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by saulrh 10y ago
Sort of like a sailboat, except the wind is the vaporized material from the nuke. The nuke explodes, throwing a ton of mass and energy in every direction. The rocket uses a sail or pusher plate to catch part of that mass and energy, which c
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by saulrh 10y ago
And we're still beating it in some ways! Sintered aluminium bones with nonuniform porosity to optimize evaporation? Fuckin' metal .
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by saulrh 10y ago
Say we removed turn signals or rear-view mirrors from the test; how often do you think they'd be used then?
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by saulrh 10y ago
Getting it added to the driver's license test is probably the key here.
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by saulrh 10y ago
I'm just surprised as the absolute magnitude of the number. Virginia has hundreds of thousands of unemployed right now; 54 is probably within measurement error. Even if they're off by orders of magnitude, 500 is a drop in the buck
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by saulrh 10y ago
Depends on what your methods are for finding your classifications. For example, if all you're doing is recording a bunch of data over some feature set and then throwing it at an unsupervised clustering algorithm like DBSCAN or single-l
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by saulrh 10y ago
I suppose? Running out of physical space is almost as bad as running out of food, physically and psychologically speaking, unless you're very heavily adapted for it.
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by saulrh 10y ago
Malthusian catastrophes are one of the things that happen to communities that aren't smart and coordinated enough to banish Moloch. Whoop-de-doo. ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloc
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by saulrh 10y ago
> We seem to be ok with people dropping out and becoming monks, but somehow living a relaxed lifestyle is somehow a major problem. Thank you for this reframing! I believe that it is useful and will likely use it in the future.
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by saulrh 10y ago
> I find the whole genre depressing as hell because I can't help but think of kids watching the videos who have 0 hope of ever actually playing with those toys. To be completely fair, I subscribe to more than a few blacksmithing, me
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by saulrh 10y ago
I would argue that immortality should address problems like yours. It's not really immortality if normal, random lifetime ups and downs (the inverse of the regression to the mean [1]) make half your population commit suicide every hund
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by saulrh 10y ago
Evolution is an awful optimization process. It's only effective in real life because it's had literally billions of years to work. Intelligently-guided directed optimization is vastly superior and we should prefer it whenever po
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by saulrh 10y ago
Is it worse than gasoline? If so, by how much?
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by saulrh 10y ago
To them a false negative is worse than a false positive, for precisely the reason you describe: it simply doesn't matter how many false positives you have, but the very first false negative destroys your company. Their optimization f
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by saulrh 10y ago
Exactly my point. Just like you don't mount cameras in everybody's bathrooms, you don't outlaw encryption. Instead, you install spy software on your target's computer, or you plant a bug in their light fixture, or subpoe
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by saulrh 10y ago
> “Doors are now almost ubiquitous and are the default for most houses and buildings. If we do not provide for access to people's bathrooms when it is necessary and proportionate to do so then we must simply accept that there can be
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by saulrh 10y ago
I think that you may be failing to separate the dissimilarities between two different ideas, "service economy vs. industrial economy" [1] and "robot revolution". The two share the single commonality that I think you&#x27
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by saulrh 10y ago
The claim isn't that it's impossible to have a thought unless you have language for it, but rather that having language for something makes it easier . It's a close relative of Kolmogorov Complexity and a variety of theore
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by saulrh 10y ago
Do FAA medical examiners have a suite of tests for tendency to zone out or hyperfocus? Do they measure how fast those skills are developing to measure the total cumulative risk experienced during the learning period where the situational aw
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by saulrh 10y ago
I can't find anything by google, but the basic approach is probably as follows, because it makes sense: Pick a class of antibiotics that you want to remove resistance to. Stop using it. Completely. Use other antibiotics more aggressi
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by saulrh 10y ago
Until we figure out immortality, everybody that is born will die. The most effective strategy currently available for preventing deaths, then, is to put an immediate moratorium on births, capping the future total number of deaths at the cur
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by saulrh 10y ago
To the people downvoting the parent of this comment: yeah, I should have put something like [deleted] in there instead of just hacking in random characters. You can stop now. It's no longer useful.
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by saulrh 10y ago
Fair enough. I'd looked at the thumbnails, which generally didn't have hands on the wheel. I'll delete my comment if I can.
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by saulrh 10y ago
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by saulrh 10y ago
> The system also makes frequent checks to ensure that the driver's hands remain on the wheel and provides visual and audible alerts if hands-on is not detected. It then gradually slows down the car until hands-on is detected again
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by saulrh 10y ago
Not actually hand-crafted. If you read the actual paper, they're training their fuzzy system with some kind of genetic algorithm. The theory behind it isn't in this paper, and it seems to be home-grown DIY type stuff - pretty stan
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by saulrh 10y ago
A lot of that is because, in the current world, staying fit is difficult . I, for example, would be in great shape if I could exercise. I like exercise. Exercise is, in fact, how I discovered that I have joint problems. I unfortunately d
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by saulrh 10y ago
I guess you haven't read the Culture novels? They explain it better than I could. The short form is that they've solved Friendliness and handed most of the management over to hyperintelligent, near-omnipotent benevolent AIs. The o
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by saulrh 10y ago
Yeah, that's a risk. However, I'm less afraid of the robots that get us there and far more afraid of the applied psychology (propaganda/advertising/politics) that could trap the entire species in that state. The Culture
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by saulrh 10y ago
Answer: Life gets better. We have proof of this from history. When was the last time anybody here ground their own flour or washed their laundry using a rock and a river?

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