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by gnode 8y ago
That's why I said open-endedly optimizing. Obviously some amount of intelligence is beneficial to humans' survival, procreation and protection of offspring, but only to a point. If evolution tended towards ever greater intelligenc
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by gnode 8y ago
> draining everyone downstream to 0% I don't see how that follows. Hydroelectric power use doesn't destroy water. Minus some evaporation, all water upstream makes its way downstream whether the gravitational potential energy is
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by gnode 8y ago
The only thing evolution by natural selection tends towards is survival of genes (by definition). In order to assume evolution was open-endedly optimizing for greater intelligence, one would first have to make a strong argument that such gr
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by gnode 8y ago
For a vision of how the ethical / legal landscape will probably unfold, one needs only look to stimulant drugs. They have approved therapeutic use in treating ADHD, but are frequently used as performance enhancers and recreationally by
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by gnode 8y ago
Pumped storage is just hydro, with the ability to replenish the reservoir artificially. If you have sufficient natural flow there's no need to pump anything into it. The idea of pumped storage being for reserved for peak demand comes f
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by gnode 8y ago
From reading your other comment "you can pull things over a network without a web browser...", your argument appears to be: we could have a separate platform from the browser for running web applications, and lose the need for the
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by gnode 8y ago
I remember there being some amount of objection to his freedom to communicate while in prison (sending letters espousing his ideology, and such). Although this evidence of his continued ideology will probably help ensure he isn't relea
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by gnode 8y ago
I'd come across this before, but only just now experienced it. It seems much easier to lock on to the hidden image when it's animated. Also panning your head up/down/left/right with your eyes seems to help too. Eve
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by gnode 8y ago
The source code of this system may not be all you'd need, or even the most valuable or competitively differentiating element. As I understand it, the system is based on machine learning with a large training dataset gathered from custo
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by gnode 8y ago
I think the alternative reality we're entering is one where we cannot communicate without record. We coped in the past, where putting something in writing was the exception, not the default. As direct vocal communication becomes less c
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by gnode 8y ago
I think an improved definition may be: coercing someone using the threat of the revelation of a secret to a third party, where there is no requirement the secret not be known by any fourth party. It's not relevant whether the act is ot
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by gnode 8y ago
This probably reads to some like "debate over its legality is unimportant because it is illegal". I think it's not known by a lot of people that it is illegal (in many places), and not initially clear from the article, with i
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by gnode 8y ago
It's important to remember that regardless of your stance on censorship and the legality of the content, Facebook and Youtube are generally intended to be safe-for-work platforms.
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by gnode 8y ago
I find this the most convincing argument. While I feel there is a moral journalistic right to accurately report crime, I feel there is also a moral right to not have footage of undignified acts committed against you published, whether this
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by gnode 8y ago
> I would guess that that is what OP meant. If you introduce a price, you can actually remove even stronger restrictions that are in place based on morality. Because as long as you're being charged, you can assume the price is inclu
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by gnode 8y ago
> Unless of course, a company makes a decision that harms people, animals accounting for future reparations. To clarify, I was suggesting this case; that a company deliberately starts or continues a business which physiologically harms p
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by gnode 8y ago
Even when modelling corporations as amoral entities, they still exist within a morally aware system. They are to some extent beholden to their customers, employees, and courts of law, which all make decisions of morality about their actions
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by gnode 8y ago
I think morally it's the wrong direction, much like paying a dividend to victims of a polluting chemical factory to offset their deleterious health effects. That said, putting a price on data may be what it takes to make companies take
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by gnode 8y ago
> releases dopamine that makes you feel good about your choice, motivating you to execute. Dopamine can be motivating, but over a threshold it's satisfying, which is essentially the opposite of motivating. I think what's really
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by gnode 8y ago
That's true, but in this case it's not being used as a last resort, but seemingly as a matter of course.
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by gnode 8y ago
I think the answer is that CPU time doesn't have consistently high value to the CPU owner, and isn't a free market as CPU time is non-transferable due to security concerns. It isn't practical to buy compute power from a diver
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by gnode 8y ago
That doesn't mean that the coercion couldn't be: pay a fine for each day you fail to comply, as is commonly used to coerce corporate persons. Putting someone in a cell for something when they're not a danger or flight risk is
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by gnode 8y ago
Mental illness doesn't comprehensively eliminate culpability. The mental illness would have to explain why the act wasn't murder. Such as: the defendant was unable to foresee the act would cause death; the defendant believed they
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by gnode 8y ago
> it could be that we're stuck on a very deep local minimum I think that's likely. Also, in cases where being able to be awake continually (e.g. high predation or flying over water) animals have evolved unihemispheric sleep, wh
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by gnode 8y ago
By essential, I don't mean that we depend on it, but that it is evolutionary unavoidable. It may be physically possible for a given process to be performed during wake, yet we are only able to perform it during sleep, because we had al
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by gnode 8y ago
In addition to higher energy requirements, anabolism can increase the probability of tumours. Additionally, metabolism creates mutagenic oxygen compounds. It may be that separating metabolic and anabolic states in time (wake and sleep) allo
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by gnode 8y ago
I think it's premature to assume that sleep is essential to any essential mechanism that occurs during it. It's similar to assuming that if a smartphone downloads and applies updates when it's charging and on WiFi, that exter
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by gnode 8y ago
> This rule would force major platforms like YouTube to filter every single upload to prevent copyright infringement. Is this not the de facto practise of YouTube today?
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by gnode 8y ago
I'm not sure this service qualifies. It's not browsable, so it's arguably more like a cloud storage service, which are explicitly exempt.
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by gnode 8y ago
You can set this with a config setting: media.autoplay.allow-muted false

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