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Yudkowsky and Soares' Book Is Lacking (2025)(oscarmdavies.substack.com)
11 points by measurablefunc 2mo ago|6 comments
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by measurablefunc 2mo ago
Water vapor amplifies the greenhouse effect so I don't think rain is going to make it better.
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by measurablefunc 2mo ago
> Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, The History of Intellectronics. Who’d ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that w
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A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (2025)(arxiv.org)
3 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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The causal influence of brain size on human intelligence (2019)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Permutation Generation Methods (1977) [pdf](sedgewick.io)
4 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B(fortune.com)
197 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|116 comments
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
What happens when Oracle can't pay the interest on their loans?
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
They only have 12 years of proven natural gas reserves left so you should take up whatever issues you have w/ lack of natural resources w/ mother nature. Most of the new capacity they are planning to build are natural gas & co
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Then you should move to Texas. Seems like that would solve whatever issue you have w/ lack of new buildings or whatever you're concerned about.
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Texas leads nation in proposed power plants for data centers(texastribune.org)
5 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|2 comments
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
According to Google, Texas currently has about 87GW of peak capacity & a data center production pipeline that will require 75-100GW. So the state will have to basically double its peak capacity to supply power to all those new data cent
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Article is about economic/business success which is defined in terms of revenue/profits, i.e. numbers going up & to the right.
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A Hitchhiker's Guide on Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks (2020)(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Peter Naur wrote an essay about exactly that https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016560...
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Computers can not think & that is why they are useful. Thinking computers would become very problematic very quickly.
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - A. N. Whitehead
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Analogy doesn't really work.
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
I recommend you look into Gell-Mann amnesia.
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Sheaf theory: from deep geometry to deep learning (2025)(arxiv.org)
1 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Combining SAT Solvers with CAS to Verify Combinatorial Conjectures (2016)(link.springer.com)
2 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Classical computing, quantum computing, and Shor's factoring algorithm (1999)(alphaxiv.org)
1 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Fixed-Point Theorems and the Ethics of Transparency (2025)(arxiv.org)
4 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Trouble Transitioning (2025)(lrb.co.uk)
7 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|1 comments
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Meta takes more in than whatever it pays back¹ > Meta Platforms reported annual income taxes of $25.474 billion for 2025, driven by massive profit margins and a major one-time tax charge stemming from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
My city has bonds for all sorts of projects & it is financed by the people & federal grants. No corporations are involved in the process. It's not complicated: https://www.epa.gov/waterfinancecenter/effecti
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
Meta is an unnecessary middleman, all those payments could be handled w/o them & their advertising network. Also, from your own link > META received a 55 percent tax break as part of the Enterprise Zone Tax abatement program, wh
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
I've never seen a cent go to any service in my local municipality from Meta's taxes & whatever does end up in the city coffers is not big enough to have any real effect b/c those services could just as easily be financed
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by measurablefunc 3mo ago
How do I, as an ordinary person, benefit from Meta's data centers? I don't have any presence on Meta's platforms & the only time I even notice their existence is when someone sends me a text message via signal for some vi
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Applied Category Theory Course (2018)(math.ucr.edu)
152 points by measurablefunc 3mo ago|13 comments

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