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by tpm 5d ago
Why didn't CDU "solve the housing crisis"?
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by tpm 6d ago
There are also fleet emmission fines for ICEs so it's not so bad (and very expensive fuel too). Otoh you need buy-in from the population, so making domestic EVs more attractive than foreign ones is one of the better ways to do that.
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by tpm 9d ago
I'm yet to see evidence they are weighing global warming they way it IMO should be weighted relatively to eg AI risk. I get it, it's not cool. Compare the number of posts of some EA-adjacent public people talking about AI and talk
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by tpm 10d ago
It's not outside their control. The US can stop the conflict by giving Iran what they want, but it would admit defeat and lose face, so it will continue.
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by tpm 10d ago
> things that people actually enjoy No one will care if you build 1000th replica of a nice building. It's just not interesting to anyone and actually becomes boring very fast. People may live in it but no one will come from afar to
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by tpm 10d ago
that one looks too Calatrava-ish (specifically Oceanografic), I'd prefer the Dongdaemun Design Plaza if we are talking Zaha Hadid - especially once you see it in person.
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by tpm 11d ago
> allowing Russia's army to become stronger Currently russian war is eating close to 50% of their federal budget. That's WW2 levels of militarism for nearly zero gain (current battlefield status, not 2022-2025) and huge manpowe
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by tpm 12d ago
Iran did turn off the internet for a few months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran I am not advocating for neither, just saying many things seem unworkable until they become unavoidable.
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by tpm 12d ago
> incredibly hard time countering it Turn off the internet (like Iran). > We can't even prevent human actors from massively fucking up or societies, let alone ASI. We can (see China); we chose not to.
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by tpm 12d ago
Because when "AI" starts killing people, at some point it becomes a war and the usual supply channels stop working. Everybody knows you have to attack enemy logistics. > But if it did need all of those things, then it probably
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by tpm 12d ago
In theory I like Skechers; in practice they self-destruct after a few months on my legs. Luckily nowadays there is a lot of differents slip-on shoes I can buy - I've got 2 pairs of Crocs slip-on shoes which are better in every way and
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by tpm 12d ago
Thank you for the effort. I will continue to sleep soundly for now (well not really as we have more pressing issues like a few wars and a climate change).
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by tpm 12d ago
Every such scenario contains a few gaps so I'm just going to ask without really hoping for an answer. > We already have technology to make robotic systems (mini drone swarms) that can kill humans... To make them from what. Do you ex
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by tpm 12d ago
> That might be too imprecise for the HN set but it's realistic for laypeople. Some 'laypeople' will be scared for a while and then return to more pressing issues and exactly nothing good will come out of that. If there re
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by tpm 13d ago
Move one tab backwards. So in form fields move one field back, in text editor indent one tab less etc.
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by tpm 13d ago
> Seven years later I have relatives who send me every day some long-winded AI-generated bullshit. So not releasing the weights at that time didn't make the world safer, but did help to transform OpenAI into a commercial entity. Why
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by tpm 13d ago
This looks like halfway through your comment you realised it is indeed a nefarious plot by the CEOs, reusing existing arguments to further their own goals. > The AI risk arguments ... are 20-30 years old Yeah so climate change is known t
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by tpm 13d ago
Agree but current models could get there from first principles, so removing some data from training set might not be enough.
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by tpm 13d ago
I think software from major companies is in worse shape than in 2021. But that's on purpose, the enshittification continues. Otherwise I agree with you.
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by tpm 15d ago
Threadripper (4 or 8 memory channels)
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by tpm 16d ago
> Most modern cars are. Also no, unless you can cite some relevant sources for this claim (or have your own definition for a 'modern car'). > And the debate is whether AI can be conscious This is not the debate whether AI ca
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by tpm 16d ago
> A strong AI hooked up to everything online? would have to be created by humans > most cars are remote control by default no > have you read about the hugginface attack? I did and think OpenAI should be prosecuted, but the direct
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by tpm 16d ago
If biking around 5000 km yearly is serious enough then I'm one - using only my phone to track. Since I will be taking my phone with me anyway, I don't need another device.
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by tpm 16d ago
Animals obviously kill people. Even nonconscious things like the climate kill people. > if they soon would possess the capability to hack into the nuclear arsenal and kill humanity If there is a way "to hack into the nuclear arsenal
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by tpm 16d ago
it's not a biological system though, so nothing like that matters? "a modelled thing exhibits features we've trained into it" sounds a lot less exciting. > Keep in mind that animals were also not necessarily considere
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by tpm 23d ago
in my experience it can be effective for some people but mostly at much higher dosage than usually recommended.
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by tpm 25d ago
I'm using Firefox mobile for many years exclusively (since chrome forced some stupid feature on me, I think it was tab groups which I hated and couldn't turn off. And of course no ubo). Could be a bit faster probably? Otherwise do
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by tpm 26d ago
I'm a dev and use windows (sadly have to), android and linux, and would never use edge, because why? when it randomly opens because of a wrong file association or whatnot, I only see a bucket of ms nags and dark patterns. It's dis
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by tpm 27d ago
> How could it not be. Plenty of ways. That's what we have science for. For one, why choose 19th century projects when we did millenia of terraforming, mostly by doing away with forrests and wetlands, but also planting artifical for
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by tpm 27d ago
> The interior of my new build luxury apartment in the financial district is routinely over 30°C That's not a well built building though. Our flat in warmer location in Europe does not get over 27C unless it's over 33C outside,

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