walleeee

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by walleeee 5y ago
"The light of his world filled his empty hands" is one of my favorite lines ever
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by walleeee 5y ago
used to work in a lab focused on this sort of thing and the money did indeed flow for personalized e-health and digital interventions mediated by smartphone or browser interface maybe things have changed since but I didn't see much inc
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by walleeee 5y ago
regardless of questions of growth or ultimate purpose we need to be able to do this if we want to persist for any significant length of time in any habitat, planetary or otherwise a truly sustainable civilization can successfully manage i
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by walleeee 5y ago
were we not actively making this planet more difficult to live on I would be a bit more likely to agree but even so there seems to be plenty of motivation do we not want to be resilient to e.g. solar flares, supervolcanoes, asteroid impacts
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by walleeee 5y ago
Not only is it a profound and fundamental capability if we intend to live off-planet, it's basically the only relevant capacity, conceived broadly (how to manufacture the means for indefinite survival given supplies of matter and ene
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by walleeee 5y ago
also that despite centuries of purportedly labor-saving invention, all but the most privileged experience not a corresponding increase in leisure but an explosion of more or less amusing diversions from this condition
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by walleeee 5y ago
your interpretation seems reasonable somehow we persist in the belief that misaligned superintelligence is a thought experiment but as far as I can tell distributed AGI is a reality and paperclip maximizers already exist
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by walleeee 5y ago
What do you care about? Which problems would you most like to see solved? By whose measure is "not having to work hard for the rest of your life" a mediocre result?
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by walleeee 5y ago
not to dispute your point, because it makes sense from the individual's perspective, but this... > Right now, investing in public companies and tech is very risky, as valuations are at record highs. Many experts estimate near-zero r
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by walleeee 5y ago
Worked for me. Cold emailed a prof asking for advice on how to enter a particular field I had never seriously studied before. He hired me as a staff programmer, helped orient me to self-study the topic, and encouraged me to apply for grad s
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by walleeee 5y ago
I certainly see the utility there!
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by walleeee 5y ago
it does seem likely to arrive but whether it becomes popular more difficult to predict as it's conditioned on the sway of public opinion, which seems heterogeneous regarding AR/VR
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by walleeee 5y ago
if you select domains which don't align so closely with the buzzwords of the day and accept a more modest paycheck you may find more success in your search for a dream job (personal anecdote, not a prescription) there are a lot of peop
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by walleeee 5y ago
This is desirable?
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by walleeee 5y ago
whether or not it's consumption in particular it's undeniably human activity that's the problem business as usual leads to a pretty bleak future and if we refuse to confront this how will we even begin to adapt to a planet
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by walleeee 5y ago
> there is a company the name escapes me right now that is similar to Consumer Credit Agency that tracks all driver activity, companies self report accident, and other adverse load events to this reporting agency You may be thinking of
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by walleeee 5y ago
If I seriously injured myself (say, in some extreme sport) and needed intensive care in my town right now, I wouldn't get it ICUs are full, people are dying from stupid preventable shit because they couldn't get care, and from acq
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by walleeee 5y ago
Nazi China?
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by walleeee 5y ago
Plenty of comments in this thread claiming it's real but not that big a deal Unreal
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by walleeee 5y ago
> there's a sense of superiority that seems to crop up among them the directionality could be the inverse: e.g. insecurity driving people to social overcompensation as well as cannabis as a reprieve or escape from their anxieties
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by walleeee 5y ago
You're right, it's a complex web of incentives, power (im)balances, sociopolitical inertia, legalisms, etc Nonetheless the fact remains that we have consistently produced more than enough food for everybody for half a century and
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by walleeee 5y ago
Starvation has not been a production issue in a long time. It's a geopolitical distribution issue.
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by walleeee 5y ago
I didn't know this was common usage, thanks! I stand corrected
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by walleeee 5y ago
I'm just picking nits, but :%s/designed/evolved/g Do very much agree it's miraculous. Biological organisms are robust to error and chance in ways no designed system comes close to matching. It's awe-inspiring
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by walleeee 5y ago
> manage to convince their users to behave well enough to fit into the box Perhaps this is a fundamental limitation of digital technology, if not all technology Being the vastly more flexible party in any interaction with it, we tend to
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by walleeee 5y ago
Helps to run a few concurrent anon alts and keep them sandboxed from real identity Improves the discourse for everyone imo
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by walleeee 5y ago
The single host model is really pretty common Personal or small/medium business sites, research software, free web utilities What's considered lean in startupland can get pretty beefy compared to the shoestring a lot of projects a
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by walleeee 5y ago
I think your question is a good one but not so sure about chalking our woes up to ignorance in the voting booth If economics is like most academic disciplines it likely has its share of pathological incentive structures, genuflection to spe
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by walleeee 5y ago
I think what most warrants critique is the fact that despite a century of alleged awareness, no extant economic policy even begins to address the problem in its full scope We've been saying "in practice governments must impose rea
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by walleeee 5y ago
> despite technologies not having a discreet origin, we can reason about them in retrospect Yes, agreed, good point I also agree about Nick's probable fatalism, and I think his work is brilliant and valuable, however one thing irks

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