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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
I literally gave you a Wikipedia list of other concerns, "natural monopolies, pollution rights, and control of the commons, including title of ownership for natural resources and other contrived privileges (e.g. intellectual property)&
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
For India, yes, the MGNREGA [1] is very "neoliberal", we all know how neoliberals care about social security, social equity, guaranteed wage employment, environment protection, women empowerment, and so on. For China: "When t
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Georgism is concerned with the distribution of economic rent caused by land ownership, natural monopolies, pollution rights, and control of the commons, including title of ownership for natural resources and other contrived privileges
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Not sure how much of a downtrend, seems rather stable [1]. There are also 0 countries that implement Georgist policies and most of the countries in the world are directly neoliberal or neoliberal-bent, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia [2], and f
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Let me just quality a bit further: homelessness is a failure of the neoliberal ideology (land free markets/privatization never worked, from the enclosures [1] to modern times, see Georgism for a solution [2]) and further a failure of t
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Any plan where there's a crucial component that must not stop even for a second isn't a very good plan." Our bodies, just think of our hearts or lungs, don't stop for even a second for 80 something years, and even
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Sure, was looking for electrical devices, a better example of what great engineering can achieve I suppose it's the Pons Fabricius [1], bridge built 2,085 years ago, still in use. The problem is, if we can't expect software to r
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
3 years is irresponsible? To quote Logan Roy, you, software developers, "are not serious people" [1]. Just out of curiosity looked for a list of longest running electrical devices [2]: 1840 - The Oxford Electric Bell 187
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The article makes no mention of Michael Levin [1], one of the main researchers/labs, around bioelectricity/xenobots. A recent talk of his [2]. Secondly, bioelectricity has nothing or very little to do with electric currents as the
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Haha, sorry, was more of a tongue-in-cheek reply to "We have no idea how [to] map from [analog] to [digital]".
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
An analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter is less than a cup of coffee in some places [1]. [1] https://protosupplies.com/product/pcf8591-a-d-and-d-a-conver...
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
We will never simulate the entire brain atom-by-atom, we won't need to, the same way we never simulate atom-by-atom and we don't even place structural atoms by hand when we build a bridge, a rocket, or a tree house, we can be way
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The adage "we have a legal system, not a justice system" is repeated ad nauseam in these cases. But thinking about it: what if we were to have none, neither legality, nor justice, but simply randomness, fiat fortuna, et pereat
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Can anyone try to mitigate? Here I go: Mitigating the risk of extinction from very few corporations owning the entire global economy should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. Just
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
I am starving today, being starved by a system which puts me in artificial scarcity loops, me and who knows how many others. Starvation does not hinder the desire for resolution, if anything, it fosters it. But yes, the world might disappea
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
As far as cognitive capacity and consciousness as self-monitoring agency we have N=1, ourselves. Are there limits above us? Probably, but we have no reason to believe we are anywhere near the pinnacle of cognitive or consciousness load. Sur
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
So what if it will take another 30 years? Barely 71 years ago MIT demonstrated one of the first Numerical Control mill for manufacturing [1] that gave us the world as we have it today: from our chairs to our CPUs, nothing could be obtained
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Contrary to popular belief, perhaps we are not yet ready for fuzzy logic-based mathematics†. Like asking that does Boolean logic do in the 13th century, before Leibniz had any glimpse of characteristica universalis [1] (software, as oppos
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Expect failure" sounds very motto-y. In Latin, so you can use it for your coat of arms, would be: expecto defectum . I suppose one could even operationalize it further: deploy failure, displicare defectum .
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Right, but who's communism? Certainly not Stalin's. Perhaps Eugene V. Debs' [1]? Speaking of persons who were imprisoned and indirectly, but not really, killed for their anti-war stance. ( Back in the USSA [2] tells an alter
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Also a reminder that after the 1932 German presidential election [1], won by Paul von Hindenburg, 84 years old, with 53%, he appointed as chancellor one Adolf Hitler in 1933 following the advice of Franz von Papen, the conservative chancell
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Here is Michael Levin, one of the paper's author, speaking at length about the polycomputing concept and more: "Agency, Attractors, & Observer-Dependent Computation in Biology & Beyond" [1]. [1] https://www
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
One way to think about it would be to replace or with and : the continuum hypothesis can be true and false: it is a 'polycomputational object' [1]. [1] Using the concept of polycomputing from There’s Plenty of Room Right Her
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Some light, coffee reading "Cardinality of the continuum" [1]: in short, the cardinality of real numbers (ℝ) is often called the cardinality of the continuum, and denoted by 𝔠 or 2^ℵ_0 or ℶ_1 (beth-one [2); whereas, interestingly
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Train them how to hallucinate the debugger and the world. Forget about running the debugger only for your program, simulate the entire stack, networking and databases included, for a true timeless debugger.
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
PR means Public Relations and I meant nothing more than the fact that it is an Apple official response. Certainly says something about our times when you directly expect PR to be lies. They might just as well change their sources now, or af
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
At least our current surface finishing technology has advanced so we no longer see the kid sized hand prints [1]. "Apple’s cobalt batteries are built on the backs of child labor in mines, causing severe physical harm to children and vi
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Not necessarily. When I was writing the initial comment I wasn't even thinking about job-related mails, but at someone like Sean Carroll who does a regular Ask me Anything [1] where lots of questions are skipped for lack of time, or in
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Good thing that with the coming devastating job purges due to statistical learning such "careers" based around bullshit jobs [1] where some words in a generated email can be "career-terminating" will be forever gone. [1]
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Here's a product (Gmail/Outlook add-on or so): have your own LLM trained over your public texts (articles, books, blog entries, READMEs, Hacker News comments, and so on), mark the emails you can't respond to with the "GP

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