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by toss1 1y ago
>>the dynamics like that are abstracted away in EVs (i.e. dumbed down) or buried in menus and not readily accessible. Exactly, they already do regen first, then mechanical braking, and just hide all the details. I would like to see th
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by toss1 1y ago
Cool idea. Perhaps a better idea would be to borrow from the brake balance adjustment in race cars, wherein an adjuster dial/knob allows the driver to alter the balance between the front vs rear brakes when the brakes are applied (very
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by toss1 1y ago
"'God of the gaps' is a theological concept that emerged in the 19th century, and revolves around the idea that gaps in scientific understanding are regarded as indications of the existence of God."[0] In this case, the
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by toss1 1y ago
>>I was only questioning aspects of the phenomena that are currently unexplained Right. The "God In The Gaps". Again. The refuge of those who lack an actual explanation. If that is what you meant, you should have explicitl
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup At the core, it is Anti-Science. Why Anti-Science? Because the answers that come from science are independent of the authoritarian ruler's whims, and that cannot be tolerated, as key to authoritarian rule is that it must be entirel
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by toss1 1y ago
>>There seems to be quite a cloud of uncertainty around the vast array of reported possible symptoms. Just because it is a "cloud of uncertainty" to you does not mean it is to people actually studying the phenomenon. Multipl
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup. Seems AI has now gone from "Overenthusiastic intern who doesn't check its work well so you need to" straight to: "Raging sociopathic intern who wants to watch the world burn, and your world in particular." Yike
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Robot metabolism: Toward machines that can grow by consuming other machines(science.org)
5 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
NO. This is a specific example of prices NOT working in both directions — the airline using AI and massive data sets about the individual buyers is EXPLOITING INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES to extract the maximum payment available from each in
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by toss1 1y ago
NO This is not "price discovery working efficiently" in arm's length transactions among two equal trading partners. This is MAXIMUM_VALUE_EXTRACTION working efficiently between one player with all the power and information an
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Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price(fortune.com)
77 points by toss1 1y ago|91 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
>>adding qualifying criteria It is not merely adding qualifying criteria, it is setting qualifications AND sortition to select legislators and executives. >>solve a problem that hasn't been demonstrated to exist ...The ma
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by toss1 1y ago
True, you cannot start sortition as a good means of re-distributing power in an already centralized system. It is a method to help maintain a balanced distributon of power, not created it when already gone awry. In democracies, the branch
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by toss1 1y ago
Exactly. That is literally the full list of what was accomplished.
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup Possibly what terrified them most was the Work From Home movement and Quiet Quitting. Both were real workers asserting their needs for a sane un-exploitated life and a fair deal. Both of those emerged from COVID, with the hard proof
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by toss1 1y ago
I've long been in favor of sortition, but with (as suggested in the article) a set of qualifying criteria. Not selecting absolute random people, but people who have established their ability to intelligently handle responsibility, and
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by toss1 1y ago
The lede is buried, and only half said: >>"Movement unrestricted by governments is a hallmark of a free society. " The other half of the lede is that this govt is using Insert_Method of restricting the movements of it's
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by toss1 1y ago
oh, OOPS, I didn't look at the GP In that case, I stand corrected, and 0°F should definitely be "Frigid" nto "Freezing" (thx for the alert)
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by toss1 1y ago
...except 0°C is literally originally defined as the freezing point of water? "Freezing" seems more on-point to me...
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by toss1 1y ago
Good to hear I've got zero problem going after W, F, & A. However, it is often (and especially now) is a mere cover for a LOT of other even more massively wasteful concepts. In ANY large organization, and in ANY organization do
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by toss1 1y ago
Of course, nevermind that we may need to defend ourselves and/or our allies against exoansionist autocratic aggressors like Russia (see Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Baltics and explicit threats against Poland, Germany, England, &amp
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by toss1 1y ago
They want them to grow up in their privileged bubble, and that is all. They literally DGAF if the rest of of us, i.e., the NPCs, all starve. Does anyone think Russian oligarchs care about the Russian peasants or "meat cans" they
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by toss1 1y ago
I wish everyone would do the same!
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by toss1 1y ago
There used to be a contest to fit a good web page into 5kB [0]. Seems it stopped running in 2002, to be replaced by a 10kB contest. Evidently, the entire concept of size & communications efficiency has been abandoned [0] https:/&
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, seems exactly right. And I think we might be nearly to the stage you're identifying, where there is enough fidelity in the models to discover new things. I sort of recall reading at least some of that happening in some fields of
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The old traffic math that keeps destroying neighborhoods(fastcompany.com)
2 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
Exactly! It is definitely a weird new way of discovering a market need or opportunity. Yet it actually makes a lot of sense this would happen since one of the main strengths of LLMs is to 'see' patterns in large masses of data,
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by toss1 1y ago
And messing with the UI is the single most salient thing that makes regular people hate using computers, and do so only when it is required. It doesn't matter what is their justification about making something "better". The
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Only if the simulations are usefully predictive. Of course; if you cannot make your simulations produce realistic output you are either wasting your time or are clearly not yet done building your simulations. >> A lot of the p
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes supercomputer time is scarce and expensive. Physical laboratory time, materials, and workers are also scarce and expensive. And physical lab tests can consume a lot of calendar time. So, even with the constraints and costs, using the s

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