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by philipov 4y ago
It is impossible to make a person understand a thing which their livelihood depends on them not understanding.
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by philipov 4y ago
Like management, engineering is a discipline of means divorced from ends. There are certain vital skills that are shared amongst engineers regardless of their particular domain, and those are the skills most important for an engineering man
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by philipov 4y ago
People thought he had some engineering skills, until he took over Twitter and started talking about all the idiotic engineering decisions he was making.
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by philipov 4y ago
"Observer" is the most unfortunate word physicists could have chosen, though. It gets people all confused about observation mistakenly having something to do with thinking or perception. "Interacter" would have been a mo
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by philipov 4y ago
If you break a branch, the sound of it breaking informs you that you have broken a branch.
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by philipov 4y ago
Who are you to be quoting laws to those who have guns?
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by philipov 4y ago
it's a streaming pile of company, alright.
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by philipov 4y ago
Black holes don't have a volume, they only have a surface area, and it depends strictly on their mass.
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by philipov 4y ago
The original Colonization was my first "civ" game, but it was Civ 2 I have fond memories of playing when I stayed home from school sick with Flu.
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by philipov 4y ago
Well, that fight is happening on the scale of entire nations, isn't it? States wouldn't logically have jurisdiction over it because it's interstate commerce, but at the federal and international level, it's definitely at
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by philipov 4y ago
Asteroids aren't intelligent, either.
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by philipov 4y ago
I think semantics is important :( In my experience, most arguments are the result of people not agreeing on what a word means.
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by philipov 4y ago
I think it should be possible to build a sentient AI, but it hasn't been done yet. What remains to be seen is whether our current techniques will be suitable for making that self-retraining process efficient, or if we'll need to f
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by philipov 4y ago
I think the point he's trying to make is that AI does not have an independent Will. It lacks desires and the ability to operate in opposition to its programming. This makes it no different from any other tool we use to enhance our abil
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by philipov 4y ago
The way Cyberpunk 2077 adapted Cyberpunk 2020 made me realize that we've moved the near future 50 years farther off, but we're still stuck in the same futurism fantasy of the 70s/80s. ... I guess I knew that already, but this
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by philipov 4y ago
Being civilized is about rising above our base natural instincts.
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by philipov 4y ago
They should remove the word "punk". There's no punk here. It's just a cyber bathroom. They could get someone to egg the joint, and then they would have a cyber bathroom punk, but still not cyberpunk.
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by philipov 4y ago
Nah, it was god. https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Metaverse
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by philipov 4y ago
You should still learn to code, even if you're not in a programming job. It's just basic literacy, like being able to write a competent 5 paragraph essay. It doesn't mean you're going to write books for a living.
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The metaverse went away when I defeated the final boss, but then I started the sequel and now it's back. Who would have thought.
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by philipov 4y ago
Right now AI can randomly generate images or text that are similar to what we describe, but every time you run it you get a different randomly-generated image. If I were to tell a client that I was going to randomly generate a financial tra
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by philipov 4y ago
Playing games like Satisfactory and Factorio also forces you to come to terms with the imperfection of living systems. The first time you play, you can't possibly know how big you need the factory to be, and you don't have the tec
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by philipov 4y ago
I used to follow his lectures, but in the past 3 or 4 years he's become really quiet. I wonder if people stopped inviting him because he always overruns his time limit, or if he's too busy making progress on his theory.
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by philipov 4y ago
It's a common thing to see in theories that try to unify QM with GR because in GR spacetime is dynamic, while in QM it's static. For QM to produce GR, there needs to be some way of generating space and time instead of taking it as
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by philipov 4y ago
It kind of feels like the epicycles that were used to make geocentrism work. Sure, they make the math work out correctly, but the equations for the motion of the planets become needlessly more complex than if you just take the sun to be the
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by philipov 4y ago
Won't unemployment lead to deflation, which is also bad?
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With authoritarian regimes, having someone who's not a representative of the regime doing anything to help others is often seen as a threat to the authority of the government.
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by philipov 4y ago
Please tell me you called your simulator the Terror Nexus.
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This is the Rise of the Robot Axis!
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There are a lot of places where manual labor is preferred to automation, not because automation is hard, but because automation is expensive, while labor can be found for dirt cheep.

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