fruitworks

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by fruitworks 11mo ago
> more empathetic, more reasonable, better physically suited to lifestyles revolving around thought instead of physical work, Behold! The perfect man: A simpering, oversocialized, impotent, obedient nerd!
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
>What if, for example, a dentist refuses to remove malformed wisdom teeth because his morals don't allow him to fix problems that a person is born with, and only fixes tooth damage caused by accidents? If every dentist did this, the
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
There aren't any risks to take. Modern society is approaching a steady-state solution. Eugenics and artificial selection results in monocultures. In the long run has the opposite effect of what you're describing.
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
The fundamental problem with eugenics, besides the immorality, is the misalignment of artifical selection with natural selection. The eugenicists always think they know best, but mother nature always gets the last word in the end
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
reality is cruel
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
there's the PE license
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
What does renegotiating labor in the face of increased labor supply mean other than just "accept a worse deal"?
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by fruitworks 11mo ago
the cursive tui library does some html rendering https://sr.ht/~ireas/cursive-markup-rs/ the whole cursive library strikes me as very html-like in layout
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by fruitworks 1y ago
the efficiency of converting it to electricity would be low, due to low absolute temperature difference and thus carnot effeciency. I think it could be higher with germanium semiconductors, as you could run them at a higher temp and get sup
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by fruitworks 1y ago
The Freemium model made TF2. Most of the good updates were after the F2P update, and almost all of the playerbase.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
not really. I have two options: android or ios. And android is following ios lockstep with practices like the recent changes to play integrity.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
It's got what mario craves
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by fruitworks 1y ago
The difference is that it's completely plausible to protect against a cyberattack, but completely implausible to protect against a nuclear attack. The onus is on Apple and their userbase to protect their own computers, not the rest of
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by fruitworks 1y ago
so what? As GP suggests, they are not nessisary for the development of exploits.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
what circles? I would like to have greater transparency into what this cabal of superusers doing, how are they recieving the cash flows, etc. It just seems like every wiki results in defensive mod cabals
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by fruitworks 1y ago
the free encyclopedia that ANYONE from Black Mesa can edit!
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by fruitworks 1y ago
I don't assert that there is a political solution to AI. It's possible that both avenues result in a total centralization of power.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
>Are you claiming a lack of gun / AI control is democratizing? This is obviously the case. It results in a greater distribution of power. >That's not working for (the lack of) gun control in the US at the moment though. In t
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by fruitworks 1y ago
evolution isn't a directed effort in the same way that statistical learning is. The goal of evolution is not to produce the most inteligent life. It is not nessisarially an efficient process either.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
All of the solutions to AI "safety" are analagous to gun control: it is a centralization of power.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
Consoles are dying and PCs are replacing them. Like the original commenter suggested, people want to run PC games. The market has decided that the benefits of compatibility outweigh the added complexity. On the PC you have access to a massi
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by fruitworks 1y ago
What happens when apple switches to riscv, or depreciates versions of metal in a backwards incompatible way, or mandates some new code signing technique? The attitude in the apple developer ecosystem is that apple tells you to jump, and you
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by fruitworks 1y ago
What happens if it doesn't work?
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by fruitworks 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder if reason is partially a product of manipulating language.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
I think it comes from a lack of information on the consumer end or a lack of choices due to monopolization on the producer end. Also I reject using the word "enshittification" because it comes off as childish.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
how are customers going to tell in-house dishes from sysco premade dishes just by looking at a menu?
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by fruitworks 1y ago
where do you plug in the mouse?
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by fruitworks 1y ago
You don't have any objection to the idea of being forced to use an online account? What if you lose access to your online account?
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by fruitworks 1y ago
You could sell parts anyways and violate the license.
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by fruitworks 1y ago
web transport requires HTTPS, which requires a domain name and PKI for everyone you connect to

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