fellowmartian

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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I’m not the biggest AI fanboy, but AI is the solution to this. You’re right that the population is about to peak, and we’ll stop adding biological brains that can come up with new things, but if we crack real AGI then we’ll have many more o
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
His work is mind-blowing and completely upturned my perception of biology.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
This is great, and a step in the right direction. I wish tree-sitter had an official higher level API that allowed processing and pattern matching for use cases other than those required for text editors. I’m currently using tree-sitter at
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Commercially available martian soil simulants don’t contain perchlorates. Trying to obtain perchlorates is problematic, both from the health and law enforcement point of view.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
It is explicitly compatible with the formal definition of embodiment, which is roughly: select an action from the action set, observe results of the action taken, update internal state, in a loop.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I knew somebody would bring free will into this :) I should've said "you decide to think a thought (for some definition of "decide" according to your free will stance) ...". I mostly agree with you, but I decided to
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Alright, Allwinner D1 - still requires vendor-provided components for almost everything, and its pre-ratified vector extension[1] required special compilers until very recently. [1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Being conscious is embodiment in its own right: you decide to think a thought and you see your thought being thought.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I verified it by personally buying RISC-V boards and trying to make something out of them. This is not FUD. The boot process isn’t better than on Arm, which is already terrible. End users need to find magic .isos, while developers need to s
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Fragmentation is killing RISC-V. It’s bad enough to need a bespoke boot and bring up for each CPU and board on Arm, but with RISC-V you still need that as well, but with a custom compiler on top. I’d love for RISC-V to succeed, but with the
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
WasmGC allows you to reuse the native V8 garbage collector instead of having to bundle and run a virtualized garbage collector.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
They’re not “just” 2D vectors, they have a bit more structure that makes them special, but sure there’s obviously nothing “imaginary” about them.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Imaginary numbers don’t allow you to create something of out nothing unlike the axiom of choice. Not all weird things are weird in the same way.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
The author wasn’t asking about production entropic losses, but whether using massive amount of energy will heat up the planet, and it definitely will. This is why it’s a technosignature. Heat dissipation is the ultimate limit on growth on a
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Depends on whether we want to reach a qualitatively different (and better) level of civilization, or at best stay at the current level (but in a carbon-neutral way).
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I’m not convinced it’s impossible to model reality from the inside of reality. It’s conceivable to have a model that logically necessitates a reality, maybe with some kind of meta-mathematical bootstrapping mechanism, and some way to prove
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Isaac Arthur has a video[1] explaining why this hypothesis is nonsense, including a game theoretical reason. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhHE2VA1ic
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I think this a caricature or at least a shallow view of computationalism. Nobody is claiming that the universe is a computer of the same kind as the ones we have. Instead, I think, it claims that the universe has to necessarily be computati
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Persistent neuroinflammation seems to be a more likely cause.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
You’re assuming the resources can be distributed better, if only they weren’t “wasted” on space travel. I suspect the problems you’re describing exist _because_ we can’t distribute better - we don’t know how. We’ve reached the limits of so
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Many people suggesting zsh, but if you’re willing to move to fish you’ll get many features out of the box.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Did you ever come across low dose naltrexone?
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
No claim on whether it's true (as I have no idea), but there's something called RCCX theory that tries to explain this and many other autoimmune diseases.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Plant-based surveillance cameras, obviously.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
It’s not just somebody, it’s Tom from Explosions&Fire! He’s an absolute legend.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Oxymetazoline works great for short-term relief (like 2-3 days), so I'm honestly not sure why people are so bent on wanting to use controlled substances for very common ailments.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Hub chips often already have pins for per port VBUS control, and you just need to wire P-channel mosfets to them (hub manufacturers often cheap out on this). You can then control port power through sysfs.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Outsource dangerous building blocks to qualified people, overpay for quality components, learn proper wiring (ratings, crimping, etc).
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I only know this because of the scene from Home Alone 2.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I use it as a really nice qemu wrapper, and if you treat it as one it’s amazing.

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