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by saulrh 10y ago
As a concrete example, as far as I can tell the entire Puella Magi Madoka Magica section, starting from Homura Did Nothing Wrong next to Darth Plagueis The Wise, was hand-crafted and hand-maintained. On their discord they were actively disc
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Same. I have a "keys-wallet-phone-pad" routine in which I make sure my pockets contain all of: my keys, my wallet, my cell phone, and the 7-inch tablet that I carry everywhere. I've gotten into the habit of doing it every tim
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> Isn't there a contradiction in supposing that the AI is superintelligent yet completely misunderstands the reasons for its own existence? If it so radically misunderstands the intentions of its creators, it is not very intelligent
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> Suppose Facebook builds a superintelligent AI with the drive to further the corporate interests of Facebook. Define "corporate interests". Market share? Absolute quantity of currency? Involvement of people's lives? Defin
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You're not understanding "super-intelligent" correctly. The threat model is not that it convinces people to kill each other, or even that it messes with politics enough to cause global thermonuclear war. The threat model is t
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If you want to complain about robot weapons giving people the ability to kill without personal involvement or compunction, you should have complained: * Ten years ago, when we started arming drone aircraft with anti-tank missiles * TWenty y
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Probably a few years before they finish developing the flying machines that can be anywhere on the planet within 20 minutes to drop a bomb and obliterate the entire building you're in. Those jet engines they're talking about would
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> Summary is that "people riding bikes" (PRB) is a much denser image set than "people in cars" (PIC) and "people walking or jogging" (PWJ), and the PRB objects have a much higher dynamic angular vector capab
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Build a loop into the workflow for "You're insufficiently anonymous, resubmit", with a special way to enter "significant award/position/membership with deanonymizing title, X level of prestige/selectivity&
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Without the regulation they wouldn't be doing anything , because any attempt at limiting emissions is more expensive than none at all. Regulations aren't perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good enough.
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I wonder how much it'd cost to make a heating coil big enough to dump the energy. You've got all that water right there...
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> but the "let everyone do as they will" mindset may cause problems You can change that "may" to "does". Even in the case of perfect coordination and cooperation, there are fundamental mathematical limitatio
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The "Don't use it because people don't use it" argument bugs me. That's a valid argument when you're a CTO or Employee 0 picking a language that a thousand people will be using for fifteen years. Putting it on
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When browsing, I actually use both behaviors in different cases. C-<tab> and C-S-<tab> to cycle linearly, and then I use vimium shortcuts for more advanced navigation. So I survey tabs by tabbing through them, but when I'm
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If you want to only consider nuclear by looking at its worst-case, you have to do the same with its competitors for the comparison to be fair, which turns out to be even more favorable to nuclear than the naive examination - banqiao dam, gl
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Same with cars, global climate change, and pollution. People only know how to respond to events .
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Hmm, I guess that that's not a factor, then. Bolting the caps to the actuators was the bigger trick anyway. Compared to cages or grippers, dramatically reduced inertia and much stiffer, so less damping required and it's easier to
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They didn't even improve actuation. Instead, they appear to have used a specially-constructed cube (no doubt designed to be suited for their machine) and literally bolted their actuators to the center caps. I'd like to see them do
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There are a few distinct use cases for RSS readers with very different requirements for automatic filtering. I use RSS readers to keep up with infrequently-updated fiction and webcomics. In this use case, "suggestions" are worse
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Drift velocity is unrelated to signal propagation. Otherwise it'd take entire days for packets to cross the country to get to you, which is clearly not the case. If we want to take an analogy, signal propagation is like a sound wave in
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I always get annoyed at how many things want a system tray icon now. There's no reason for my mouse to need a piece of software that lives in the system tray. There's no reason for my IM client to live in the system tray. Ther
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Isn't a good chunk of depression genetic? That is, sure, it's a reaction to an unhealthy environment, but you have to have the predisposition that makes you respond with depression, otherwise you just deal with it?
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If you can handle a server failing and you have good reporting, you can handle many of those random issues by simply rebooting the affected server. So I can see them taking out things like "load up the memory" or "load up the
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That's pretty neat! Reminds me a little bit of the old terrarium game that microsoft used to demonstrate .NET, or maybe of a version of spore that doesn't suck, or even a little bit of the nature of open-source: build something, s
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Maybe have the investigator player redo the fight with tweaks. Now that I've had some hours to think, this'd actually work better in a single-player format: The player can only advance by tweaking enemies until they can defeat t
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So the question is how to complete the feedback loop. The Adversary needs something causally coupled to its victory or defeat that it can use to improve its monsters. I think that the most straightforward way to do this is to have the Archa
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Random brainstorm: Introduce a Dark Souls type async-community aspect: Players can come across the wrecks/corpses of other players and are rewarded somehow for figuring out what happened and why; their analysis becomes feedback/ev
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Bureaucracy: "We can't let you build this. It doesn't satisfy requirement IXX.53-A." Engineer: "The one about the primary turboencabulator?" Bureaucracy: "Yes. Your reactor needs it to be certified to the
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In comparison to modern reactor designs and the alternatives. Do you think that water heaters are unsafe? Do you think that skyscrapers are unsafe, or bridges, or kitchens, or factories, or electrical wiring? All of those things were, at on
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Fukushima was fifty years old. Compared to modern reactors, it's approximately as unsafe as a car from 1971 is compared to a modern car [1]. Which is to say, it's pants-shittingly unsafe and we should've replaced it 20 years

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