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by etiam 3y ago
This one looked interesting and is probably quite actionable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18252469
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by etiam 4y ago
.. at which point they'll just be shredding visual records of the sky in their regular orbits as densely as the companies have been allowed to cram in.
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by etiam 4y ago
Seems like sage advice, as far as it goes. Tough problem. Thanks for raising the point, and know that this exchange inspired me to start reading up in greater detail.
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Ukraine says it is finding more Chinese components in Russian weapons(reuters.com)
14 points by etiam 4y ago|11 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
I'm normally not the guy posting the nigh-mandatory XKCD, but as nobody has covered this one yet... https://xkcd.com/149/
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by etiam 4y ago
I just had a light-bulb moment and came back to say something similar. I'm not sure how well tracked the decline in insect populations is, but I'd imagine light intensity levels during the spaceflight era is pretty much on record.
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by etiam 4y ago
Highly explanatory, certainly. And knowing about them is arguably much better than not knowing, but I'm not necessarily on board with "bring you peace". I feel like I run into them a lot, and it's consistently awful hand
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by etiam 4y ago
Right. Also, note the publication date...
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by etiam 4y ago
Can't fault people for studying this I guess. But for the sort of future technology, super-sophisticated systems that are the main concern, is there anything that would prevent just circumventing the assumptions about possible decision
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Japan to increase chip-gear spending faster than any other nation(scmp.com)
1 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
Plenty of affirmation in there, that will have a hard time qualifying as truths, even if we give the author the benefit of the doubt about setting the provocation title. One could try to do some semantic weaseling about the meaning of &quot
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by etiam 4y ago
Are you suggesting that artificial minds are unattainable in principle, or that the much-hyped language models are elevators for a task that requires rockets?
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by etiam 4y ago
That's an excellent observation, but I suspect it will get much more difficult as the ratio between volume and surface gets dominated by volume. Not that cryonics are necessarily in a better position about that, so I guess for comparis
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by etiam 4y ago
Or just run the thing in a place where lab staff are considered expendable, skimp on safety and have the staff eat out regularly at a nearby wet market. Practically effortless.
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by etiam 4y ago
Wouldn't be much point. Most viruses who don't envelop themselves in cell membrane taken from the host are already pretty much impervious to it already.
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Gene Drives Are Coming(science.org)
2 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
Where BioNTech had specialist competence in a technology which turned out to somewhat effective against the problem and Pfizer had massive funds, established contact network including decision makers and established ability to quickly run l
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by etiam 4y ago
Contemporary Cheka is a direct continuation of the predecessors though? The promised ideology may have been revised and revised again, but in practice the implementation of authoritarianism seems pretty stable.
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by etiam 4y ago
You're misrepresenting that conviction you allege he has though. (Commonly called out as a "straw man" argument here.) The original post here is pretty vulnerable to both misunderstanding and misinterpretation of that sort. S
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by etiam 4y ago
> Watch the entire interview In fact, watch more! Here's some: https://archive.org/details/yuri_bezmenov_all_interviews_lec...
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“In China, AI warship designer did nearly a year’s work in a day”(scmp.com)
3 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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Infra-Red, in Situ (Iris) Inspection of Silicon(bunniestudios.com)
128 points by etiam 4y ago|25 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
At first glance I read rubles... which I guess would be at least a little bit like gambling, lately.
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Trouble with Erythritol(science.org)
5 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
Looks like it's improved slightly then? They're estimating shipment by the end of the month at the moment. https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=...
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by etiam 4y ago
I don't have access to a WIRED subscription currently, so I only see the first few lines, but then again a flavor for some problems with that article seems to start right at the title and opening paragraphs. "The Genius Neuroscie
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by etiam 4y ago
It seems to be just the editorial that's erroneously claiming that "Erik Hoel proposes a novel hypothesis". The actual review article appears to be a perfectly serviceable review of the topic. https://www.cell.co
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by etiam 4y ago
At least this paper cites Hinton et al. (1995). The wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised neural networks which conjectures just the same roles for dreaming. But as far as I can see there is absolutely nothing new provided here about expe
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AI simulates hypersonic air battle, offering tactic for winning Mach 11 dogfight(scmp.com)
20 points by etiam 4y ago|25 comments
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Ex-ASML employee accused of data theft is being probed for ties to China(scmp.com)
3 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments

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