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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Electrically, chemically, experiments must always consider their environment and account for confounding factors Implying that that’s in any way similar to what Google et al. are doing us rather bizarre. Even if your initial point was
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> We're talking about an image generation algorithm that adds a layer of diversity on top to prevent misuse So if LLMs did the same (i.e. purposefully distorted facts and historical events due arbitrary and political reasons) it wou
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
On the bright side for Unity almost all of that acquisition was financed using convertible notes from their VC investors which are almost worthless (I think > $300 share price) at 0%(!) interest. So their balance sheet isn’t that bad as
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> MBA folk think layoffs What other options they had when they massively overhired during 2020 and 21? At this point 25% is probably not even remotely enough
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> slightly better than operating cashflow neutral Only because they are issuing massive amounts of stock (IIRC ~15% per year) to pay their employees and not doing any buybacks. How sustainable is that? > It's growing at a very he
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I’m not sure going public was the main issue. The barely thought out acquisitions and massive over hiring after 2020 were. If they were more conservative they’d probably already be profitable
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To be fair Unity had/has a bunch of other businesses unrelated or marginally related to the engine itself. They went on a spending spree during 2020 and 21 buying random companies left and right. Seems like they are mainly focusing on
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I don’t really feel capable of giving a reasonable answer to that question. The ability to terraform it? > If you scale out to a 10,000 year timeframe AFAIK there were no events at last several hundred million years that had a realistic
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It’s not about technology, it’s about incentives. Unless the cost of settling and living in Mars becomes extremely low there will be no rational reason to invest into any large scale Martian colony. Why don’t you move to Antarctica? We have
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Also it was mostly false in the west at least. The Average marriage became lower, not higher in the 20th century before it began increasing at a very fast pace in the 70s: http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/Age.htm Depending
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> it wasn't a crime, and the average marriage age of women around the world was still 14 That’s just as outright false as it gets. Average marriage age was never that low going back to the middle ages (ancient Rome/Greece were
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> many great endeavours Usually due to practical or religious (so practical from the perspective of the people doing them) reasons > I suspect that there is likely nothing anyone could suggest would succeed in shifting you position. I
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
If it’s a one way trip then perhaps, otherwise that’s not obvious to me at all. And in any case if the only purpose of sending humans to Mars is to prove that we can, why go the easiest and most unethical route?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Sure, Humans going to Mars and back would be cool. Attempting to establish any permanent presence there let a lone a colony with more than a dozen or so people there would be an inconceivable massive waste of resources. Something that nobod
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
That’s not even remotely comparable. North America etc. turned out to be effectively more “habitable” than the old world due the abundance of fertile land and other resources relative to population. That can never happen on Mars. > Human
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> How much did european colonization of the east coast cost? Not a lot. People actually paid to move there because it resulted in a significant improvement in living conditions/income/etc. on average (besides the few earliest a
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> People didn’t know what could be found in America. There was a sense of adventure To be fair they kind of did. Or rather they never expected to finding anything extremely different to what they have experienced in Europe (besides very
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Modern nations may be mindful of this and wish to avoid repeating the mistake Considering that colonies on Mars are extremely unlikely to ever be self-sustainable that’s hardly a concern (in fact the opposite might be preferable). Comp
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> the new world How is that relevant at all? The only thing that comes close to mars are mostly self-sustainable colonies (not a thing) in Antarctica (which is still a more habitable place than Mars by several magnitudes). > we did th
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Probably not? Besides potential mining and resource extraction whatever we do to Earth it’s still almost guaranteed to remain more habitable than any other place in the solar system. Also exponential population growth seems not a real threa
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Inflation was consistently very high in the 70s while time time it peaked in 2022 and then went down relatively rapidly. Of course it might rebound but until that happens it’s hardly comparable.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Americans have stopped saving Have they? The personal savings rate is not that much lower than it was between 2000 and ~2019 on average
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> entirely unrealistic expectations of rates going lower The Fed has already announced back in December that they are planning to cut rates to 4.6% by the end of 2024 (of course that might change). The bond market consensus is somewhere
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
How high do you think the rates should be? Historically they are not low at all relative to inflation and considering how highly the government debt to GDP ratio is raising them further would lead to severe issues. Since a surplus or even a
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> They plan on building a colony of millions of people Right. Sounds cool, maybe they could commission someone to make a scifi tv show but that’s about it. Why would you want millions of people on Mars? What purpose that would achieve? T
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Much better idea to find the few people that are fine living and dying on mars What would be the point, though? Besides live streaming someone slowly dying from radiation poisoning? It’s not like a human can really do anything that a s
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Putting the HQ in the Netherlands was more like a compromise between the French and the Italians. It’s really not a Dutch company in any real way
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Strike first and hard (instead of making concessions which delay the war but only mean that it will be much worse when it ultimately still happens)? What else could we’ve learnt from WW2?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> It is only after the horrors of WW2 that the western world became fearful of casualties That’s arguably not true at all. At the beginning of the war the allies were very reluctant to engage in major offensive operations (in hindsight i
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I’m not sure China was ever particularly interested in conquering foreign countries now or historically (not saying Taiwan is not a real country but it’s not really foreign and certainly an exception in most ways). On the other hand violent

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