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by walleeee 4y ago
these policies are a product of pathological incentives as well as emotional decision making - there are scientists and engineers building free, open source tools to do exactly as you propose, but more of them are building things attention
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if fictional explorations of this idea are worth anything, le Guin's Dispossessed are a people whose determination to abide by a set of principles led them to write their constitution not just on paper but directly into the human langu
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Fair, I don't think we disagree
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questions of good and evil aside, these sorts of organisms have subsumed human beings into a new composite apex predator paperclip maximizers are real, they're made of code and people
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similar role with a similar experience > is that really what it takes, for people like me to give up making a nice salary at a tech company, to solve these "urgent" problems? after a lot of thought and soul searching I've
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I started having mental health and digestive symptoms similar to yours in mid 2020 and have also had tentatively good results with a gluten-free and inflammation-minimizing diet. I didn't know about the connection between gluten sensit
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Can't speak to the state of Chinese academia but have had a few similar experiences at American conferences When careers are on the line and one is expected to mischaracterize one's work or its impact, people will tend to do so If
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I've had some success cold emailing researchers and asking about openings in scientific computing. Worst case they just say no. Also look at university corporations, e.g. AUI, UCAR/NCAR, etc. They sometimes hire staff programmers
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It sounds like you've discovered what you aren't aligned with, but you don't yet know what you do think is interesting or valuable. The first step is answering this question for yourself. What do you care about? Science p
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Do "you" identify with one entity, as is often reported among tulpamancers, or do "you" stand apart from them all? When you hear one or another of your internal voices, or become aware of an entity's thoughts, is it
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Is this true of all oils? I thought some (e.g. olive) are much better than others (cheap seed oils). I also thought risk increases with temperature, so unless you're smoking it on medium-high heat and consuming large amounts regularly
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We will all have to drastically alter our lifestyles and the longer we wait the harder it'll be
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Have been looking for something like this for several years to replace the custom UI/orchestrator for a science gateway. The other options I've seen don't do auto UI generation or don't allow self-hosting or aren't
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Organicism can be a useful and fertile frame but it's not without its perils
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It produced some modest results which slightly advanced the field. Not groundbreaking. The applied work did demonstrate the viability of a few robotics applications and the infeasibility/insufficient ROI of a few others. I would say th
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sorry, Principal Investigator and Individual Contributor
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Agreed. Worked on an ARPA-E funded project and it was reported as a success even though the primary deliverable was never completed and was probably not viable anyway. Everyone involved meant well, but I sensed the PIs viewed it more as a v
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I doubt these will take off unless climate- or politically driven migration slows, which seems unlikely in either case, or we stumble across a fountain of cheap energy. A lot of farm work in the US is performed by undocumented immigrants pa
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> fucking CHINA What's behind this sentiment? The Chinese system of government is demonstrating itself capable of funding and following through on long-term, large-scale public infrastructure in a way the American system currently s
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Agreed, it's better to tolerate some amount of abuse than eliminate every potential for it by force. I just think it's possible to find a better balance than we have now, if not imperative if we want to survive civilizational adol
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While your point about jealousy is a good one, MBA-ification is real and has real consequences, many of which might reasonably provoke frustration I do agree the anger is ideally channeled into some attempt to productively frame, understand
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The idea that there are multiple people in the mind is likely a reflection of its malleability just as is the (typical) conception that there's a single person with a single concrete, tangible identity in there. The fact that different
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Gwern's site is a gold mine of various interesting tidbits
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> it's the people not the media they use This echoes nature vs nurture in psychology and can be debated interminably because the truth is it's not just one or the other, it's both We need to acknowledge the powerful ways o
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We are peculiarly inclined to suppress whatever impugns the security of that to which we have given our allegiance. - Walter Lippman, The Basic Problem of Democracy, 1919 ( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive&#x
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> If you're conscious of the tradeoff you're making, it's ok Phones and the apps on them too often train us to push this awareness into the subconscious or rationalize it away
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> late 21st century I hope we don't have to wait that long :/
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> Salesmen, in any field other than sales, are like an invasive species who outcompete the natives with their superior social polish, but who struggle to actually do anything, which leads to systemic underperformance and the erosion of t
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> That's where the money is. This is part of the problem imo
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I hope we continue to wise up If a core goal is really to make thoroughfares safer and reduce traveler injuries/fatalities, we seem to be ignoring or discounting some pretty obvious options, like minimizing car traffic This vision wher

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