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by rland 6y ago
I've always refused the idea that any sun == bad. Being in the sun (not excessively) feels incredible, at a very deep level. The same way eating a really healthy diet and exercising every day feels. I frequently wonder: if I'm cor
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by rland 6y ago
I wonder if this inspired Frappe Snowland in Mario Kart 64: https://youtu.be/QIG46_eRiNo?t=82
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by rland 6y ago
Yes, fundamentally I agree, of course. If you could find a way to get all of natural knowledge into a sufficient enough network, you would probably have a very intelligent network. But getting text in is easy. It's the most manipulab
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by rland 6y ago
I mean the miniature physics simulation of me actually imagining another embodied human falling off of a beam. There is a huge knowledge of the physical world encoded into that. Think about it, you can viscerally imagine balancing on a beam
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by rland 6y ago
> Models are transitive- if x models y, and y models z, then x models z. The upshot of these facts are that if you have a really good statistical model of how words relate to each other, that model is also implicitly a model of the world
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by rland 6y ago
Wait, can you clarify what is actually going on? Is there any rhyme or reason or is are these shortenings just random? I'm having trouble parsing the grandparent comment...
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by rland 6y ago
So much of the dynamics you describe are mediated by body language and spacial/kinematic cues. If anyone manages to actually crack that, either by simulation or some other method, they'll monumentally change telework. This product
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by rland 6y ago
We had a discussion about this in high school, I think my junior year. Most of these types of discussions were very lopsided, so the teacher would usually have to encourage people to take the “bad/unpopular” position somehow. But this
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by rland 6y ago
So basically bilking people with overpriced and unnecessary (not to mention: loud) services by making vague legal threats? As a society, we should really spend more time and effort doing this.
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by rland 6y ago
I mean, that nuclear physicist also wasn't farming.
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by rland 6y ago
I wonder if arabic numerals really are the best system. Too much inertia is invested in them now but I wonder if a yet easier representation exists. For example, I know that there was a brief push to use quaternions in physics.
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by rland 6y ago
When I visited Japan, I went to an izakaya with room for maybe 9 people in it, it was smaller than my living room at home. I was hungry and I saw the sign lighting the alley about 40 yards off the main road. I was thinking at the time, if I
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by rland 6y ago
I agree, and it's the same reason I take investment advice from all 50s/60s born with a huge grain of salt. "Put $10,000 in an index fund when you're 23 years old and you'll be a millionaire when you retire!" T
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by rland 6y ago
If you find the youtube algorithm interesting, you may like this interview with the guy in charge of the team who works on it (warning, hour plus video that will fill your recommendations with Lex Fridman!): https://www.youtube.c
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by rland 6y ago
Certainly. It would just happen arbitrarily slowly. (And, at that scale, other factors would come into play; the soil would deform under the wheels of the tank before it moved any distance, probably)
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by rland 6y ago
I wonder if it's coming from inside the US, to prevent the President from using Twitter the way he has used it -- signifying that the presidential twitter account could be compromised, without actually compromising it and with minimal
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by rland 6y ago
That's the one! Thank you for finding it.
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by rland 6y ago
Think of what it would take to produce a phone, for example. A single person could not possibly know enough to do so. Our cleverest work their whole lives just to know enough to design some small part. There's just too much to know, to
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by rland 6y ago
It's not so easy for the individual to do that. The skills necessary for pre-modern life are only taught by being raised by a group who lives that life. Nearly all such groups have been destroyed -- and even if you wanted to, you could
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by rland 6y ago
I have a very personal/weird opinion on this issue. I'm type 1 diabetic, so I must have insulin or else I have a couple painful weeks to live, at best. On the one hand, yes, modernity keeps me alive, at far greater than "half
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by rland 6y ago
Yes, the "paperclip maximizer" already applies: corporations. I can't remember the post, but someone wrote that corporations are effectively an AI which maximizes profit. In many ways, we have already invented AI; its objecti
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by rland 6y ago
Many things are so much less efficient now, though. Where formerly we ate what was in season, we now have produce shipped around the globe, sometimes raw foods shipped across the ocean and turned into process foods and then shipped right ba
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by rland 6y ago
You'll be amazed when you find out about legacy admissions!
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by rland 6y ago
Who comes up with these ideas? I swear, there is a class of people (seemingly in charge of every decision at big companies now) who just sit there and try to come up with ways of extracting money from customers without adding value to the e
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by rland 6y ago
Awesome work!
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by rland 6y ago
It should be noted that powerful people in the south had extreme wealth by the standards of the time. Plantation owners in the south at the peak of slavery had Bezos-esque wealth. Although the proles in the confederacy were poor compared
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by rland 6y ago
For a deeper dive, I can recommend the Astrom and Murray book. It's free: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/amwiki/index.php?title=Se... This subject is tightly coupled with system modeling, and can touch ma
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by rland 6y ago
I really liked the "subway map" in this article, it reminded me of the Roche Biochemical Pathways chart: http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1
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by rland 6y ago
From tfa: > Homicides in Camden reached 67 in 2012; the figure for 2019 was 25. yes, I would call almost a 2/3rds reduction in homicides a success
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by rland 6y ago
Well, I guess I don't know what you mean by accuracy, then. I'm thinking of the accuracy required to hit the right note in a guitar solo, or the accuracy required to time a clean & jerk correctly, or the accuracy required to t

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