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by joegibbs 2y ago
The problem with the Boltzmann brain, and the reason you’re almost certainly not one, is that if you are one then your senses have no relation to reality - including the part of reality where you read about the Boltzmann brain concept, or a
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Why? They're both acts of violence that people gloated over. He's not saying "killing this guy is just as bad as lynching innocent black people". He's saying America likes killing, whether it's someone you thin
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"Read the room" is my absolute least favourite though terminating cliche. It's just "agree with me because everyone else does". You may as well say that it's "yikes" or "gives you the ick".
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We had thousands of years where power was derived from ruling over territories and owning land, until they were surpassed by the factory-owning bourgeoisie of the 19th century, who could produce more commodities more efficiently without nee
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by joegibbs 2y ago
But how much of the price of gold is its intrinsic worth? A fake gold ring made of some alloy can look and feel almost exactly the same as a real one, but as soon as you find out that it isn't real gold it suddenly loses 99% of its val
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Seems like an overly high estimate to me, considering the Saudis say the entire project will create a total of 460,000 jobs over its lifetime and there are currently 140k working on it - so a 10% fatality rate? The Burj Khalifa only reporte
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by joegibbs 2y ago
If you get credits for Azure they're accessed through microsoftazuresponsorships.com. Why not sponsorships.azure.microsoft.com or something like that? I checked it three times when I got the link, because it's exactly the kind of
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by joegibbs 2y ago
I use AI a lot, I work in AI, I find it very helpful and it speeds up my work a lot. But I’ve never found it useful for drafting messages. The AI only knows what you’ve provided as context, and a lot of your own context is only in your head
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No way, I don’t believe it. That’s $3.16b yearly - Netflix makes $33b. With no IP holders to pay out to, that would mean they’re making massive profits - they would have to be a household name, and I don’t know anyone who could name many se
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I think this is a kind of falling knife-type thing: the makeup of Twitter was far more liberal than conservative a few years ago and it's currently about equal, but in two more years I predict that the trend will continue and it will b
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Chrome 131, I get the UI options down the bottom but otherwise a black screen. I'll have to check it out on my PC later.
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I just get a black screen on M1 Macbook Pro, what are the minimum requirements?
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The whole idea of morality is totally arbitrary and only exists because we say it does. If you were an Aztec then sacrificing people to Huitzilopochtli was actually moral, and if you were alive two thousand years ago nobody would have batte
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by joegibbs 2y ago
Google "conoid" and you'll get a bunch of pictures of shapes that are curved in different ways. I assume the captcha was talking about things that have a similar shape to a cone, but I don't think you'd get much of
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New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm(techcrunch.com)
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They are Googling but I very much doubt they're doing any more than that. In 2016 we heard a lot of the same "moving to Canada/UK/Europe/Australia" but statistically speaking there was no change. Here in Austra
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by joegibbs 2y ago
There are a few definitions for an elite - most of these people aren't elite in terms of money by comparison to the owner of a car dealership, but if your definition is in terms of societal influence or how powerful their ideas are, th
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by joegibbs 2y ago
This will be an absolute nothing, like moving to Canada. Lots of Americans said they'd do it in 2016, how many did? Probably less than 1% of those who said they would. It's a good, sensational story for the media - sex sells - but
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by joegibbs 2y ago
I’m sure there are a thousand ways that the US could become a dictatorship by technically legal means. I’m not sure why Gödel was so concerned about this one method. After all, all governments are made of people and accountable to people -
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I don't see how indoor farming could be competitive with traditional farming for any kind of non-specialty, high value crop. You're competing with: - Free energy from the sun - Free water from the sky - Basically free land in comp
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by joegibbs 2y ago
Agreed. Australian school years are January-December but you're still 13 or 14 in Year 8.
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The most zeroes at the start is 14, and there's only one commit with that many zeroes, which is https://github.com/seungwonpark/ghudegy-chain/commit/0000000... .
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It's one of those things that's technically true based on using statistics selectively. If you count all their investments, given that the top 1% control 43% of all wealth, they produce a large percentage of global emissions (bu
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Ask them not to use Windows I suppose. But once you’ve sent anything to anyone you never know what they’re doing with it anyway. They could be forwarding your messages, the messages could be stored on Google’s servers, they could screenshot
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If people don't want to have children, maybe it's better to focus on solving aging instead. With an immortal population you don't need to worry about elderly people being unable to work, and you only need enough children to r
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Good. That has to be one of the most frivolous and overreaching cases that I've ever seen. What was he thinking?
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You can't expect everyone to be perfectly ideologically pure on every topic. I'm not a fan of Peterson and honestly, I think that after the whole benzo addiction and coma I think he's kind of lost it, he's always putting
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by joegibbs 2y ago
It's an interesting coincidence that Armorica sounds like America but I don't think it's very indicative of anything more than that - there are probably a lot of places that sound like "America". There is a Georgia
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Wow that's amazing, you really can't tell. What is it that gives most AI images that not-quite-real look? Is it due to airbrushed images in the training data, including cartoons, 3D renders and illustrations or all of that?
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PE are vultures: vultures feed on dead animals, not healthy ones. You don't sell off a successful, thriving business to be gutted and restructured because you're going to make much more money keeping it going the same way. "P

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