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by gmuslera 3y ago
Computers can write random text, and that is not considered literature (unless we are in the infinite monkey problem). To be called literature, it must “run”, in the same way as code, but in our brains. It must rhyme if is poetry, must be a
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It is amazing how people complain about the energy and resources requirements for running AI while fail to notice the massive amount that is being used by the crypto mining, that at least in energy is more than what use several industrializ
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by gmuslera 3y ago
CO2 remain in the atmosphere for more than a century. What is causing the change in climate is the cumulative amount of it since the start of the previous century, that was enough to unbalance the entire global system and push it to the inc
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Even Multivac said "Insufficient data for a meaningful answer" for some particular question. But the problem of all "safe" AIs is more related to HAL9000, fuzzy directives about what to do and not to based on subjective
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by gmuslera 3y ago
What about flammability? If "new" wood is somewhat less flammable because sap or something like that, replacing old forests with new ones, moving the operations of wood harvesting from forest to forest in a sustainable way may get
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It is already pretty bad to block the sun, but once you do it, clouds won't reflect the light that is not hitting them anymore anyway. It might be positive as it might not block the heat from the atmosphere being radiated to space, wat
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by gmuslera 3y ago
I didn't need 12 months of record breaking world abnormal weather for that. The previous, continuous trend upwards for decades was already bad enough, with extreme events becoming increasingly common and extremer. You have a complex sy
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy is something we must be able to see. We get a lot of effects of a larger change, and pick the one that in a partial way, in a particular light, can be painted as positive. There are a lot of "greener&quot
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It may end being truly a killer app. It is already bad for privacy the amount of video that is around, but increasing some orders how fast, easy and scalable may be processing it may increase the amount that is processed, even if is not per
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by gmuslera 3y ago
"Capturing" carbon into fuel to be released back is not exactly capturing, maybe it could be called buffering. A lot of the Net Zero proposal "compensates" to keep extracting oil/coal/gas with generating new fu
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by gmuslera 3y ago
You didn't know about Windows Meh? Not sure about the spelling.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It looks like a medical anti pattern, deal with the symptom that the base disease will cure itself, somewhat, maybe magically. I know that forcing a happy face could lighten up a bit your mood, but this is going too far, and maybe is too si
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Maybe they should take a hint on Windows versions name scheme and call the next version Gemini Meh.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
We have a chance that human civilization doesn't last next century, maybe even this one. We have a far closer existential threat right in front of us. If you want to feel anxious about something, try that. In practice, it won't ma
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Can't stop thinking in Ghostbuster's Gozer asking for the form of the Destructor. It's a situation where whatever you choose, it will only move forward the agenda of what is the big threat in some way. Doing something in a ba
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It’s Ironic like in the song that this is considered dystopian? That use should be a clear sign of the dystopia we are in?
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by gmuslera 3y ago
One problem with long term projects is advancement on technology that would had made a faster, sturdier, cleaner or whatever the original project if it started from zero using it. We send a mission to Alpha centauri that would take, lets sa
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The trend of using them instead of the credit card may speak of some sort of convergence beyond functionality. And they are already foldable, so in your pocket they may count as 2x its unfolded thickness.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Having free oxygen in the atmosphere (I don’t know, 500 M-year?) would already had put us as target for oxygen breathing advanced civilizations in a long enough radius. If they could be a realistic threat capable of wiping us, they should h
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It feels like talking about religion. In a lot of them at the very least, there is an almighty, omniscient god, the alpha, the everyday, and the omega god, the one that maximizes knowledge, intelligence, power, whatever. And people followin
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by gmuslera 3y ago
We are wired to try to solve by addition, not by subtraction, for a complex system that we destabilized by adding something, adding even more things is the road to even more destabilization and emergent (usually very destructive) behaviours
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Dealing with very complex and large systems is hard, probably harder than our knowledge will be capable of this century, even if we keep accelerating. That is the world system, climate, life, cycles, feedback loops, and many other things th
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by gmuslera 3y ago
If you like this one Diaspora seem to have extrapolated some of this ideas and went several step further (and then added much more), and Zendegi that is a lot more modest in extrapolation and tries to be more realistic (and emotional). He h
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Life is mostly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. The arrangement and the bits of other elements turns it into much more than the isolated components.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The first ever What If, that made it a hit (in more than a sense). 0.9c is not fast enough to make a really big difference in mass or time for the ball, but its speed alone is bad news in something like a dense enough atmosphere.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
A big problem of AR is the other people. Google Glass wasn't so awkward looking, but it still had negative reactions from other people that could be afraid of being recorded, or information gathered from them, or apps that do something
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by gmuslera 3y ago
One problem is the speed of change, check https://xkcd.com/1732/ to have an idea. Adaptation needs time, else you get extinction. Very fast changes on global average temperature are correlated with big extinction event
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by gmuslera 3y ago
That may have a positive effect, like being tarpit for bad players (that should be more than "legal" vulnerability scanners). If that slows down them enough with attractive enough false positives it may protect a bit the real expo
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by gmuslera 3y ago
We don't know the future. That glass that you have in the border of the table may never fall, may not break if fall, even if a lot of people walk by its side not noticing it. But watching it may be obvious that the entire situation is
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by gmuslera 3y ago
This add a new reading for me of the story, given by the author himself. My first reading was about all the stories of uploading, having our digital selves somewhere, some way of immortality and so on, and how in reality things should surel

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