jrussino

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by jrussino 1y ago
> Cold War era crowns scientists, engineers, policy wonks as aristocracy. Broadcasting elites as clergy legitimize the scientific consensus. > Aristocracy (from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ (aristokratíā) 'rule of the best'; f
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by jrussino 1y ago
Wow, thanks! I feel like this resource deserves its own HN discussion. Bookmarking this to explore later...
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by jrussino 1y ago
I just want a simple/quick/easy way to scan all of the books in my house and print spine labels like the ones they use in a library. Dewey decimal or Library of Congress or whatever. We just have too many books (mainly children&#x
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by jrussino 1y ago
> Maybe if I could stomach giving a llama bot access to email and calendar etc etc to have a real personal assistant it would be an attractive offering in a world that accepts being watched 24/7 by AI/billionaire overlords I sh
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by jrussino 1y ago
I find it neat that the simulation appears to "pulse" almost like a heartbeat, because so many of our activities are tied to the clock and state changes disproportionately occur on the hour or half-hour. It's especially notic
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by jrussino 1y ago
> 1.1. Homework set #0: Diagnostic > This is a special problem set: Its main purpose is to give you an idea of what is to come in this course, and to give me an idea of your level of familiarity with certain things (including proof wr
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by jrussino 2y ago
> The article says they compared it to human accident rates "on the same roads" but doesn't clarify their methodology for "same"ness. Reading your comment before the article, my first thought was that "on th
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by jrussino 2y ago
I wonder if you can decrease the impact of (2) with a policy of phased rollout for updates. I.E. you never update the whole fleet simultaneously; you update a small percentage first and confirm no significant anomalies are observed before d
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by jrussino 2y ago
> If you don't see how this can be useful, that's a failure of imagination on your part. I too can sometimes find it quite frustrating when a thing that seems like a good idea to me is rejected by other people, especially when
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by jrussino 2y ago
> A 20 tonne double-decker bus should sound like it might explode at any moment I hope you're using "should" as in "that's what I'm accustomed to" rather than "that's how it ought to be".
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by jrussino 2y ago
I love that you asked this, but I think it's not quite the right question. I've been wishing for years that someone would maintain a "dependency graph" for mathematical concepts. I think Khan Academy tried to do someth
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by jrussino 2y ago
To partly answer my own question - clearly there is work we can do that is net-positive. I can spend my time turning a crank to charge a battery, and sometime later get back a subset of the energy I put in. Or, I can spend that amount of ti
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by jrussino 2y ago
> We need to be able to convert labor to capital, hold it, then convert it back to gain benefits of someone else's labor later. That part seems fine to me. The thing that feels intuitively "wrong" is that it's possibl
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by jrussino 2y ago
Ah you're right! Thanks for the correction. Wish I could go back and edit but it's too late.
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by jrussino 2y ago
> It's their turn to sit in the factory for 12 hour a day, 5+ days a week and have AI assisted asses badgering them all day. I'm reminded of this famous Jefferson quote: "I must study politics and war that my sons may have
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by jrussino 2y ago
>The democrats are stuck in supporting the new deal bureaucracy and the post ww2 order > The new Republican party seems to be an alliance of people who just really want to cheer the crumbling of the old system I agree, and I think thi
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by jrussino 2y ago
> their personal goals are simply not aligned with the goals that would be helping the country. When people express worry over superhuman-AI alignment on forums like this, I find myself wishing they'd shift focus to the fact that we
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by jrussino 2y ago
> it is relevant that it can't be depleted, because that's what the term "tragedy of the commons" refers to I think you're using an overly-narrow definition of "tragedy of the commons" here. Often there
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by jrussino 2y ago
Thank you! I'm always looking for books in this specific sub-genre and have a hard time pinpointing exactly what it is. Something like "nonficiton history of a specific scientific or mathematical idea". Another example is &qu
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by jrussino 2y ago
I'll preface this by saying I've only watched season 1 of Severance so far. I have never heard anyone involved with the show suggest this, but I feel pretty strongly that it's based off or at least inspired by Greg Egan'
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by jrussino 2y ago
Indeed, the author of this very article agrees: >In children’s books, including my own, there are many orphans – largely because adults get in the way of adventure >I would never wish to do without the power of the orphan story, howev
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by jrussino 2y ago
> The way to win against Russia is not via sanctions but rather via destabilizing the regime through guerrilla propaganda. The Russians, the Chinese, and the Soviets before them have always known this. The West is just too slow to catch
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by jrussino 2y ago
FYI for the input "Graph a cartoid and explain it" I get a correct definition and some interesting facts/properties (in spite of the fact that I mis-remembered the name of the object I had in mind; it should have been "c
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by jrussino 2y ago
> Soft vs hard is based on how closely the world tracks with modern physics/science Maybe it's not productive to quibble about definitions like this, but FWIW I don't agree with this criteria. I would argue Greg Egan'
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by jrussino 2y ago
Every new generation reinvents slang. "Politically correct" became "woke". "Hip" became "cool" became "fire" or whatever the kids are saying these days.
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by jrussino 2y ago
I really like this program but yeah, the very first time someone told me about it my initial reaction was "Wait until 8??? That's way too young!"
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by jrussino 2y ago
> It simply doesn't work unless everyone does it. I've said this elsewhere in this thread, but it bears repeating: that's the whole point of this program. Parents are playing the prisoners' dilemma here. Many (most) f
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by jrussino 2y ago
> Today, a kid might be alienated without a phone. That's really the point of a program like this. A lot of parents think smartphones (mainly social media, really) are a net negative for their kids, but we have this tragedy of the c
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by jrussino 2y ago
> none felt they were missing out Exactly. It seems obvious to me that the vast majority of social media is junk and I'd prefer to keep my kids from getting drawn into it for as long as possible, and I think a ton of parents feel th
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by jrussino 2y ago
I have a slightly different version of this. There are some other replies here to the effect of "people like to have a purpose in life". But surely "helping people share files" or whatever the Dropbox "mission"

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