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by qgin 3y ago
Sentences over 20 years are obligated to be at medium security facilities or higher.
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by qgin 3y ago
I don't understand why people keep referring to Elon's model as a savior of anything. It seems to be a fine tune of a standard model with Gen X slacker personality.
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by qgin 3y ago
> If coffee decreases the possibility of myocardial infarction and it is no longer harmful from a carcinogenicity point of view, it is the time to acknowledge Gustav III (1746-1792 CE) (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2016 ▶), the adventures ki
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by qgin 3y ago
Oil gets less relevant with every decade. We're probably within 50 years now of fusion power. Electrical components can be recycled once the economics make it the best option. It's pretty reasonable to think today's limits ar
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by qgin 3y ago
The material world is finite, yes, but capitalism doesn't rely on infinite material growth. Most growth of the economy in United States has been relatively dematerialized. Services, software, entertainment, education, information... wh
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by qgin 3y ago
How literal is this meant to be? Could someone request social security numbers for frozen embryos?
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by qgin 3y ago
I can't say I know what the future economy will look like, but I can say for certain it won't just be the current one minus 99% of jobs (with all those previously employed people living in abject poverty). Capitalism doesn't
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by qgin 3y ago
How does that address the issue in the article?
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by qgin 3y ago
In the near term, it won't be so much about AI completely 100% replacing certain jobs as much as 1 human employee + AI replacing 10 previously employed humans doing that same job.
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by qgin 3y ago
We don't lack sufficient info about how much China contributes to emissions.
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by qgin 3y ago
All I've ever wanted was an opt-out, but this works for my purposes as well.
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by qgin 3y ago
Riding across North America in a covered wagon might not be the best way to do it, but if you're in 1800s and you're planning to wait on jet airplanes before you try, you're going to have bad time.
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by qgin 3y ago
Maybe in some cases, though overall cost of living in Australia is slightly higher than the US while still spending about half what we do on medical costs.
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by qgin 3y ago
If the US could get costs down to levels of other developed countries, we could approve everything and still afford it. As of now, medical care in the US is about 2x-3x the cost it is in other developed countries.
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by qgin 3y ago
Bard felt like Google was treating LLMs as merely an amusing spinner of tales, just a narrative UI layer over the "real stuff" of the Google Search.
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by qgin 3y ago
They're joking about a floppy body part
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by qgin 3y ago
Note to everyone making death threats: just make sure to quote music, film, or theater in your threats. You’ll be protected from prosecution but your recipient will still get the message.
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by qgin 3y ago
There's a version of the future where AI actually takes larger and larger chunks of real work while humans move towards spending more and more of their time and energy on culture war activities.
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by qgin 3y ago
> GM to release plug-in hybrid vehicles, backtracking on product plans https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/30/gm-to-release-plug-in-hybrid...
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by qgin 3y ago
You'll have to pry React out of my cold dead hands. I remember trying to make mildly complex dynamic websites before React. It wasn't good.
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by qgin 3y ago
There are companies that hired distributed teams over the past few years. When everyone was remote, the geographic makeup of the team didn't matter. But now many of those same companies are forcing employees back "the office"
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by qgin 3y ago
Obesity doubled in the United States since 1975. If a huge state change like that is observed in hundreds of millions of people in a 50 year time period, I guess one explanation could be that they all independently and personally decided to
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by qgin 3y ago
The idea of a genetic "line" is not the concept people think it is. Humans already share 99% of their DNA. Of the 1% that creates our differences, after 5 to 7 generations, depending on how you look at it, the similarity of your d
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by qgin 3y ago
Pictures risk having people disagree with the author's personal taste and the article hinges on there being a single correct taste
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by qgin 3y ago
This is the truth. And it's also the reason why this stuff will be in court until The Singularity itself. Most people will never be able to come to terms with this.
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by qgin 3y ago
This is probably 100% incorrect in every neuroscience way, but I've heard schizphenia describes as the metaphorical opposite of OCD. In OCD, you can turn a light off 10 times, see it happen with your own eyes, and still not feel like i
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by qgin 3y ago
It's so interesting to see the range of experiences that fall under the definition of schizophrenia. In recent years I've seen more people who have this genre of schizophrenia (specific and realistic hallucinations, but not many o
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by qgin 3y ago
It's a strange thing to see ML now making computers work how non-programmers think they've always worked.
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by qgin 3y ago
I already know actual people who had their jobs cut due to a company downsizing their department to almost nothing, having the remaining employees using AI to do the work that used to require a much larger team.
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by qgin 3y ago
Same place you can demand Burger King sell you a Big Mac

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