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by marvin 5y ago
It’s just the same kind of conventional thinking we’ve seen a million times through history. Most people, even the smart ones, just aren’t good at imagining anything that hasn’t already happened. So they’ll say it’s impossible and keep doin
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Why do people have to use the derogatory word «crank»? It’s perfectly possible to just be smart, sincere and wrong . Talking about paradigm shifts again, not a single one of them matched the consensus at the time. Isaac Newton spent a lot
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Yudkowsky is a philosopher , in the sense of someone who thinks a lot about things that haven't been achieved yet. Lots of otherwise smart people (wrongly!) discount the value of philosophy, but it's close by every time there&#
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Comparison notwithstanding, that's what I felt when I first heard about PRISM. Holy shit, I knew this was all possible, but I hadn't believed that someone actually went through all the effort of doing it.
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Is there any indication that quantum mechanical effects have any role at all in human cognition?
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When generally intelligent machines have been improving the intelligence and capabilities of intelligent machines for a while, presumably better and faster than humans could. I’m open to the idea that this might not make technology or socie
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I'd say this rather signals the opposite. Three of the nation's top heroes are blatantly violating the new totalitarian anti-protest laws and Putin is completely impotent to do anything about it. Russia doesn't have a secret
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Immigration is much more complex than a yes/no or a 0-100 scale. What cultures do the immigrants come from? How is the host culture's traits for integrating them? What persons from the foreign society actually become immigrants? T
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I agree with your gut feeling, and I disagree quite strongly with most of the sentiment found in the comments of this article, stating that the lack of children stems from selfishness or responsibility towards the planet. High rents and oth
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To be fair, both A Song of Ice and Fire and The Kingkiller Chronicles is magnificently inspired and novel writing, more so than most that of some very consistent and prolific authors. I could certainly empathize with them running out of ins
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I'm not sure I've sufficiently communicated the background of my moral ambiguity here. I came of age during the War on Terror; the years where Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria were the primary fronts for Western military power. The bru
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I strongly agree with this sentiment. However , it is hard for an ethical person to participate in developing war technology when possession and usage of the weapons is purely a political question, and history also has seen our side of geo
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Those cost greenhouse gases to build as well! The question is mostly a distraction, deliberate from some. We of course also need negative emissions; there is no way around humanity causing some greenhouse gas emissions in the foreseeable fu
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This stuff happens all the time in Scandinavia. The timing for the deliberate airspace violation is definitely on purpose, but Russia has been probing the airspace boundaries of Sweden, Finland and Norway like clockwork since the 1960s. It&
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Where did you get this from? The book recommends 14 days underground if you are in an area hit by fallout. After this, radioactive fallout will have decayed to levels that are not immediately lethal. If you have a reliable dose rate meter t
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by marvin 5y ago
Well said. I don't think GP deserves to have their comment killed; there is a certain amount of hypocrisy when comparing today's response with that of the Iraq war. It was not justified, has killed a huge number of people both dir
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Rule of law is the name of the principles that make sure everyone gets fair, just and equal treatment.
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Would a smart and well-connected Russian keep their savings as a Ruble deposit in a russian bank? It’s too late now, but I’d like to imagine that some individuals kept their stock market savings with international broners.
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Hard to reason from world-famous anecdotes. They could also just have supremely healthy genetics, thus explaining why they’re able and willing to work very hard far beyond the normal retirement age. You’d need large studies to learn more.
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by marvin 5y ago
I don't understand your infowar reasoning at all. Pripyat and its immediate vicinity is just an unpopulated area with a decomissioned nuclear power station in it. Is the subtext that Putin plans to blow it up, or what? I'm pretty
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The attack on Afghanistan was literally an invocation of NATO's Article 5, the only time this has happened: "Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will
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That's a bit of a nightmare for communication, though. Subtlety is a thing, both for nuance and clarity.
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Thanks!
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Fascinating. Thanks for the info. I'm in northern Europe (Norway), and very curious how this could spread east of the Atlantic. Historically, our central bank has given everyone the impression that they decide the mortgage rate, but hi
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That sounds like genius. Is the a detailed explanation of this system in English?
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What is your argument on mortgate rates? That lenders will be unwilling to lend out at (still low) central bank rates due to inflation? I don't follow the reasoning.
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Haha, modern employment law :D You'd cause hilarity if you used that expression anywhere in the Scandinavian public discourse, or at least the Norwegian. You'd get tomatoes thrown at you and no one would listen to a single word. N
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My Provençal partner with an interest in etymology, thinks that négo chin, "dog-drowner" refers to the kind of ugly box one would use when euthanizing a dog, rather than hinting that a dog might drown if it took a ride in the boat
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Have you considered sailplanes? Requires quite a bit more organization than paragliding, which I guess is the main drawback. But you do have a rigid frame around you that will absorb a lot of energy if you end up making enough bad judgement
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It's close enough to what people generally mean when they say Europe. I consider Norway to be part of Europe, for instance, and I'm a Norwegian. Although there are certainly subtle distinctions; Norway has a higher degree of North

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