Xirgil

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by Xirgil 2y ago
But if you own the hardware there's nothing to legally prevent you from severing the power to whatever sensors/hardware onstar is using, no?
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by Xirgil 2y ago
Enough just to feed them, or enough to actually be considered payment?
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by Xirgil 2y ago
I thought the consensus was that corvee labor was used, rather than outright slavery.
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by Xirgil 2y ago
Interesting, I was reading some comments from Japanese users and they said the Japanese voice sounds like a (very good N1 level) foreigner speaking Japanese.
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by Xirgil 2y ago
And in doing so they mention genetics.
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by Xirgil 2y ago
You really don't understand why nature/genetics having a large impact on people's personality, thus behavior, and thus life outcomes is taboo?
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by Xirgil 2y ago
London has sky high rents for young professionals while also taxing them exorbitant amounts that ends up subsidize social housing for "economically inactive" people. I would not call that efficient.
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by Xirgil 2y ago
Microsoft didn't kill Gears of War out of ineptitude or malice. It's just that consumers don't want to play cover shooters anymore. There's no market for the game's core identity. People's tastes have swung har
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Do you have any recommended reading on this topic? I'd like to brush up.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
SpaceX absolutely gets a lot of criticism. There's people shouting to nationalize it for crying out loud.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
I won't deny that there's nerfs, but do you not see how "Product reviews used to go to higher quality blogs, Reddit, Consumer Reports now are now just all content filler sites." and "People trying to sell you things
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Search is going downhill at least in part because they're dealing with an entire industry that's adversarial to them. SEO companies are spending billions of dollars and countless man-hours with the explicit goal of making search w
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by Xirgil 3y ago
It means that private industry is doing a better job of allocating funding and meeting demand.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
So what would you call the social movement and ideology being described?
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by Xirgil 3y ago
The movie?? Just watch it, it's Ken Watanabe's character Katsumoto. The main character/protagonist of a movie and the titular character are not always the same.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
"Mind Virus" is loaded and inflammatory, but "woke" is the result of people noticing a large and highly influential social movement that refuses to name itself and chafes against any outside attempt to do so. You can&#x2
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Tom Cruise isn't the last samurai though
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Do you want AI to follow the blasphemy laws of every country that has them?
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Maintaining continuity of appearance, motion, etc does not seem like a "just" to me
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Digital Westworld
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by Xirgil 3y ago
I suspect it's less about being puritanical about violence and nudity in and of themself, and more a blanket ban to make up for the inability to prevent the generation of actually controversial material (nude images of pop stars, viole
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by Xirgil 3y ago
What happens when anyone can put on their AR headset and have AI diagnose and walk them through exactly how to fix their plumbing problems?
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by Xirgil 3y ago
It's called anchoring
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by Xirgil 3y ago
I would look to the signage in Tokyo for an example. The buildings have columns of signs listing the floor each one is on. Definitely not what we're used to which might hurt adoption at first, but it works for them.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Sulphates have a cooling effect and drop out of the atmosphere. There was recently a push to remove the sulphate content in the fuel used for cargo ships from 3.5% to 0.5%, and as the sulphates dropped out of the upper atmosphere the water
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Given that fertility is negatively correlated with income until you start reaching very high levels, economic disaster might actually boost fertility. That's not to say it's entirely an economic issue, it's also social, but i
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Criminals don't make sense to you because you're trying to explain their behavior with your own thought process. You're likely much smarter than they are, with a better understanding of risk vs reward and lower impulsivity.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Yeah, those poor towns should just remain poor, definitely don't spend a billion dollars there, that would be terrible for them.
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by Xirgil 3y ago
We need more anti-anticompetitive action. Why should NVidia and those who use their products be punished because their competitors have not stepped up to the plate?
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by Xirgil 3y ago
Artificial General Intelligence. OpenAI defines it as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work"

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