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by tuatoru 1y ago
Your point generalises. For instance, homicide rates have fallen in large part because many wounds that used to be fatal are now survived. Breast cancer death rates also are down because of better diagnosis and treatment.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Essentially saying that Amdahl's Law dominates. Speed up part of a process; its total time taken will be dominated by the parts that can't be sped up. In this case the process is the economy, and time is money. I look from a macro
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by tuatoru 1y ago
In the short term it doesn't really matter what AI can or cannot do. What matters is what C-suite people think it can do, and the latest fads on Wall Street. If Wall Street is obsessed with reducing headcount (perhaps because of what t
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by tuatoru 1y ago
In addition to nradov's point: double your speed, quadruple the blast energy of collisions along the way. Interstellar space (in galaxies) is not as empty as we could wish. And the relativistic mass equation imposes a very lower upper
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by tuatoru 1y ago
This is overclaiming about the value of information, I think. Even people who know that carbon credits are a scam still get on airplanes. Not doing that is about the easiest way to cut your carbon footprint. Or maybe the misinformation is c
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I disagree as well. One of those instant print cameras (and a limited budget) is probably best for teaching people to see, which is the core skill in photography. The pain of having to pay for refills is a major part of that learning exper
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Didn't realise the pedigree of the idea went back to 1983. I read about this in a book "Our Robots, Ourselves". That talked about airline pilots' experience with auto-land systems introduced in the late 1990s/ early
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Second counterargument: by practising, someone will eventually get good at it, and it becomes feasible to treat very niche or unprofitable disorders. The quality of human practitioners is...variable, and they tend to focus on only a few are
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by tuatoru 1y ago
OrangePi muscling in on FriendlyArm's territory. Their NanoPi RxS series are their router boards with two ethernet ports.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I'm sure there will be a market for artisanal, hand-crafted code. If not, just do it for yourself.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Will there be a market for artisanal, hand-crafted code?
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Yes; kicking out the Capitalist bosses from the West unleashed African economies like Zimbabwe, Angola, Liberia,and Congo.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Exactly. Who has the political connections to get develkopment policy tilted their way?
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by tuatoru 1y ago
... for certain values of 'serious'.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
The people alive in 2225 will be happy with what happened, and suitably grateful I am sure.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
> with a lag time of 0.2 seconds. I had that after having both lenses replaced. (Cataract removal.) It's pretty annoying. Two years later the lag is down below the threshold of noticeability most of the time, probably under 70 ms.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
DC, definitely. Above 60V is dangerous. AC, 120V will 'bite', 240V will make you shaky ( remembers id10t maneuver yesterday, first in a decade ). And burn you. In damp environments or with corrosion around, much worse things can h
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I have Horowitz & Hill, and they (two volumes now) are probably overkill for hobby repair. There's a large-format book called "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk which is a good intro to th
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by tuatoru 1y ago
AI girlfriends/boyfriends are the killer app. Preying on the "loneliness epidemic" that's caused by everyone spending all day staring at glowing rectangles.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Wait, wasn't it upended several years ago by Uber's self-driving cars and delivery drones?
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I've found that since I got an Apple watch I'm more focused on sleeping for long enough.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
They have people driving vehicles into crowds instead, and/or mass knife attacks. Not a material objection.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Can it assemble a pizza?
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by tuatoru 1y ago
As a schizoid[1] I'm only capable of one deep relationship. I believe there is an epidemic of SPD among men, because they have been emotionally neglected since babyhood. Infant daycare is a primary contributor. People without SPD mostl
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by tuatoru 1y ago
In my childhood in the 1960s there were also many men in their seventies leading active lives as you describe - golfing, sailing, hiking and so on. What there were not, was lots of people on oxygen or in wheelchairs or on dialysis or taking
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by tuatoru 1y ago
See also "Why are Muslim Fertility Rates so Fragile?"[1] And "Why are Marriage and Fertility Rates Plummeting in MENA"? (Middle East and North Africa)[2] 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzHRhJuTvc 2.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Oooh, a 20-year-old meme!
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Clickbait points: Elon Musk, +10000, $trillion, +1000, precious metal, +500. Reality: a useful addition to the list of potentially exploitable lithium ore deposits. Maybe. Depends on 1) the technically recoverable fraction, and 2) the ec
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by tuatoru 1y ago
> pushing people into real-world industries where hands-on labor still matters. Your average worker in the Anglosphere is forty-plus and pre-diabetic, has a weak back and joints, and has low cardiovascular fitness, from decades of sittin
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I spent several years studying economics and I don't get the GDP growth predictions at all. To a first approximation, GDP (in the west) is household consumption. The value prop for AI seems to be "will put millions out of work&

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