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by vikramkr 2y ago
Hot take, plant origin plastics should be deliberately engineered to be non biodegradable so we can lock that carbon up in a landfill instead of releasing it back into the atmosphere
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by vikramkr 2y ago
We only sequenced the first cow genome 15 years ago and plenty of plants and fungi produce high quality protein/fat/etc - it's not like we're starting from scratch the whole point of bioengineering is that we can cheat u
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Yeah, and it's especially naive when in addition to animals existing, the tech involved happens to be an area of enormous societal importance for health reasons (plenty of investment), the problem happens to be somewhat existential (cl
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Last I checked the cow doesn't have a problem producing steak and thermodynamics applies to that too so not sure what the argument is here
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I wouldn't bet against it ever happening, mainly because there is already a pretty advanced highly scalable meat manufacturing biotechnology process called, you know, the actual animal. Wouldn't recommend betting against a thing t
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by vikramkr 2y ago
This comment is a perfect reminder of how humans have a really rough time telling large numbers apart and don't have an intuition for orders of magnitude at these scales. 500 million/4 billion is only about 12%.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Honestly kinda surprised how quick people are with the old malthusian trap arguments - weird how they still hold that much sway when it hasn't really panned out.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... looks pretty compatible to me!
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by vikramkr 2y ago
They're saying an energy density of 1000 wh/l, not saying per kg in the headline. Looking it up, the 1000 wh/l seems to be a bit above what a bunch of random internet sources say lithium batteries do on average (300-700 wh&#x
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by vikramkr 2y ago
We don't really do that though, population growth is leveling off on its own. Industrial revolution pretty much broke the malthusian trap. Now growth of economies fuels growth in GDP per capita instead of growth of capita. We've a
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Without any control mechanisms, human population growth is already leveling out globally (correlated with increased material prosperity and opportunity basically). So, there's not really a case for needing a mechanism like that.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
It's a video generation service, and also would stripe "refund" those "legitimate" customers if they hadn't requested those refunds or were payment spamming or something? Theres a few rather obvious reasons to
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I don't think your defensive stance is really helping here - it didn't blow up into anything big this time but next time you should just be transparent about what's going on to avoid having everyone else trying to fill in the
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by vikramkr 2y ago
It's way more efficient and logical to skip right to high speed mobile data than build out cable/optical/landline infrastructure
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Heads up that vercel updated the copy on the page that's linked to by this post. It's not a blog post, it's a guide page, so obviously we'd expect it to change, but it's probably useful to track it in case comments
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Calling this privacy focused and then shipping a version that doesn't even encrypt the data saying it's coming soon has to be one of the wildest possible ways to launch this lol. Microsoft set the bar low with how they addressed p
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by vikramkr 2y ago
that's art too, and a pretty narrow selection of it. Music videos are awesome. Pretty good short video essay type deal that I think captures some of the highlights of what makes them tick: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by vikramkr 2y ago
We all know air travel is safe. The concern is that the complacency involved with folks just parroting that argument is leading us to a world where that's no longer the case. Air travel isn't safe because of magic, it's safe
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I think the parent comment is referring to there only being 7 launches total for the entire program before being cancelled, not 7 launches per capsule.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
And about making clear that the proles who think they're enjoying music just because they're enjoying it aren't actually part of "culture" because they're not enjoying it in the "right" way. In a sens
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Given songs could be made hits because of their videos - that's arguably the opposite of prescient, because it turned out that the televised image was not actually unrelated but in fact a new core integral aspect of a new art form, the
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by vikramkr 2y ago
That's a really interesting case, and my gut feeling is that you are definitely very weird lol, not that that's a bad thing. How do you end up understanding linear algebra but turning to youtube videos to understand the fourier tr
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by vikramkr 2y ago
You wouldn't use a chatbot for the same query you'd use normal search tools for (and on a side note your answer would be much more useful with an example of what those tools would be, it's not really actionable). A vague natu
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Huh, I had no idea they weren't listed on these sites. I'd generally heard good things about them but they didn't really 'exist' as an option for me since I never saw a flight from them available. Wonder how many ti
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by vikramkr 2y ago
So figuring out and reasoning through that mess is pretty much the specific thing that LLMs are good at, I'd recommend actually trying the newer models if you're still operating on the assumption that these are at GPT 3 level. Ran
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Honestly for companies that are really on board with the AI stuff they'll probably start shaping their data and processes to work well with these tools. And the whole 'understand your entire codebase and the meaning of the log&#x2
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Uhh, I guess yes? There's a reason that pretty much the entire internet goes down every time AWS has an outage lol.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I mean, if you're going to doom these tools to failure you should probably pick a higher bar than 'can look at more than column name' since that's not going to take very long at all to happen at this rate of progress.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Are they generally rewarded? Wondering is there are statistics on that because the narrative is usually that defenders end up unable to compete even with technologies they themselves invented and die out, with maybe apple and Microsoft rece
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Also legumes!

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