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by gojomo 2y ago
Unironically, "blockchain fixes this". Decentralized prediction/betting markets, on public consensus ledgers (blockchains), can't exclude the best bettors. And, match bettors and clear markets with far less overhead&#x2F
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by gojomo 2y ago
Gwern notes Calhoun hardly piblished anything formal (much less peer-reviewed) about his research - mostly interpretation-heavy summaries of what he wanted to emphasize. Not enough detail rigorously 'replicate'! But Gwern does men
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by gojomo 2y ago
Gwern's done a deep dive into some of Calhoun's work & how it's popularly interpreted – the abstract: > Did John Calhoun’s 1960s Mouse Utopia really show that animal (and human) populations will expand to arbitrary de
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by gojomo 2y ago
I don't think you're properly modeling a truly ambitious person whose basic needs are already fully-met for life. Anne Wojicki is already sufficiently wealthy – net worth $150m+? – that maybe what really interests her is playing h
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by gojomo 2y ago
Yes, but I believe the post to which I was replying used "the initial attack" that Israel "failed to see coming" to refer to Hamas' October 7th attack. Hence my reference to Hamas' likely chaffing of Israel&#
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by gojomo 2y ago
It looks like a trigger that can only be pulled once. Thus, choice of the optimal time could be influenced by a lot of things: - knowledge of other Hezbollah imminent action making comms disruption right now of great importance - recognit
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by gojomo 2y ago
And you thought "Key Escrow" or "Chat Control" was bad! Future maximum-security states may just require every mobile phone to have an explosive charge pre-installed, with the detonation-codes only available to the auth
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by gojomo 2y ago
Not really: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-h... They just didn't realize how real this particular plan was. It's quite likely Hamas is regularly bluffing simila
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by gojomo 2y ago
This histrionic concern trolling about "mortally…damaged" is nutty, given that IA already settled the damages portion with the plaintiffs over a year ago for what seems to be some symbolic amount: https://news.ycombin
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by gojomo 2y ago
What is this "very sensible middle ground" you think existed as an early-exit option that also served the IA's goals?
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by gojomo 2y ago
This is an absurdly strained & non-factual summary of the history. >one man's seemingly fanatical conviction against the law Reviewing the large number of amicus briefs on the Archive's side, from the get-go through appea
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by gojomo 2y ago
Well he didn't win a Nobel Prize in Python best practices, that's for sure.
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by gojomo 2y ago
You may be able to find a local community college course that offers free/cheap observation or participation in human cadaver dissection. This 2022 LessWrong post mentions a $60 5-hour option at the Sf Bay Area's Merritt College (
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by gojomo 2y ago
Some of Signal's designs for contact privacy, including in the new usernames feature, rely on trust in SGX. If anyone (including Signal) can pretend to be a secure SGX environment, you're back to trusting Signal's personnel&#
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by gojomo 2y ago
Crypto solves this. Well, eventually, after initially making it worse, because all your crypto-adjacent transactions in the meantime make legacy banks extra-hair-trigger suspicious.
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by gojomo 2y ago
Ultimately it will likely be easier to simulate eye-contact with live restyling – that is, synthesizing the view from a virtual 'camera' using one or more other cameras nearby – than physically hide a true camera inside a monitor.
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by gojomo 2y ago
Even if up for 8 months – and returning to a US with a different President, perhaps even a different party-of-the-President, they'll not match the experience of Sergei Krikalev – who traveled to the space station Mir for the USSR, &amp
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by gojomo 2y ago
Hey now! It got two astronauts into orbit just fine. They just haven't yet figured out how to safely bring them back.
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by gojomo 2y ago
That'd be a good plan, if you could count on the loot flowing fairly & proportionately to any commoner who buys shares on the public markets. But in a rentier racket this big, that doesn't happen. Large amounts go to managem
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by gojomo 2y ago
Ultimately drones may enable purely-mechanical pesticide-free removal of each individual insect/weed.
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by gojomo 2y ago
So: this would be an ideal passage to read to help a voice cloning system get a full sample of an English speaker's accent/tone?
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by gojomo 2y ago
Yes, because money is fungible, and Wells-Fargo (& its "systemically-important" peers) receives via its privileged positions a de facto non-stop rolling bailout in addition to any occasional "crisis" larger headlinge
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by gojomo 2y ago
I see the top comment in your top link makes the same recommendation I made in another comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720789 ). If it works, you should definitely solve the problem for yourself even bef
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by gojomo 2y ago
Sounds like they're under active attack due to some poor initial practices & having a hard time getting in front of it. I suggest changing your email with booking.com to something the attackers wouldn't know. Using the Gmail o
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by gojomo 2y ago
As one of the "systemically important" (too-big-to-fail) banks, Wells-Fargo can make many bets that, when they lose, will ultimately be covered by taxpayers in the next round of bailouts, but if they win, will reward insiders &amp
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by gojomo 2y ago
For those people who don't "make mistakes", the card issuers are still earning: • part of the 2-3% added to every charge • fees from promotional marketing, guided by the info in your purchase history, to those customers • f
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by gojomo 2y ago
Notable that this paper doesn't seem to make the "only byproduct is water" and "negative carbon emissions" claims of the Newsweek treatment.
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by gojomo 2y ago
Agreed that's the likely explanation. My objection is that the article elides this, and is false on its facial claim that "its only byproduct is water".
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by gojomo 2y ago
Probably true, which is another knock against the article's professionalism. But even if the capture negligible, the negative-sign is still interesting - it's teased in the headline! And when a headline teases something, it owes u
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by gojomo 2y ago
This writeup neither answers the essential question "where does the carbon wind up?", nor does it link to any more-clear original source or paper about the described research that could answer that question. That leaves it so inco

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