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by mcculley 4y ago
There won’t be anything artificial about such intelligences. I have taken to calling them synthetic intelligences.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am aware of people talking about these in sci-fi and patents. Has anyone demonstrated use of such a weapon? I personally would not create an electromagnetic pulse anywhere near my nervous system. I am not convinced practical such weapons
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by mcculley 4y ago
I realize that there are physical limitations of the technology. I don’t have to go to Saudi Arabia for my phone to overheat. I have to be careful where I keep it in Florida.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I did not say the documentation is wrong. I am saying that it is not only startups that have trouble imagining their product being used somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Unfortunately, having done the same, there are a lot of lessons learned in existing source code that you won’t find elsewhere.
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by mcculley 4y ago
It is not only startups and not only cold places that are overlooked. The iPhone documentation says that it should not be used outside of 32°-95°F. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201678
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by mcculley 4y ago
What annoys me is that there is more lag in the app. When opening the app just to get in some reading when I have some free time, there is a 1-2 second lag just to open a book that I have been reading. I am on an iPhone 11 Pro. Opening a bo
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by mcculley 4y ago
Yes. It is a weird historical artifact of terminology. We had lots of “personal computers” before IBM made theirs. After that, IBM’s offering became the product most associated with the term. It is a weak example of genericide.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Stubbornly digs in, indeed.
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by mcculley 4y ago
How so? I have worked with accountants who serve in the role of receiver for bankrupt companies. They do not seem slimy to me.
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by mcculley 4y ago
How much will SBF have in the end? It seems John Ray will end up richer than SBF.
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by mcculley 4y ago
AEB cannot magically instantaneously stop a car that FSD has put into the wrong lane. If you believe otherwise, please do not drive. Cars are dangerous in the hands of those who do not take risks seriously.
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by mcculley 4y ago
This thread and the other comments on this post are amazing. One cannot sell a car without a seatbelt, but Tesla can use their customers for beta testing a dangerous system that drives a whole car around.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> "I deeply regret what happened" He does not regret what he did. He regrets what "happened".
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by mcculley 4y ago
> "John Ray and S&C were both lawyers and/or administrators for the estate, which paid out roughly $700m in legal fees" There is a lesson here to future entrepreneurs. There is often a lot more money in the long term f
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by mcculley 4y ago
I have no idea. Obviously we get more heat from the sun than we generate on our own. That does not make your blanket assertion true. The original question is a good one. We will use more energy as it gets cheaper (see monster trucks, Las Ve
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by mcculley 4y ago
Of course I did. It is rude to suggest otherwise. Your blanket assertion followed by your long explanation is confusing and less helpful to anyone asking the original question than it would be without it.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> We aren't "heating up the planet" .. we're "insulating the atmosphere". We are doing both. We are doing more insulating than heating, but we obviously generate more heat.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I don't see how it is anything other than inevitable. Religions, governments, other organizations/entities have a lot of reasons and not all will be prevented from doing so.
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by mcculley 4y ago
It is inevitable that more people will be able to exert more control over their reproduction. I agree that this is likely to amplify the human tribalism that already causes so many problems. I still don't see how that inevitably leads
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by mcculley 4y ago
I remain unconvinced that the inevitable existence of e.g., designer babies will inevitably lead to forcing people to have them.
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by mcculley 4y ago
The existence on non-consensual application would not change my opinion on the value of research.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Of course not. Satire can be done very well and sincerely.
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by mcculley 4y ago
That sounds like an argument in favor of research.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am, of course, aware of these tropes. If you have any sincere objections to research, please enlighten us.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Maybe the conflation is the problem for me. I don’t see how research or even consensual application necessarily leads to “20th century eugenics”.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> I'm squeamish about genetic research Can you elaborate on what makes you squeamish about research?
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by mcculley 4y ago
If 90% of people are not cooking, it is by choice, not because they would have to steal time from sleeping. Modern marketing is very good at convincing people to do other things with their time than what is good for them. Some small subset
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by mcculley 4y ago
Whose lives are you talking about? This seems to be a generalization based on a small subset of humanity or something.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I agree overall with many points you make, but I am not convinced about the property’s immunity to depreciation. Certainly the land can be expected to appreciate in value, but what is the annual upkeep on a historic castle? A castle can eas

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