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by shoubidouwah 5mo ago
Nice writeup on the whole thing basically being hyped politically with actual nothing behind it https://unherd.com/2026/04/behind-the-disappearing-scientist... Also ~10 in a year, modal age of established scienti
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by shoubidouwah 10mo ago
and hope for a president that can do both
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
I eat them fairly often, but tend to get "nettle fatigue" quite early on due to their strong fishy smell - ammonia-like. Anyone got a recipe / way of getting past it, or masking it efficiently?
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
I am actually advacating for something different: I am not taking your money, I am saying after some level, what you accumulate is not - your kids - money. It realigns incentives (do something with it before you die), helps your kids (unea
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
I am talking inheritance, not weatlth tax, and have actually written I'm for reducing said taxes. you truly do not need the extra million when you're dead. Maybe read my comment again with more charity and re-engage?
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
it is already more or less the case, but I argue that it's for the benefit of the living holder, not the heirs. A lot of the incentives to have huge, untouched inheritances revolve around dynasty effects, exactly the kind of behaviour
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
incentives. It's okay to be successful and enjoy the fruits of your wealth, and you want people to strive towards wealth. but transmission across generations is a true societal poison.
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
> I would also not trust the government or any political body to handle income from the inheritance taxes thus the importance of the sovereign fund.
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by shoubidouwah 11mo ago
1) set a generous threshold over which your inheritance gets taxed, inflation adjusted (e.g, 2M not including the principal residence) 2) tax 100% above it. (should only concern a fraction of a fraction of cases) 3) put all this tax's
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by shoubidouwah 1y ago
This is actually one of my own fears for efficient organization at state level and above: - any new technology, any new opportunity either has checks and balances or gets exploited by smart optimizers with no regards for the commons or huma
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by shoubidouwah 1y ago
> Too much land to manually manicure a lawn on top of > too little land for john deere to be of any practical help I feel you.
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
Mosquito nets are best: put some as canopies above beds and enjoy sleeping without the dreaded ear buzz. If you live in a badly infested area, put them around doors / windows (there's retractable ones, you can fit them yourself).
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is definitely one, as well as a bunch of the "big epics" like the Malazan empire / The annals of the Black Company? It may be less common than "high castles", but that is eithe
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
A good refresher on deterrence seems necessary here. https://www.ndc.nato.int/news/news.php?icode=1570 There's a very real, game theoretic reason why nuclear riposte is fully automated with no way for even command
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
I wonder if there mioght not be an opportunity for a warmup based mask inversion: for the first few epoches, only apply the momentum agreeing with instantaneous - after that, invert it since the momentum would technically have more info? In
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
TBH, with the safety/alignment paradigm we have, workforce replacement was not my top concern when we hit AGI. A pause / lull in capabilities would be hugely helpful so that we can figure how not to die along with the lightcone...
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
I think you're right on the crux, with a qualification: every argument has already been made in one form or another - the underlying universal concepts are not that complex. the talent of a writer is to present it in a manner congruent
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
It also was how N. saw his thoughts at times. An evidence, disgraced for being explained. And stylistic flamboyance around a theme is hardly foreign to philosophers, this one in particular (any chapter of Zarathustra can be read as a blog p
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
temporal commutativity of thought in the media vector space?
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
If Sam Kriss spent two years to write any of his blog posts into a book, he'd be Nietzsche. Still makes for a sparkling bit of thought, easily reread.
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
You have ID of who was in the car and when, and a 'report' button in the app for the next passenger. Easy enough, if something is reported you have the choice to wait for the next one while the trashed car goes to be cleaned or ri
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
epistemic status = lightly tinhat: free time outside work and living close / keeping in touch with coworkers is highly correlated with union activity. I am quite confident in my prediction that time spent commuting is negatively correl
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Albert, the French Administrative LLM(pleias.fr)
3 points by shoubidouwah 2y ago|0 comments
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
in other words, "office space provides him with negative utility"
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
The discussion here follows well understood battle lines, but I want to add my grain of salt: working from the office comes bundled with commute. And the crux of arguments tends to be where you fall on the [commute is hell <-> working
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
Just did! I hope one of the AI applications coming soon is pure post-treatment of old videogames for graphic quality. (e.g: I play an old game, it's upscaled / retextured locally without any interaction with the code on my own GPU
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by shoubidouwah 2y ago
"Austerity is dropout"
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by shoubidouwah 3y ago
Naively, if a model is smart enough to spit / whitewash a bit of code, it is also smart enough to add attribution, isn't it? Wouldn't correct attribution be just a master prompt line away?
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by shoubidouwah 3y ago
reminds me of the saying that every year, the intelligence threshold needed to end the world drops a bit more - cannot for the life of me find it again...
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by shoubidouwah 3y ago
somewhat related xkcd comic https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png

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