bostonwalker

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by bostonwalker 24d ago
I can’t figure out how to use this. But I’m skeptical, how is it supposed to put UAP videos “in context” with satellite locations when they have been scrubbed of precise location and time details for OPSEC purposes? Also, do man-made satell
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by bostonwalker 9mo ago
RE your link, I am not sure that anything of value has been articulated in describing this vague notion of "Collective Flourishing". After reading the page two or three times, the best I can understand is that it seems to be a cal
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
Not in my back yard!!
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
Alarmist title and poor article. I don’t agree that prompting an LLM to write targeted emails for your lobbying campaign counts as “weaponizing” AI —this is just common practice e.g. in sales and marketing.
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
> The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality... all necessities pro
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
I seem to recall there was an article posted here recently which noted that galaxies have a preferred direction of rotation. Seems like the universe itself rotating could be a reason why?
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
> And if we want to apply tariffs, do it slowly. Instead of saying that products will be tariffed at 100% tomorrow, say they’ll be 25% next year, 50% after that, 75% after that, and 100% in year four. And then make it a law instead of a
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
Doping potential aside, this sounds like a very promising area of research. The article mentions increased endurance, peak performance, and anti-aging potential. What are the downsides to having more mitochondria in our cells and why did we
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
Source on his backstory being made up?
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by bostonwalker 1y ago
My kid is about the same age. We recently bought a safety lock to prevent him from getting into cupboard under our sink. It had great reviews on Amazon. The first time he went into the kitchen after I had installed it, he notices it immedia
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
> RCMP said they don't believe the two Nova Scotia incidents are national security threats. Are they joking? Seriously, with everything that is going on the world right now, the authorities in this country need to get their heads ou
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
Naively, I would think the same. But in the first part of AOTD, Neil Postman argues pretty convincingly that America in the 18th and 19th centuries was the most literate, bookish society on Earth and in the later parts of the book that that
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
Predictably, I see a lot of concern being expressed here about how this will be implemented and enforced. There is an underlying assumption, which seems fairly reasonable, that the government is going to use this opportunity (à la Louisiana
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
Just finished reading Amusing Ourselves to Death on the recommendation of some commenters here. Strange that Neil Postman's work is not once mentioned in the article. His basic argument in 1985 was that the shift from print to TV was a
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
Maybe position someone on shore with a megaphone to read out The Funniest Joke in the World?
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
The evolutionary transition from single-celled to multicellular life has actually been repeatedly accomplished in vitro [1]. So highly unlikely to be a Great Filter. [1] https://archive.ph/1yCVn
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
Not loud at all but it gives you a distinctive feeling like you've been slapped in the base of the skull by God. The Carl G was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article.
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
> brought the world to the brink of annihilation Should read *has brought*. As in the present perfect tense, since we are still on the brink of annihilation, more so than we have been at any time in the last 60 years. The difference betw
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by bostonwalker 2y ago
AI posing as human customers to promote your product on the web is fraud, change my mind.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
When I first heard that the gov't is trying to protect children from online harm, for some reason I thought it meant we were going to regulate their access to the highly addictive forms of social media that have been destroying their e
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
This is putting it mildly. The Interac network went down and no one could use their debit cards nationwide.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
I agree and am in favour of carbon taxes. However this particular carbon tax is weak virtue signaling exactly because it is not sufficiently priced.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Q: Who decides whether the policy focus is on the supply side or consumption side? A: The government and its voters. That’s it. That’s who I am going to hold accountable. Now, the point I am making that you seem to miss is that in Canada, t
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
This is currently our biggest unsolved political issue IMO. Without a focus on the supply side, all of our current consumption-focused climate change policies (carbon tax on consumption, electric vehicle mandates, most recently infrastructu
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
https://archive.ph/8d1yV
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
2022: World's first psychopathic AI hailed as major breakthrough edit: 2022. Didn't realize this was already around.
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
> (Sutskever) has an exemplar in mind for the safeguards he wants to design: a machine that looks upon people the way parents look on their children The most troubling statement in the entire article, buried at the bottom, almost a footn
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Less than a year old, but I have been thinking about the issue proactively and there are things you can do for them even at this age. For instance, I set my son up with a Proton email account on the family domain name before we left the hos
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Congrats on that! My kid is too young for tech so far so I haven't fully dived into the issue yet, but one thing I've already done for him to start him off on the right foot is set up with a Proton email account on the family doma
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by bostonwalker 3y ago
Parenting. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to prepare my kid to grow up around the internet, smartphones, and AI. Our technology often takes an indifferent or even cynical view of children, and I can’t understand why there are

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