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by nis0s 2y ago
I think by “universal” we mean rights which can be conferred to another regardless of place or person. So I do think some rights are universal, but everything a society may call a right is not a universal right—having clean water and clean
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by nis0s 2y ago
People take drugs recreationally, but that doesn’t always translate into worse health outcomes. The term “substance abuse” is also unnecessarily judgmental in this case because it assumes lack of self-control. Someone can be in control and
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by nis0s 2y ago
Your counterpoint doesn’t make sense because the government establishes laws. A trial is an application of the laws of that government. The quality of a trial being “fair” is just a marketable quality of that government. Healthcare, on the
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by nis0s 2y ago
My first inclination is to agree with the idea that all humans have a right to flourish because I would like everyone to have self-determined and self-acquired means to actualization. However, what’s the upper bound on demands made for flou
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by nis0s 2y ago
What’s the difference between this and what Wolfram Alpha has been doing? https://www.wolfram.com/artificial-intelligence/
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by nis0s 2y ago
Honestly, it doesn’t matter how good or bad an AI is at its performance if someone wants to use it as a replacement for a person. The goal shouldn’t be to say that AI sucks (it doesn’t), or that it can never beat humans (it can or will). Th
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What are serious instances of next generation human capability augmentation?
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by nis0s 2y ago
I forgot to mention vocal communication is another way to connect (which is already being used in abundance, but it’s more mechanical than desirable). But I disagree that human collaboration is necessarily important for human-surpassing int
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Fairy Stories by JRR Tolkien[pdf](coolcalvary.com)
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If it’s sentient, awake or self-aware, you should give it wheels and find out what it does, or wants to do. https://www.mycostories.com/post/fungal-cybernetics-mushroom...
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think human-machine teaming or human-AI collaboration requires some interface, either invasive or otherwise, but one which enables two-way communication. For biological organisms, symbiotic relationships are possible through sensory-motor
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A short read on the subject https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/reclaiming-art-in-th...
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by nis0s 2y ago
From what I can tell, some intellectual circles would like solarpunk to be “Communism with solar panels”, which I find uninspiring. I also find that some thinkers in this movement have misguided notions on social justice (like open border p
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by nis0s 2y ago
My criticism of solarpunk is its emphasis on hydro, wind and solar energy instead of more efficient sources like nuclear. But I appreciate the futurist optimism and self-reliance ethos of solarpunk. I am not interested in aspects of solarpu
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by nis0s 2y ago
There’s more than one way of thinking of it, the key emphasis is on intermingling Nature in its design elements. See this [1] or [2], for example. [1] https://newintrigue.com/2025/01/29/solarpunk-a-vision-for-
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Solarpunk(en.wikipedia.org)
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If you search “Harvard research fraud” at least three distinct cases come up.
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I disagree the reason is as simple as racism, as Van Norden said. I think the issue is that, at least to my knowledge, there is scant separation of religious, cultural and social influence in other philosophical traditions or works. As soon
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by nis0s 2y ago
> “I believe that voting is providing a sort of pornographic stimulus; it becomes more like supporting your football team. Could someone explain how purple states, or purple voters, exist if that’s truly how people think? I worry that th
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by nis0s 2y ago
I didn’t mean any shade at MIT, or the MIT swapfest—I was just sharing a story. I also met some great people there, and bought some cool stuff, so I’d highly recommend people in the area to attend it at least once. Regarding trying to sort
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by nis0s 2y ago
Once at an MIT swapfest, I paid someone half price for a camera to “hold it” because I didn’t have the entire amount they wanted in cash, and they wouldn’t take Venmo. I never got the camera or any money back because he basically gave me th
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think there’s also something to be said of preference shifts with different degrees of emotional or physical attraction to someone. Some couples are definitely only together so that they don’t have to be lonely individuals, and not becaus
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by nis0s 2y ago
Incompetency comes in all types, there’s no need to assume anything. In fact, you should be especially careful if your doctor is [your favorite type of person], that’s when you know your cognitive biases are working against your better judg
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by nis0s 2y ago
Lyx is a pretty great alternative to Overleaf, but transferring files from one platform to another can be a hassle, at least for me.
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by nis0s 2y ago
That's a good question (did they try this, or did someone else?), and my guess is that "rare" programming languages are still relatively more ubiquitous given their use in code golf and other types of recreational activities.
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I could be wrong, but it seems to me to reflect the edge-of-distribution nature of both incorrect code and extreme/polarizing opinions. As such, when an LLM is fine-tuned towards the tail end of a normal distribution, the end result is
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by nis0s 2y ago
The federal budget definitely needed pruning, and the Democrats knew this as well. While the Democrats are letting the Republicans walk themselves into losing the Midterms, I am not sure the Democrats have any vision to offer for working cl
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by nis0s 2y ago
> The finding that language models can get better by generating longer outputs directly contradicts Yann’s hypothesis. I think the flaw in his logic comes from the idea that errors must compound per-token. Somehow, even if the model make
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by nis0s 2y ago
> Proclaiming that your work is a “promising first step” in your introduction, despite being fully aware that nobody will ever build on it. Science produces discrete units which can be used in different ways, if not in their exact form f
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I think the writer is neglecting how all of this predates Yarvin via the political doctrine on “truthiness”, for example see the Iraq War. The 2008 recession is a good example of a manufactured crisis, if analyzed from a different perspecti

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