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by marvin 4y ago
This whole comment tree seems to be full of people who deliberately misunderstand physics and economics. Europe is still going to have access to gas if Russia cuts its whole supply come winter -- in fact, 60% of the European gas supply will
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You'd have to provide some pretty compelling reasoning to support that Tesla is successful in spite of Musk; i.e. that without him, its market cap today would be higher than 780 billion dollars. Even discounting all other data, Tes
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In an important sense, this particular conflict is (as yet) dramatically better than these -- it hasn't involved thousands of people bickering for many years.
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Unlimited tolerance must not be extended to the aggressively intolerant, because this will destroy the unlimited tolerance. Central philosophical principle of free society. Karl Popper.
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Moore's Law for Everything(moores.samaltman.com)
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Tesla’s AV design philosophy differs from everyone else’s for just this reason. The idea of using centimeter-accurate models of the environment and having an always-on network connection is fundamentally at odds with handling surprises. I d
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>much of their value is derived from the prospect of profits far in the future, whose present value is being eroded by rising interest rates I've seen this finance meme over and over again, and it's mostly an irrelevant argumen
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It's just a meme at this point, and has been for 60 years. Fixed-wing airliners become a gargantuous fireball of death if they ever happen to hit the ground after takeoff, which they have occasionally done with someone filming the disa
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Well, this line of reasoning will end up going Godwin in a hurry. But for entertainment value, to make a different argument against moral relativism: A higher proportion of people from Qatar would like to e.g. live in Europe than the propor
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Tumblr should have just dropped the share of their users that accessed their platform through the iOS app. But meh. They chose the other option.
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Historical examples of perverse instantiation are everywhere: Evolutionary agents learning to live off a diet of their own children, machine learning algorithms attempting to learn gripping a ball cheating the system by performing ball-less
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Over the course of years, we figure out how to create AI systems that are more and more useful, to the point where they can be run autonomously and with very little supervision produce economic output that eclipses that of the most capable
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There is nothing religious with thinking about whether failure modes of advanced artificial intelligence can permanently destroy large parts of the reality that humans care about. Just like there was nothing religious in thinking about whe
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But Musk has loudly stated that Twitter, a private company, should uphold equally strong standards towards freedom of speech as the state. Which in itself is a fair argument insofar as Twitter is so central to democratic discourse that its
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It's still a bit of a derogatory term, and it doesn't entirely match up to history. Text adventure games, point & click adventure games and so on were very similar in gameplay mechanics to many games that get this moniker. Man
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This is currently a hot potato in Norway. The local government wants to force malls to charge for their parking at rates to be decided by the government, but aren't allowed due to national regulation. So there is a political battle to
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Called it in 2013. It was inevitable. There are reasons those mechanisms are there, from greed to impatience to convenience (to protection, if we get into regulation). And it was super obvious that if only a few rare truly exceptional dream
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We are arguing different things, and would probably mostly agree if we sat down to summarize our views. French authorities are corrupt morons, but there are countries in the world that largely do evidence-based health policy once they get a
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You shouldn't use the sarcastic tone. It didn't seem at all clear in 2020 that the virus would quickly mutate to more than double its already dangerously high R0 number. If you're aware of someone credible who said this as mo
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> I am actually somewhat concerned of the lifetime cumulative risk of specifically Covid-19 vaccinations. Particularly if it becomes standard practice to get a new booster every 6 months for the rest of your life I think it's valuab
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These techniques would be very useful in the three darkest months in Scandinavia, where the sun is down both when you leave and return from work, and generally behind clouds otherwise. Me, I’ll climb the floors of the office and stand in a
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Weeeeeeeeell..... Birth rates are below replacement levels in most Western countries.
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Wouldn't it be as easy as having money invested with a foreign broker? Granted, this won't work if capital controls prevents money from easily flowing across the border, or if your country is sanctioned.
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Yep. It's pretty obvious that we need to work very hard at getting this cost down.
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Thanks. That's a good idea. I already have showdead activated, so I can at least track them down when they disappear. Wonder if this phenomenon is discussed with dang et al. I am very motivated to find the truth whereever the search ta
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It currently costs $600 to permanently remove one ton of CO2 from the atmosphere. How many percent of the United States' CO2 emissions are subjected to this level of CO2 tax, along with similar import taxes to avoid shifting emissions
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I’d rather be surprised if russian disinformation doesn’t target 4chan. It’s frequented by Western society’s outcasts; there is no more fertile ground for subversion.
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Yes. I would have written exactly what you did here, but then I’d probably have to fend off the comments you are referring to. So I worded it more diplomatically, or ambiguously. Shame; it’s interesting to get challenged. At least I got to
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Civilization can and must be climate gas neutral. Can be accomplished through massive build-out of geological-time CO2 sequestering, financed with global taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and international agreements to the same effect. End
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Negative externalities would ideally just be handled through proportional taxation. Then market incentives work it out. Taxes are used to clean up the externalities.

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