used to build super-weapons!". Of course it can, and we have no shortage of (other) tech to make our life miserable. And of course the problem is not the tech itsel
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> We have the technology, it's called "taxes", but nobody seems to want to use it. We are seeing a little bit of that now with fuel prices. Some countries are compounding the pain by having high taxes on fuel. The way it i
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I tend to be a little more extreme: we need to vacate Earth, leave it as a natural biosphere reserve, and try out all our environmental compromises and even wilder things (synthetic life?) in lush habitats out of planet.
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> The world needs them to focus on the greater goals of stopping catastrophic environmental destruction and improving well-being. It would be nice to see some science fiction where people succeed at doing just that, not with futuristic t
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by dsign 5y ago
As others have said, Blender supports NURBS, but it is not too fancy. I have played before with Moi3D[^1], which is "3D modeling for designers and artists", and I also use Blender and ZBrush quite a bit. My impression so far is th
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by dsign 5y ago
It hurts what is happening in Ukraine now, and still Putin has support of more than 50% of the Russian people. Please, don't support them.
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Hello Maddie and Patrick, Cheers! I love what you are doing. Alas, I join in the concerns about deploying that tech here on Earth; even if the science and tech were 100% sound (which I think is possible and practical), the public opinion wi
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I have read a lot of comments about reducing risks, which is a reasonable and practical approach. But given than almost all of us are going to die of one health condition or another, I think it is reasonable to budget and architect our soci
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Just coming here down to note that despite, or because the lizard part, our brains are wonderful creation machines. All the comments up to this parent, including the mysterious physical red button, are great. On my part, I think the trick i
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by dsign 5y ago
> Humanity is fine, It is, but the reckoning for me is how a single dictator among billions could make so much harm. So it is not enough that humanity is 99.9999% fine. We need fail-safes for things going terribly wrong, and in this part

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