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by wyager 4y ago
No, I'm just guessing that the inflection point of productive scientists being financially displaced by useless academia career optimizers was some time in the last few decades.
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by wyager 4y ago
This website is incredibly good. Reminds me of qntm. https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precogna...
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by wyager 4y ago
"Humans do not have biological race" is correct if and only if you change the definition of "race" to whatever definition these academics have made up expressly to make the statement true. If you use any definition that
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by wyager 4y ago
You mean one of the politically activist dictionaries like Webster, which have lately frequently changed the definition of words like "racism"? I'm sure if it becomes an issue they'll change their definition of "rac
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by wyager 4y ago
> That there is a genetically distinct haplotype group that corresponds to many folk that share these traits with me, is sufficient This is what race means. You are taking the same referent and giving it a different designator.
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by wyager 4y ago
Mea Culpa! I knew about a few of these projects in the US but there are more than I realized. Thanks for correcting me.
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by wyager 4y ago
> The only surefire way to slow climate change is degrowth but this is literally a forbidden topic It's not a forbidden topic - most people just understand that it's in some sense treasonous to human civilization (at least in t
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by wyager 4y ago
I don't think that observation is relevant to any of my objections.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Big “citation needed” on that assertion. My knowledge of power markets. > HVDC is a widely proposed option I'm sure it's widely proposed by fictional utopian scenario enthusiasts. I will consider it seriously when there&#x
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by wyager 4y ago
Great, let me know when we have economically viable HVDC grids built up. Renewables enthusiasts love to talk about counterfactual or hypothetical scenarios, but ignore the fact that we can't spontaneously leap to one of those scenarios
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by wyager 4y ago
> I see a lot of cynicism around renewable energy and electric cars and I frankly don't get it. It mostly comes from understanding how power production and distribution works. > Even if we "only" get to 90% renewables
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by wyager 4y ago
Transmission losses would eat any benefit, unfortunately. Of course, the author didn't model this at all. This is the problem with 99% of "actually we could totally rip out our entire infrastructure right now" posts - it&#x27
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by wyager 4y ago
> I cited the current status quo You certainly did. > and then I explained the scientific reasoning behind it. That's charitable. > there's every reason to believe that substance mediated addition is a very different thin
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by wyager 4y ago
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by wyager 4y ago
Is there a DSM-5 condition for outsourcing all your rational facilities to the DSM-5?
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by wyager 4y ago
> Why do you think this? Anyone with a bayesian world-model thinks this. It's one of the most tired and obvious lies of all time, to the point that "think of the children" is a well-known trope. > What evidence would co
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by wyager 4y ago
Better to have a patchwork of occasional shitty laws from weak, small states than consistent and unified shitty laws with widespread enforcement.
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by wyager 4y ago
99% of people are simply not capable of making or even comprehending the relevance of probability-weighted utility calculations. This has predictable and deeply unfortunate effects on the political process.
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by wyager 4y ago
A key innovation of electricity is that it is a fungible form of power transmission. In particular, this allows the decoupling of concerns between the generation of energy and the application of energy. I hope green energy enthusiasm do
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by wyager 4y ago
It's funny to me that Netflix has such strict standards for cameras, but their content delivery is usually such low quality. Maybe my friends with netflix just aren't paying enough to get decent-looking video? One example that I r
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by wyager 4y ago
Let's say you're gambling 10k ETH on the last bit of RANDAO output being 1. You pay 5k to enter, and get either 0 or 10k back. Become a contributor to RANDAO. Put up your pledge (say 1k ETH). Set up the bet. Wait to be the last pe
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by wyager 4y ago
MIL-STD-810 isn't the same as mil-spec, and neither of them means what you think it means. You've fallen for marketing wank.
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by wyager 4y ago
PoS people always add more epicycles and claim it solves the problem. On closer inspection, it never has. At this point, I'm tired of wasting my time by humoring them. Once again, this seems to be the case. I can see at least one trivi
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by wyager 4y ago
Are you familiar with petrodollar warfare? It consumes a lot more energy and resources than bitcoin.
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by wyager 4y ago
Proof of work is the only way to get acceptable security properties for a monetary system. Proof of stake suffers from the "nothing at stake" problem, leading to grinding attacks etc.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Does the model conceptualize this sentence somehow, or 'merely' recognize similar prompts from some specialized training? I don't think the model is big enough to Chinese Room prompts like this. It has to "conceptua
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by wyager 4y ago
TLS doesn't really add latency on top of TCP after you make the initial connection - it mostly adds a bit of extra processing overhead for encryption. HFT firms aren't usually encryption-bandwidth-constrained. I'm not actuall
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by wyager 4y ago
So there are two things we should identify separately that go under the name "quantization". One is that when we send out a single photon worth of energy, even in an isotropic or other multi-path emission pattern, we only ever see
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by wyager 4y ago
Easier to think about the polarizer's effect on a non-quantum EM wave, and then understand that our probability of observing a photon is based on the magnitude of the resultant EM wave.
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by wyager 4y ago
This classical mechanics explanation works here because the process is linear. In a linear process, you can ignore photon quantization.

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