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by netcan 5y ago
True, but I don't think this invalidates OP's point. Nuclear disasters are scary in a different way.
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by netcan 5y ago
It's almost a microcosm of the issue. OOH, Google can do what they want. Why can't they campaign for or against stuff, enlist their customers, and such. OTOH... Google are the gate to online information. Google "lobbying&quot
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by netcan 5y ago
>> the predominant, most prosperous, safest, most free societies have been the internationalist ones... I'm not sure there are rules to this. A lot of the narrative depends on how we define terms, and the story can be told in rad
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by netcan 5y ago
I think you're assuming a level of market rationality that doesn't exist IRL. In practice, certain industries have tended to be more profitable than others... even long term. Same for stock. Apple & MSFT's stock price d
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by netcan 5y ago
>How was tobacco a monopoly. Philip Morris.
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by netcan 5y ago
Depends. How fast? How cool?
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by netcan 5y ago
The $1trn headline makes me expect something to excite the imagination... A roman aquaduct wow factor. Something to marvel at. Am I being shallow? Does it make bad sense to cut a $100bn slice for something epic? A hypersonic monorail perhap
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by netcan 5y ago
How common is it that a judge has to dig deeply into a contract?
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by netcan 5y ago
Honestly I think the work-leisure dichotomy is kinda bust regardless. Do more years of education mean we have more leisure years than previous generations? Maybe the monks' prayer days should count as work. In any case, before industri
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by netcan 5y ago
Yeah, but I actually think zoom meeting aren't the ideal proving ground. It's a head-2-head between two tools that can do the job, with certain advantages to both. For hanging out with a younger sibling, zoom doesn't work too
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by netcan 5y ago
There isn't a precise definition. How precise can "metaverse" be? You can't get the implications from the definition. That's why I suggest going directly for implications.
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by netcan 5y ago
Performance & delivery are, to an extent, in the eye of the beholder. Success is relative to whatever you're trying to achieve.
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by netcan 5y ago
It's easy to get entangled in definitions, metaphors and such. It's kind of pointless though. They aren't precise anyway. Instead of clearly defining what these things mean, I think it's better for clarity if we just foc
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by netcan 5y ago
Zuck is a pretty uninspiring orator, with a tendency to use flat metaphors and bland platitudes. He's also not much of a creative visionary. His version of what "metaverse" will be has Jetsons sort of logic. You get up, have
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by netcan 5y ago
Agreed. I don't think any of these things are substitutes for each other. A book about the arctic is not an alternative to a visit. It's a substitute for another book, maybe. The main way VFR competes with other stuff is competiti
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by netcan 5y ago
Of course. We definitely don't need fb. VR though, is another mode. We don't necessarily need it, but having it does give us something new.
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by netcan 5y ago
I have an oculus, which I bought mostly out of interest. Not really a gamer. Anyway, I use it once or twice a month to play a zombie shooting game with my brother, who lives overseas. We shoot zombies for an hour and chat. It feels kind of
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by netcan 5y ago
The trait may or may not be advantageous. Diversity is. In this case the selective pressure is poaching, but selective pressures are constant. Diversity is a bank of genetics that the population can draw from to adapt and survive. Traits th
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by netcan 5y ago
Why doesn't someone just "solve this problem with money." I realize this is a simplification, but any number of actors could affordably silo a massive stockpile and make the risk of supply deficits go away entirely. Some of t
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by netcan 5y ago
I'm not seeing the analogy. The lithium market is surprisingly small for the same reasons that plastics are...? I concede the point that small individual parts of the overall waste economy are prominent problems... but where's the
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by netcan 5y ago
Waste management is a multi-trillion dollar industry.
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by netcan 5y ago
>>Since the gap between theory and confirmation of the theory could span a whole career, young physicists need to survive by pleasing their elders with fashionable theories for a decade without any feedback from the physical universe.
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by netcan 5y ago
Something about the economics of lithium, and other recently important minerals confuses me. How is a $1.5bn deposit, a major, significant source? That's would be about 10 days worth of oil. The whole global lithium market is just $3bn
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by netcan 5y ago
pretty much the point I was going for, except the tldr is, I'm not liking this theoretical morros showing how unoriginal I am.
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by netcan 5y ago
Please say you take requests.
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by netcan 5y ago
Messaging apps already do a bare version of suggesting auto-replies. It's mostly it's a texting-while-driving aid, so they keep it concise and uncomplicated. Code completion already exists. Spam. Gradual steps have places to start
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by netcan 5y ago
A machine sticking that mirror in our face is still gonna be weird.
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by netcan 5y ago
No. I'm predictable, ergo weak AI is predicting me... thus making me self conscious about by predictability.
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by netcan 5y ago
Oh I don't disagree that the "best of gpt-3" on twitter is automated hyperbole machine.^ But I think at least in HN, a lot of people have looked at somewhat more objective sources too. The standard way to prove a trick shot i
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by netcan 5y ago
I was starting to write a response, and realised how patterned the debate is. We've been discussing the topic of machine intelligence since the start of CS and points of contention tend to show up in the same places. Anyway, it occured

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