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by hirundo 4y ago
How is that a counterargument to Drexlerism? The fact that it already exists would seem to make it more likely that human engineering will leverage it.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The same tool can also be used to evolve an image by generating variations and selecting a few to reproduce. You could breed and cross the results at will. You could use multiple preference models for the fitness test and evolve them afk. A
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by hirundo 4y ago
Their titles. Plus the training data, which would have many copies and variations of each painting.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I wouldn't want to enter a weight-lifting contest against a forklift. But I think that issue here is subsidiary. The real one is that the contest reveals that we are witnessing the invention of a forklift. It is making the stevedores u
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by hirundo 4y ago
Don't listen to people who succeed at what you're trying to do because they're outliers? So listen to failures and wannabes instead? Or ignore advice period?
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by hirundo 4y ago
You are having a really bad time finding new work. Your attitude is clearly in a low, nasty place. These things are related. Fix one and it'll likely fix both. The stoic thing helps me with the attitude. I stop assuming that I am owed
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by hirundo 4y ago
I don't find the surface explanation hard to accept. Amazon expanded aggressively during the pandemic to meet huge demand. Post-pandemic demand has contracted significantly and they are responding to that. It would require an explanati
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by hirundo 4y ago
First, get the priorities straight: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wwpzhh/whe...
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by hirundo 4y ago
Julian Simon learned a different set of lessons. https://financialpost.com/opinion/no-limits-to-growth https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/edb-29-up...
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The internet is an interstate "thing" where we can't even 100% say who is where so this kind of regulation absolutely violates federalist principles. California regulation has affected people outside of the state since l
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by hirundo 4y ago
> It's a violation of the principles of federalism and should be smacked down I see your point, but smacking down a state for having different principles is a violation of the principles of federalism. If federalism means anything,
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by hirundo 4y ago
We've just scratched the surface of the implications. I just read another story on HN about the difficulty Twitter has in identifying child sexual exploitation images, and how they have so far passed on a multi-billion dollar business
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by hirundo 4y ago
Maybe with sufficient intelligence we can solve it with geo-engineering, which has its risks but is generally more tractable than the social engineering that conventional solutions rely on.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> As a user I have given up on providing this info. Any time I start a support conversation with a detailed analysis of what’s breaking, what I’ve tried, and even which resources I looked up … I love tickets like that, they are so rare a
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Are you sure this isn't just an assumption you're making based on your "ideological environment"? How do you know? Have you done the research? I feel that I have direct relevent expertise ... having wrestled many bo
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by hirundo 4y ago
I would be much more supportive if the biological differences were included along with the weight class, such that a lighter person with testosterone muscles and bones fights a heavier person with estrogen muscles and bones. That is, where
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by hirundo 4y ago
> It's one of the most extreme forms of contact sports, but it's sanctioned. Injuries are commonplace, not something trans people exclusively inflict. For a competitor who has grown up with the (extreme in the case of contact s
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by hirundo 4y ago
This of course would lead to an instant red queen's race with face simulators. Given the quality of output we're seeing from Stable Diffusion, et al., it is not at all clear that the face scanners would have an advantage, or even
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by hirundo 4y ago
Rural residential multi-acre lot, plenty of room for hutches, not clear if it's big enough for a rooster and me to co-exist. In the vicinity of 640ft^2 covered space, 2000ft^2 total. Yes, stainless steel sink and counter in the garage.
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by hirundo 4y ago
So theoretically a medical sniffer could map the detailed microbiome of the body's toroidal surface and make useful bacterial gardening recommendations. Some eradication in the sweat glands, supplements for behind the ears and a transp
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm investing in backyard meat production, rabbit hutches, chicken coop, greenhouse for growing fodder, etc. I'll swap securities for this. For a fraction of my savings and a bunch of actual work we can make most of our calories i
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by hirundo 4y ago
"The increase in mortality that has been attributed to higher BMI is more likely due to hyperinsulinemia and inflammation rather than obesity." That's encouraging because I've been able to fix the hyperinsulinemia and in
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by hirundo 4y ago
"john wayne as captain america" is spot on. It has so many images of both to work with.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Say what you want about the dreams people have of what quantum computing might do in the future, it doesn't do anything useful (other than generate hype) today. Like the Newcomen engine circa 1711. Then it revolutionized mining an
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by hirundo 4y ago
HTTP 451 is not quite right for these non-results. But having no-go zones within an AI's domain seems destined to be a long-term problem, so maybe a status is indicated. Something like HTTP 9000 - Query outside the area of competen
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by hirundo 4y ago
So he "stores" his envelopes over at the news stand in order to have the experience of going to and buying and returning with the envelope. As a teller of human tales, this isn't yak shaving, it's more like reading rando
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by hirundo 4y ago
I can't read the fine article. I've read from economists that the key essay to answer this is "What is Seen and What is Not Seen" by Frederic Bastiat (1840). That introduces the parable of the broken window. Its argument
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by hirundo 4y ago
But sometimes the little details make a big difference, and it's hard to know in advance which ones those are. Like for years I ate boiled brussle sprouts, rarely, grudgingly, because they're good for me. Then a friend properly ro
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by hirundo 4y ago
> I'm sat here with pretty much every headset made in the last 7 years, so I'm probably not a neutral person to ask. Got a favorite? Which headset gives the best overall experience?
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by hirundo 4y ago
It's the opposite of a garden, it's a rural lot next to several million acres of wilderness forest. Everything growing here is a volunteer, there is no lawn, I've planted nothing. And there's plenty of wind constantly br

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