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by tossaccount123 8y ago
can we advance far enough to get an understanding of our biology to augment it? "AI" in its current form is like a child trying to make a car through imitation I think we'll have to CRISPR ourselves smarter before we can real
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
People want to believe we are capable of anything as humans A depressing thought I've had is that maybe we will reach a point where we can go no further due to biological limitations. Think about monkeys, they have primitive tools but
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
your study is from 2012, newest research found strong correlation between certain genes and educational attainment, stronger than environmental factors like parents income[1] your snopes article is about inheriting from mother alone, not pa
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
wow, using technology to increase productivity to make up for stable population rather than importing millions of people who will be out of jobs due to technological advances in a few years. Truly a game changing strategy
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
I've always thought that was a terrible argument. The same logic could be used to justify slavery since our food price would drop even lower. Work conditions aren't much different for illegal laborers compared to slaves anyway. If
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>everyone knows that immigrant labor keeps rural communities going in Iowa What? I know people who made $30 an hour with full benefits in the 70s doing those jobs. It amazes me people can claim to support the poor/middle class and i
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Who needs nukes when you can send an autonomous drone swarm to subjugate a country? Or develop an ethnic bio weapon to wipe out your enemies with no damage to infrastructure? Nukes will be seen as primitive brute force weapons in the future
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
If I was China I would put him in an underground lab and make him work day and night I can't find the article but there was a geneticist who said the difference between Einstein and the average human was 50-200 base pairs. Which ever c
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
around 70% of lottery winners end up filing bankruptcy. Lots of professional athletes go broke as well. The rich don't always get richer, most people will revert to mean if they essentially got lucky https://www.cleveland.co
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
hard to tell what "anti-corruption" means in Xi's China. From what I've heard most of the time it's more a purge of people not loyal to Xi via selective enforcement of the law
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Does any other animal species care about things other than themselves? Natural selection would weed out individuals who were too altruistic, if you're looking for something to blame you're going to have to blame thousands of years
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>They didn't began their lives as "farm raised animals for the purpose of slaughter". they did though, cows were domesticated from aurochs and pigs from wild boars for the express purpose of making them easier to slaughter
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Interesting how so many leftists who hate the koch brothers and their big money spending are fine with billionaire tech elites throwing their money around But I suppose that's not surprising considering the top 10 richest districts and
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
China isn't communist in anything but name, it's national socialist. They've basically copied Italy and Nazi Germany in terms of economic policy
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
rumors are drug overdose, will be interesting if its accidental vs suicide and whether opioids are the cause sad either way RIP
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
VS code is a jack of all trades editor, obviously it's not going to be able to match more specialized editors
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
where? From what I've seen Europe, UK, USA, Canada, and especially China are all moving in this direction of more privacy intrusions. Considering the West has traditionally offered the most freedom for its citizens I'd say things
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Not as bad as I've seen from Tumblr. It's moving towards meme territory with how bad some of the bans are Update It has in fact become a meme, example https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1437369-tumblr#comments
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
The government's primary goal is to protect itself and continue growing like cancer. In many ways the citizens are it's greatest threat because they can vote to cut budget and the power of the political elites. These laws are a wa
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Extremely high click-through-rate isn't good generally. I can make something very vague and get high CTR but the conversion will be awful and a waste of money. For an awareness or cost per impression campaign it would be good though. C
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Seems like they've tried to roll their own machine learning classifier as well because I've seen some comically bad screenshots of banned content. For example, a picture of someone's finger got banned as sexually explicit. Sh
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Huawei is rumored to have backdoored the African Union and Trump has been pushing other countries to get tough on China in general for stealing IP. This is essentially an extension of the trade war and valid fears that the Chinese governmen