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by nosianu 1y ago
Though, that too only works if it is not adopted by the majority :) The actual strategy is not that you are last, but that you choose to be part of the smallest group.
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Plus, according to the article, even sinking relatively slowly the crew did not even manage to launch all the lifeboats they had, so more of them would probably not have made a difference. They also based the decision for the number of life
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I think Rai stones would be even better for that. One, because of their own history and usage, and two, because it is not the usual example everybody is already used to, showing that the concept is bigger and not bound to our modern society
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> the real alternative is that it gets thrown in the trash and wasted My view is a bit different nowadays, but this is very much an extreme bird's eye view from very high up, looking at only the smaller processes I have no disagre
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> a pure fantasy Yes it is, but what does that have to do with my comment? It does not change anything I wrote regardless of if it was already real, is feasible but not now, will never be possible.
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> Send a computer Those age too. Especially out there without the earth's shields. If you make one that lives longer than a human it's already quite the feat, add only a bit more radiation, it only gets worse. Computers are m
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> Is the plastic you ingest this way significant though? The follow-up question you might want to ask though is: How often do you want to ask that question? Yes, every tiny little bit is insignificant. That is true for most things, inc
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> The vast majority of your argument's volume was promoting an incorrect way of thinking comparing two unrelated things Funny, that is exactly what I saw when I read your "arguments". > Any reasonable reader would th
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In the last discussion about this that I read here and participated in, as someone who got paid from that fund for a while, I think the consensus was that the project was less meant to deliver something tangible, and more of a camouflaged g
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It was Russia that stopped delivering gas through the pipeline. It was already non-functioning when it was blown up, the gas inside was static, non-moving, the pressure only kept up to prevent pipe-deterioration. That was unilateral, ther
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> So any and all human communication is divination in your book? Words from an AI are just words. Words in a human brain have more or less (depending on the individual's experiences) "stuff" attached to them: From direct
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> This isn't useful or correct The formulas do not help you at all with the knowing. or not knowing, with being able to "predict" the past vs. being able to predict the future! They make assumptions. I would make the cla
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> but when I did the math to see how much more it would have been I have a suggestion for all the many similar problems around probability: Reframe it to be more correct. Instead of looking against the arrow of time, backwards with ful
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Yes, and so was OS and office suite. Nobody says it is going to happen next year, or even within five years. But eventually, as the technology matures and gets more and more integrated in businesses' IT, they will have ever more depend
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I would like to point to my comment in another AI thread not even a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44168022 You can, just like you can theoretically use something else than Windows or MS Office. Until it&#x
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That will work until there has been a lot of infrastructure created to work with a particular player, and 3rd party software. See the Microsoft ecosystem as an example. Nothing they do could not be replicated, but the network effects they a
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There is not much to discuss. It's not like the universe forces you to use one particular definition for some word. You can decide to use whichever you want for "same person", and somebody else may use another one. There is n
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Okay... so I'm going to do some nitpicking on the non-essential fringes of the argument if that's okay? > Your body has replaced all of its cells several times already in your lifetime Not true. Cells like neurons, heart cell
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> I personally think the metric should be something along the lines of how long would it take from losing all your income until you're homeless. What income? Income from job, or from capital? A huge difference. Also a lot har
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You are not contradiction the parent commenter, you actually say the same. A key point was/is that they use the wrong criteria. The parent commenter wrote > it’s just perceived success and the abstract from the paper says > su
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A significant thing to keep in mind for non-extinction doomerism is that individual experiences vary greatly. There may be a significant number of people or groups that really do experience what was predicted. Similar to how the experienc
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We had a submission just five days ago with a report from a Western pilot who had been flying for Yemenia during a six month expat contract: "How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived (pprune.org)" ht
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> Classic example is gov't work - taxpayers pay money, and has no say. I would claim this is not a good example at all. A lot of the specific requirements of public jobs, all the documentation and endless rules, comes from the publi
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That reminds me of a Louis de Funès movie ("La Zizanie", film de Claude Zidi de 1978) Air cleaning scene: https://youtu.be/lpmxrgrbKDc (French) (He was responsible for first poisoning the air by burning tires, so
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Why are so many so focused on Trump? If the current VP becomes the new P, will it be any better? What about the people behind it all, the ones financing and organizing the whole thing for which Trump is only the public figurehead whose func
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The mental human model that people are only what they consciously think about themselves is just wrong. Of course prestige matters, even if you were to pass a (functioning) lie detector test where you claim otherwise. You are so much more t
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As others have pointed out elsewhere, that only removes static dependencies. If you have code paths that are used depending on dynamic function arguments static analysis is unable to catch those. For example, you have a function calling XML
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Annoyingly, when I go to that page, even from Google where I found that URL too, I end up at the German homepage www.history.de (no path, the main page). I cannot go to history.com no matter what. I hate "intelligent" websites as
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I think its strengths already lie where complete accuracy does not matter. Campaigns - political or other, dialog for dialog's sake, keeping people busy and "engaged", and then there is the huge field of generating pictures,
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Google search's made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said(arstechnica.com)
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