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by nospice 10mo ago
Even if you assume a sci-fi scenario of an omniscient, infallible AI, there's probably no single utility function that would allow it to decide optimal resource allocation. In fact, we avoid a lot of difficult moral dilemmas because
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by nospice 10mo ago
I don't think this framing is useful. First, it applies to every scientific advance ever. Shoulders of giants and all that. We still choose to celebrate discovery because without it, fewer people would pursue scientific research. And s
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by nospice 10mo ago
The problem I have with these arguments is that they're awfully close to the anti-tourism arguments you hear in tourist towns such as Tahoe. You have this influx of visitors and money, and there's a considerable number of resident
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by nospice 10mo ago
Cough Linux cough You're getting cool tech for free. You can use it or not use it. Complaining about the name is weird.
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by nospice 10mo ago
It feels good to be smarter than everyone else. You see your upvotes and that's good enough for an ego boost. Been there, done that. I wish we were a bit more self-critical about this, but it's a tough problem when what brings the
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by nospice 10mo ago
Right, which works great if your daytime job is being a professor at Oxford, but maybe less so if your only opportunity is farm labor or other physically exhausting job. Today, more people have the opportunity to dabble in art than ever bef
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by nospice 10mo ago
> This is how many artists have worked. They make something for themself, and one day they show it to someone else That model depended on personal wealth or (more often) patronage. Because the supply of wealthy patrons was limited, it me