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by garmaine 5y ago
I’m replying to a comment that said, I quote, “but in the US there are free speech laws.” Given that context, I thought it was clear I was talking about the nature of free speech laws in the USA .
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by garmaine 5y ago
“Free speech” laws only apply to government restrictions on speech.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Given the distribution of land vs. sea, a recorded once per century event is probably once per 25 years or so in actuality (it just usually happens over the ocean).
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by garmaine 5y ago
RISC-V?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Guns aren’t as simple as “in case of emergency, push button” and stopping power for handguns is nonexistent. If you want a defensive weapon that is easy to use and hard to screw up, buy mace. If you want stopping power, buy a taser.
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by garmaine 5y ago
A lot of ITAR-restricted roles require being a US citizen or green card holder.
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by garmaine 5y ago
No need to speculate, we know that governments had a direct role in this thanks to the Snowden revelations.
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by garmaine 5y ago
California companies and work culture largely discourages taking PTO, so it tends to accrue.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> The idea that people should not have to give up all of their ability to fight. Fight...whom? How? A gun is a very blunt instrument. If you want to learn how to defend yourself, take a self-defense class and buy something non-lethal lik
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by garmaine 5y ago
Look at the DARE mission proposal.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Pizza-box sized omnidirectional antennas was the plan, I think. A couple of them spread out over a large area like a crater floor. And yes, they were looking at robotic deployment.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> and there are some wavelengths that simply can't be observed from the earth because of atmospheric interference. Of particular relevance is the frequency associated with the transition from opaque plasma to neutral matter, which m
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by garmaine 5y ago
I lost ten years of my life to worrying about AI risk. I try not to be bitter about that as the rationality techniques I learned along the way have helped me immensely. But I do try to caution others who appear to be falling down the same r
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by garmaine 5y ago
Some context on Goertzel that wouldn't show up in the wiki article. Goertzel's belief is/was that one couldn't achieve general / human-levels intelligence by scaling up regular old neural network ideas. He, and some
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by garmaine 5y ago
It's not widely used outside of Ben Goertzel et al, and the LessWrong/MIRI community, because these are the only groups which believe there is a significant qualitative difference between "narrow AI" and "general in
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by garmaine 5y ago
The number of people who truly believe that AI has a serious potential to wipe us out is minuscule, and they are mostly not in decision-making positions. Since you use the term AGI, I suppose you've been exposed to this idea via LessWr
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by garmaine 5y ago
Yes, I would.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Live in multi-generational family units where the family shares responsibility for (and benefits from) their own elders.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Yeah I wonder why. Maybe it had something to do with the needless second war in Iraq you instigated?
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by garmaine 5y ago
They’re the same thing. “App” is short for “application”, aka installable software.
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by garmaine 5y ago
…did it? I still use tons of native apps on my laptop, and almost exclusively native apps only on my desktop.
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by garmaine 5y ago
There is nothing to disappear. There isn’t a fifth force to within experimental precision. TFA is about an increase in that experimental precision which further reduces the possibility (or at least the magnitude) of any yet undiscovered “fi
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by garmaine 5y ago
At the same time, leaving after 23 years for a reason other than retirement suggests something changed. I have no insight into the company as you do, but that is the first impression I’d get from the circumstances. People don’t stay at a co
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by garmaine 5y ago
That’s the Holocene calendar, not the Long Now date writing tradition.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Conflicted as I want to downvote you for not contributing to the conversation, but want to upvote you for finally using “hateful” correctly… I assume that was the sarcastic point you were making?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Stating a political preference is not hateful to anyone. Let’s not lessen the meaning of the word “hate.”
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by garmaine 5y ago
They make ultra violent gratuitous video games. Not to be too gendered, but I don’t think women make up half of their user base. (Also, not all women are pro-choice.)
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by garmaine 5y ago
Let’s not abuse words. Here is the tweet: > Proud of #USSupremeCourt affirming the Texas law banning abortion for babies with a heartbeat. As an entertainer I don’t get political often. Yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of t
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by garmaine 5y ago
Seriously, why is it there? What purpose does it serve?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Ridiculous. Stating a political opinion on your personal social network account shouldn’t cause you to lose your job.

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