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by myrmidon 1y ago
> You center cognition/intelligence on humans as if it was the pinacle of it That's not my viewpoint, from elsewhere in the thread: Cognition is (to me) not the most impressive and out-of-reach evolutionary achievement: That wo
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm just assuming materialism, and that assumption is basically for complete lack of convincing alternatives (to me). With "agency" I just mean the ability to affect the physical world (not some abstract internal property). R
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm sticking to materialism, because historically all its predictions turned out to be correct (cognition happens in the brain, thought manifests physically in neural activity, affecting our physical brain affects our thinking). The co
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Gonna grab those, thanks for the recommendation. If you are interested in the opposite point of view, I can really recommend "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by V. Braitenberg. Basically builds up to "conscious
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm not saying that language necessarily is the biggest stumbling block on (our) road towards AI, but it is a very prominent feature that we have used to distinguish our capabilities from other animals long before AI was even conceived
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I personally think that AI is a realistic extinction threat for our whole species within this century, and a full nuclear war never was (and probably never will be). Neither is climate change. Collapse of our current civilizations? Sure. Ex
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by myrmidon 1y ago
If you make the same argument for flight it looks really weak. Cognition is (to me) not even the most impressive and out-of-reach achievement: That would be how (our) and animals bodies are self-assembling, self-repairing and self-replicati
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I struggle to understand how people can just dismiss the possibility of artificial intelligence. Human cognition was basically bruteforced by evolution-- why would it be impossible to achieve the exact same result in silicon, especially a
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by myrmidon 1y ago
There is no need to speculate on Reform members being on the take when they are literally pleading "guilty" in court: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xwy015ngo Scum.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
It's good to raise awareness of this. I think that grid upgrades are the only good solution here (and those are already happening), because shifting enough consumption towards where the windfarms are strikes me as ridiculous (what fr
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I see multiple factors here: - There's a lot of Chinese people in the region (1.3b vs <20M in Cambodia) - Better access to capital for setting up big operations like this - Much tighter control and policing in their homeland, so t
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by myrmidon 1y ago
The logical progression to me is AI acting in its own interests, and outcompeting humans much like humans outcompeted every other animal on the planet. This is particularly threatening because AI is much less constrained on size, energy and
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by myrmidon 1y ago
This does not really conflict with my point. Declining number of workers in farming are also a factor, but I'm thinking more construction/heavy industry. It used to be extremely economical to import workers and use them to grow lo
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I think another reason for the recent global rise of anti-immigration parties is also that the relative economic value of immigrants (as unskilled labor) has gone down, and the "costs" (cultural/language friction) have beco
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> the cause wasn't climate change, like all the media worldwide boasted. That was not the typical claim of news outlets. The actual headlines were more like "How climate change affected the LA fires". Media outlets linking
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by myrmidon 1y ago
The purpose of the stock market is to play matchmaker between companies and capital. Insider trading erodes trust of unaffiliated capital owners and thus hurts the purpose. A prediction market, on the other hand, aims to provide the best po
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm really curious if we're going to see some drastic changes in regulation (like the original introduction of copyright), or if human writing in general is gonna end up like handwritten books after the printing press (niche/
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by myrmidon 1y ago
If you wanted to avoid "misnominations", you'd be forced to wait until the career of the nominee is over (meaning in many cases: award it posthumously). But the Nobel price explicitly tries to avoid that; hindsight is alway
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Run your own gitlab server then?
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> there were more idiots on the road after and during covid I don't think the data really supports this, because pedestrian deaths have been rising continuously since 2008 instead of abruptly after 2019; there is at least a bunch of
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by myrmidon 1y ago
There is another aspect that Moscov gets out of the whole shitshow: Economical integration/growth/success of an EU-aligned Ukraine is slowed down. I believe falling behind former Sovjet countries economically is a continuous pain
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I do agree with your point but I also think that there is a lot of inertia in the sector (rightfully so!) and it is very difficult for languages to become established if they don't come with a "unique selling point" of sort
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by myrmidon 1y ago
To put this somewhat in perspective ("why is Germany not installing 700km² of PV panels right now ?"): Grid operators project costs of around €250 billion [1] (within 2045) for grid expansion alone, and NIMBYism is a big problem
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by myrmidon 1y ago
This sounds bleak, but I'm pretty sure that any improvement (more justice/corporate responsibility) would at least not be free: It would also have chilling effects on research/innovation from perceived legal risk and higher
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I think it is incorrect to blame this on a currently corrupt president. Counter-hypothesis: This is a systemic issue. Decisionmakers and shareholders that cause harm face very little consequences if their behavior does not violate the lette
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Similar problem in Germany, also mostly on a north/south axis. A mitigating factor is PV+storage coming online mostly in the south and balancing this out somewhat. According to grid operators, total projected grid expansion costs of ~$
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I honestly don't think that ads are super ineffective right now, because companies are too greedy to not cut useless spending (I would expect that stopping ad spending would cost your average company significant market share, medium te
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Video gaming is the mess that it is in 2025 Is it though? IMO video gaming is fine, in a great spot, even. Consumer prices have stayed (unreasonably!) cheap for decades and especially the indie market is thriving right now. I remember
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Adding up the big "ad-based" companies (google, meta) gets into the double digit percentages of US GDP (and those companies also do some useful non-ad things, too). That sounds like a lot considering it is mostly a zero-sum waste,
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I honestly don't think the Ukraine invasion was that irrational. Russia had previous success (with managable pushback) annexing Crimea (and the Chechen wars before). Things just went south really hard this time and now they're k

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