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by gmuslera 2y ago
Cargo cults around these system ideas are dangerous. The idea may be good, but without understanding what really makes them work or not is dangerous.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
You are looking at the wrong end of the stick. Things are not intrinsically meaningful, we are the ones giving and defining meaning. And a subset of meanings can be shared with your culture. Only that, but all of that. So, take your pick, o
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by gmuslera 2y ago
What could go wrong? Something must be done, that is for sure, and this approach targets the main carbon capture engine of the planet. But at the scale it must reach to do something significant it will probably (surely?) cause unintended co
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by gmuslera 2y ago
La Niña have high odds to last very few months. Global climate will continue its accelerated destabilization trend, with not so low odds of something impacting badly some first world countries. But just breaking even more records will do en
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by gmuslera 2y ago
> True, the twice-annual time changes — you know the drill: spring forward, fall back — are annoying and associated with some tangible consequences, such as an increase in traffic accidents because of sleep deprivation. But to be honest,
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by gmuslera 2y ago
What it would be the motivation? Anyway, Hanlon's razor is something hard to dismiss.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Why not? Processing an input of 10^9 bits, making sense of all of that, and contrast it against all your existing knowledge have an output speed 10 bits/s? It is not so bad. At least if we were really processing all that information in
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by gmuslera 2y ago
I suppose that this xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/1425/ ) is relevant enough, just that we already took those 5+ years of research to be able to tell what is in the photo.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
... and one ring to bind them. Even if it were an open source app with open governance, the shaping of culture happens at a different layer. And that shaping sometimes is guided and not in the best interest of the users.
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With those consumptions we all could go back to 1955.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
That's the negative things about positive feedback loops, eventually they grow enough to be noticed, and by then is already too late to avoid them to become massive, because taking action will take time, and meaningful action even more
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Never let your system1 to do complex migrations
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Did you see the movie Battleship? Or a good percent of recent and not so recent action movies, at least Matrix could be argued that it was about a virtual reality.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Don't forget bailing out banks that fueled bubbles. With the money that went into that we could had by now a the Sahara rainforest.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
The problem could be old scripts or systems that doesn’t handle UTF-8 (that doesn’t need to be the ones where the username was defined). I’m not sure if I.e. the Bobby tables trick could be done with characters with UTF8 representation seei
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by gmuslera 2y ago
The Library of Babel books weren't an infinite amount, they could fill up to 400 pages or so if I remember correctly. Still, it would have been a pretty big amount of books, far more than the amount of atoms of this universe. If we wan
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Nothing had happened so far, so odds are diminishing with time, not growing up. At least for most people. Alert fatigue, if you want to call it somehow. The potential is there. If it can happen, given enough time, it surely will. But the od
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by gmuslera 2y ago
There might be more than just 2 ends. And some of them may not be fixable by you.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
That belongs to the missing row of my "what can possibly go wrong?" bingo.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
You may not want Bobby Tables in your system.
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"You can keep beating me but you should pay the first hospital bill". A short term mitigation but a long/middle term death sentence. That is what they were pursuing for. Maybe is all that could be obtained as things are set u
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by gmuslera 2y ago
It is getting late to the party. Clean enough energy alternatives are being deployed everywhere. And we might be already running out of time, the climate system could had surpassed a point of no return by now, we keep adding fossil carbon t
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by gmuslera 2y ago
The big negotiation going on in COP29 is funding for mitigation and adaptation, not the root cause, not stopping/lowering fossil fuel emissions, but if you get hit by a superstorm you get financing on repair of the broken infrastructur
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by gmuslera 2y ago
It won't work. Advertising, politics, media control, spam, religious and more groups, from a country in particular and all the world in general, are more than motivated to optimize what they do in any way, including making AIs hard to
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Two words: “feedback loop”. That was the first idea that jumped in when thinking in what could go wrong, not because the Linux kernel, or BPF or this program, just for how it is intended to work. There might be no risk of that happening, th
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Not all the others, but all the popular enough others. And the definition of “popular enough” goes around attractive to the groups that want to influence, push agendas, sell or whatever. Closed or small enough communities have the opportuni
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by gmuslera 2y ago
For some definition of favorite, I would go with rabbits.
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100 years is too long. Maybe not because the company or institution where you will host it directly or indirectly will vanish (the Lindy effect matters choosing one), but because we, as internet and its users, moved on. The changes are acce
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The problem with emulations is human patience. If you don't need/have human interaction this may run pretty fast. And at the end, what matter is how sustainable it is in the long run.
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Taking the "best" course of action from your own point of view could not be so good from a more broad perspective. We might have evolved some small group collaboration approaches that in the long run plays better, but in large gro

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