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by yongjik 3y ago
> we have to explain the mechanism by which permutations of the states of matter can create a new dimension of "feeling" and "awareness" where one did not already exist. You mean, like a newborn baby? That's not
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by yongjik 3y ago
Ah, so that was where this "Boeing was DEI" meme coming from. Papa Elon, of course! I was wondering why multiple commenters brought up DEI when the story was about a beloved American company getting destroyed by clueless upper-cl
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by yongjik 3y ago
> It's the customers (i.e. "us") who are responsible for those emissions. And the cost is being passed on to those customers. So, by making fossil fuel projects uninsurable, we will make fossil fuels more expensive, which
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by yongjik 3y ago
That's wrong on so many levels that I don't know where to start. Where in a commercial airliner do you want to keep several hundred explosive devices that would violently launch a passenger out onto an open air, through a hole pu
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by yongjik 3y ago
The flip-side is of course Germany, globally praised for being the shiny beacon of green energy policy, while emitting almost twice as much CO2 as neighboring nuclear-happy France (per capita). In the end, I think we should remember what is
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by yongjik 3y ago
Umm, I think you misunderstood. I didn't say going to Mars would end wars, I was speculating on what conditions should be met on Earth, before someone lands on Mars.
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by yongjik 3y ago
America went to the moon, because if they didn't then the Soviet would be there first. That's the real reason, and that explains why nobody ever went back since. (Why bother, when you are not number one? It's hard to justi
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by yongjik 3y ago
Reminds me of when the xkcd forum went down - I never registered or commented, but it had threads for every xkcd comic, plus other geek discussions, some of which were quite funny. I spent hours reading them. And then one day there was a b
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by yongjik 3y ago
If you want to buy a house or apartment, you're probably looking at at least several hundred thousand dollars, and average working class people would need years to save that much. In other words, we're looking at someone with a fe
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by yongjik 3y ago
I know this is not Asimov's best, but off the top of my head (it's bean years since I read any Asimov), there was a scene in the later Foundation series where a character was about to go on a space trip for the first time and star
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by yongjik 3y ago
Hmm, I agree that the characters were mostly two-dimensional (esp. in book 2 and 3) and the story gets weirder and weirder, but I think it was still pretty good, especially book 1. In terms of terrible dialog and characters, the book will
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by yongjik 3y ago
Meh. As far as I know, red meet is unambiguously carcinogenic, but that's not stopping many people from eating steak. I'll take my chances with mushrooms.
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by yongjik 3y ago
But when LLM answers a logic or math question that no seven-year-old would figure out, would you flip the table and say this is the evidence that the seven-year-old is not intelligent? Otherwise, it sounds like circular reasoning, where we
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by yongjik 3y ago
Fun fact: the Oklo reactor, a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that was active more than a billion years ago, was used to test if physical constants were the same in ancient times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat
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by yongjik 3y ago
> the answer is often that the existing rent-collectors must be allowed to continue collecting their rent at all costs. Well, to be fair, this is also the case in other parts of the world. They just differ in what part of the economy th
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by yongjik 3y ago
Well, that's only going to work if there's enough underground space for railways to turn 45° before entering the station. Judging from what I've seen, most "important" transfer stations are in an urban district whe
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by yongjik 3y ago
That would be great if feasible, but I think most transfer stations have lines crossing each other at near 90° for obvious reasons, which would make this impossible.
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by yongjik 3y ago
(Disclaimer: IANAL) Well, it's remarkable if these languages are related, but even so, we're talking about two languages that diverged thousands of years ago, maybe 10k years. Probably in the same ballpark as Proto-Indo-European
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by yongjik 3y ago
I'll bet a keg of beer that they are not in fact mutually intelligible.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> The main reason I use Linux is because it's the only platform that actually respects me as user. Well, maybe it does, but I can't get rid of the nagging feeling that it's respecting me in the same way a samurai warrior w
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by yongjik 3y ago
Every time I hear this kind of news, I'm reminded of a Reddit comment thread: > > So what are they protesting? > Lack of attention
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by yongjik 3y ago
I think the article gets some facts right, but in pursuit of a grand unifying theory of society, jumps too hastily to conclusion. As a South Korean living in the US, it reminds of me when some Koreans say: "Why do Americans do (X)? Gu
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by yongjik 3y ago
That article made me a bit sad. MIT might have made the right call, but I expected some reflection on why MIT rejected him, and the essay is just trite "Oh you just have to be good at academics, don't worry, there's nothing
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by yongjik 3y ago
> Most software engineers and CEOs are white and male Fine, you walk up to Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Lisa Su and say those words. I'll watch.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Consciousness and emotions, sure. Understanding, I'm not so sure. Saying that LLMs cannot understand concepts because "it's just statistical pattern matching" is not going to help laypeople understand what LLMs are. Af
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You say "corporation," I see an airline employee in one of the poorest countries in the world, being forced to deal with an obnoxious rich asshole. He might as well have said "Fuck it, I'm not paid enough to deal with t
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by yongjik 3y ago
Japan's colonial policy on Korea varied over time, but they were consistently hostile against educating people in the Korean language (I mean, they wanted low wage workers for the empire, so obviously they would want them to speak pass
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by yongjik 3y ago
That's an odd view, considering that the main problem with ICE vehicles was not that they failed to be efficient, reliable and cost effective. The problem was that they spewed CO2, warming up the Earth, with disastrous consequences.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> If the state is unhappy with certain distributions they can try to change the economics, like giving vouchers. That voucher is still being paid out of our tax. Either way, somebody's got to pay. The government saying "You ca
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by yongjik 3y ago
I don't think PR would work for the US, at least in its most common(?) form where people vote for parties and each party has a list of candidates. A big problem with Gerrymandering is that it favors extremists. When a district is comp

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