michaelhoney

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by michaelhoney 1y ago
There really is no limit to the degree to which legislators will clear the way for fossil fuel companies to kill us all
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
You must not know very many 70yos
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
Which conservative ideas do you think aren’t being represented? The current US administration is a criminal enterprise which is actively destroying the nation.
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
it's pointers all the way down
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
He has literally founded a school and got funding for fellowships where people have worked on the future of food and stopping tobacco from killing people. https://www.moralambition.org/fellowships/all-fellowships
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
So many of us have ideas for something cool and never build them. You did it. I salute you, you madman
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
Not with that attitude, no. Why so pessimistic?
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by michaelhoney 1y ago
... or maybe it's not objectively bad, and you're bouncing off it for some reason? Per the parent comment, it does a lot with very little. And it's heady and literary and beautiful. Not everyone is into that. But a lot of peo
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
people winding themselves up about artificial superintelligence, when it’s organic stupidity that’s actually the problem look around you. the world is burning. fix that
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
the reductive, absurd version of something is reductive and absurd, but that doesn't mean that the nuanced, appropriate version is wrong
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
A bold statement given the state of the US right now
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
I agree - using a pig instrumentally like that seems less ethical than growing human organs from our own stem cells
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
On the one hand, horrifying. On the other hand, it'd be great to have a whole spare body with your own (perhaps improved) genetics available for parts – or, better, grown on demand.
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
This is excellent and I appreciate your work. I love seeing prototype interface, and this one has real promise. I immediately found myself thinking about alternative layouts, particularly adaptive ones with common letter-pairs appearing rad
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
If you can’t imagine it, try a bit harder. We can build a better world, but it takes effort.
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
... or have anti-intellectual media whipped up that resentment as part of their culture war?
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
Probably because the tariff table was put together by an ignorant acolyte. They are not serious people.
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
y'all Americans need to get your democratic shit together
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
the pull/push distinction is excellent, thankyou
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
The US government has opened the top of the body politic's skull and it's hacking out chunks of the soft matter inside.
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
> But someone who is a 10x engineer in a particular skill set is still going to have infinitely more areas where they are average (or below average). I know a lot of world-class engineers, but I’ve never met anyone who is 10 times better
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
maybe humans aren't the only species on the planet
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
calm down mate
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
It would totally be viable. Just politically difficult for timid politicians
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
> more efficient sources like nuclear thing is, nuclear is not punk. It requires large-nation-scale financing. A community cannot build a nuclear power station.
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
We have something like this in Australia. The News Corp masthead The Australian ( https://www.theaustralian.com.au ) is basically a propaganda rag for Rupert Murdoch. Every day there are opinions, and every day the opinions are th
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
Great work OP, love this site
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
https://archive.is/DXVCq
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
As with black holes, in my lifetime exoplanets have gone from being conjectural-but-likely to scientifically rich observable phenomena. I love it.
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by michaelhoney 2y ago
I don't know what you would consider radical if you think what is happening now is incremental.

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