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by m101 2y ago
It's not about absolute but about relative to the amount of energy produced. Energy return in investment is <10x for solar, but more like 100x for nuclear. We have an energy budget to solver climate change. This is nothing to do wit
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by m101 2y ago
Energy return in investment is <10x for solar, but more like 100x for nuclear. We have an energy budget to solver climate change. This is nothing to do with how much things cost.
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There is a comment on this thread about this being like the railroads, but this is nothing like the railroads except insofar as it costs a lot of money. The railroads have lasted decades and will remain relevant for many more decades. They
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Solar and wind emit a lot of CO2 upfront relative to the energy they produce down the line.
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I meant your second perspective. I'm in the Popper camp on your example. You may have good reasons as to why you say he's wrong, but isn't that the scientific method: showing things to be false. If it can't be shown to b
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by m101 2y ago
And it was with people of this very course that I have been impressed by. They learnt things at a young age and it stayed with them.
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Theory of knowledge "is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge". Scientists need to understand the limits of knowledge which may be acquired by science. Scientists think they are in the un
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by m101 2y ago
I've said this before in not the same words, and I am always downvoted here on hackernews: people need to understand theory of knowledge before they understand science. Physics and physicists are the worst offenders.
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One of the biggest problems of a scientific education is the lack of hubris taught. Science has a very clear box it works remarkably well in, but it far too often strays outside of this box. We should have been told that science is about th
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by m101 2y ago
It works like our own minds in that we also think, test, go back, try again. This doesn't seem like a failing but just a recognition that thought can proceed in that way.
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Perhaps the smaller model used in o1 is over trained on arxiv and code relative to 4o (or undertrained on legal text)
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A debt crisis will be triggered by lack of confidence, and in that regard China's debt crisis is far worse than that of the US.
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Unemployment is not a bad thing per se. Unemployment for a long time for an individual seeking employment is a bad thing.
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This would be a terrible idea for all sorts of reasons. I will start with a few questions. How would you determine the wage level of the govt? How would you differentiate pay at the govt? How would you prevent govt sector bloat and excessiv
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This is not price gouging, but rather it's a price the market supports. The debt shouldn't make a difference to pricing unless debt free owners were reducing pricing below what they could charge (with the trade off being that you
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I'm not sure why but when I download some epubs and try to send to my kindle it fails. Only after using an online converter to convert them from epub to epub does it then work.
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by m101 2y ago
Can you add support for tavli? https://www.bkgm.com/variants/Tavli.html The first game of tavli is portes which is the most common variant of backgammon played. Tavli is played by Greeks at least (and I'm sure man
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Could you please high-level describe how you use all these together? What hardware are you using for this? Would a raspberry pi connected to the TV work?
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The problem with 1) blaming early trauma on all outcomes and 2) saying it's out responsibility to support them, is that it sends a poor signal about personal responsibility. What kind of society would be created if we sent that message
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by m101 3y ago
If we're looking out for civilisations descended from ours then there's likely no need for this because they will likely be able to deal with it, or might even find it a valuable resource of elements. Someone else knows better her
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by m101 3y ago
Last I heard a worker could leave his employer at any time for a another job elsewhere, taking any skills and know-how with them. Who is bleeding who? It has always been the case that to best protect the worker you need to create a thriving
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by m101 3y ago
The problem with solar is that we will have destroyed the environment to create those solar panels. The return on energy invested (RoEI) on solar is less than 10x which, when you're dealing with an energy budget like climate change etc
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They will not out fight you, they will out wait you. Just like Afghanistan.
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AFAIK Google is in the middle of massive infrastructure investment in hardware which is of similar performance to Nvidia, but they will own the whole stack. They will also be able to deploy an order of magnitude more compute than openAI to
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by m101 3y ago
Maybe something to do with this? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
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This is a great resource to learn more about the history of nuclear power https://gordianknotbook.com/
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by m101 3y ago
stopped reading at: The United States is starting to look like Argentina. It is nothing like Argentina.
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We now believe that the game is over. LK-99 is not a superconductor(twitter.com)
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I looks like it is more compressible and elastic than normal water which may cause the behaviour shown. If I'm not mistaken normal water is very hard to compress.
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by m101 4y ago
Not how it works. How it works is that there are a number of constraints and metrics placed on banks that they need to satisfy and prevent them taking risk. At any time it could be any one of these that is the limiting factor on risk. It ma

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