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by pygy_ 7y ago
> Why would we set them that way? Growth? Short-term profit? Whatever, we don't even have to set them up that way, they could also end up accidentally in control. This would be all the more easier now that resource extraction (far
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Now that's an interesting take :-) Distributing said energy to cells would be non-trivial, and you'd still need nutrients. Also humans need rest and unlike machines, the range of environmental conditions in which they can rest is
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by pygy_ 7y ago
We're animals too. Machines will not value humans, and they will be in power. Even before that, many among the very rich consider the poor as sub-human, but few do it in public. Do you remember the PG tweet where he equated unions with
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by pygy_ 7y ago
> So whatever medium of value exchange is used by computers, money can be exchanged for it. Money is, quite literally, the power to have others act for you within the rules of society (i.e. laws, for the plebs, and nought for the very
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by pygy_ 7y ago
In the same vein... Rich people are only rich because there are poorer people that are economically relevant. We all use dollars to buy food, money gives you the ability to have others do your bidding. It is just a social construct though,
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Why divert food to machines? Growth, competitiveness. Why make inedible seeds? As a safeguard.
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That's about to become a problem once a sufficiently large share of humanity is economically obsolete and not worth feeding by the industry. With an automated agriculture and seed production in the hands of a few companies (among which
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by pygy_ 7y ago
A creator, sure. A master less so. The power trend doesn't favor humans here. The minute an automated subset of the industry can perpetuate itself more efficiently than a partially human-powered counterpart, we're toast.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Robots. Superior means superior in power, i.e. the ability to act constructively or destructively to further their existence. The power of the industry grows faster than the power of humans, and while humans are more than ever reliant on t
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by pygy_ 7y ago
I wonder who from Google, Facebook and OpenAI will be the first to productize a "CEO as a service" AI.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. Colonization, was brutal, self-serving, and its economic consequences are still felt to this day (especially when neocolonialism through private corporations and puppet governments is still a thing)
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by pygy_ 7y ago
<rust-evangelism-strike-force> FEARLESS CONCURRENCY </rust-evangelism-strike-force> Rust makes it easier to write bug-free concurrent code. Webrender relies on this and I'm not sure Mozilla could
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by pygy_ 7y ago
http://forevergreen-umn.info/17FG-Silphium.pdf > Silphium integrifolium—rosinweed—is in the early stages of domestication to become a part of diverse, sustainable, and productive cropping systems that will protect Minne
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by pygy_ 7y ago
The social aspects are also off course crucial. I'm lucky enough to live in a country with a social safety net that's stronger than what you have in the US (there are still homeless folks, but psychiatric care is free in France).
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by pygy_ 7y ago
> We know a lot. Yet we know very little, like, we knew how to make fire before Lavoiser discovered the role of Oxygen in combustion. The various paradigms we use are approximate, not unlike humor and miasma theories were of some help
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Treating DSM categories as if they were a single disease is completely misguided. The DSM describes syndromes, and ignores pathophysiology because we still have little to no idea of what happens in the brain (at least not enough to properly
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by pygy_ 7y ago
https://twitter.com/internetofshit ? "the Internet of bricks" succintly conveys your first suggestion. "Internet of taps" for the second?
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I haven't kept up, but I remember having constrains that were accepted by the parser, but ignored by the engine (using InnoDB, I don't remember what specific constrain was concerned). Is it still the case?
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The developer edition has its own user profile.
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Geek is a borrowed word in French, and the original English spelling is used. If you wanted to write a word that respects French pronunciation and sounded like "geeks" in English, you'd write it "guix", or "g
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Keep in mind that her encounter with " pouls " was spoken, not written. The " poux " warning probably came with a written note. Regardless, @bambax said she should have known that, in a spoken context [lə pu] is the puls
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by pygy_ 7y ago
You're being harsh for pouls / poux being singular/plural, provided it was the first time the author had encountered those words. That kind of knowledge comes with experience with the words, which the author didn't hav
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Provided they didn't mention excluding users from the count I inferred that it was the average of the non-deleted accounts (scientific writing leans towards parsimony).
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RTFP?
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Brain connections are like cowpaths the more they are traveled the deeper they become entrenched. Having them practicing other thoughts will let their brain gradually collect the garbage (unused synapses go weaker and are ultimately pruned
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by pygy_ 7y ago
You can't track them, but you can make educated guesses. There's a finite amount of time in a day. So for 1) they must have been doing something during that time they were off reddit. They could have picked up cooking or moved to
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by pygy_ 7y ago
> You cannot control peoples thoughts by reducing their exposure to the bad thoughts. Actually, yes, you can, quite literally. Falsehoods repeated ad nauseam are convincing in the long run (do you remember the second Irak war and the WMD
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Not really. Page 9 has a graph of the activity before/after the ban, and the drop in activity (in post/day) matches the number of accounts that became inactive. If those users found other outlet for hating, they didn't do so
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Collective response to those who claim that it pushed those users to other platforms: Only marginally. If you read the paper ( http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf ), you can see that ~20% of the us
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by pygy_ 8y ago
So the repo is available! Thanks, I took @omnifischer at face value. Looking at the commit history, they keep on referencing bugs in a private tracker though (I know I'm moving the goal posts :-).

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