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by pharke 6y ago
> Then Google bought them, trashed them, and dumped the remains. This seems to be a too oft repeated refrain. Google has become such a mire of intra-office politics that being acquired by them is almost a guaranteed death sentence.
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by pharke 6y ago
You gotta send the wagon trains West before you build the railway.
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by pharke 6y ago
> you can't make something like a harbor quay out of it Are you sure about that? The Romans built a lot of harbours. We don't really have any data on the compressive or tensile strength of Roman concrete so it's hard to sa
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by pharke 6y ago
Read Sheena 5 by Stephen Baxter, great short story.
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by pharke 6y ago
I wonder if you could do this at a fairly macro scale with lots of reactant. I'm thinking along the lines of an electromagnetic enzyme. The goal wouldn't be to build things up from the atomic level or pick and place atoms but to s
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by pharke 6y ago
I wonder if some combination of different materials and different modulations could allow these pulses to arrive at the same point at the same time? If so, how much could you scale that and would it be more useful than just building a highe
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by pharke 6y ago
I think you're partially right. In order to learn from a list of textbook recommendations you need to know how to read effectively and comparatively, how to take proper notes, how to record your thoughts and questions for future refere
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by pharke 6y ago
It's not a matter of Earth becoming uninhabitable. You're right that it would take a lot to do that, though it is possible with a large enough asteroid or some unexpectedly fast acting runaway greenhouse effect. The problem is of
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by pharke 6y ago
Wouldn't that only work if the other town didn't also have UBI? I think the conjecture is that if everyone, everywhere is suddenly guaranteed to have a certain minimum amount of money per month then landlords everywhere are going
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by pharke 6y ago
Two things to consider: 1) They plan on working out orbital refuelling before sending a Starship to Mars, this might not be enough to return it to orbit from Mars surface depending on how much fuel needs to be used for Earth orbit departure
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by pharke 6y ago
I think 10 (+/- 2) years is a fair estimate but I would start counting from when Starship reaches orbit. It would be close enough to their historical development timeline of the Falcon which went from Falcon 1 reaching orbit in 2008 to
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by pharke 6y ago
I would implore you again to please find full length streams that start before the declaration of an unlawful assembly and watch them all the way through. A 1 minute clip that starts with an officer hitting someone is not giving you the ful
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by pharke 6y ago
I'm sorry if it came off like I was saying "they deserved it", I didn't intend it that way. What I was trying to illuminate is that this is a much more complex situation that is being papered over for unknown reasons. Ne
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by pharke 6y ago
I urge everyone to search out longer videos for all of these clips being shown. Every "attack" by the federal agents is preceded by some form of provocation by the protestors-cum-rioters that start by refusing repeated warnings to
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't think there is sufficient evidence to say that an automated probe has not already visited our solar system. Let's consider two probe types Von Neumann and Bracewell Von Neumann: 1) They arrived too early for us to have a c
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by pharke 6y ago
If it was fun, it would be a sole proprietorship.
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by pharke 6y ago
Sounds like a recipe for a chilling effect to me. Why risk being denounced? Just shut up and never interact with anyone in any way that others could use against you. As a society we need to enforce norms that protect everyone's ability
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by pharke 6y ago
I think you're creating a binary where one doesn't exist. People communicate ideas for a variety of reasons only one of which is to gain public notoriety. If someone wishes to publish their writing pseudonymously then they should
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by pharke 6y ago
From my perspective of paying attention to some of the articles that have been coming out over the years and reading into the science a bit, one of the big factors seems to be identifying all of the genes necessary for supporting the pathwa
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by pharke 6y ago
I was aware of NPR's offerings but not of the others. That tells you something to start with, those offerings aren't being made a centre piece. The Atlantic has them buried in a sidebar halfway down their page under a list of auth
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by pharke 6y ago
It came from inside as far as their failure to adapt to a new ecosystem. They're still stuck in the print mindset where they think that a newspaper should be words printed on a page. They're stuck in the printing press mindset whe
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by pharke 6y ago
I think we need to ask ourselves why some of those things are the case. Why are the same jobs requiring higher levels of education now than they did in the past? If you've worked these jobs you know they don't require anything pas
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by pharke 6y ago
> War destroys progress and is incredibly inefficient. Please explain the monumental advancements of technology witnessed during both world wars. Even if they were not a direct result of the war effort, they still succeeded in spite of a
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by pharke 6y ago
Only after, secrecy and surprise is the whole point.
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It's also interesting for the fact that it has only been trained on text. There is a big unanswered question as to what would be possible if this were adapted so that it could be cross trained on other data that would provide a basis f
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by pharke 6y ago
I think the point Gwern makes is that if a government wanted to they could easily allocate enough resources to do this. More bluntly I think he's saying if the US decided tomorrow to begin a Manhattan Project for AGI there is a non-zer
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by pharke 6y ago
Just taking a look at Dungeon Magazine on archive.org and it seems that crosshatching in walls is pretty common, at least in the early editions. https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n25/m
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by pharke 6y ago
It seems rather tangential and doesn't contribute anything. It is pretty clear which country is being referred to if we're staying on topic, just saying "I like to use science as a guide" is an almost empty statement. Wh
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by pharke 6y ago
So their calculation is actually for the number of civilizations in the galaxy that are at exactly the same level of technological development that we are. Even assuming that some percentage of civilizations annihilate themselves beyond rec
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by pharke 6y ago
I wonder how much our chances of surviving as a species change if we drastically increase the average lifespan of an individual. I think this might also be a solution for interstellar travel as well. If we're going to conquer the depth

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