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by ralfd 3y ago
This is such a clown show. If instead Helen Toner had cried harder in Sutskever face than the outcome would have been different?
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by ralfd 3y ago
But I bet if a Greenpeace-like-organization board member would write a paper how a different environmental group is greener, they would be praised.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Do you think Sam is more aligned to OpenAI non-profit charter than Helen?
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by ralfd 3y ago
I guess so? I like it because it shows that thousands of engineers are rooting for their their work. Aside, the stream itself is marketing, they are not required to broadcast launches.
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by ralfd 3y ago
It depends on the definition of plenty. At the peak in 1965 NASA/Apollo funding was 5% of government budget. That would be hundreds of billions today.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Yes, it also would misaligns their incentives. I like (love) that Apple is NOT in the advertising business and fewer phd engineers obsess about how they can make me click/view more ads. Maybe Kagi proofs that "search" could a
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by ralfd 3y ago
It is cheaper than anything before it and in many circumstances priceless.
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by ralfd 3y ago
sigh Here we go again with FOMO, tullip bubble, grifters and short squeezes …
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by ralfd 3y ago
I still don't get it?
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by ralfd 3y ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk > Musk claims to be self-made; he moved to Canada at age 17 with $2500 and worked his way up from there. For a while he supported himself by cutting logs, Abe L
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by ralfd 3y ago
> Mr. Bankman-Fried’s sentencing is set for March 28. What is the reason that is 4 month away? Clogged up justice system?
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by ralfd 3y ago
> If it was shallow then it wouldn’t take 25 years for a human brain to fully train. It doesn't. You can speak perfectly fine with children. And in fact some teenagers think they know everything.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Are they into the joke, knowing that this is comedy, and are playing the straight man? I can't imagine a normal person not laughing in utter disbelief.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Some have the same idea: https://spacenews.com/industry-sees-missed-opportunity-in-de... > Industry sees missed opportunity in deorbiting ISS > “As technology matures, certainly in the next decade we’re going to get t
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by ralfd 3y ago
But we do? https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/thieves-strippin...
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by ralfd 3y ago
Comments from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16513835
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by ralfd 3y ago
I lost three hours reading through the rest of this wonderful blog.
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by ralfd 3y ago
But the Aryan invasion is not false? https://scroll.in/article/936872/two-new-genetic-studies-uph... It is a political issue in India, obviously, but the North has more Aryan steppe ancestry than the south: https
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by ralfd 3y ago
Hu? The "learn to code" was not coming from the tech field itself (programmers know that coding is hard and FAANG are not hiring coal miners), but used as a dig against out-of-touch journalists who wrote articles like that: https
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by ralfd 3y ago
reddit discussion at that time (2022) with the author replying to critical comments. There was quite some pushback: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/swwdt3/san_...
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by ralfd 3y ago
30 years lifetime sounds great. But doesn't hydrogen diffuse through metal? Can it be contained such a long time?
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by ralfd 3y ago
I feel like there is a bit of a cultural divide here. Microwaving is here (central europe) not part of food preperation and if it is used stuff is filled into glass containers instead of plastic packaging?
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by ralfd 3y ago
Other reference to Oppenheimer: James Franck, who had emigrated to the US, advocated to not use the Atomic bomb against Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Report
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by ralfd 3y ago
This is a useful comparison for me to check Apples claims: https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/14-... The M2 MacBook Pro is 240 kg CO2 with a similar split of 79% production and 20%
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by ralfd 3y ago
Apple and Google and Microsoft are exaggerating for marketing their accomplishments, but the do really try to accomplish something. Apples „reasonably ambitious“ plans are aligned with the 1.5 degree target. https://newclimate.or
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by ralfd 3y ago
> James C Scott used to say, that city walls were all designed to keep their own people from running away, Interesting thought and depending on time period and culture I can imagine that. But this is not how city walls were described in
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by ralfd 3y ago
What genes/culture did you inherit?
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by ralfd 3y ago
Maybe, but he did not end as a monster. https://www.nytimes.com/1965/06/14/archives/von-braun-fights... Surprisingly for a Nazi, or maybe not for an engineering nerd buying into the idealistic propaganda
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by ralfd 3y ago
Mandarin and Cantonese: Jīqìrén https://translate.google.de/?sl=de&tl=zh-CN&text=robot Meaning: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/22467/
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by ralfd 3y ago
An company can more easily switch offices. But for a restaurant the location is very important.

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