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by apatil 3y ago
I have found myself legit using this instead of duolingo for the past couple of days, in spite of the speech to text issues. It feels like a better way to learn. The inline suggestions, in particular, seem like they will help me quickly mov
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by apatil 3y ago
The auto submit slider doesn't work for me (on Android) but I can imagine what it would be like. I don't think the Portuguese speech to text is good enough for the app to be usable hands free even if the slider did work. For examp
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by apatil 3y ago
I've used chatgpt itself as a language tutor a bit but this is nicer. I like the inline suggestions that don't break the flow of conversation. Portuguese speech to text is flaky. This may be partly attributable to my pronunciation
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by apatil 3y ago
Penalizing a crime might make sense for the purpose of deterrence even if there is no conscious free will. The size of the deterrent effect is a scientific question, and how to weigh the benefits of deterrence to society vs. the harm the pu
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by apatil 3y ago
I find it plausible that it's often a good idea in medicine to be conservative before launching interventions that may have adverse side effects, but have difficulty swallowing the idea that this conservatism should be implemented by r
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by apatil 3y ago
I heard about this video from an astronomer friend a few months ago. It was mostly about how Loeb's social and professional behavior matches with that of past crackpots. He does seem to leave himself open to that. There wasn't rea
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by apatil 3y ago
In hindsight this comment was too short. Clarifying some points: By "This makes sense", I meant that this kind of thing can happen; as more data are gathered, the Bayesian probability of a candidate value can increase and then sud
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by apatil 3y ago
This makes sense, thanks. However, it doesn't mean that the 3% estimate of the chance of impact was wrong at the time of initial observation given data available, and that still makes it a huge deal at that time. At minimum, it would s
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by apatil 3y ago
Also, is it possible to quantify the risk of unseen companion asteroids, which someone else mentioned in the comments.
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by apatil 3y ago
Two questions for people who live in rural areas in homes that were built in a more modern way. - Do you have issues with pests? More precisely, how often do you have to use mousetraps or call an exterminator? - What's your recurring h
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by apatil 3y ago
Could anyone comment on how often Dafny finds proofs for useful theorems on its own in practice, without requiring the programmer to use expert knowledge of the proof search system to break it down into a sequence of gettable lemmas and&#x2
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by apatil 3y ago
That's very interesting. In which variable is type inference EXPTIME complete? Whichever variable it is, I suppose in practice humans can't create programs that are big enough in that way for type inference to become impractical.
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by apatil 4y ago
Sounds like an interesting story! I would love to see more sci-fi that really tackles AGI. I used to love sci-fi but most of it, even "hard" sci-fi, has become unwatchable or unreadable for me because the limited role of AGI is su
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by apatil 4y ago
I don't disagree, but I think the framing is overly pejorative and makes the likelihood of this outcome seem more tenuous than it really is. We do lots of things to help others because they make us feel nice. "Mothers and Others&q
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by apatil 4y ago
You may be right, of course.
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by apatil 4y ago
Say you get access to a singularity-level AGI, meaning you have the power to render the entire human economy completely irrelevant. Given any task, no matter how big, small, novel, complex, simple or mundane, it's vastly more cost-effe
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by apatil 4y ago
It's looking increasingly possible that, at some point in the not-too-far future machines will be so good at creating software that humans won't be competitive in any way, and won't be in the loop at all. I happen to think th
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by apatil 4y ago
We should start having a conversation about what the new social contract will look like and when and how it should be phased in.
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by apatil 4y ago
As I understand your post, an explicit version of your argument would be something like "the level of suffering that nature intends for animals far exceeds the level of suffering experienced by animals farmed for meat, so farming anima
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by apatil 4y ago
Given how quickly AI image generation, and creativity generally, has progressed, I think it's perfectly plausible that within ten years we will be able to tell an AI "create a work of art that is unique, highly meaningful and that
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by apatil 4y ago
According to http://www.kastenmarine.com/metalboats.htm , mostly cost plus other drawbacks that sound like they would not be blockers if the cost were lower. That author thinks monel would be even better than stainless, but
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The Global Cost of Corrosion(impact.nace.org)
209 points by apatil 4y ago|239 comments
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by apatil 4y ago
It seems to me that, at some level, they must be subsidized by new buyers of filecoin. It's hard to imagine anyone providing storage so cheaply even if they didn't make any profit at all. Miner revenues have to come from somewhere
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by apatil 4y ago
Your broader point about OTA is certainly debatable, but off-peak charging can be incentivized (as opposed to mandated) very economically.
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by apatil 5y ago
When I was 35, I could have written the OP's post almost verbatim. I'm 42 now and, despite having spent two years working intentionally on the problem, am still in a similar place on the whole. Several solutions to the OP's p
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by apatil 5y ago
Exploring your second point a bit more: if it were five billion lives rather than five lives being saved, most people's intuition would be that regrettably it's necessary to murder the one patient. Our intuition about this thought
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by apatil 5y ago
I've done three of seven Mindbloom sessions so far. The first gave me a resolution to a deeply ingrained and painful pattern like the one you're describing, which I have worked on for years, in a matter of minutes. The second, whi
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by apatil 5y ago
I think it's time to seriously think about putting the same amount of effort into non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) development as we put into the vaccines. As inspiration, note that parts of the US are have environments that can s
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by apatil 6y ago
You should be able initiate an ACATS transfer out of your Robinhood account from another brokerage. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php . https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/a
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by apatil 6y ago
I didn't have cases like your example in mind. If you couldn't know that the speed limit would decrease soon, eg you had no idea the speed limit was going to change until you were nearly level with the sign, then presumably the la

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