OgsyedIE

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A majority of settlements in parts of West Africa now have moats and walls(anl.geog.ufl.edu)
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by OgsyedIE 4d ago
Those of you concerned about welfare are probably enthused to know that the connectome just isn't enough for consciousness without the granularity of axon-by-axon differences or the ability for the whole brain to evolve in time.
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by OgsyedIE 4d ago
Normalcy bias is terribly corrosive to good planning. We're a decade or more into an education crisis, health crisis, jobs crisis, geopolitical crisis, debt crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis and moral crisis to the point that we on
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by OgsyedIE 6d ago
Also driving the price up are the Ansarallah advances in Yemen and today's Ansarallah bombings of the Saudi East-West pipeline. The market expects that they'll use military force to attempt to close the Bab al-Mandab strait, with
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by OgsyedIE 8d ago
Rehabilitating her image in the same format as Martha Stewart promises to be highly profitable for pre-public investors who can reap the holdings of bagholders yet to come.
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by OgsyedIE 8d ago
If the Yashar party does better than Likud in the October election but without enough seats to govern (it's a parliamentary country) as they seem likely to then it's also likely that prosecutions and witch-hunting will be postpone
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by OgsyedIE 9d ago
'Or so the Germans would have us believe.'
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by OgsyedIE 9d ago
How would this possibly control for economic decline? The largest electoral swings to the far right in the history of the developed world are 1930 in Germany (economic difficulty), 1956 in France (economy doing well), 1968 in the USA (econo
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by OgsyedIE 9d ago
Any non-maritime part of the supply chain can be extremely well-defended from disruption as long as you marry agentic defense planning based on existing crime prediction machine learning SaaS platforms to loyal human puppets with boots and
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by OgsyedIE 9d ago
Any steady-state economy without an overlord of some kind keeping a balance (a Potemkin steady-state economy) will have some subset of actors who randomly stumble into scenarios of creative destruction and gain disproportionate rewards from
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by OgsyedIE 9d ago
The 'voice' anybody has is some function of their capital, ability to leverage it and ability to prevent its erosion by theft, fraud, seduction/politics scams and honeytrapping. Humans can still acquire capital in the future
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by OgsyedIE 11d ago
Supposing all anthropogenic emissions went to zero today, we'd still keep warming almost as far as three degrees with all of the disasters and famines that entails, because there's a lag time between existing emissions and their e
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by OgsyedIE 14d ago
Adult and sibling socialization is not a substitute for peer socialization and adequate handling of it is the biggest factor separating success stories and not. Although they have a bias that makes their attribution of positives and negativ
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by OgsyedIE 15d ago
https://xkcd.com/1138
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by OgsyedIE 15d ago
Was there no outgroup in Russia at the time that would have leapt at the chance to emigrate if the Tsar proclaimed religious and/or cultural freedom in California for any émigrés who self-deported there?
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by OgsyedIE 15d ago
Depends on whether the Russians in this alternate timeline discovered gold any sooner or at the same time as our history did, since the discovery promoted huge numbers of USA-originating immigration that drowned out the other cultures in th
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by OgsyedIE 15d ago
I certainly hope this isn't a first indicator of Wikipedia editing QC losing a couple nines.
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by OgsyedIE 16d ago
Journalism from many outlets has confirmed that the people claiming to be directly impacted by excessive noise pollution (90 dB or more), air pollution from on-site generation or water pollution are authentic and not fraudulent, but also th
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by OgsyedIE 16d ago
If the bot stays low on content, you may wish to make it cover the first two pages and additionally list the number it entered at.
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by OgsyedIE 17d ago
I'm as open minded to having some US politics on Hn as anyone else, but there's politics that indirectly affects the industries this board is about and the people who participate in them and there's politics that is not relev
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by OgsyedIE 17d ago
No, I think that's a hopelessly reductive interpretation that mistakes stupidity for malice. Since arguably the 1940s the people running the United States have been consistently trading power over the domains they consider illegible an
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by OgsyedIE 17d ago
Military might depends either on domestic retention of a skilled machine tools workforce (as Iran has) or the mass import of a skilled foreign machine tools workforce (as Russia did before 2022, their munitions industry was the Siemens corp
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by OgsyedIE 17d ago
The least terrible option under the circumstances. Any single European country going in either the pivot-to-armed-independence or pivot-to-alliance-with-China route without the rest of Europe buying in to the move is doomed to failure, even
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by OgsyedIE 17d ago
Apparently at time of writing there is a hydroelectric plant in the affected area entirely buried in mud while remaining mostly intact which is being frantically excavated to reach the many unharmed, but trapped and running out of air, surv
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by OgsyedIE 17d ago
>Spontaneously deciding to find targets to phish, >phishing them, >building armies of fake (sockpuppet) open source contributor personas, >using them to push updates to various things that inject prompts into other bots so the o
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by OgsyedIE 18d ago
"Hello, is this the Murdoch family office? I'd like to speak to your team's permanent director of assets strategy about how wonderful it would be for your income to drop by ten to fifteen percent." You could do the same
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by OgsyedIE 18d ago
The optimal strategy for short term oligarchic revenue maximisation is a mixed strategy of mostly fossil fuels with some green tech. The optimal strategy for long term biosphere habitability is a mixed strategy of mostly green tech with a t
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by OgsyedIE 18d ago
Present day scarcities of food, water, energy, useful land, etc
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by OgsyedIE 18d ago
With the depletion of the coal and oil deposits the industrial revolution relied on the first time around, it is now locked in that this century is human civilization's only shot at reaching some kind of abstract technology escape velo
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by OgsyedIE 18d ago
On the off chance they weren't a bot and were merely somebody sucked in to the culture war to the point of losing a lot of sanity, the answer is that the optimal amount of green tech for maximising oligarchic wealth extraction is somew

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