nootropicat

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by nootropicat 4y ago
The anonymity set is the best theoretically possible - everyone in the shielded set. It's the same for zk.money and tornado - the difference compared to tornado is that tornado has fixed amounts. There's no possible attack to dean
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Exactly. Monero's ringct model is easy to break statistically given some resources. Fees aren't that high. It's practical for a state to know 75+% of spent outputs by a combination of exchange info exchange and spamming. In a
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by nootropicat 4y ago
This is why PoS is a must. There's no way to hide industrial mining facilities and miners will be eventually forced to enforce sanctions. A validator even with 100k eth just needs a connection, trivial to hide.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>The theory of epicycles is not an explanatory model because it does not explain why the planets should move in circular orbits with epicyclical sub-orbits. Kepler's laws are explanatory because they explain planetary motion as a re
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>To clarify: a predictive model is one that can predict novel events. An explainable model is one that can explain how it made a prediction. Sorry but that distinction doesn't mean anything falsifiable. Did you mean an explanatory m
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>why not just organize society to educate everyone Because it was tried and it's a massive failure. The entire western education system is geared to help slowest learners at the expense of everyone else. It's actively harmful f
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Yes, new laws and probably technology would be needed for that too. Ideally there would be an implant that records their entire life - which can be used to determine if they slacked off in breach of the purchase agreement.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>Thought experiment: who can buy the most shares of others? And if they buy "well", how does the distribution of wealth shift? It shifts to the sellers, not the buyers. That's because buyers are competing with each other w
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by nootropicat 4y ago
This concept completely fixes inequality and fully replaces all forms of social welfare - no more wasted potential because a smart person is born in a bad environment due to genetic lottery. Advantage from growing up in a rich family would
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by nootropicat 4y ago
How cheap kids are is irrelevant. Population grew much faster when people lived in abject poverty. People empirically don't want kids, full stop. Raising them could be free and tfr would still be below 2. "I can't afford kids
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>Sample size: zero. By that logic it's impossible to say that any species is going extinct before it actually disappears. The entire developed world is slowly going extinct, and drastic changes are needed to stop that. Some countrie
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Outside of high-tech solutions (external wombs, anti-aging) there's one social: a totalitarian country forcing women to have kids. The only country I could see it happening is China. In the absence of one of the three solutions, techno
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>Both countries drew the ire of the others, and for a time, it seemed as if the European Union's internal market would break apart under pressure from the crisis due to the egoism of the member states. >A repeat this time around
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Ftl means there's one global reference frame most likely the cmbr one. The reason relativity predicts weird effects like time travel is because it doesn't allow ftl as an assumption, so the only way to hack ftl into it is negative
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Infura is completely irrelevant as far as security goes, they have zero power to do anything related to consensus. >The issue with PoS, of course, is that while the work function is insular, purchasing stake is not. That's not the i
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>I understand Proof of Stake to be much more centralized and prone to takeovers than proof of work. So if the merge ever actually happens, it would fix the energy consumption issue at the trade-off of security (staking, aka rich get rich
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by nootropicat 4y ago
That's incorrect. There were plans to switch to hybrid PoS in 2018 which were (surprisingly even to Parity node devs) rapidly shelved. Since then a new design is being slowly worked upon. There were no plans to switch in 2019 that I re
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Energy use can be computed from first principles given some arbitrary assumptions: average power per node and number of nodes. There are ARM nodes that require less than 10W. Then there are more conventional servers that require ...150W? Av
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Sunscreen is a scam. Sun is good for you unless you aren't able to tan. "Nonsmokers who avoided sun exposure had a life expectancy similar to smokers in the highest sun exposure group, indicating that avoidance of sun exposure is
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Way too many people hold various crypto for any action now. Sec can barely deal with Ripple and that's one of the easiest ones.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
We are already in the reality in which video evidence has equal weight to witness statements, it just requires one serious deepfake framing attempt (later detected) for everyone to internalize that.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Those interactions moved to discord (and telegram, although that's second-hand info). I fully understand what you describe, and once I realized the truly abysmal return on time spent I cut my time on public social media by ~100x. It&#x
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Eh, the cost of training is already within the reach of wealthy individuals, and as better TPUs/GPUs appear on the cloud cost drops. This is definitely going to become commonly available tech this decade.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>If anyone can do it I think you missed most comments under this article...
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Possession is 9/10 of the law. What some tax board thinks only matters insofar as they are able to enforce their will. People think governments are omnipotent. They are not.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
As AIs become more lifelike the pool of humans that consider it enough grows. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if relationships with human level AI won't dominate eventually.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
People know you can't pay a human to love you, but it's in principle possible to make an AI that loves you, assuming a human level AI exists.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
On the balance I like chats much more. In terms of personal connections per time spent on contributing I found chats to be about one order of magnitude more effective than old (gone) phpbb forums. Forums were much more transactional and imp
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by nootropicat 4y ago
The forum/mailing list format is over, most good discussions happen on discord now (some people swear by telegram - mostly Russians). I'm not claiming it's a change for the better. I'm old enough to have caught the tail
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by nootropicat 4y ago
This ignores renewable energy. What's the problem with renewables? Intermittency. Which is perfect for training. Just use a battery for a 10 minute buffer and start/stop when current energy price drops due to wind or sun energy fl

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