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by suoduandao3 3y ago
no such agency or no strings attached? ;)
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Right, but their own population isn't currently having trouble importing food (that I know of). Farm subsidies are essentially a form of insurance against famine.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
If the Museum originally got it from someone who stole it from somewhere else, there's a reasonable argument to be made. James Acaster's comedy bit on the british museum comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Fair... though I would point out there are reasons governments might want to support citizens who make food more than citizens who make widgets. It's funny - prior to this thread I didn't realize the protests were over subsidies.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Genuine question, what do you think comparing debt loads of established vs startup companies should tell me?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I think the point is, Farmers as a group were peaceful until very recently. Law abiding citizens don't riot because Mars stationed direct. I like Bill Burr's quote here - "A dog should not bite a man. But if a dog does bite
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I don't 'do' Apple, neither do the vast majority of my friends. But, having used a borrowed mac product in the past, I do recognize that using them is just... pleasant. Not enough to justify the higher price point, but the su
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
No... but functional currencies aren't free either. If a miner could run a heat pump via a Stirling engine it'd be even better.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I guess that's a misunderstanding of protocols on my part, because the subtitle began with 'or', I assumed 'A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer' was an alternate title and an alternate way to refer to it.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I do believe that Tesla's success in the last decade was in large part due to the fact it was the only technology company that could use all the money people were throwing at technology companies.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Like a lot of nerdy scifi writers, NS's characters can come off a little... archetypal rather than complex or subtle. It's a lot more pronounced in his shorter works, as there's a lot more internal dialogue in his longer ones
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an excellent book. I was intrigued to learn it's also one of the top recommended books by Tim Ferris guests. I wonder how many separate reasons there were for that.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I agree... but it's important to recognize that the smaller the difference between one's pay and one's expenses, the more impact any kind of disruption has. 'don't go bankrupt' isn't a requirement with a l
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I was going to respond that much of music is also poetical, but AI is actually decent in that realm too - albeit it with a lot of supervision. From 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPs6wdM7S3U
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
The best rebuttal I've heard to this line of thinking is: "Some say we lost Afghanistan because we weren't willing to be brutal enough. Well, the Russians were willing to be brutal enough, yet they also lost Afghanistan.&quot
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Here's the first I found: https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=4cf111c139290637JmltdHM9MTcwN...
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
That line of reasoning seems pretty silly given that consciousness is supposed to be much more subtle than electromagnetic fluctuations and omnipresent, but it reminds me of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition where the most difficult practices
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Loneliness is a human instinct based on our evolutionary history as social primates though - if you travel up the antennae enough that there's no 'others' there's also no evolutionary pressures to make that loneliness a
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I quite like Penrose-Hameroff's theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbgDf4HCHU My best summary of it: consciousness is primal, every bit of matter has perspective, every interaction has experience, the body you&#x2
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
right but most of those men weren't samurai, were they? The Samurai were basically responsible for raising a private army in times of war like that, they were the first point of defense if someone threatened their people in peace times
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
I think a point we forget when we think of the 'Samurai' or other 'armed nobility' classes like the European knight is that they were much more similar to police than soldiers in a modern analogue. Their job was to enfor
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
And if I'm not, then neither is an Ai?..
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Right, but if I look at your sculpture and get ideas on how to make a better sculpture, then make an entirely different sculpture using yours as inspiration, and you get upset that I'm 'copying your style' we generally don&#x
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
How is it 'stolen' if it was part of a public dataset? Is the argument that OpenAI was scraping data that should have been behind a paywall?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
>capitalism will not offer any incentive to feed the AI with new, creative things. Disney is already following that thesis without AI, yet it's never looked so vulnerable to the whims of the free market.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Those countries can already pirate that data with minimal effort. The only way to keep that kind of data out of your rivals' hands is via trade secrets.
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Given that high interest rates mean it's very advantageous to have money, might interest rates just be a leading indicator of wealth inequality?
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
>War is avoided if one party is so strong that an attack is futile. Did you mean to write 'if both parties are so strong an attack is futile'? A stronger party can always attack a weaker party if it feels it has more to gain th
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
centrists are probably generally less fearful as retreating to one extreme of a polarized dynamic is a common fear response. But I think the point is more, everyone is partially motivated by fear, sometimes governments use that fear as a le
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by suoduandao3 3y ago
Destructive arguments can also have the benefit of strengthening the arguer, like sparring in a gym makes me more confident in a dive bar. I wrote my first book after months of habitually arguing on a mongolian basket weaving forum and deci

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