hollerith

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by hollerith 2mo ago
>you can easily improve acoustic performance of drywall in many ways. Double layering, acoustic sealing caulk, rockwall in walls, etc. There's a principle-agent problem here. It is hard for a home buyer to verify claims of the exist
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by hollerith 2mo ago
If drywall is better than lath and plaster, then why is lath and plaster still used today -- in high-end construction?
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by hollerith 2mo ago
Maybe this is part of some complicated plan to increase his net worth or maybe he's worried that the AI juggernaut will get him killed (along with everyone else) if it keeps going the way it has been. I know I'm worried.
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by hollerith 2mo ago
The person you're quoting is a lawyer.
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by hollerith 2mo ago
For admirers of the Enlightenment, it's more than just a convenient technicality to want to avoid including in the Enlightenment a period a political chaos during which about a million people were arrested and about 30-50,000 were kil
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by hollerith 2mo ago
Today I learned that some historians include the French Revolution in the Enlightenment. Here is the intro to the Wikipedia article: >European historians traditionally dated its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France in 1715 and
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by hollerith 2mo ago
AI hasn't "toppled" (or found any mistakes in) any theorems, at least not any enjoying any consensus among mathematicians.
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by hollerith 2mo ago
I'm not so worried about this part as I am the part where a lab loses control of an AI, and it goes on to pursue whatever meaningless objectives (meaningless to us , that is) its designers accidentally gave it, and no one can stop it
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by hollerith 3mo ago
I don't see any mention of shareholder value or financial performance upstream (unless we count your latest comment). I do see, "their managers are not capable of leading innovation," and, "I don't see a reason to b
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Apple tried to create a new OS and failed (during Jobs's absence from Apple), bought NeXT, then used NeXT's work as the basis for the very successful OS X. And despite this, in your mind NeXT is a failure?
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Most working-class and many middle-class American women made their own clothes until the 1960s. It was too expensive to buy ready-made clothes. A company named Simplicity prospered by selling patterns: the woman would tell the company what
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by hollerith 3mo ago
There was certainly a vast gold rush around the internet with massive attention from almost everybody in journalism or in business and almost every retail investor -- at least in the US (where I was) -- but it differed from the AI hype in
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Sounds like the government (which owned the entire system during Beeching) should have kept at least a right-of-way (if they have that concept in the UK) instead of selling everything.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
>appears to actually make people more susceptible to nonsense I think it is more that teenagers and very young adults and people high in the trait of "openness to new experiences" are more susceptible to nonsense and more att
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by hollerith 3mo ago
That addresses the extinction risk caused by climate change, but not the extinction risk caused by an AI's turning out vastly more capable than expected, then the lab's losing control over it.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Is that really true? It's not super high status, for sure, but many police departments in the US require every officer to have a bachelors degree. And the pay is higher than average.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Interesting. Can it run a mainstream browser?
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Can you show us a proof of correctness you've written?
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by hollerith 3mo ago
>That's the model they mean You have incorrectly summarized the position of Rayiner and me. Let us oversimplify and assume all spending by individuals is either consumption or investment. Rayiner and I advocated for taxing consumpti
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by hollerith 3mo ago
>spends zero words to explain how a progressive consumption tax might possibly be implemented. The implementation could consist of a tax on personal income, but any re-investment of that income is deductible, plus a tax on luxury items a
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by hollerith 3mo ago
"Asian people have pretty much not done that except for two teeny tiny indiscretions that each killed more civilians than all of Europe's and America's colonial incursions combined."
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by hollerith 3mo ago
A lot of us rely on Linux containers ' being escape-proof? I would have hoped that only a few of us are so misinformed as to do that.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
China is currently occupying Tibet, which never consented to the occupation and has invaded Vietnam 30 times. It ruled Vietnam for about 2 centuries starting about 600. China eventually had to leave Vietnam, but many other groups ceased to
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by hollerith 3mo ago
In the US, the state government has absolute power over the municipal and county governments in its borders, which is a very simple legal structure. For example, the NY state legislature can override any law made by the NY city government a
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Maybe, but I wish people in these conversations would sometimes point out that China is also dependent on imports to continue to make the stuff it makes. China is a heavy importer of petroleum, food and fertilizer. A modern economy needs pe
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Why? Is human extinction not permitted by the laws of physics?
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by hollerith 3mo ago
It makes no economic sense for AOL to stay in a steady state after having been thoroughly disrupted by newer products.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Yes, there are examples of where we have collective decided not to pursue a particular technology tree. For one, Japan banned guns for a few centuries. (Its warrior class was politically powerful and judged that guns would disrupt class rel
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by hollerith 3mo ago
I wasn't making a value judgement. I was just curious.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
CEO of Mercedes was born in Sweden to Swedish parents; has blue eyes. CEO of Adidas has a Norwegian father and grew up in Norway; has pale skin, reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes. CEO of Bayer was born and raised in the US. Last name is &qu

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