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by hazbot 2y ago
The solution to pollution is dilution. Dilution in time counts as well.
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by hazbot 2y ago
`What do you think is the root cause for this kind of thinking?` It's probably quite advantageous to have some individuals irrationally hedging against catastrophe--even though they are likely to be wrong, when one of them is very occa
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by hazbot 2y ago
Given that we can't yet predict our reality from the fundamental up, it seems like a failure of imagination to assert that you couldn't get some high-level-similar-to-our-cognition sentient beings under a separate set of coinciden
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by hazbot 2y ago
I'm willing to run with the 3% figure... But I take issue with the linearity assumption that torturing 34 shrimp is thus worse than torturing a human!
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by hazbot 2y ago
I learnt this way of thinking about units in my engineering degree, and it is indeed incredibly powerful and I regularly use it. But I would classify it as "algebra" instead of "arithmetic". Being fluent in manipulations
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by hazbot 2y ago
Is there some experiment you can do that shows some 'physical realityness' that the mathematical object can't describe? If not, then whose to say whether the mathematical object is 'real' or just a perfect descripti
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by hazbot 2y ago
On the other hand, better to do the weeding early than wait for it to get out of hand...
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by hazbot 2y ago
All else being equal, spaced out panels or no you would still want as much electricity as possible out of the panels!
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by hazbot 2y ago
>>> Maybe the only way to be good at reading is to just reading more? Perhaps at some point you plateau and need to practice "micro skills". e.g. there's a point with chess where you stop getting better playing more
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by hazbot 2y ago
Retraining as a math teacher here, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how kids learn stuff at the moment. At one point in the article it states that indeed the trio of semantic/syntactic/graphophonic cues are used by re
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by hazbot 2y ago
Maybe given the choice of claiming disability and not working vs experimenting with new ways of working, OP chose the latter. If so, would it be a case of letting yourself being exploited by the uncaring business? Or would it be a fair and
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by hazbot 2y ago
I find it insanely useful for moderately basic tasks I don't do often e.g. "write me a regex that will match XYZ", or basic latex formatting. Much more efficient than googling for docs!
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by hazbot 2y ago
>>> Artificial systems don't replace humans Artificial systems have yet to replace humans (possibly). Just because it's been true up to now, doesn't mean there isn't a phase transition on the horizon.
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by hazbot 2y ago
It would certainly radically reshape it. Maybe the end state is a utopia of human flourishing where no one has to do the shit jobs and we direct AI to create a paradise. Maybe the ends state is a cyberpunk dystopia where power and wealth co
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by hazbot 2y ago
Less lamentable than the health impacts (famine) of not centralizing and industrializing food production!
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by hazbot 2y ago
The soundtrack to my childhood. Baldur's Gate 2. "You must gather your party before venturing forth"
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by hazbot 2y ago
>>> I would build a startup instead of chasing job applications and begging for promotions. Higher expected value and more free time being an employee, but work on your passion and the possibility of a stellar outcome building a st
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by hazbot 2y ago
True. But the tricky thing is at what level of supermajority should companies be allowed to discriminate against you based on your choices with your body?
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by hazbot 2y ago
You could both be right, especially depending on where you live and work.
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by hazbot 2y ago
When I got my AstraZeneca vaccine (in 2021?) I remember it was common knowledge that fatal blood clots were a side effect, and from the evidence at the time I estimated that the chances of it killing me were 1 in 500,000. Have those odds ch
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by hazbot 2y ago
With doctors you can parallelize treating different patients pretty easily.
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by hazbot 3y ago
But it's also the beauty that a few people can create so much value. And how many of these projects couldn't be picked up and urgently patched if the proverbial bus does come along? Like it wouldn't be pretty, but would it be
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by hazbot 3y ago
I think from the outside, it doesn't matter whether the mass is uniformly distributed throughout the volume or concentrated at the centre - you would feel the same force of gravity. (I'd be interested to hear if there is an experi
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by hazbot 3y ago
>>> If we were to somehow come to believe that consciousness is just an illusion--no more than a biochemical phenomenon, and no more special than transistor switching. I believe this and yet I personally seek to inflict as little h
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by hazbot 3y ago
I don't think the point here is to make a math paper understandable to a lay person, but rather make it interesting and contextualize it for other academics.
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by hazbot 3y ago
Mass divided by volume encased by the event horizon?
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by hazbot 3y ago
Cool! If you end up wanting to expand beyond just the nearest weather station (forgive me if I've misunderstood your process), you could look into ERA5 - free Numerical Weather Prediction 'reanalysis' of past weather on a reg
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by hazbot 3y ago
This is probably because of either poor sensor coverage, or a stale (old) forecast. Many weather services do not issue 'nowcasts' that constantly update with the latest weather observations (it's a hard and interesting proble
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by hazbot 3y ago
Depends, the "optimal" forecast can be very sensitive to the scoring metrics used. E.g. Darwin in Australia's tropics - persistence forecasting (as you describe above, just predicting the weather the day before) does very wel
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by hazbot 3y ago
But sport is by definition set up so what is measured is the result we care about. We would perhaps not care so much about the "vicious cycle" if the incentives were aligned with "good" research. If cancer gets cured, at

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