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by morlockabove 6y ago
Given that's the same culture obsessed with traps, it's pretty clear that it hates fags, not gays. They're not 'pro-LGBT' because that language is stultified, boring, soul-rending mainstream corporate-speak. Speaki
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by morlockabove 6y ago
The kinds of people who like building things will be less sympathetic to environmental concerns when those concerns are 'don't build that, leave the world untainted by human hand'- there's a difference between polluting
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Each electron present in one of the atom's orbitals is a bit, so yeah. More realistically, the simplest atom- one proton, one electron- has 3 integer numbers associated with the state of the electron. You need more than a bit to descr
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by morlockabove 6y ago
The website is a disaster. Fucking with the back button to trap you there, INSTALL THE APP!!! popups- how hard would it be to use wordpress, or just a static site?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Seems awfully convenient that the universe would look identical to us in particular, as opposed to any other observer. Or being computronium.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Would covid have been made in the wuhan lab without computers?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
It does, you just have to dress it up correctly. You have incentives to want people to be personally weak and historically ignorant, but still able to shuffle papers and make new widgets to make gdp line go up. It's in your best intere
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by morlockabove 6y ago
That's all well and good, but I'd still rather not see a bunch of autistics fired and unpersoned for unwittingly questioning modern dogma. We live in an increasingly religious time; better to go into questioning the orthodoxy wit
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by morlockabove 6y ago
A lot of it is cynisism about people complaining about bad actors. The sorts of people who would build an anti-censorship tool are likely to be motivated, at least partly, be disdain for the censors of the day. 'Oh, now you want thoug
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Free speech isn't synonymous with the first amendment. "Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences!" is one of the most infuriating lines I've ever had the displeasure to hear parroted. What else could it p
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by morlockabove 6y ago
You think they don't want to implement it in the US?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
It's from a time when the university system worked better. Now, to be a Real Scientist, you have to hire someone to churn out the meaningless papers for you or not be an academic- just be independently wealthy and stick your results o
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Then when the lease expires, they can downsize. Or if they're growing, they can not lease additional space when they otherwise would have.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
What exactly does 'emergent concepts' mean, in this context?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Hiring/acceptance is zero-sum. Privileging one group is taking spots away from another.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
At this point, everyone should just say they're a woman.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Keeping your commenter-base small and elitist seems like a good thing. That's the point of moderation, right?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
How is that not what humans do?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Unless the AI was formed under a selection mechanism that rewarded something like kin preference, there's no reason to think it would care . The orthogonality principle is that you could have any level of intelligence furthering any
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Brilliant scientists tend to be insane weirdos. Newton was into alchemy. The kind of personality that's willing to break one orthodoxy won't stop at the next; all great new ideas are plucked from the midst of mad ramblings.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Why would an AI start with a human utility function? Why would it care about that if it wasn't explicitly built in?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I'm a lot more sympathetic to someone who manufactures their own drugs for personal consumption, yes, but only because the difficulty involved means you need a minimum of discipline to get there which would hopefully meliorate the nega
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by morlockabove 6y ago
You mention "horribly dysfunctional" further down. That's what I have a problem with. I see these cardboard sex-simulacra trapping, for example, young men in local optima where they never go and talk to a real girl- even you
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Yeah, I know it's big. I just don't like it. I guess I'm raging against the future that seems to be coming- I'm finally old!
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Good for individual women who genuinely want to work, bad for women as a class when everybody does it because now even those young-ish married women who would have been happier raising the kids have to work because of the incrementally lowe
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Modus tollens, modus ponens; my quality of life is vastly improved by not dying of smallpox and equivalent improvements to the world would be very valuable. I think going back to a situation with smallpox would be a big decrease, so that a
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Of course! There's good uses for everything. It's all this talk of poorly susbtituting emotional bonds with simulacra that annoys me. Seems like a motte-and-bailey. Oh, it's for couples! Now let's go back to selling o
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Some people need heroin. I'm against the war on drugs, but I still despise dealers.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Sounds like hell. Nothing personal, but I really hope your enterprise fails miserably.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
mobile nuclear power

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