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by mLuby 6y ago
Comrade Detective was funny and might simulate that perspective. "You don't become a good communist by going to meetings. Or memorizing the manifesto. You do it with your fist." Comrade Detective: "You're telling me
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by mLuby 6y ago
Agreed; I'm proud of our little constituent buddies! I can't help thinking about how close a water-powered lumber mill feels to full closure (i.e. it produces all the parts it uses). Humans perform the chopping, move things from s
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by mLuby 6y ago
Thanks for the link, that's interesting. All the "self-replicators" I've come across are either digital (e.g. Conway's Game of Life) or like the ones in this video, that is they require specialized parts as their &q
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by mLuby 6y ago
Forget nanobots; I believe that a "clanking" self-replicating machine can be made from sources of wood and metal feedstock (and mechanical power). This could be the control unit. Is anyone else interested in this kind of thing? Lo
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by mLuby 6y ago
26:13 "Before landing the [radiation reconnaissance] helicopter – a check for radioactivity. Even in the very centre of the site, it was insignificant."
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by mLuby 6y ago
> A bill that has to rely primarily on exemptions is no bill at all. Exemptions are a leading indicator of ineptness or corruption.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Would that apply to anything electrical, or with integrated circuits, or with a port or antenna, or connected to the Internet? Is there an exception for ROM? What about device-specific IDs or keys? And I wonder what test the courts would ac
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by mLuby 6y ago
> trying to find racial undertones in every tangential thing In this case it isn't tangential but central, since the point is extrapolating physical appearance from incomplete data. It matters if the results predict inaccurate racia
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by mLuby 6y ago
Their skill is attracting and utilizing the best Factorio players, not being any good at Factorio itself.
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by mLuby 6y ago
> The main reason for the TSA to outsource the questioning of travelers and scoring of answers is to evade the rules applicable to collection and use of personal data by Federal agencies. … The nominal “fly/no-fly” decision will sti
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by mLuby 6y ago
IDK, trusting a remote system just seems bad. Either give me the data to process locally, or I'll give you some data you couldn't possibly understand and you do some stuff to it and return the results, having never known the meani
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by mLuby 6y ago
> The YouTube channel Hazegrayart created an incredible CGI rendering of what Chrysler's craft would've looked like, and how it would've worked. https://youtu.be/___JNGJog0A (4min, amazing channel BTW.)
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by mLuby 6y ago
I wouldn't worry about that "nearly orbital" failure mode: rockets are sometimes remotely "dissembled" during flight (boom!) in case of guidance failure. And even if it went totally dead, only if it passively orient
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by mLuby 6y ago
Don't forget: - the rice cooker - electricity to cook the rice - potable water for the rice - storage containers for the leftover rice - refrigeration or other means of preserving the prepared food - a secure place to store your month&
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by mLuby 6y ago
A free-return trajectory doesn't enter orbit around a body, indeed its appeal is that if your propulsion fails while on such a course, you'll coast home "for free" rather than enter orbit around your target or drift into
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by mLuby 6y ago
Dystopias are unfortunately subjective, but I do think societies where citizens aren't free to leave qualify. What matters is that these anti-defection cultures' expansion is contained. If not, pray to Seldon for a relatively shor
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by mLuby 6y ago
> There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again… We choos
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by mLuby 6y ago
Well, as a non-criminal thinking about it for a few seconds, various types of blackmail come to mind: - you are the biological parent of this person who's looking for you, and if you want to stay anonymous… - your husband isn't th
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by mLuby 6y ago
It's also important to set clear expectations with stakeholders who have seen the prototype and may think the project is 90% done, when in fact there's still 90% more to go in making that prototype production-ready.
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by mLuby 6y ago
I like the thinking, but a hard length limit would have to be conjoined with a no-external-references rule. Otherwise 900b will be spent linking to exhibits A-z. Also should specify the encoding for such contracts so they're actually r
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by mLuby 6y ago
Exactly this. Show a human a thing for which it doesn't already have 10K hours of "training" and they won't do so well. Monads might be a good example of a thing for which humans don't have a massive headstart on ML
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by mLuby 6y ago
How about [This Page Is Anonymous]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20220048 )? Anonymous-site-as-a-service must be a thing.
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by mLuby 6y ago
That's so wonderful. I liked how Astronaut Garrett Reisman put it today: https://youtu.be/GuXBdTF2jUY?t=4460 > "I hope for ten minutes just now you looked up and saw something exciting, something to give you ho
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by mLuby 6y ago
Excellent, now with sufficient training, an AI can learn to pitch itself to gain more resources.
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by mLuby 6y ago
The "problem" is how long it takes to get up to speed in various fields, now that most have decades or centuries of depth. Accelerated learning tech will open the polymath doors again.
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by mLuby 6y ago
A straightforward legal fix is to make location one of the things you can't ask about during hiring, like age, marital status, or disability. All they should be able to ask is what fraction of their work hours you're available for
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by mLuby 6y ago
Yeah, even the Moon's gravity well is huge compared to metal-rich asteroids. They're the low-hanging fruit of space mining.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Don't fear Phobos. It's small enough that we'll be able to move it (if we haven't mined it apart by then).
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by mLuby 6y ago
There's a theory that the Sahara alternates between desert and green every X thousand years, dramatically altering the Mediterranean, European, and African climates. And BTW our species is conducting its largest peaceful "mobiliza
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by mLuby 6y ago
Humans learn to drive cars, fly aircraft, operate robotic arms, and play video games quite well, to the point where they consider those things "extensions of themselves." I wouldn't say a pro StarCraft player who's soldi

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