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by momenti 4y ago
Power is one factor informing policy, empathy is another. Neither is sufficient for a policy that sustains the system for long on its own. Only focusing on power would result in e.g. exploitation of Africa. But most don't like this due
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by momenti 4y ago
That would be an out-of-context quote. I'd say that attempting to prohibit this tradition has a net negative impact on the integrity and functioning of society because the harm in question is very minor but the reaction to such an atte
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by momenti 4y ago
Even a few days or weeks after the mutilation the consequences are extremely minor. It is a very low-priority issue.
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by momenti 4y ago
It is very minor mutilation though, it does not matter.
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by momenti 4y ago
Read the [...]. The harm is to minimal that it is a non-issue.
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by momenti 4y ago
Actual barbarism would impair the functioning and productivity of society. The harm in this case is so negligible that it does not matter.
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by momenti 4y ago
What matters the most is the cohesion, functioning and productivity of society, which is unaffected by circumcision. The notion of consent is arbitrary. You could also regard religious cults as primary, then you would need their consent to
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by momenti 4y ago
This inflicted pain and damage appears to have no significant impact on adult quality of life though. Circumcision may also even reduce the bacterial load and hence reduce chances of infections and cancer: https://slatestarcodex.
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by momenti 4y ago
You can always build things more safely with more resources (more maintenance, more checks, more testing etc.), the question at the end of the day is whether it is economical. I don't think this question can be answered upfront in this
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by momenti 4y ago
Lilium's plane has 30 engines, multiple independent battery packs, and electric motors are way more reliable than jet engines (due to being so much simpler). A Lilium plane may have a 1000x higher chance of a crash in case of full engi
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by momenti 4y ago
It's behind a paywall for me.
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by momenti 4y ago
I wonder what kind of speedup can we expect from neuromorphic computing within the next 5-10 years?
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by momenti 4y ago
If they were too competent these bureaucracies would abolish themselves, or at least decimate their own funding.
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by momenti 4y ago
The model only has about 1B parameters which is relatively small. The language models that produced very impressive results have >>50B parameters, e.g. GPT-3 with 175B, Aleph Alpha Luminous (200B), Google PaLM (540B). GPT-3 can unders
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by momenti 4y ago
This proves that none of these institutions and politicians pushing for more surveillance actually care about the problem (while the urgency of the problem is dubious to begin with). It's all about power and funding. If the problem was
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by momenti 4y ago
Do you really pay for less? Digital signage displays often run 24/7 in temper proof cases with relatively poor ventilation and heat dissipation. Thus you might actually get a display that lasts longer (which, AFAIK, mostly comes down t
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by momenti 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-O7AZNzbzQ See the linked papers if you don't like videos.
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by momenti 5y ago
That's not entirely true. Neural networks are fairly robust to noisy training data (a.k.a. garbage).[0] Well, stochastic gradient descent has the noise in its name. More training data can compensate for noisy data to some extent.[1]
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by momenti 5y ago
Their initial intention was possibly genuine, but there are strong incentives for secrecy (trade secrets), in addition to the U.S. military most likely having an interest in suppressing information to avoid someone else creating AI first.
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Ask HN: Shouldn't it be hnmain { min-width: 720px; }?
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by momenti 5y ago
Heart transplant recipients survive 15 years on average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation
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by momenti 5y ago
> We all know what happens when content isn't curated, and it's really, really bad. Not true because law enforcement is still in place to take care of crime. Some amount of crime and confusion are also the price you pay to ge
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by momenti 5y ago
It's a shame that these are stereotyped as female fashion accessory.
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by momenti 5y ago
PI?
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by momenti 5y ago
Though for a small-ish site (say <150 users), such techniques are typically not necessary.
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by momenti 5y ago
And population IQ.
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by momenti 5y ago
Be sure to use LibreOffice "still" rather than "fresh", i.e. the bottom one of the two version on their download page (which is the second latest, but more stable release): https://www.libreoffice.org/dow
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by momenti 5y ago
There is a chance that it won't be commercially viable. See e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_0VEmN7Bg8
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by momenti 5y ago
These viral videos of an orangutan driving a golf cart seemed to be fake to me, possibly done with the help of a remote controller or automated steering.
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by momenti 5y ago
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