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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Not to worry. I will not comment anymore. Please delete my account.
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
True. That's why we probably need another mechanism for incentivizing high-risk/high-reward/multi-decennial research. Perhaps, even if LK99 is not real, something interesting will mutate out of it: some kind of platform mergi
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Sure, it doesn't spread down to 1901, but the uptick started around 1970s [1]. Anyway, my main rant was about the inefficiency of giving awards to "lone geniuses", at most three, of expecting said "lone wolves" to e
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons." [1] Sad state of affairs to expect a reward for brilliance and to have science bottlenecked by a merchant of death. Just the fact that the merchant of dea
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Interestingly enough, penny pushing also destroys capitalism, see The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy [1]. [1] https://www.simon
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Regardless if LK-99 is truly a Room-Temperature Superconductor or not, only 112 years passed since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity on April 8, 1911, 4 PM [1] [2]: resistance not futile, but "practically zero".
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
There is no use in synthesizing (C6H6O·CH2O)n [1] (or LK-99, to be actual, real or not) that is not cost effective. It's precisely this penny pusher rhetoric which in the end will make China win, deservedly so. [1] https://e
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Economic limits are imaginary, secondhand effects of the ideological goggles one's society decides to wear at a certain time for arbitrary reasons. USA during the Manhattan Project knew of no economic limits, i.e. they could arbitraril
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
We are ridiculously far from physical limits in our current artificial computers (both theoretical [1], and practical [2]). For more technical details see Jim Keller: [3] [4] [5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"I am the publisher now."
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Until a synthetic agent will be here we can only guess. The current best guesses seem to have to do with the free energy principle, active inference, Markov blankets [1]. It might be just that simple: it's what happens when some prot
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Just avoiding the inevitable I suppose: June 22, 2023, "Ford agrees to $9.2 billion US government loan" [1]. That's the joke in the end: there are no companies (and there is no government), just a bunch of chaebols [2], at le
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Can I, just a random citizen, get a loan from the government for not even billions or hundreds of millions but let's say $100,000? I will of course repay "in due course, at the appropriate juncture, in the fullness of time" [
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
It's in the first paragraph of the linked article [1]. They were called "loans" in the government-speak of the post-2008 crash, but if you look at the semantics, they were just risk-free bailouts. [1] "the U.S. Secretary
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
An "everything app" is just an operating system. There is nothing to picture, we've been having them since the 1950s [1]. We could imagine some new way of operating over systems: for instance the Alan Kay original meaning of
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Not lucky, subsidized [1]. [1] Company with $15 million revenue in 2008 gets $465 million "loan" in 2009, https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/the-government-comes-throu... https://www.stati
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Not quite. Corruption is the side-effect of interpersonal relationships. Once the cluster of the organization's/society's leaders are random, and with a sufficiently aggressive random culling function, there is no ground anym
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Watched 1978, Blue Collar [1] recently, given also the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike, and was thinking on the forced master-slave dialectic [2] between the union representative and the worker, the proliferation of middle-management, the micro
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
There was a trend in the paper blogs, the diaries of 1930s [1], probably when they were at peak, of authors whining about authorship, perhaps due to an esprit du mal of the epoch: to whom does one write for? And the answers were usually,
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"I suggested we use a strong cloth tape to close seams, and make tab of same. It worked fine, I showed it to different government inspectors they said it was all right, but I could never get them to change tape." Vesta Stoudt to P
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Curiously enough, not really, from the post: Excuse me, is it "duct" or "duck" tape? I mean sure, "duct tape" and "duck tape" are both fine. "Duct tape" is the more common name tod
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Again, haven't brought up nihilism or cynicism. Incidentally, just to give you some more to rummage about, staying away from the voting booth seems like the best thing to do and civic engagement is indeed worthless. Unless you are able
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Not sure where you picked nihilism in my reply, referencing the "we live in a society" meme I actually smiled. Nevertheless, stopping the pretence today, painful as it is, realizing the state of the world is far from perfect, is t
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Hope at least you are getting paid and you don't deploy such ridiculous amounts of bad faith for free. My reply from above "Most of them already don't get paid, hence the strike" was specifically in the context of the st
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
If it's genuinely news to you that exploitation is a normal day-to-day part of any industry, perhaps these pointless replies should end here. Yes, writers have been working for free [1]. [1] "In October 2015, Wil Wheaton created a
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
I'm not quite sure why you are not understanding that with the streaming model of business the writers, and even the actors, no longer get residuals, here is another article [1]: yes, they get paid nothing. I am advocating for the abol
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"there is no evidence" As quoted above, "Ithaka's total revenue was $105 million in 2019, most of it ($79 million) from JSTOR service fees". All those $79 million and more JSTOR has stolen from the authors. Although
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
From what I understand they are not getting paid since the paradigm changed: "the way it's changed is most of these streaming services focus on a metric called ARPU, which is the average revenue per user", "the main diff
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Most of them already don't get paid, hence the strike [1]. [1] "Writers say they want a living wage as streaming devalues their work even as it demands more of their time.", https://www.indiewire.com/news&#x2F

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