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by richk449 3y ago
Not just much closer - it seems inevitable that something close will be built in the next year. Khan academy, beast academy, and Wikipedia show that we are already close. I don’t think people at red grappling with how much this will change
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by richk449 3y ago
Yes, in Sim City.
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by richk449 3y ago
That sounds like a great question for the Supreme Court!
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by richk449 3y ago
42. Actually it isn't about the number of posts that you can view per day. It is about the number of items that can be on a page before you have to click the next page button. Heroin is illegal. I don't see why infinite scroll sho
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by richk449 3y ago
We need a constitutional amendment banning infinite scroll.
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by richk449 3y ago
Obvious answers: Griffiths - Electromagnetics Chambers - The Western Experience
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by richk449 3y ago
If you consider AOTD mostly about types of media, and how each media has effects on our society, then I think it clearly applies to chatGTP. These AI bots are becoming a Nee form of media that we interact with. I’m not sure what Postman wou
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by richk449 3y ago
I haven’t read the reviewed book. However, it seems close enough to on topic to recommend Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford, which is one of the best biographies I have ever read. Beethoven’s story is hardly believable - from h
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by richk449 3y ago
> Once you get into high energies, you can get a lot of chemical reactions that seemed impossible otherwise, or that nobody has ever thought of. There again usually you get some isolated strange compound. There again usually you get some
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by richk449 3y ago
Why does radiation corrode metal in ways that are not predictable?
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by richk449 4y ago
Based on this and other posts, I think you are saying not that technological progress is bad, but that we as a society fail to take full advantage of the opportunity that could come from the advances. And of course you are right. But that’s
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by richk449 4y ago
> Cities were places where normal people died and died ugly for most of human history, and much of the migration to them has historically been out of desperation. I think that captures some of the contradiction in your claims. Yes, citie
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by richk449 4y ago
Is that true? The last few centuries have shown a near continuous improvement in the standard of living, particularly at the lower end of the distribution.
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by richk449 4y ago
Product opportunity: an LLM based tool to summarize works ti a personally customizable level. An executive will want the societal implications without the math. A scientist will want the equations without the analogies or number of elephant
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by richk449 4y ago
It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just the way some of the nuclear regulations are written. Operators are required to achieve radiation dose as low as reasonably achievable. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref&#x
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by richk449 4y ago
Who is saying that society should fund someone’s startup idea?
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by richk449 4y ago
> not that it makes it any less impressive! Covering three sides is exactly the same amount of impressive as covering six sides? I can imagine the impressiveness isn’t linear with sides, so it doesn’t have to half as impressive, but I wo
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by richk449 4y ago
Biden pardons Trump. Outrage mitigated. Base can’t rage. Biden easily wins re-election.
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by richk449 4y ago
Thank goodness we can rely for now on humans, who always give the 100% logical response to all questions.
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by richk449 4y ago
Why are they non deterministic? Is randomness intentionally injected? Or intrinsic to the approach?
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by richk449 4y ago
> There is no “getting better” from this. If you gave a monkey a type writer and it occasionally typed words randomly you wouldn’t say “Wow this is just what it can do now, imagine several years out!” So thinking that chatGTP could gain
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by richk449 4y ago
I agree entirely. It’s not just a feedback loop, there is an underlying amplifier.
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by richk449 4y ago
How much is selection effects and negative feedback? As online discourse gets worse, calm and sane people are more likely to drop out, leaving the extreme people to argue online, making the discourse worse …
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by richk449 4y ago
The coordination difficulty is not symmetric. You are on a boat that hit an iceberg. There are enough lifeboats for half the people. If everyone bails water together, you will just barely be able to keep the boat afloat. What do you think i
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by richk449 4y ago
Why would the salt be dumped back in the ocean? Wouldn’t it be sold to consumers?
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by richk449 4y ago
It doesn’t seem right to declare the water not captured as waste. How can you know that the excess water from extreme weather events doesn’t benefit the ecosystem in some way? Lots of ecosystems depend on infrequent extreme events, at least
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by richk449 4y ago
And where do I get one?
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by richk449 4y ago
Interesting information. It doesn’t look like Niron is selling anything yet. Is there anyone who is?
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by richk449 4y ago
Can you suggest reading to learn more about this viewpoint? To me, the technological advances seem to be a product of the economic system. As long as the economic system can be sustained, then it is likely that human welfare will continue
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by richk449 4y ago
> everyone is exorbitantly indebted to everyone Nobody goes there any more, it’s too crowded? > At some point, someone has to put some reality back into the simulacrum because simulacrum does not feed your family Aren’t poverty, famin

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