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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> challenges the assumption that gene flow equals cultural influence Have you perhaps heard of anime? Or seen how widespread men's suits are? Or looked up how much images of Jesus and Mary (the ones from the Christian religion) va
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I'd suspect less "euphemism" and more "jargon". It's probably relatively hard to identify whether the culture was carried by means we currently think positively vs negatively about, so it's useful to have
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that of course comparing the effects of Intervention A on one person vs the effects of Intervention B on everyone will give a predetermined result. And that a proper comparison m
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I personally think nuclear proliferation is a more important issue for the world than if I lose weight or not. That's a bad comparison though. A better one would be the effects that you losing weight (or getting in shape or what
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Yes. If you have more money than you're able to make good use of improving the company (r&d, acquisitions, new locations, whatever), you can give it back to investors. Which can be either a dividend or a buyback, and in theory (ie,
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Seems to me that the use of AI is irrelevant[1], and the real problem is the absurd error rate. [1] In the sense of "it doesn't matter if it caused the problem", rather than "it probably didn't have any effect"
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The idea of "type safety over the network" is a fiction. Not really, it just has to be enforced at run time rather than compile or link time.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Did nanotech disappear? No, but the notion of general purpose universal constructors absolutely is dead. Will we have them someday? Maybe, if humanity survives a hundred more years or more, I thought this was a "we know we can&#
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The first-mover advantages of an AGI that can improve itself are theoretically unsurmountable. This has some baked assumptions about cycle time and improvement per cycle and whether there's a ceiling.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Cavalry won battles in societies that favored cavalry. And the reason that those societies favored cavalry is that they won battles. It'd be very silly to favor something that doesn't work, and any attempts to do so probabl
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Hey, it could be a big hit among the crowd that thinks casinos are fun.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I can see enthusiasts building something like that for fun and to prove they can, but I don't really see why anyone would want that for cases where the code is more just a means to an end.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> influenced by how weirded out the uneducated public feels about it. So it's one of those "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" things?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> and companies who support safety, transparency and honesty will support them. Not quite. Companies who can use the official labels to back up their own advertising campaigns will support them. (I know people who think that having a l
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The generic arguments against that sort of thing are distortion when the category boundaries are a bit off from where they should be, and overhead where any time you do anything there's extra compliance paperwork and delays. Overhead i
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I believe I've heard that there are people who make a living by, among other things, showing how to do it right.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> You can't "optimism away" the "negative" emotions. You just bury them, but they continue to live in your system, and find their own ways out eventually. That means you're doing it wrong.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Is a DAG traversal algo "math", or is it more computer-sciencey? Firstly, computer science is math. Secondly, I remember covering graphs in a discrete math course back when I was in college. > What if you do it in SQL
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Identity theft would become essentially impossible "The difference between a thing that might happen and a things that cannot happen, is that when a things that cannot happen happens it usually tends to be impossible to get at o
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> If you tried a new language and didn’t get very far at first, would you blame the language or recognise that you lack experience? This way of phrasing it rejects the possibility that maybe the new thing really does suck, and that t
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> This is inherently very complicated and high volume airspace, and there is a lot of helicopters because there are important leaders who use military helicopter transport, not commercial airports, but many of the places they might be l
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
OTOH, turning "instigate a nuclear war" into a way to assassinate specific people also seems like a bad idea?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Standard tree traversal loop (yes, missing some obvious conditionals I didn't feel like typing out): var todo = new List<T>(); todo.append(root); while (var item = todo.pop_front()) { todo.append(item.left); &
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
There's a reason that people have to be told to not just believe everything they read on the Internet. And there's a reason some people still do that anyway.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Doesn't this assume that a resume has no actual relation to reality?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Sounds like something meant to allow the vice squad to post "selfies" when they're pretending to be kids?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Hm. If in practice it ends up being as over-broad as the eff seems to expect, might it get tossed on the grounds that it abridges freedom of speech?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Agile isn’t making an empirical prediction ("all requirements will mutate endlessly"); it’s a philosophical posture toward uncertainty At some point this philosophy has to result in something concrete. How much ongoing effo
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Peel off a few bits at one end, and assign a value per instance.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
... And then followed that up by inventing lots more different kinds of wheels.

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