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by hirundo 3y ago
Socrates then, by a series of ignorant-sounding questions, forced the others into such a mélange of self-contradictions that they would finally break down and admit they didn't know what they were talking about. It is the mark
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by hirundo 3y ago
They're required to spell out their moderation policy and provide details on how it's enforced, but the law does not appear to put constraints on the policy. So it would seem to be consistent with the law to have a policy like
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by hirundo 3y ago
Narcissists are more disagreeable, which correlates with thinking independently, which correlates with arriving at disfavored conclusions frequently categorized as conspiracy theories.
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by hirundo 3y ago
It says that this does for driving what Stable Diffusion does for images, ChatGPT for chat, AlphaZero for chess. And that they're finding it to be a profound improvement as in the other domains. From Walter Isaacson that evaluation mak
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by hirundo 3y ago
I found Phoenix in the summer to be uninhabitable for me even decades ago. The fact that ~2 million people live in that area, mostly without being forced to, gives me hope for the survivability of our species on a warming globe. Just not fo
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Worse was to follow. Two months after her trip into space, Félicette was put down so that scientists could study her body to determine if she had suffered any anatomical or physiological damage. They later concluded that they had learn
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by hirundo 3y ago
A window that I can open and close, right next to my desk chair. The blinds are a necessary part of that for screen work. It helps that the window opens on a peaceful back yard. This luxury, among the others of remote work, is worth enough
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Should we root for poverty?(econlib.org)
2 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I get that it's hard, but not why it's fundamentally harder than beating a grandmaster at chess.
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by hirundo 3y ago
That time will be gone like a flash, and we'll be reading about how we can't afford to let humans drive trucks any more since so much can go wrong on such roads with such oddly weighted freight.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'd make a long term bet on this. I think that it won't be very many years until auto-pilots are safer than any humans in any conditions, like chess software. Auto pilot senses and reaction times can be far better, and we're
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by hirundo 3y ago
> An executive at Alaska West Express, another local trucking company, told me in May that such truck drivers can make $150,000 to $170,000 a year, in addition to benefits. That's ~$200k/truck/year of incentive to replace
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by hirundo 3y ago
The respectfulness of Harold Beck's account adds to its credibility. He comes off as an admirer of Katherine Johnson, not someone who is jealous of her accomplishments. I'm not sure if this document counts as bravery on the part o
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by hirundo 3y ago
https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/lucid-dreamers-transmit-musi...
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Real-time transferring of music from lucid dreams into reality(psycnet.apa.org)
1 points by hirundo 3y ago|1 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
> I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supra-national organization would offer protect
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by hirundo 3y ago
In that sense a plant is as much a factory as an animal, and all foods are processed before they are harvested. If this is an argument that "processing" isn't really a useful concept, I'll disagree, because it's cle
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by hirundo 3y ago
This goal is opposite of the approach to reduce meat consumption with -- ultra-processed -- meat substitutes. In general there's a problem with meat being replaced with processed vegetarian options. It sure can't be assumed that p
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by hirundo 3y ago
Scraping?
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by hirundo 3y ago
> The launch of any AI detection tool is guaranteed to be the start of an arms race I wonder if that has ever delayed the start of an arms race. In this case it appears to be unwinnable, since the rival AI needs only regenerate the sourc
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by hirundo 3y ago
I actually know where I learned these odd words: Heinlein uses them both. I picked them because they sound more respectful than the alternatives and I'm in awe of Martin.
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by hirundo 3y ago
> ... if we were to extract the rotational energy just to supply 1% of the world's energy consumption, the rotation of the Earth would lock to the Moon in about 1000 years ... and most life on Earth could be wiped out. Important sa
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by hirundo 3y ago
As with George R.R. Martin, who is a kind of ecdysiast that I had mistaken for a hetaera. He seduced and aroused me and then failed to deliver what I thought I had bargained for, but had in fact not. Like the ecdysiast, he owes me nothing I
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by hirundo 3y ago
Tl;dr: To trick people into eating less meat, withhold the information about whether their meal options contain meat.
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by hirundo 3y ago
> And keep sane having some sort of structure (when to wake up, when to go to bed, when to eat) Without other people to coordinate with, the signals from the environment and your body are a more sound structure for these. The time of da
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by hirundo 3y ago
And the primary reason for the "reboot" is to mitigate "misinformation", which is "media's most urgent problem". Personally I think that the widespread assumption that they can reliably identify misinforma
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by hirundo 3y ago
On reparations my answer was "I support reparations to slaves from slave owners", which the quiz interpreted as socialist due to the support for reparations, without noting that the answer left out almost all reparations as curren
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by hirundo 3y ago
The Margaritaville stages of debugging: 1. It's nobody's fault 2. It could be my fault 3. It's my own damn fault https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6478121
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Cynicism refers to a negative appraisal of human nature—a belief that self-interest is the ultimate motive guiding human behavior. This is a poor starting point, since there are also neutral and positive appraisals of self-interest as
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by hirundo 3y ago
I want them to not have that data for the same reason.

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