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> If I want to intentionally participate in the economy by dragging a carriage with people in it around in exchange for money, no one is going to employ me because my services are obviously inferior to those that a car can provide. So h
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> DALLE allows any schmuck with zero artistic talent to generate their own art. It obviates the need for artists. The same way Wordpress obviates the need for web devs. > DALLE is to artists what self-driving cars are to truckers. Alw
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> I expect little to no digital art (images, videos, films, music, writing) will be sold for profit by human artists 10 years from now, and the only reason I haven't extended that to physical media like sculpture or street art is th
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The earth is round, until it isn't?
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> Contrast this with if I had alpha-gal syndrome and someone me offered me a steak. In that case, I could truthfully say "I can't eat that". If the person said: "eat this steak and I'll give you a billion dollars
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Where is lobbying illegal?
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If you only had one programming language, this problem would turn into an issue of too many frameworks. The problem isn't that there are too many programming languages; the issue is that there are many ways to structure code around a p
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> 90% of my old college teachers (engineering) could talk about and explain in depth many many topics out of their field (philosophy, history, geography and what not). How do you know they could explain it in depth? I've heard a lot
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The issue with this kind of meta analysis is that, as the author, you get to decide what the groupings are. No two studies will be identical, so you can invent bucketing strategies until you find that some buckets have the results you want
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By this same logic, fraud shouldn't be a crime. People will always find a way to profit by misleading people, and the most careful ones will reap the rewards and get away with it.
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Is this your definition of consciousness? > What I mean by "soul" or "consciousness" is the common usage of the term. Essentially, this person would be claiming that he can move a participant's essence or frame
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Are you claiming that it's not possible to define consciousness?
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It's undefined terms all the way down. "Soul", "consciousness", "essence", "frame of view", "personality", "memories" are all undefined terms. The question you really want una
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> But in the US the history of unions often ended up with ties to organized crime. Organized crime takes root in groups that don't benefit from government protection. Do you think that unions would've turned to organized crime
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Your question isn't answerable in its current state due to some undefined terms. Can you describe what you mean by "soul"/"consciousness"?
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No, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32109419
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I suspect that your experience comes from working at EA in a leadership capacity, whereas the toxicity complaints come from the front-line workers (IE, SWE, QA).
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This return policy is true regardless of whether it has DRM or whether you knew. You can return any Steam game, for any reason, provided you've played it fewer than two hours and purchased it within the last two weeks.
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The market isn't pricing whether Elon will improve Twitter. The market is pricing in the fact that if the acquisition goes through, each stock you hold gets converted into 52.40$, regardless of what happens to Twitter after it's a
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> Ownership remains decentralized because the recovery address cannot make a transfer that the custody address does not approve. This isn't true though? If I go out camping for a week and the recovery address transfers my identity,
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A focus on contrarian writers with unsubstantiated opinions. And a personal subscription model.
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Again, what settlement would Russia accept and leave Ukraine safe from further Russian invasion? Because the only one on the table simply has Ukraine remove its ability to defend itself, and create a Russian client state that Russia will co
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> 2. we believed our leaders would have the sense to settle with Russia instead of destroying our country. What settlement could Ukraine have with Russia that wouldn't be the end of Ukraine? Russia is demanding that Ukraine allow pa
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You're assuming your conclusion in your premise. The question is "should monkeys be available for research?" You state that "we should use the best models available", therefore we should use monkeys for research. Bu
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> trials are not about who's willing to partecipate, but about the best model available. Wait, then why aren't we using humans? Humans are the best model available for human biology, no?
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> principles of all men being created equal, along with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Unless you're black. Or female. Or Asian. etc. Why does this founding myth persist?
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> Russia demanded payment on their terms only after they were kicked out of SWIFT and their reserves frozen by foreign banks. If only there was something Russia could do to stay in SWIFT and not be hit by sanctions....
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They took the black character off of the main movie poster, and created a separate poster just for him?
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> Risky? Yes, substantially. Then why not park the money in existing financial instruments which have a larger risk profile than savings accounts? CCC bonds offer >14.7% yearly returns. Argentina's 10 year bonds have ~50% yearly
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> Early last year I was getting 2% per month on USDC/DAI and about 1% per month on USDC/EURS. Even today one can get a lot more than you'd get on a savings account. Ask yourself how risky this investment is, and why existi

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