noosphr

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by noosphr 3mo ago
We still don't. Until free/at cost car charging is provided at work when the sun shines you're just moving the place where combustion happens. This may be a worth while trade in downtowns where the main form of car pollution
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by noosphr 3mo ago
People doubt the timelines, not the claims. The timelines are pure fantasy and have been since the start.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Can't wait for the EU brain control bill. We support our citizens right to free will so long as they don't think anything bad.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
People are turning on immigrants because the pie has been shrinking for decades.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
The EU wants to be the only one who spies on its citizens.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Go in a car from 1970 and try the seatbelts. I can see why people didn't want them. I too would rather not have a stiff blade like plastic meterial nearly cut my head off everytime the car breaks. By comparison today we have luxurious
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by noosphr 3mo ago
That's the cost of pollution.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Every day we stray further into depravity and barbarism.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
It was data. Alexnet worked because imagenet existed. It took less than a year between the dataset becoming public and the first version of Alexnet being trained.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Measuring software performance by lines of code is like measuring aircraft performance by weight. I have no idea why everyone seems to have forgotten this simple fact over the last four years.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Computer science is to programming as physics is to plumbing. If you want to be a plumber get an apprenticeship.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
I'm a coauthor on a peer reviewed biology paper with 5,000 citation.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
It isn't.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Software created by algorithms is public domain.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
Well there's your problem, you didn't say you wasted a million dollars doing something an expert can do in an afternoon.
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by noosphr 3mo ago
We do.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
Understanding how a bunch of baroque proteins interact is the definition of stamp collecting. As a meat bag made up of such machines I appreciate it for what it is. As a intelligence capable of abstraction I don't measure our progress
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by noosphr 4mo ago
You were so close to realizing class is the only thing that matters. But thankfully a good western education make that thought impossible.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
It's only between 1920 and 1960 that you would have been literally blown away by scientific progress, first as we split the atom then fused it. That you're impressed by the stamp collecting that science has become since then says
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by noosphr 4mo ago
We've been told models are too dangerous since gpt2. There comes a point where you not only want the boy to stop crying wolf, but hopefully be eaten by one.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
It's an over reaction if you have a decade to argue with morons. I've had papers sit in peer review for two years, get rejected, then when they are finally published the other editors of the journal that rejected them came crawlin
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by noosphr 4mo ago
> What? IVF >>, etc.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
Taking advice for raising children from the childless is like asking virgins for advice on sex.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
>I am worried about the long term impact of research involving human conception, IVF, etc. You'd have a rather different opinion if you had to squeeze out a water melon out of your genitals.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
The internet is a fad and will pass any day now.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
Two people were killed in the next city within six months because no one bothered to fix their paths. One was a child. If someone had bothered to write to that council they'd be alive. But by all means, keep winning online arguments an
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by noosphr 4mo ago
The EU has suffered from decades of brain drain. Every conversation about it very well demonstrates this fact.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
I got new bike lanes installed around the neogboirhood after I wrote to the local city representative about it, then went to a city where I did a PowerPoint presentation of all the places that you could get killed if the driver wasn't
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by noosphr 4mo ago
An excuse to do nothing. The local dog catcher had more impact on your daily life than the president.
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by noosphr 4mo ago
This changes substantially when you ask people about their _own_ representatives: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/how-american...

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