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by jayGlow 3y ago
there are some pretty cool scifi books that look at how an aquatic species might develop technology. the "ringworld's children" involves a species that develops on a frozen world with an ocean beneath the ice.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
the dark forest requires a relatively simple cheap and effective way of sterilizing a stat system. if there is an easy way to do that then a first strike becomes a more reasonable first contract option.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
the speed of light mostly irrelevant at that distance, ping time from London to California is about 300 ms. wouldn't be great for gaming but i doubt it would cause issues with a robotic surgery.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
They're also pretty good at urban planning it turns out. nature is full of simple things with deceptively complex behaviors. https://phys.org/news/2022-01-virtual-slime-mold-subway-netw...
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by jayGlow 3y ago
you could just make spoofing it a felony like using any other emergency protocols are.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
love those books, a similar concept was explored in the book "terminal world" by Alistair Reynolds. it goes into a bit more detail about why certain technologies fail in different zones.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
there's definitely an inertia to the voting system, once someone gets up or down voted they're likely to keep going on the same direction. definitely seems like a major flaw in the voting system.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
the US Midwest has a ton of wind power, if you drive through there you have a decent chance of seeing a truck carrying a blade. pretty interesting stuff. obviously those are a lot smaller than this windmill though.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
Wealth was definitely created in some colonies, the wealthiest country in the world is made up of former colonies.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
there is also Turing complete which is pretty similar. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
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by jayGlow 3y ago
I think sapience would be a better word than sentience. But with regards to the process talking to the crew I think the book explicitly said that it didn't have any sort of comprehension of what it was saying. I belive the Chinese room
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by jayGlow 3y ago
gotta love how many conspiracy theories required an absolutely absurd amount of people to be in on it with no real tangible benefit.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
if your trainers aren't letting you touch weights for a year you need better trainers. form is important but perfect is the enemy of good enough. if you try and be absolutely perfect before progressing at all you'll never move an
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by jayGlow 3y ago
looks like it might be a similar technique, the rest of their body doesn't move at all only the head.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
it would change the methods we have to use. cutting carbon emissions wouldn't do anything substantial if it's not man made. in that case I think we'd need to use geoengineering to avoid it.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
those cells reproduce at some point, I imagine that if aging can be reversed new cell growth could also be stimulated.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
there was a short story about a computer being made out of a swarm of birds. http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2015/12/a-murmuration-by-alas...
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by jayGlow 3y ago
I've read a few scifi stories that involve talking with dolphins, the ringworld series includes them as does revelation space. although they're typically fairly small roles.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
the lemmy instance I've looked at is already a terrible echo chamber, as bad as some of the worst parts of reddit. I think defederation is going to lead into more insular communities unfortunately.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
normal people who are allowed to fail die doing stupid things all the time. people die climbing or skydiving or any other number of ways. the fact is people are just really bad at risk assessment.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
I think they meant trying to cross the ocean as opposed to one of the great lakes. crossing either ocean in a shoddy boat is much more dangerous than going across the Mediterranean.
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by jayGlow 3y ago
the site isn't free, the cost of using it is the ads.
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by jayGlow 5y ago
men's and women's gymnastics are practically different sports. they only share 2 events and those events have pretty different rules between men and women.
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by jayGlow 5y ago
multi turreted tanks fell out of favor early in world War 2. I wonder if there could be a resurgence as a counter to drones.