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by why_at 4mo ago
He didn't create a nuclear reactor, this is a common misconception. It even says this in the wikipedia article. He basically got a bunch of radioactive stuff and put it together. He wasn't anywhere close to making a nuclear reacto
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by why_at 4mo ago
>it would mean I think bats are people, just non-human ones. That's what being a person is: a subjective experiencer. Okay, I think this is part of what I found confusing about your initial comment, since "person" is often
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by why_at 4mo ago
I think he makes it pretty clear he's only talking about the second one of your two definitions >What it is like to be a bat could be rephrased as what it would be like to experience being a bat if a person were being a bat He says:
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by why_at 4mo ago
I had no idea there were 1500kW fast chargers, this is insanely high power for a car. Maybe this would be useful for long haul trucks or something where they have large battery capacities and want to save as much time as they can, but it se
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by why_at 4mo ago
I agree with the ruling, but this makes me wonder if it will be possible to have any AI agent at all if it's consistently applied. After all, if I can get ChatGPT or Claude to say something false that should count too, right?
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by why_at 4mo ago
The title is misleading IMO. It should say "German ruling declares Google liable for libel in AI Overviews" I was prepared to say the same thing as you but after reading it seems totally fair. The key difference is that this wou
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by why_at 4mo ago
It's strange to me that this isn't the emphasis of the article. I assume the MRL the lowest amount which could possibly cause harm? If so then why does it matter for the rest of the products where the levels are below that? It cou
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by why_at 4mo ago
I've recently gotten into microscopy as a hobby and comparing the relative size of microbes is really interesting. There are entire animals (tardigrades for one) which can be smaller than some single celled organisms. There are even si
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by why_at 4mo ago
It seems to me like there's a fair amount to be concerned about, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on finance by any means so if you have some explanation of why it's not that bad I'd love to hear it. Two other indice
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by why_at 4mo ago
I was having a hard time pinning down what bothered me about this but I think you put it pretty well. It draws an analogy between us and the skeptical aliens in the original story which feel silly to us, so the obvious implication is that w
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by why_at 4mo ago
I'm a big fan of Star Trek but I recently rewatched this one in the context of recent AI developments and it's not as good as I remember it. They barely touch on the issues of consciousness, Picard basically says "What if Dat
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by why_at 4mo ago
I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the amount of nati
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by why_at 4mo ago
Worth mentioning that this is from 2021 and there are now faster speeds and more options. We have OSFP/QSFPDD with 8 lanes and lane speeds of 100Gpbs and 200Gbps for up to 1.6Tbps on a single DAC at the bleeding edge. Although with the
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by why_at 4mo ago
No you have to get the yesses back out cat /dev/null | yes
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by why_at 5mo ago
I'm a totally biased EV owner, and I agree that it's only fair that EV owners pay for the roads they use. But it's annoying to see the US government find a new way to discourage one of the most clear cut ways to reduce fossil
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by why_at 5mo ago
It's got better reviews on Goodreads than Moby Dick too. I know what I'm reading next
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by why_at 5mo ago
I'll throw my two cents in, this still exists today. The difference between now and then is that now a college degree is seen as a requirement for a higher quality of life. (And not in a eudaimonia way) Many people are going to college
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by why_at 5mo ago
The burning question for me is how does this compare to previous years? Looks like they started doing this senior survey in 2022, so unfortunately there's no pre-COVID info. 2022 20.9% cheating, 31.5% non-reporting 2023 25.4% cheating,
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by why_at 5mo ago
Yeah I think there could be something to the integration of AI in an operating system so that it can handle things going on in different applications the same way you can already copy and paste between things. But if it's going to requ
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by why_at 5mo ago
My first impression coming away from this is skepticism. Anything with voice controls for routine use is a pretty tough sell. Doing this when you're not completely alone would be annoying to everyone around you. Most of their examples
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by why_at 5mo ago
Yeah fair enough. I'm not sure I really agree with the piece either tbh. More likely these different narratives are coming from different groups of people. I'm not even convinced of the main premise that McDonald's is now muc
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by why_at 5mo ago
I read it more as a segue into the main point about conflicting narratives in the American public regarding food. Despite our excuses that we have to eat unhealthy fast food because it's cheap, we still eat it it once it's expensi
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by why_at 5mo ago
>Discussions of plant consciousness are nearly always dominated by very loud self-proclaimed skeptics I have to say I have had the opposite experience. Ever since "The Secret Life of Plants" the average person is much more open
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by why_at 5mo ago
This is one of the things that makes a spoiler free run hard to imagine. I think the Oracle can tell you about the ritual but geez it would take you forever to figure this stuff out
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by why_at 5mo ago
One of the oldest photos on my phone is the screenshot from the one and only time I beat Nethack. (As a tourist BTW)
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by why_at 5mo ago
Hmm this is interesting. I was playing on mute so I didn't notice the radio messages. I was thinking the "convergence point" was the center of camp with the sign since that's where all the paths meet up and the book ment
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by why_at 5mo ago
Is there anything to the weird book in the treehouse or is it just for flavor? It seems to be alluding to something but I can't figure it out.
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by why_at 6mo ago
Yeah same here. I love puzzle games but there needs to be something to it besides puzzles for puzzles sake for me. I've seen this game recommended many times but I've never played it because I feel like I would get bored very fast
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by why_at 6mo ago
Yeah there's a lot of details which I'm guessing are actually being handled by humans either for legal reasons or practical ones. Like OK, it's hiring people to run the place, but how are they getting the keys to the store? S
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by why_at 7mo ago
Yeah I actually took a quick look at that after it was posted. It's good that they used ELIZA as a barometer, but the fact that it got 27% is crazy for how simple it is. It's not nearly as good as 70+% from ChatGPT, but it still m

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