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by api 5mo ago
In retrospect I think just adding another 16 or 32 bits to V4 would have been fine, but I don’t disagree with you. V6 is fine and it works great. All the complaints I hear are pretty much all ignorance except one: long addresses. That is a
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by api 5mo ago
The last point is very interesting and might keep universities relevant.
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by api 5mo ago
Now consider that DO is reasonably priced compared to the big three cloud providers. Cloud is ludicrously marked up.
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by api 5mo ago
It’s not binary. Before modern times there was enough mixing to keep speciation from occurring but not enough to fully homogenize. If our modern world continues for thousands of years eventually our differences will start to dissolve.
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by api 5mo ago
Not many. Part of why we are like this is extreme mobility. Even before modern times we were always good at getting around and seem to have a desire to roam. Or at least enough of us do to mix up those gene pools.
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by api 5mo ago
One of the worst things Musk did is link himself in peoples’ minds to things like space exploration and then linked these ideas to… other ideas I’m not going into on here. All these ideas about space pre-date him by many decades.
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by api 5mo ago
This is on my reading list. I've read synopses of it, and I don't think it's going to change my mind a lot. I'm still long-term pro-space-exploration, but even before this book I'd come to the conclusion that this i
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by api 5mo ago
As I said in another comment, eugenics is state authoritarian control of reproduction and fertility (with the extreme version being genocide). There are very few people with a disability who wouldn’t want it to have been prevented or cured.
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by api 5mo ago
The best thing to do with the term eugenics is to define it specifically as authoritarian control of reproduction. Voluntary acts aren’t eugenics, otherwise you get absurd things like free choice of mates being eugenics because you are ch
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by api 5mo ago
That sounds more like magic mushrooms bear, in which the bear realizes all life is one and to maul other beings is to maul yourself.
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by api 5mo ago
So much potential in that franchise. Cocaine moose, cocaine snake (or Snakes on Cocaine, which could have the line “I want these mother f’ing snakes off mother f’ing cocaine!”), cocaine lion, cocaine hippo, cocaine alligator…
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by api 5mo ago
Network effects are stronger than we are. People are there because people are there.
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by api 5mo ago
When you zoom this far out, anything can look possible… or impossible. This is the same fallacy, but taken toward rather than away from infinite possibility, that underlies things like the Club of Rome’s world models and their limits to gro
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by api 5mo ago
Ultimately we don’t know. We have not been looking far or long. SETI BTW is kind of a joke. The only way we would hear anything is if someone was very close or was intentionally blasting a signal at us at incredible transmit power (like ter
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by api 5mo ago
As opposed to? What makes the ego and base desires of an aristocracy superior? It’s hard for humans not to get bogged down in base desires, period, because of the dopamine system.
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by api 5mo ago
Software is now media, not tooling. Media tends to come with a lot of baked in perverse incentives.
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by api 5mo ago
I feel like the entire discourse is a proxy for what should be direct discourse about inequality and the regressive (rob from the poor, give to the rich) nature of our system. Eliminate the AI variable entirely and the problem remains, ther
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by api 5mo ago
AFAIK superconductors are a major limiting tech. But we are slowly getting better ones, both by discovering more and by learning to mass produce superconducting wire. With superconductors you can make magnetic bottles. There’s also some int
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by api 5mo ago
It’s a logical extrapolation if you think life is a natural phenomenon. It would be exceedingly weird to see no evidence for it, but of course we have not been looking long or far. And yes, space flight is brutally hard. Look up the history
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by api 5mo ago
A major problem is that if we structurally limit what technologies do, we are still not in control. Now whoever we empowered to control and limit the technology is in control. Who keeps them accountable? You’ll probably get one of three out
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by api 5mo ago
Any time the headline is gamblers making millions the reality is 90% of gamblers losing, maybe 9% breaking even or making small wins, and a few making millions.
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by api 5mo ago
Yeah. I’m a little obsessed with Orion though. The fact that the math works on that lunacy. The good old devil’s pogo stick. If you could make pure fusion bombs it would be maybe politically viable, especially if you also use superconductin
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by api 5mo ago
I agree about tiny loud minorities, but would also add the 4chan incubated fash stuff alongside Tumblr and parts of Reddit. As far as censorship goes, it’s clear that the deeper problem is that mega social media doesn’t scale. When the afor
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by api 5mo ago
Yeah the more I learn the more I buy the rare Earth explanation. Life may not be that unusual but it might be mostly just goo: little extremophile type bacteria and maybe very tiny creepy crawlies living in deep seas, underground, in liquid
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by api 5mo ago
In that case aliens from a super Earth would be unable to get off it unless they decided to salt their biosphere with fissile waste. NERVA is at least contained if it works properly. So no space program from a super Earth until they figure
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by api 5mo ago
2.4% is not bad given how new this still is and how extreme the speeds and energies are. Note that all the fatalities have been launch or landing related, not in space itself. Clawing out of this gravity well is tough. Make Earth a bit lar
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by api 5mo ago
Part of the issue is that a huge number of people have quiet quit social media. They’ve just left, or at least they rarely visit. What’s left is brain rot and its addicts.
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by api 5mo ago
… and like fusion it will be a decade away, a decade away, a decade away, six months away, then we have it. The “decade away” phenomenon comes from the fact that it’s basically impossible to time estimate innovation.
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by api 5mo ago
The reason “ideas don’t get funding” is usually (but not always) true is that usually a good idea alone doesn’t mean much. So usually you have to have good idea plus something else the investor feels is a proof point or evidence you can exe
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by api 5mo ago
Reminds me of a related principle: “How do you know if a conspiracy theorist is really on to something?” “Check the missing persons list.”

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