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by 2358452 5d ago
A very significant change everyone can make is to consume more plants and less animal products. Diet is one the most impactful changes one can make individually. See here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-0208
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by 2358452 8mo ago
The link between cardiovascular disease and general consumption of animal products (in comparison with diets with reduced or zero animal products) is by now extremely well established I believe. I believe in this case meta-analyses and larg
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by 2358452 2y ago
I'd put it this way. Current society largely (but not completely) relies on experts building highly complex systems. This includes not only public infrastructure like waterworks, buildings and information systems, but also say the very
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by 2358452 2y ago
I think not only compromise, but more importantly communication. Like it or not, the other half of the country is also part of the country, and you cannot claim to be in support of the public without covering half of the public. The first l
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by 2358452 3y ago
No, it's the other direction (away from monke): go toward open source :)
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by 2358452 3y ago
I disagree with the framing "You are a bad person" (although I think I understand the sentiment), because it implies they can't change (or understand the error). It seems better to leave it at "You did something very har
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by 2358452 3y ago
Yes, there is a lot of bunk AI safety discussions. But there are legitimate concerns as well. AI is close to human level. Logically they become dangerous, specially if given autonomy and bad goals. Many of the accredited researchers recog
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by 2358452 3y ago
Do you want Terminator? Because this is how you get Terminator. A blockchain-based distributed giant AI could go rogue and it would be very difficult to stop it.
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by 2358452 3y ago
> Since nations are competing, and we're talking about exponentials here, the cost for cutting off exponential economic growth too soon is likely to become irrelevant to the future, which every nation is going to strive to avoid. I
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by 2358452 3y ago
I'm sure there are some emissions we still don't know how to avoid relating to solar manufacturing, but typically we look at energy return on energy invested (EROI). As the supply chain becomes less carbon intensive, less the ener
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by 2358452 3y ago
I think this is a false conundrum. We should use as much energy as we sustainably can, without destroying ourselves, if that improves our well being. But not more. And we should also make sure that all humans have good conditions. I think t
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by 2358452 3y ago
Sure, but I'd rather live in paradise than burn my house. In that sense nothing's a big deal, but it is for me. I believe we all deserve good lives. The best adaptation to burning your house is the rational thought "Perhaps I
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by 2358452 3y ago
That's to be expected, the global variation over the last 2 decades has been about .2-.3 celsius. That's very difficult to notice, and basically completely swamped by local variations (what is called weather, not climate). The thi
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by 2358452 3y ago
How would you design an experiment to tell whether a perception of love is to be trusted or not?
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by 2358452 3y ago
Indeed, I also think we're, as a society, missing a fundamental freedom: algorithmic transparency. That's the ability, that should be a right, to know in particular for widely available or impactful systems, what is the algorithm
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by 2358452 3y ago
I've tried helping keeping and seeding some historical archives, but it gets tedious quickly downloading one by one (and there's not much activity in them anyway). It would be nice if there was a more organized way of helping arch
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by 2358452 3y ago
It's an important problem for fair interaction online in the future, I think. I believe the only real alternative would be something at the hardware level. Your hardware should be able to get into a mode where an executable has a prote