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by jablongo 5y ago
This article states that humans were likely pushed to near extinction by Neanderthals, with one figure being the at one point we were reduced to 50 individuals (??!!). How is this possible considering no Neanderthals ever lived in Africa?
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by jablongo 5y ago
This program (FRIPON) https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/12/aa38649-... was cited here https://www.3af.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=3695&fg=1 as a cand
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by jablongo 5y ago
Can you link to the thorough debunkings you are talking about?
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by jablongo 5y ago
Wow that's quite a coincidence. Seems like they got a late start if that really what's about to go down... https://www.justice.gov/archives/open/declassification/decla... https://en.wikip
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by jablongo 5y ago
There are probably some officials with this outlook, but you have to admit it is very sudden change in strategy after years of vehemently denying everything, and it in no way explains the footage or accounts which are the actual topics of i
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by jablongo 5y ago
If you assume (without much evidence) that these are Von Neumann probes I think it's likely that there would be multiple types from different sources.
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by jablongo 5y ago
I think one proposal is to have advanced wide-field cameras placed in "locations of interest". This would be much like an optical observatory and would generate petabytes of data.
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by jablongo 5y ago
It's also wrong to characterize is as fear mongering, since most people who are seriously pushing disclosure for this stuff are more likely driven by curiosity and accountability than fear. Ironically, Mick West, one of the most well k
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by jablongo 5y ago
While I agree w/ you that the Military Industrial Complex as an entity will do almost anything to justify increasing funding, I think this is a cynical take on this particular issue and is attempting to explain something we don't
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by jablongo 5y ago
The RF emissions acknowledged here are something I'd never heard of before. Stating the obvious; even though this report is completely vague on that front (and all others), the fact that this was mentioned means that there was likely
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by jablongo 6y ago
Stupid question : Why not spend $100 Bn instead on fundamental fusion reactor research and put some testing facilities in rural Wyoming? I’m sure many could disagree w/ this on similar grounds (“why not spend on healthcare”), but the u
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by jablongo 6y ago
Your last point is a good one, but there are a many ways that you could be wrong. To name one: The Von Neumann probe is a compelling model and it is more likely that we would see something fitting that description rather than the original
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by jablongo 6y ago
The attack vector for voter fraud is obvious but not really scalable. Ballot fraud is a bit more scalable because you could request absentee ballots on other people’s behalf - signatures aren’t a huge deal b/c even w/ a 50% succes
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by jablongo 6y ago
It actually is sort of by design. There is no federal administration of elections, that falls to states and counties. It then follows from this that the voter rolls would be fragmented and difficult to consolidate when people move and/
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by jablongo 6y ago
Are simulated experiences not experiences? What if they are indistinguishable from the real thing? Also see my response below - the claim is not that this guy locked in a room will surely be well adjusted and normal, just that it’s possible
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by jablongo 6y ago
Even if I agree that he would “probably” go crazy, I just need more than 0 of my millions of AGI candidates to successfully navigate the perils of their relative sensory deprivation in order to have achieved AGI.
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by jablongo 6y ago
Given the epic title I was pretty unimpressed by this line of thinking. The argument seems to rely on (among other things) certain presumed implications of “Computers not inhabiting the world” - a comical line of reasoning that cites a lac
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by jablongo 6y ago
Yes this is true: federalism being applied to control of elections is probably good for election security. But there’s only a small handful of vendors and if an attacker was able to crack one of them they might be able scale the attack to m
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by jablongo 6y ago
Yea one day I’ll have to write something up with a bunch of data from Apple health. There’s all sorts of interesting gotchas w/ computerized blood sugar regulation. Loop/rileylink, now supported by tidepool, are huge achievement
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by jablongo 6y ago
I had spent a bunch of time trying to do the exact same thing with self powered esp8266s (one rgb led per device), but never finished. This captures the essence of the coolest part which “learns” how to use randomly placed pixels as a displ
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by jablongo 6y ago
Apple Watch - Allows me to view my blood glucose at any time. Dexcom CGM - This is the best way to constantly measure your blood glucose, though it is a bit expensive. Rileylink - This is an open source hardware device which intercepts BL