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by pharke 5y ago
I've started using Bing more and more as well. I never thought I'd see the day.
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by pharke 5y ago
The changes they've made over the years have made a huge difference in the amount I use it. I used to often spend a lot of time discovering new channels and videos and overall just enjoying entertaining content. Compared to today, I&#x
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by pharke 5y ago
They should be brave enough to do their own take on the concept without using the title and clout of the original author. It would allow them more freedom in rewriting the parts that they need to and would transform the whiplash felt by rea
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by pharke 5y ago
> Rotating arcs also add complexity that excuses weakness in character or plot writing... In other words, it's a gimmick.
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by pharke 5y ago
This model is incomplete at best. In my view "possums" here are not simply people obsessed with staying on topic, they are people who are deeply invested in the topic. Other terms for possums would include makers, scholars, artist
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by pharke 5y ago
I don't find there's too much difference between staring at a computer screen and using VR. VR headsets do provide a motivation to create displays that can allow your eyes to focus on closer or further objects though since they ai
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by pharke 5y ago
AR will likely be a subset of VR enable by pass through. Check out https://varjo.com/products/xr-3/ Until we can perfectly simulate physical reality, virtual interactions will never be as real as real world intera
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by pharke 5y ago
I really hope that VR simply replaces screens and results in us being somewhat less sedentary. You're right that there is a great danger it could replace a lot more of the real world leading to a dystopian nightmare, things like real s
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by pharke 5y ago
I suppose that depends on if we are in a "hands off" simulation or one that is being actively modified. It would also depend on the purpose of the simulation, the duration, the ethical views of the being(s) running the simulation.
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by pharke 5y ago
He's also the godfather of the simulation hypothesis, make of that what you will. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkaQUZFbJjE
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by pharke 5y ago
I find this paragraph from the article intriguing > But the grid cells’ firing wasn’t entirely random either. Instead, there was local order: For each grid cell, the places where it fired weren’t arranged in a perfect periodic lattice, b
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by pharke 5y ago
So are the hexagonal latices for 2D grid cells just an artifact of whatever sphere packing[0] algorithm the neurons are using? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing
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by pharke 5y ago
For a longer lasting and potentially cheaper source of CO2 just add sugar and yeast to water.
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by pharke 5y ago
I think #7 should be modified to "reduce suffering" after which it will accommodate not just healthcare but any pursuit that addresses a person's mind or body. That would include your examples of massage and prostitution as w
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by pharke 5y ago
I may be misunderstanding this bit of history, but wasn't part of FDR's success due to his strong connections among the wealthy and powerful? He was essentially an insider who decided to use a lot of the knowledge he had to reform
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by pharke 5y ago
Isn't this more focused on winning seats in Congress? Independent representatives have been elected or have switched from a party to independent status before. If Yang concentrates efforts on getting more independents elected he could
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by pharke 5y ago
I see it more as capture of unwitting content producers. It's the same faustian deal made by medieval landlords to their serfs. The social media companies own the real estate and tools for improving it and allow their users to live and
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by pharke 5y ago
Maybe. I don't think the trend towards urbanization is likely to reverse. Generally, for house prices to fall under the current system the area in which they're located needs to become almost unlivable. That's possible with d
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by pharke 5y ago
That doesn't seem to be true in Japan yet. Housing and land are relatively affordable and yet they maintain very low birth rates and most people choose to live in large urban areas instead of the country. What would be different about
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by pharke 5y ago
What would drive the change? Remember, we're dealing with humans not rabbits.
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by pharke 5y ago
However this plays out, it's going to be a monumental shift in what constitutes human civilization. I see a few possibilities: Optimistic: falling population levels make automation a top priority and we replace almost all labour both p
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by pharke 5y ago
>“Generally, if there’s a force carrier, the length scale over which it acts is inversely proportional to its mass,” How does this apply to gravity, if at all?
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by pharke 5y ago
I prefer D, it can be fully compatible with C, the syntax is easy to learn if you've used any of the C family you already know 80%, the package system is simple, modules mean no more headers or include statements just import things whe
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by pharke 5y ago
It is a combination of factors, but the primary determinants are the mineral composition and the organic and biological content. It's more cost effective, though time consuming, to make soil in place than it is to strip mine it and tra
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by pharke 5y ago
If this process is simple to scale then we absolutely do need it. There is little chance of us fixing our food waste problem and increasing the efficiency of foreign aid in a timely manner. If more and larger crops could be grown on even mo
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by pharke 5y ago
I still think the two are equivalent. The only difference is in the baggage attached to the terms "bad" or "evil". The same solutions are applied in both cases. If someone is an immediate threat to others they are remove
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by pharke 5y ago
> In general, I think all forms of justice in the west are based on free will being true. If some form of determinism is true, then "punishment" doesn't make sense. Isn't that backwards? Believing that someone is inhe
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by pharke 5y ago
They could conceivably be very cheap if the gas pockets were mass produced. Everything else on board for propulsion and housing the pilot would be on the scale of a small prop aircraft. As long as the cargo can be easily managed, perhaps in
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by pharke 5y ago
Why would it need to be 8 foot hovels? If you don't need to live in a dense urban area to get access to work, education, entertainment, novelty, social life, etc. etc. then humanity could spread out into more livable towns and cities o
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by pharke 5y ago
The biggest value is in making physical space cheap if not entirely free. The people that will be served by this are the bulk of the population who can't afford to live or work in spaces that provide enough room to pursue their interes

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