kingofmen

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by kingofmen 8mo ago
This is not my experience at all. I have never received an informal email like this from a manager; even chat threads at my job are generally correctly spelled, grammatical, and fully professional. Maybe I'm not talking to sufficiently
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by kingofmen 8mo ago
For some given task, perhaps; but the AI only consumes power while actively working. The human has to run 24/7 and also expends energy on useless organs like kidneys, gonads, hopes, and dreams.
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by kingofmen 8mo ago
Forms of retirement that don't have the force of law can be adjusted on the fly to match the available resources. When the government forcibly requires that each elderly person be paid a fixed amount of resources yearly, it's poss
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
Of course talent+effort are better than either alone, but it seems strange to argue that there will be zero effect on the value of having just one of them. AI may not raise the talented lazy person straightforwardly above the hard-worki
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
Humans, even pointy-haired ones, do have slightly larger brains than dogs precisely for the purpose of being able to form associations over longer timespans. That's a big part of what intelligence is .
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
Ok, but does SBF still control enough money that Trump would care about it?
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
They did, but not through any virtue or skill on her part. That was just the plain luck of Bitcoin happening to go way way up before the bankruptcy estate paid out using what it had, and the court that sentenced her couldn't know that
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
Then I guess I misremembered. :shrug:
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
Neither did the jihadists. The Jihad occurs 10000 years before the events of Dune, which is set approximately 12k years AD. So... any year now.
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
How many of them believe that copyright infringement and job loss are "major harms"? How many believe that data centers put a Great Lake through their cooling system daily? Polls like this are meaningless.
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by kingofmen 9mo ago
Since the roads are paid for by taxes, the software engineers are paying more for them in the first place. Why shouldn't they get more of the benefit?
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
Do you eat meat?
43.
by kingofmen 10mo ago
Uh... which one? Choice is not obvious to me, and I think it would depend on the type of cancer.
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
How long has it been since you needed to mail a physical document to a bank, a government department, or something similar?
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
If someone drinks a cup of coffee, there is one less cup of coffee in the world. The money that other people get is just a piece of paper, it is not useful for anything. Wasteful consumption of real resources is not 'stimulus', it
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
It appears to me that comrade LeGuin is being rather willfully ignorant here. The detailed implementation of the algorithm is not public, but the basic concept - download every webpage, index by keywords, rank by number of links - is well k
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
Thank you! Rephrasing for my own understanding: The point of attack that I was missing was that angles BDE and ABC are equal, and now we have two equal angles (which immediately gives us the third) and one equal side, so we're good to
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
I'm having some trouble with this part of the explanation: > From the figure, one can easily see that the triangles ABC and BDE are congruent. I must confess I do not easily see this. It's been a long time since I did any geo
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by kingofmen 10mo ago
"Better known for other work".
50.
by kingofmen 11mo ago
I didn't say it was a good idea. I said it was available to people other than the "richest of the rich".
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by kingofmen 11mo ago
Most brokerages will offer you a margin loan if you have say $100k of stocks held through them. Not pocket change, but easily available to magnitudes 4-5 on this scale.
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by kingofmen 11mo ago
That would make sense, but again, should be mentioned as context for why the number is bad. It's not as though we're skimping on wordcount here.
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by kingofmen 11mo ago
There's something I deeply don't understand about this. > I shared these results with a leading lipidologist who proclaimed: “Not sure if the lab or the primary care doc said an LDL-C of 116 mg/dL was fine but that concent
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by kingofmen 11mo ago
> There's no appetite for saying stuff like "we will seize $100 billion from the wealthiest individuals and give it to everyone else as cash payments". Indeed. Because anyone who is numerate enough to do the division quick
55.
by kingofmen 1y ago
> may identify > linked to Really putting their necks on the chopping block and making with the bold opinions, here.
56.
by kingofmen 1y ago
At last we have built the Torture Clock from the famous fantasy story, "Don't Build the Torture Clock".
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by kingofmen 1y ago
> we'll need the people to actually fight the war itself. Will we? It appears to me that modern war works substantially like modern factories - you don't actually want a large mass of semiskilled workers to pull the levers, eac
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by kingofmen 1y ago
If there is one house per person then approximately every person gets a house, because almost everyone is willing and able to pay more for their first house than even a very wealthy person will pay for a second one. If there are 1.5 houses
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by kingofmen 1y ago
> its value goes up Its price goes up. "Price is what you pay, value is what you get"; houses do not increase in value over time.
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by kingofmen 1y ago
Indeed the article explicitly says they intend to do so.

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