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by meroes 3y ago
Within comp sci? Not sure. Within academia writ large? No way. But hey I look to biologists who put biological immortality > 100-200 years out (I've never believed Aubrey de Grey and similars during the 20 years he's been in he
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by meroes 3y ago
I’m petty sure this is loosely agreed by Susskind except CCC is a more specific version. Entire bubble universes have a chance to fluctuate out of any patch of spacetime. (Colemann-Delucca process or something). That fractal nature of space
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by meroes 3y ago
That’s because he disagrees with mainstream cosmology models in a different way than Susskind. Susskind takes the cosmology of our bubble universe as more settled, but addendums a huge inflationary multiverse on top. I’m pretty sure Carroll
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by meroes 3y ago
Things still happen in heat death because of quantum mechanics and fluctuations. Time still has a meaning, but it may lose its arrow if microscopic quantum interactions are what dominates. At a small scale, these have no direction in time.
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by meroes 3y ago
I guess computer science isn’t science /s
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by meroes 3y ago
I absolutely must have one to display on my bookcase
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by meroes 3y ago
Correlations don’t entail a specific causal relation. Asking why asks for causal relations. I’d suggest a look at Reichenbach’s principle as necessary for science. I’m getting really sick of conflating statistics with reasons. It’s like peo
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by meroes 3y ago
Techies repeat what they chastise artists for about Adobe
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by meroes 3y ago
This is like an artist getting used to Adobe’s products before they’re put behind a wall. And borrowing HN’s attitude to that, you apparently deserve it
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by meroes 3y ago
Anyone who sees digestion for example can’t be reduced to digital programs knows it’s far, far away. Actual AGI will require biology and psychology, not better programs.
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by meroes 3y ago
100% I’d liken it to a fusion energy shop that wants to stay alive for 40 years. It’s not nuke worthy
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by meroes 3y ago
AI winter incoming in 2-5 years without it and these solely AI companies want to subsidize it like fusion because they have no other focuses. It’s not nukes, it’s fusion
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by meroes 3y ago
The UK in the 1880s to now is a very large decline in world power. It might be the largest decline while remaining intact of any nation. In that respect it’s actually doing well
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by meroes 3y ago
20 years ago Carly Fiorina at HP gave a speech saying light-computers were on the horizon. Guess we still aren’t there
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by meroes 3y ago
Ya it's taken 2 years for the government's published estimate of 6-10 months. People can't plan lives around this, or only the increasingly wealthy can. Wish you the best of luck. There's nothing in the US worth having y
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by meroes 3y ago
The flip-flopping of AI critics is completely explainable by flip-flopping morals of the architects. > Dr. Hinton said that when people used to ask him how he could work on technology that was potentially dangerous, he would paraphrase R
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by meroes 3y ago
> It is passing a judgement based on where the industry could go, rather than where it is now. This allows a bureaucratic organizations to impede companies based on arbitrary & unsubstantiated fears Seems disingenuous that MS would
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by meroes 3y ago
The remote physician misdiagnosed my X-ray last time. That physician is easily automated out and possibly for the benefit of the patients not just costs. The other staff involved, like the NP, X-ray tech, assistant, are fine for a lot longe
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by meroes 3y ago
My sister’s immigrating fiancé isn’t legally allowed to work leading up to the wedding or for several months after. It’s total nonsense. High skilled labor who’s not allowed to work for months while here indefinitely legally.
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by meroes 4y ago
Is there not a single product expert leading any company in big tech anymore? What’s going on. Growing up I was used to there being more useful and fun tech gadgets than I could ever afford. Now it’s like unless they own your entire online
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by meroes 4y ago
Didn’t Google become entrenched by scraping? Scraping seems to create a few dozen winners and 99% losers from the data we have.
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by meroes 4y ago
Of course you would. That’s why it never happen!
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by meroes 4y ago
Cyberpunk was great to get 'hackers' on board with techno capitalism. Turns out most techies know more about tech than capitalism. The society-changing systems will never be broken wide open while most care about them. It's g
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by meroes 4y ago
Can’t we view it as new notation creates new mathematics? A placeholder symbol vs an actual number doing the same thing and more (discovery of zero as a number). The new mathematics at least could be initially tiny, and then the notation pr
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by meroes 4y ago
Good people brought us the surveillance economy according to Jaron Lanier.
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by meroes 4y ago
Ya, if you want to see this cashed out here's Stuart Kauffman https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/04/04/135113346/there... "IS THERE A FINITE PRESTATABLE SET OF BIOLOGICAL "FU
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by meroes 4y ago
You’re right on many points. And yes I did say energy levels to account for not relying solely on hunger. You’re using the “through disciple -> freedom” idea from Aristotle I think. And you’re using what is needed . I agree for your c
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by meroes 4y ago
I’m talking in terms of carbs as fast vs fat and protein as slow. Not the different type of carbs. I should have been more precise.
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by meroes 4y ago
Fake sugar is not the solution to that.
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by meroes 4y ago
Increasing my sugar intake helps me exercise more and be healthier overall. Fake sugars are worse than sugar being added to food. They are not the solution to that. Anyone bringing that up is strawmanning. (I bring it up only because many p

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