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by jessriedel 1y ago
> Cleanliness doesn't seem that related to how expensive the tech is either - if anything it would only go down if it ceased to affect willingness to pay. If a service is necessarily expensive, it will more by wealthy people, who ha
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by jessriedel 1y ago
Yea, but I strongly suspect the current Waymo price is much higher than their operating costs. I don't think we should infer to much from the price they are charging.
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by jessriedel 1y ago
> I used an Uber on the way here and the car was dirtier To be fair, the fact that Waymos are fancy clean Jaguars is kind of ancillary to the main technology. The tech is currently expensive, so they are targeting the luxury market, whi
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Thanks!
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I don't really get how the horizon effect is something that could be confused/conflated with the effect of dazzle camouflage. The horizon effect is described as a predictable bias in angle estimation, relative to the true angle,
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Survey of physicists about the threat of vacuum decay(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
8 points by jessriedel 2y ago|2 comments
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by jessriedel 2y ago
As another comment mentions, SPHEREx is passively cooled. But fwiw, plenty of infrared space telescopes use consumable coolant: > Notable infrared missions that carried consumable cryogen include IRAS (1983), ISO (1995–1998), Spitzer (20
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I mean this is a long conversation but the major differences are: (1) agencies are mostly incentivized to do other stuff and (2) it's hard to objectively assess helpfulness per se rather than sales .
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Tweaks like you describe are exactly what I think are doomed. The problem isn’t some small wording in the law that we just need to adjust. The problem is that (1) info request of complicated systems by their nature require good-faith coordi
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by jessriedel 2y ago
This sort of experience shows how broken the FOIA law is. If it’s in the public interest to make data available, it’s in the public interest to make it available to a person with imperfect understanding of the extreme details of government’
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Because the comments aren’t as toxic
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Note that the modern cosmic distance ladder has multiple partially independent paths using different techniques, making it more like a DAG. The wikipedia page has a nice diagram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_di
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I’m not saying the WSJ was the only place reporting on it, and indeed my link isn’t even an example. That’s an opinion piece.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
The test wasn't explicitly discriminatory, just the way that it was used. And the way that it was used is disputed. The facts are still being litigated. All the coverage is from opinion pieces or right-of-center newspapers. https:&#x
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by jessriedel 2y ago
> Page 44 of the PDF has a good overview of what this document is intended to be. Yes, but unfortunately it doesn't much explain what the contents are like. Would be great to get an laymen-readable summary of this from an LLM.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I’ve taken a few dozen Waymo rides, but it doesn’t matger because this is not something you can really test as a person. The entire issue is whether you have, say, 7 or 9 nines of reliability (e.g., 10x or 0.1x times more dangerous than a h
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Right but this is even more reason to not trash the technology.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
> Do you have a reference for that claim? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_from_blindness https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/people-c... As one might expect, when pe
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by jessriedel 2y ago
You could say the same sort of thing about Europe's Human Brain Project.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Yes but you can pick up an infection while immunocompromised that kills you even after you remove the graft and stop the immunosuppressant drugs, or before you have a chance to do so.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I explicitly brought up brain plasticity as not a convincing argument. People who are blind (even if just blindfolded) from birth and have their sight restored as adults are still functionally blind. They get a bit of light and color, but b
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by jessriedel 2y ago
The issues I am talking about are all TA2, so the breakdown doesn't help. It's just a completely different technology readiness level. Edit: Just looked at the video. There is ONE THIRD OF A SLIDE described for less than 90 second
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Can someone explain why this isn’t crazy? ARPA-H is new and supposed to be ambitious, but I assume they are still tethered to reality, so I must be misinderstanding. Physically transplanting the eye ball and having it survive and not be rej
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by jessriedel 2y ago
A re-fueled Starship will be able to deliver ~100 tons to the surface of Mars, to be compared with the heaviest existing rover that was slightly over 1 ton. Yes, it will take ~10 Starship flights to fully refuel one Mars-bound Starship, but
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Scott Manley has some good videos focusing on various engineering aspects of Apollo: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=apollo+scott+ma... You could do worse than just reading all the Wikipedia articles on all the
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by jessriedel 2y ago
That’s more than halfway through the post. The GP’s point that railing for pages about how X is good and Y is bad before defining them stands.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I understand that. I’m giving an example that is an instance of the sibling commenters’ claims that more transparently rebuts the idea that quantum codes cannot use redundancy because of no cloning.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Just an example to expand on what others are saying: in the N^2-qubit Shor code, the X information is recorded redundantly in N disjoint sets of N qubits each, and the Z information is recorded redundantly in a different partitioning of N d
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Is there an implied valuation? Or not enough details released?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
> Reading a transcript of the interview would probably be better I might be reading to much into the "a" (rather than "the"), but to be clear: there is a transcript at the bottom.

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