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721.
by lazide 7mo ago
The surfaces are typically melted - the ones that don’t just explode anyway. Icy meteorites never survive re-entry that I’m aware of; and most carbon/chondrite ones don’t either, but they are the most common type that do. They tend to
722.
by lazide 7mo ago
We have some organic ‘building block’ compounds confirmed frozen on some asteroids. But what we don’t have is any examples of them surviving re-entry. We also have a massive amount of those same compounds already here on the planet. Causali
723.
by lazide 7mo ago
You might consider that even concepts like plate tectonics (which frankly are incredibly obvious if one just looks at a map) were considered ridiculous ideas by the most advanced experts in their field at one point. A point not that long ag
724.
by lazide 8mo ago
The earths poles?
725.
by lazide 8mo ago
I would also posit that the behaviors and prioritization of emotional well being required for (very high) income are actively harmful for emotional well being. But money is a near universal motivator, so here we are.
726.
by lazide 8mo ago
Huh? Those smaller rocks would be even more irradiated, as they have no atmosphere? They’d also have to contend with re-entry.
727.
by lazide 8mo ago
At least the district attorney had to fill out some paperwork?
728.
by lazide 8mo ago
How can you be sure, when no one ever knows it is there to examine it?
729.
by lazide 8mo ago
I’d argue it’s more an attribute of being a driven, difficult to satisfy, competitive, human. Which correlates strongly with ‘success’ in any system where there is a clear metric for success, which is certainly true for our current economic
730.
by lazide 8mo ago
I’m not sure that is being soft on fraud, but being realistic and thinking the other dude would crack first. For one, to convict him, they’d need to prove the coins existed (actually) and they were plausibly worth that much. Not a straightf
731.
by lazide 8mo ago
Well, practically when I tried to buy that yacht with my 10 year old, the threatened me with more jail time… (/s)
732.
by lazide 8mo ago
Definitely not. But 40m a year is a pretty hefty paycheck.
733.
by lazide 8mo ago
Well, if there is anywhere to learn how (and make friends with whom!) he could possibly launder $400m worth of gold coins….
734.
by lazide 8mo ago
So the last 40 years?
735.
by lazide 8mo ago
Cite?
736.
by lazide 8mo ago
It’s money. Wired headphones are dirt cheap.
737.
by lazide 8mo ago
Bwahahahahaha
738.
by lazide 8mo ago
Ghenghis khan?
739.
by lazide 8mo ago
Looks at history…. There certainly weren’t a lot fewer wars back when people had to physically stab each other with swords. Quite the opposite?
740.
by lazide 8mo ago
One that doesn’t have half the population (or more!) wanting to set the other half on fire?
741.
by lazide 8mo ago
The more likely candidate is mineral based, because yes trees are hard to scale this way.
742.
by lazide 8mo ago
I lived in India for awhile, and in many areas (including very populated cities), clean (or even consistently available) water just isn’t a thing. At least out of a tap. Relatively inexpensive (as in a months wages for a typical ‘middle cla
743.
by lazide 8mo ago
Yup. The issue with LLMs are not that any specific thing it is doing is unique. Rather that it does it in previously unimaginable volume, scale, and accessibility.
744.
by lazide 8mo ago
all of those professions definitely have accountability - per the nominal rules of the system. Often extremely severe accountability. The actual systems do everything they can to avoid that accountability, including often violating the rule
745.
by lazide 8mo ago
Not enough - you’d also need to check that they say/mean what is being implied. Which is a real problem.
746.
by lazide 8mo ago
Even ‘true general intelligence’ (if we count humans as that) screws up frequently, sometimes (often?) intentionally for it’s own benefit - which is why accountability is such a necessary element. If someone won’t be held liable for the end
747.
by lazide 8mo ago
Sounds like it would be pretty easy to fake out with a custom circuit too, for those that are willing to go beyond ‘whoops how did that happen’ levels.
748.
by lazide 8mo ago
People absolutely will (and are) modding them to hide that light. But even if they weren’t, a lot of people won’t notice. And regardless of any privacy policy or the like, you still have to worry about Room 641A scenarios [ https:/&#x2
749.
by lazide 8mo ago
I wonder if ‘Apocalypse’ or ‘Molten Slag’ would be considered professional enough.
750.
by lazide 8mo ago
It is not that simple. To have that protection, it needs to be treated (and protected) like an actual secret. It’s why the nominal ‘top secret’ coke formula is stored in a giant vault. If everyone at the company has access (and it’s a big c

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