oceanofsolaris

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by oceanofsolaris 1y ago
I don’t think you can really accuse the lesswrong crowd of being in it to hype up OpenAI. They don’t profit from it (well at least the current doom crowd), they have been saying that this is super-risky since “forever” (15 years), they stro
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by oceanofsolaris 2y ago
I am not saying that you shouldn’t build trust with your kids (it’s important and only fair to them … they rely on and usually adore you, you should in turn be kind and reliable to them and love them back). But: the null hypothesis for anyt
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by oceanofsolaris 2y ago
Also interesting: Kreisky totally didn’t resign after the vote ended against Zwentendorf…so the whole thing was for nothing in the end. The operator of the plant assumed that the politicians would get to their senses at some point and kept
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
Can‘t you do it the old-fashioned way and call the phone? If it’s on silent, it might make it harder, but it still makes a buzzing sound since it vibrates.
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
Basic health insurance in Switzerland is “private” but very regulated: All companies offer completely exchangeable plans and are only allowed to take age, municipality and desired copay into account when calculating your premium. Every resi
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
If a lack of capital investment (or skilled companies) is the problem, that’s a great solution. But that’s not the reason for expensive rents in big cities. It’s because many (rich) people want to live there … and due to physical and regula
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
I don’t totally get this point. The main problem in big cities is the quantity of housing as well as the distribution of it. For a train system, a non-state actor will have a hard time getting one of the ground (huge upfront costs, will oft
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
But SF is a damn rich city (due to all the tech companies and their employees). Why didn’t they solve or at least tackle these problems? It’s not like Cruise / Waymo could change city planning against the cities will, even if they want
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
It is true that heating should be electrified … but it’s important to note that this makes the Dunkelflaute problem more serious, not less. Because now your inflexible base-load has increased. And while spreading generation over a wider a
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
Also „Fiasco“, which is depressing and great. For a more recent take on a similar theme, see also „Blindsight“ by Peter Watts.
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
I assume dysgenics (which you’d assume is happening if family size is inversely correlated with education and or income). AFAIK there are some studies that show that dysgenics are at least not the only effect in play (e.g. this study https
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
And if they are wrong (and this sells well) … they might just go bancrupt, leaving you with only a small part of the upside.
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
What do you hedge your 100 year financial vehicle with? AFAIK there just isn’t anything that allows you to hedge against interest rates 50 years in the future. So while this probably works out (especially if there is high inflation or high
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
But that’s not the default behaviour of these models at all. Instead you have to work pretty hard to extract these original images. When using the models normally, they do generate new content, even if the style and subjects are of course i
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by oceanofsolaris 3y ago
The “3d object that changes with a variable (like time)” metaphor helps a little bit, but doesn’t really help to e.g. understand how a rotation of a 4d object plays out.
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by oceanofsolaris 4y ago
Couldn't this also be solved with a freezer on the island (+ shipping larger quantities of these drugs regularly via whatever process usually brings parcels onto the islands). I am not complaining about a drone highway, sounds great. I
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by oceanofsolaris 4y ago
I think that it’s weird to aggregate salaries like this without taking into account that there is a huge amount of variance between companies. For concrete companies, it’s easy to look up salaries in Glassdoor etc. and you can see that FAAN
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by oceanofsolaris 5y ago
But that is just an implementation detail of who is allowed to initiate outgoing transfers from your account. For me, I needed to send a signed letter to my bank to allow recurring debiting to my landlord (and since I stopped that, no entit
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by oceanofsolaris 5y ago
China needs five to six years from starting to build a nuclear reactor to making it operational. I don’t see why western countries should be inherently unable to do this. They currently don’t want to (because they don’t need to and people d
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by oceanofsolaris 5y ago
AFAIK the running out of fuel would be a non-issue with breeder reactors, which are disliked for the proliferation risk they are. Well, trade-offs. Also: currently, nuclear fuel cost is a small part of running a reactor. If nuclear fuel fol
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by oceanofsolaris 5y ago
I assume because their data source is not great (aggregation of some kind of Glassdoor data). * Looking at data for Google in San Francisco, Glassdoor says that average total compensation for a "Senior Software Engineer" is 230K $
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by oceanofsolaris 5y ago
The underlying problem these elaborate prompts seem to solve is that the internet contains many pictures, few of which look very beautiful. If you look at all internet pictures of sheep, many of them will not be very exciting and depict a l
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by oceanofsolaris 5y ago
I am especially impressed by how much more realistic the lighting ends up looking despite the network probably having less information to work with than the engine! Though it ends up turning the lighting very flat. I guess that is an effect
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by oceanofsolaris 6y ago
I would imagine that the amount of available calories is overall the larger influence on which society grows and which doesn't. Remember that in most hunter-gatherer and farming societies, population stayed constant despite high birth
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by oceanofsolaris 6y ago
AFAIK there isn't much genetic engineering involved in that project at the moment. They just rear male mosquitos that are infected with a Wolbachia bacterium (making them sterile).
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by oceanofsolaris 7y ago
I think there are still some unknowns (number of infections without any symptoms, etc.), but so far, this approach doesn't seem viable: If we keep infections low enough that the health care system can deal with the severe cases, it wil
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by oceanofsolaris 7y ago
I am not a huge fan of this (or the WaPo) simulator, since I they seem to have chosen their models for the nice look (regular grid, bouncing balls) instead of for their accuracy. While you can give people a rough idea of how different conta
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by oceanofsolaris 7y ago
Since he seems to be married (according to Wikipedia), this strikes me as a very uncharitable reading. (It would also be uncharitable if he wasn't married though)
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by oceanofsolaris 7y ago
They mention a couple of features that are not just "long exposure" in the post: * Compensating for moving stars * "Live viewfinder" during exposure * Selectively darkening the sky * Dark current compensation (though tha
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by oceanofsolaris 8y ago
I think this refers to No w ak et al and I assume refers to the discussion mentioned in the Wikipedia article of the book ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene#Units_of_sele... ).

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