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by pharke 7y ago
If an advanced civilization continued to improve the efficiency of this effect would they eventually use it to capture the majority of the energy output of their local star? You could have a shell of high efficiency solar satellites surrou
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by pharke 7y ago
> I assume music tastes don't differ that much. I wouldn't make that assumption. Personally, I have a wide range of musical genres that I listen to and those tastes change over time, even month to month depending on how I&#x27
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by pharke 7y ago
There are plenty of high priced apartments and condos in my area that are built in the hideous way described. It's not a symptom of low cost housing and there are inexpensive options for decorating or building that reliably produce pl
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by pharke 7y ago
I think it probably does mean healing as in healing our social interactions, relieving the anxiety of modern life, creating a space that is more conducive to human wellbeing. The spaces we occupy can have outsize effects on us, just think
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by pharke 7y ago
The first article seems a rather long winded way of saying: "He's not entirely wrong, there are lots of extremely ugly modernist buildings, especially those which are done on a budget or are uninspired. The earlier style buildings
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by pharke 7y ago
Exactly, it's human nature. No matter what arena it plays out in we only have so many patterns of behaviour at our disposal and you'll see the same types of power plays, favouritism, backbiting, and underhanded dealing. We'
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by pharke 7y ago
Your initial assumption was correct. The sentence you quote is probably describing what is now known as an indoor-outdoor area that combines elements of a garden with a living space. Most of the house would be enclosed: > The floors of
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by pharke 7y ago
I think the key to working this out would be extending current practices employed for large buildings with an eye to interconnection. Maybe the best strategy would be to modularize the arcology so that it would be composed of many intercon
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by pharke 7y ago
From this part of the description I get the feeling that it wouldn't be a solid block of interior levels but would likely have some sort of atrium space that is spanned by bridges >Inside-that is, below the moon crater’s three-and-a
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by pharke 7y ago
They pretty much nerfed it entirely. At least to my eyes, it seems to only "recommend" more videos of exactly the same topic from the same channels more often than not. It used to show videos that were along the same lines as th
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by pharke 7y ago
A morally responsible and ethical individual would do that. A government is no such thing.
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by pharke 7y ago
So they used a symbolic planner to direct the robot's actions and showed this to the human participants. They didn't use a neural network in the learning process. So how does this advance the explainability of the hard to explain
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by pharke 7y ago
I've been in plenty of conversations where someone has said literally "I disagree" to an idea or opinion being forwarded. It's not done rudely and it seems perfectly normal to say you disagree with something someone sai
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by pharke 7y ago
What would be the units? Number of gas chambers?
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by pharke 7y ago
The knock on effects from unlimited energy go a lot further. We could use technology we have today for CO2 capture since it is heavily energy dependent and simply scale it massively. The bulk of industry processes that currently require co
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by pharke 7y ago
I don't think it's even necessary to have areas that are completely regulation or zoning free, there are much more rational models in other countries. One of which is Japan http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014&#x2
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by pharke 7y ago
It could even be the driving cause behind the cycle of homelessness, mental and physical health problems and addiction are often the result of or severely aggravated by living in such deprivation. It's nearly impossible to get a job w
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by pharke 7y ago
>Cyberpunk doesn’t feel so novel anymore because we’re quite literally living in a Cyberpunk dystopia. Not really. Our AI is speciously intelligent, our computers are woodenly interactive, our governments are unimaginatively democratic,
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by pharke 7y ago
I believe they are called Cuisenaire Rods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods
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by pharke 7y ago
Wasn't the premise of the article that the reason U.S. students perform so poorly in math in higher grades is because they are only being taught to memorize arithmetical facts and algorithms without properly learning the reasoning behi
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by pharke 7y ago
> not everyone can live in NYC or SF Reads more like "naturally the poor should be displaced from wherever the rich choose to live" considering that both cities have been heavily gentrified. There's a lot more than just hi
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by pharke 7y ago
I'm worried that while this sounds plausible at first it also seems to run directly counter to how many of the most popular channels on YouTube got their start. Most times when I've been a subscriber to a channel before it took o
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by pharke 7y ago
Yes, I think the confusion of thoughts with the mind seems to be at the root of much of the controversy surrounding free will. Narrativized thought is not necessary for action although it often accompanies it. Too often we mistake the ver
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by pharke 7y ago
Exactly, we need a Facebook that actually encourages healthy human interaction and is adverse to viral pollution, dopamine addiction and rage triggers. If it's genuinely useful it will win out.
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by pharke 7y ago
That's interesting, my default view in memories is usually third person, often from above and to the side or some other perspective view. I have to concentrate on recalling detail in order to view my memories from a first person perspe
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by pharke 7y ago
The dirty secret though is that AI isn't doing anything nearly comparable to what a whole human brain is doing. It's performing the functions of perhaps a small subset of NNs in the brain or maybe the equivalent of what a small r
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by pharke 7y ago
At least 70 dogs have engaged in barking. Jury still out on if water is wet. Seriously though, who doesn't expect that their government will attempt to cast itself in the best light and smear its enemies? Propaganda has been around s
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by pharke 7y ago
The counter to that is that the elderly and the overweight haven't always been the subjects of negative bias. There are plenty of inversions of that bias throughout history and across cultures. It's honestly just fashionable to be
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by pharke 7y ago
Garbage in, garbage out
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by pharke 7y ago
Urban centers may be more efficient but urban sprawl is not. We need to rethink urban development and optimize for efficient use of space, ease of access to services, transportation and livability. I think the optimal solution would be a

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