simonh

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by simonh 10mo ago
On the spectrum of authoritarian oligarchy of the type you describe, from 0 (liberal democracy with well regulated free market capitalism) to 100 (totalitarian oligarchy), where would you put: The USA; The average EU country; Russia.
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by simonh 10mo ago
I'll make you a deal. You agree to give me a trillion dollars, but only if I make you 8 trillion dollars. I don't think he'll deliver and I think it's based on fantasy economics, he's been really losing it recently,
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by simonh 11mo ago
Looks like Musk and Bezos are going to beat you to it.
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by simonh 11mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2640/ The alt text is on point.
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by simonh 11mo ago
Agreed, for space being humanoid is optional. Legs are superfluous for a start. However the issue with current automated systems we’re sending out there is they are function specific, and not very adaptable to novel or unanticipated activit
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by simonh 11mo ago
> The web is not dying, the web is already dead! Says he on a web site.
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by simonh 11mo ago
We call it the Gonad Touch, and we think you’re going to love it. Apparently the name iBalls was considered, but just well it was rejected. The Gonad Pocket accessory is on hold pending litigation by Borat over his Mankini patents.
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by simonh 11mo ago
They’re not crazy goals, but the way these tariffs are being implemented does not further most of them. 3 and 5 are undermined by the fact that even nations with positive trade surpluses with the US, and countries like Japan with Trump firs
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by simonh 11mo ago
Libreated?
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by simonh 1y ago
My maternal grandparents spent day after day for most of their retirement sitting in front of the TV.
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by simonh 1y ago
I don’t think anyone here is advocating for freaking out about it, and I do not see any suggestion we should that you’re replying to. Also, it’s pretty clear from the IPCC report that holding the environment stable isn’t an option. At this
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by simonh 1y ago
I think it's interpreted as meaning that the company is generally committed to patent protection, and so if they let it lapse in this case despite several warning letters that it's more likely it was a conscious decision for comme
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by simonh 1y ago
It depends what the “simultaneous filing of the CSP” was simultaneous with. If it was simultaneous with letting the patent expire that makes no sense. If it was simultaneous with the original filing of the patent that does make sense.
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by simonh 1y ago
I think that in some senses truth is associated with action in the world. That’s how we test our hypotheses. Not just in science, in terms of empirical adequacy, but even as children and adults. We learn from experience of doing, not just r
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by simonh 1y ago
I’d say sophistication. Observing the landscape enables us to spot useful resources and terrain features, or spot dangers and predators. We are afraid of dark enclosed spaces because they could hide dangers. Our ancestors with appropriate r
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by simonh 1y ago
Just enable space bar heating.
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by simonh 1y ago
We’ll, that’s me convinced.
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by simonh 1y ago
Good point, and I think the fact that most commonwealth countries adopted more recent and therefore more modern iterations of the british model is a good thing. In comparison the US system seems hopelessly outdated, and even riven with the
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by simonh 1y ago
Which is basically a cut-and-paste of the British constitutional model of the 1780s, but with an elected King George III and upper house. Presidents are just elected kings. The modern parliamentary model is much better.
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by simonh 1y ago
I don't know, but I suspect the interpretation is that the impact should be during the preceding year, the wording doesn't say the work has to occur in the preceding year. So arguably the work could have been decades ago, but if t
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by simonh 1y ago
Humans do still manually trade. The existence of HFTs doesn't prevent or interfere with that, in fact it makes it easier by ensuring that prices are more likely to be converged to a consensus market price at any given millisecond. Thin
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by simonh 1y ago
What HFT arbitrage does is rapidly push markets with different prices into alignment with each other. If you banned HFT but kept multiple markets, the inevitable result would be markets with bigger differences in prices for longer. The only
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by simonh 1y ago
At the time most of those people took out those loans on those houses, they could afford them. Several things happened in various combinations. Interest rates shot up making the loans unaffordable. House prices collapsed so now they had tak
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by simonh 1y ago
In the subprime crisis 10 million American families lost their homes and 8.7 million people lost their jobs. In the case of the collapse of an AI bubble, I don't see as much of a direct relationship to effects on the average Joe. Yes a
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by simonh 1y ago
I wonder what event started in 2020 that might have caused major social and economic disruption, and could have had that effect. Maybe something that drastically limited peoples social mobility and lead to mass isolation.
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by simonh 1y ago
That’s only a temporary possibility, once the tech gets out everyone will have replicators.
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by simonh 1y ago
We have only recently been able to detect them at scale, so we should not confuse first ones detected with first ones to arrive in the solar system. It’s just as likely they are the tail end of a debris cloud, but our detection tech wasn’t
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by simonh 1y ago
Faster can also mean more efficient for a lot of tasks, because the cpu can idle sooner so your battery can last longer, or be smaller and lighter.
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by simonh 1y ago
Both can be true. Being able to do better, more productively work can increase my quality of life. And yes, winning lottery millions would increase my quality of life even more. However I don’t have lottery millions, but I do have a job and
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by simonh 1y ago
Not everyone hates their job and gets no satisfaction from it. Some of us relish doing something useful and getting paid for it.

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