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by rel_ic 2y ago
Interesting. Do you have a theory about why so few humans have taken it upon themselves to advance the butterflies, despite having plenty of resources?
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by rel_ic 2y ago
I think that "inconsequential life" is, in general, not safe from superior powers. https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73...
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by rel_ic 2y ago
You're right, there's not just one good reason to kill millions of chickens but SEVERAL good reasons!
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by rel_ic 2y ago
We're killing millions of chickens in the US right now so we don't get their cold
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by rel_ic 2y ago
I mean, monarch butterflies are not a threat to US... In your scenario, does AI eat all the fuel, but once our population dwindles down, the AIs build a nice little habitat for the last few hundred of us so their kids can enjoy our natural
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by rel_ic 2y ago
Their goal is not to show you videos you want to watch!
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by rel_ic 2y ago
fixed for me! Brave MacOS
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by rel_ic 2y ago
"Sustainability" is the opposite of efficiency. To be sustainable we have to consume less and stop growing. "Efficiency" just empowers us to eat the planet faster. Internalize the costs of energy as a first step. If you
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by rel_ic 2y ago
Thanks - but imagine I got these things in 2012 and have been totally uninterested since then. What's "the trading book?"
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by rel_ic 2y ago
What's the best way to sell ~50 BTC these days?
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by rel_ic 2y ago
I think it's pretty likely that there are sources of information we don't normally perceive. I mean at some point the theory of evolution says we didn't sense light, and then some mutation let us see what was, at the time, a
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by rel_ic 2y ago
Check out Act One of this This American Life episode https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript TLDR: it seems like an LLM might be able to tell you your SVG is a "Mickey Mouse Head Silhouette"
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by rel_ic 2y ago
Reasonable people find value in it. You might be missing out by shutting yourself off from it!
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by rel_ic 2y ago
The absence of scientific proof is not a scientific proof of a negative result. > They don't have a foothold in objective reality. Even when some scientists have made a claim about objective reality, we have to remember that they ma