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by nine_k 9mo ago
BTW the New Deal tried central planning and quickly rejected it. I'd say that the intense application of the antitrust law in the late 1930s was a key factor that helped end the Great Depression. The war, and wartime government powers,
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by nine_k 9mo ago
State agencies are often good at choosing right long-term targets. State agencies are often bad at the actual procurement, because of the pork-barrelling and red tape. E.g. both private companies and NASA agree that spaceflight is a worthy
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I have to politely disagree. The places that have highest fertility rates are places where contraception is hard to obtain and may be outright banned, and where womens' rights are severely restricted. That is, closer to nature, not far
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by nine_k 9mo ago
This looks like a very comfortable, pleasant way of civilization suicide. Not interacting with any other human means you're the last human in your genetic line. A widespread adherence to this idea means humanity dwindling and dying out
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by nine_k 9mo ago
If you replace "taxes" with more general "investment", it's everywhere. A good example is Amazon that has reworked itself from an online bookstore into a global supplier of everything by ruthlessly reinvesting the p
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by nine_k 9mo ago
> * enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly* Here comes my favorite notion of "epistemic takeover". A crude form: make everybody believe that you have already won. A refined form: make everybody believe that ev
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I always remember this excellent sci-fi story about exactly such things: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ Strong emotions drive engagement. There are rather few of them; simpl
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I bet there are many well-moneyed interests that would benefit from discord and conflicts in the Western society writ large. A worldwide social network is subject to the worldwide political pressures, like any other media would be.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
With wealth concentrated in so few hands, it's already not that easy to walk it back :-/
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I mean, agents don't run for free for any significant time. Tokens cost money.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
When I played Sim City, I gladly built super-dense neighborhoods with high-rises facing parks, and mass transit, Le Corbusier style. One reason was that they brought in enormous income, another, that they looked cool.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
How much does it cost you?
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Did you see people mourning the demise of forum software, when neatly maintained places oriented towards specific topics gave way to noisy and all-encompassing places like FB at Twitter? I think these fragmented Discords are the return to t
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I don't think that trust is easily transferable between projects, and tracking "karma" or "reputation" as a simple number in this file would be technically easy. But how much should the "karma" value chang
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by nine_k 9mo ago
What is the point of owning public address space? Anything in your private network (even if it goes over public internet) should be encrypted and locked up anyway. Something like Wireguard or Nebula only needs a few (maybe just one) publicl
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Poor driver support on the poster's particular hardware, maybe?
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Not that many, as the new crop of junior devs grows up not writing and barely reading code.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
The invention of Mr Jacquard ushered in a sartorial golden age, when complex fabrics are easy to produce cheaply, at the expense of a few hours spent on punching a deck of cards. But the craft of making tapestries by hand definitely went in
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by nine_k 9mo ago
The human handlers write specs, etc. The AI can't work for days on the same task, I suppose; the feedback must be faster.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Stalling? Not at all, the prices have been rising :-/
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by nine_k 9mo ago
If you're not a citizen, maybe you don't get to take part in the collective action to repeal a law, at least not as easily.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I mean, it's at best an average-level senior engineer salary, not some exorbitant L6 Googler salary.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
This is a simplification to make the calculation more straightforward. But a typical US workplace honors about 11 to 13 federal holidays. I assume that an AI does not need a vacation, but can't work 2 days straight autonomously when it
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Interstellar space contains neutral hydrogen atoms. Hitting a spaceship, they would produce electromagnetic radiation. When the collision speed goes past about 0.25c, the radiation becomes hard gamma rays which are dangerous to living thing
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Next iterations of models will have to deal with that code, and it would be harder and harder to fix bugs and introduce features without triggering or introducing more defects. Biological evolution overcomes this by running thousands and mi
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by nine_k 9mo ago
$1k per day, 50 work weeks, 5 day a week → $250k a year. That is, to be worth it, the AI should work as well as an engineer that costs a company $250k. Between taxes, social security, and cost of office space, that engineer would be paid, s
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by nine_k 9mo ago
For historical reasons (FFI), Python has access to excellent vector / tensor mathematics (numpy / scipy / pandas / polars) and ML / AI libraries, from OpenCV to PyTorch. Hence the prevalence of Python in science and
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Most engineers don't have too much trouble understanding things like List<T>, or Promise<T>, or even Optional<T>, which all demonstrate vividly what a monad does (except Promise in JS that auto-flattens). A monad is a
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by nine_k 9mo ago
But words like "incapsulation" or "polymorphism" or even "autoincrement" also sound unfamiliar and scary to a young kid who encounters them the first time. But the kid learns their meaning along the way, in a d
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Is it always true? More than once I heard fears about undesirables moving in, crime rate growing, the neighborhood "losing its character" that commands the high prices, etc. The resistance is real at some places.

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