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by sgu999 3y ago
> to live how you like is being spoiled, individualistic and entitled If you're actively arguing against better alternatives for the collectivity, yes, it is.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Are you sure your house has no glass walls before you throw rocks? I didn't throw a rock, I pointed out a flaw. And it is safe for my wellbeing to do so without being perfect, because I'm aware of my own.
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by sgu999 3y ago
If you've been raised in a deeply individualistic culture, the collective well-being doesn't affect your peace of mind. And if you can afford to choose to own an EV, you and your descendants will likely be amongst the least impact
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by sgu999 3y ago
Are you that much of a good cook? ;D
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> The engine of progress has already solved much harder problems than the current ones. I suspect the harder problems you're thinking of are all technological. The current ones we are facing are social and political more than anythi
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I don't think that's fair, it's entirely dependant on where the person you're replying to lives. Life quality in cities is still improving, assuming one can afford it. In more rural areas, often simultaneously subject to
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by sgu999 3y ago
I don't know if France is currently better or worse than the UK on privacy, but the French government seems equally interested in increasing surveillance.
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Yes, thank you!
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On which side of the channel are you? I watch from time to time the debates in the House of Commons, it seems much more sane to me than what's going on in our Assemblée Nationale. Their whole democratic system seems much more sane to m
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by sgu999 3y ago
I guess paying a local to put tiles as we were doing a century ago is deemed too simple and expensive at the same time? Better to use some polymer derived from Saudi Aramco's oil, printed on a machine made in China, somewhere in east E
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by sgu999 3y ago
Is this showing up here because of a comment made about analog computers on that USB-C charger post? [1] Spending a bit too much time here, I keep on seeing what seems like logical connections in-between comments and posts over a few days.
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by sgu999 3y ago
Goodonya! Meanwhile we're still waiting for our infamous EPRs over here. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) > The first EPR unit to start construction, at Olkiluoto in Finland, origi
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by sgu999 3y ago
Completely tangential but I'm always conflicted about this kind of people. "Necessary" evil, I get it, but he'll be remembered for something that is solely made to kill. Guillotin was apparently gutted that the machine e
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There is a bit of a margin in-between my "didn't change that much" and your "remained constant"
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> our entire humanity is prepared for the Metaverse Come on. 2B people don't have access to basic hygiene, a third of the world population has food insecurity.
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> Then again, it's always true that the world we'll die in will be different than the world we were born in, and we might not like it. Maybe that's how it goes. I don't think it's been true throughout history, th
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by sgu999 3y ago
There are way too many spherical cows in your comment, you should just have taken the merry Christmas from parent and enjoyed it. Humans don't trade only because of their self interest. There is no natural order of the market. There ar
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by sgu999 3y ago
> 9. technological autonomy - reliance on automation can backfire if systems become misaligned to human needs Our economical system is already by and large autonomous and misaligned to our needs, there are humans in the loop but they vie
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> Based on an adaptation of the evolutionary traps concept to a global human context, we present results from a participatory mapping. We identify 14 traps and categorize them as either global, technology or structural traps. An assessme
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> Well for example I spend 3 full days a year of training at my company being lectured about climate change. I can perfectly imagine employees of a bank having to do that for the SRI rating. Then head back to their cubicle for the 280 ot
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> Mainly because the fishing industry is responsible for over 50% of the plastic pollution in the oceans. !!! Because of the nets?
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> In any case, most of our systems, and definitely how we manage intellectual property, are basically obsolete and require wholesale revisitation I completely agree, but don't underestimate the power of the ones who own most of it t
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Silly, they should have hooked it to a different model that gives harmful training data instead :D
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> The innovation is the most important factor though. Yet all the eminent figures of AI, just to name that field, are from abroad.
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by sgu999 3y ago
Have you been to both? I've lived in one of these french ghettos, I know without a doubt what I'd choose in-between starting with empty pockets on Mission street or in Seine Saint Denis.
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>> Hyper-focus on commercialization and maximizing shareholder value might make other aspects of society worse > What does this translate to in apple's case? If we're only talking about products, it's rather obvious
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On one side I can see that rich countries are perfectly happy to have offloaded their polluting industries to developing countries. On the other, it's also very obvious that we mostly end up stacking things instead of replacing them: w
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It really seems like on a technological level, sustainability on earth is roughly solved even with modern comfort. What remains of the problem and prevents us from implementing it is more social and political than anything... An off planet
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We can find countless examples of high paying jobs that are absolutely useless to our industrial civilisation. The answer is likely a mixture of both: salaries are not that much correlated to skill and value overall, and some industries hav
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by sgu999 3y ago
If Pompidou was still alive, he'd flatten the whole thing to build a new motorway intersection. A few ugly routers which don't integrate in their environment are a perfect fit for a building that bears that name.

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