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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Blue = clouds. It's far too early for this to be reliable, but I'm bookmarking this to watch it as it approaches.
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
The article says they found 18 at 3 different sites, in a region of Congo that had been dangerous for the public to visit but had recently become safer. That does not prove a healthy population but it seems a step up from “last survivor”
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Work may have not decreased, but due to productivity an hour of work buys WAY more than it did 100 years ago. Our shelter is larger, climate-controlled, with plumbing and electricity. Our food has way more variety, quality, and year-round a
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
I actually don’t think that’s too relevant of a question. If there’s a high amount of suffering and cruelty, along with a mental philosophy that allows for happiness in spite of that (for the survivors), that still doesn’t make the sufferin
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Ok, but what’s the child mortality rate? Maternal mortality rate? Average life span? Rate of death from infected wounds? Random diseases caused by inbreeding? We may not have direct data on many basic quality of life indicators but we can m
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Think more broadly than that single example. Perhaps humans will always be interested in economic activity that involves interacting with other humans, regardless of what the robots can do.
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
> It’s not impossible to imagine that that set might shrink to being pretty much empty within the next ten years. No but it’s also not impossible to imagine the opposite. AI beat humans at chess decades ago but there are more humans gene
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Most of those jobs only existed for about two generations of human history. Who knows what future jobs will exist.
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
That’s fair, and I wouldn’t really disagree if it was one of the only ones. But we already have a black and white warbler, blackpoll warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, magnolia warbler, Canada warbler, Nashville warbler
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Nothing wrong with nostalgia for those who have it. Although as someone who is new to learning all the birds, it will certainly help to have more of the names actually reflect something practical about the bird that helps with remembering
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
The correct question is not this, but the counterfactual: "How many more civilians around the world would have been killed without this country's influence?"
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
> humans have a large but finite number of ways to be of service to each other. I’m not so sure this is finite. My entire career is a service job that didn’t exist two generations ago.
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
There are stats for that too. What do they show?
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Yep. AI passed us in chess decades ago, and today there are more people making money playing chess than there were back then.
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
They mean “GISS” - General Impression, Size, and Shape. Allegedly orginated as an acronym in WWII for identifying planes but caught on in the birding world.
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Where are you located? It doesn’t support everywhere on the globe yet. If you’re in a supported area I would suggest just trying it some more. I use it almost daily in the US; I don’t usually save recordings I just tap Sound ID and then can
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Am I the only one who does not immediately see a quality difference between the two photos in the embedded tweet?
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
See the book Metaphors We Live By for more on this. (It's a little heady and the authors lost me with some of their deeper claims in the second half of the book, but the first few chapters were fascinating)
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
I read this for the first time last year and it far exceeded my expectations. Some tips for reading - use something with footnotes to explain the copious literary references to earlier works - but also don’t get hung up on the references, t
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
> It only becomes better when you know the backstory of the author and the context in which it was written Fully agree, but I do think it’s reductionist to think that he > cast satan as a personable anti hero C S Lewis has a pretty sc
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Maybe not. Deforestation rates peaked in the 80’s https://ourworldindata.org/global-deforestation-peak
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
Genome sequencing of ancient human bones has revealed a ton of interesting evidence about ancient human migration patterns! See the book Who We Are and How We Got Here
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
The article claims that but I can't tell what evidence they have for that claim. One of their linked pdfs[0] is long but as far as I can tell involves working class insured folks, and the chart on p31 shows Drug Overdoses as the large
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
How much higher are drug overdoses in 2023 compared to 2019?
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
The takeaway I got from this post was you only see positive effects in countries where lots of people had stomach worms and the ivermectin was probably actually just helping with that: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/i
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
> They could have done the analysis and sent you a printed sheet. Could they tho? The ancestry analysis itself is based on the data of other users in other parts of the world?
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
In fact, 100% of B2B companies have 100% of their revenue coming from other companies!
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
> Why wouldn't they? Maybe they value our consciousness Maybe they need us to carry out physical tasks Maybe they’re smart enough to stop us from being so destructive without killing us Maybe they find us entertaining If you’re not
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
I can follow what you are saying because of what I learned in the book Immune by Philipp Dettmer, which I highly recommend for a popular-level introduction to the complexities of the immune system. The whole bit about the "presentation
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by joshuahedlund 3y ago
I probably saw this too late to get a reply but: Yes, I understand that part. I don’t understand how that connects to the underlying data. Where did the x and y coordinates for each point come from? Where did the territory value of each poi

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