catskul2

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by catskul2 8mo ago
... or circumstances now select for "high agency" humans, and those humans propagate. Not sure why we think normal evolution wouldn't just route around such problems.
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by catskul2 2y ago
Everyone, every last one of us, does this every single day, all day, and only occasionally do we deviate to check ourselves, and often then it's to save face. A Nobel prize was given for related research to Daniel Kahneman. If you thin
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by catskul2 2y ago
> If that happens, the spacecraft will turn off all non-essential systems to conserve power and remain in flight. Uhhhhhh... I guess they mean "in operation"? Not sure how it could do anything but remain in flight.
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by catskul2 2y ago
I'm surprised you've not heard of the author (Sean Baxter). He's pretty well known among people who are interested in c++ standards proposals. He single handedly wrote his own C++ front-end and then proceeded to implement a b
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by catskul2 2y ago
> The weather was unusually mild for the season, and Kelly thought he might even have time to “bag” a second Munro, I really hate when people use very uncommon terms without defining them. (or sometimes even people's names) It'
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by catskul2 2y ago
I wonder if cheapish EVTOL travel might make a difference here. I.e. if CEOs effective travel time is reduced, does that affect headquarter location selection.
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by catskul2 2y ago
Do you ever talk to yourself silently? How fast do you read?
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by catskul2 2y ago
Jinx.
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by catskul2 2y ago
Have you considered explicitly using weed or shrooms as an on-ramp to exercising this ability? You could devote some time and slowly build up your ability. Just as you can learn to wiggle your toes independently, or play the piano, or learn
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by catskul2 2y ago
But how would we know though right? I mean without having an A/B comparison. Sure it didn't stop the destruction, but I don't think that was ever in the cards. But it might have helped by some amount even if small. 1%? 2%?
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by catskul2 3y ago
* Try talking to ChatGPT via the voice interface. * Spend time listening to yourself either directly or via recording. Repeat words and sentences which don't quite sound right. Train your ear to attend to the difference between what y
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by catskul2 3y ago
Can you really not imagine how a nation state could get valuable intelligence by having an intimate knowledge of how a large portion of another nation states population is thinking?
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by catskul2 3y ago
non-political is political. Do you imagine that there aren't people making political TikToks? Or that non-political themes don't affect politics? Or that bubble control doesn't affect politics?
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by catskul2 3y ago
Which city, and how long has that been the case? There's likely quite a bit of backed up demand. Typically when supply doesn't meet demand, the price goes up, the supply responds, and only after that does the price level off (or c
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by catskul2 3y ago
Think you can find any of those discussions? I'd be curious to read/browse.
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by catskul2 3y ago
I've always thought describing "whataboutism" as a logical fallacy as misunderstanding the broader picture. I don't think that most people who use "whataboutism" are actually arguing that the "whatabout&qu
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by catskul2 3y ago
Perhaps you should.
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by catskul2 3y ago
A few things things: - causation is difficult to establish - symptoms can sometimes themselves be a proximal cause - treatment of symptoms is one way to determine causation
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by catskul2 3y ago
IMO "Read the docs" is not a reasonable response to "what is it?" Typically someone wants to know the most basic question before devoting time to diving into the docs.
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by catskul2 3y ago
They need to cut down the length of that 18 minute video. It takes them way too long to get to the point. Should be like 5 min max.
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by catskul2 3y ago
Yes. Even in Canada they already have something similar with their carbon taxes. IIRC, tax is collected all year and returned at the end based on income rather than consumption. Not sure if it would technically be considered a negative tax,
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by catskul2 3y ago
Step 1: Calculate the effect on local utility rates. Step 2: Create a new tax which brings in 150% revenue of the calculated effect which applies progressively on power users one standard deviation above the mean Step 3: Apply a negative ta
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by catskul2 3y ago
... they named the software... "vim" Really?! Come-on. https://github.com/hustvl/Vim
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by catskul2 3y ago
> If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking, cover philosophical knowledge, or entertain you, then don’t read it. I think that's covered under "entertain you".
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by catskul2 3y ago
When might we see this in consumer VR? I'm surprised we don't already but I was suspecting it was a computation constraint. Does this relieve the computation constraint enough to run on Quest 2/3? Is there something else that
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by catskul2 3y ago
It could be that the energy required to break the hydrogen bond from random collisions is higher than the theoretical minimum because the angle of a typical collision "wastes" energy in imparting vibration or rotation of the water
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by catskul2 3y ago
Half of the side effects are also the side effects of abating depressions. It's theorized that the suicide risk from most anti-depressants are from transitioning from so depressed that you have no motivation to do anything, to having e
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by catskul2 3y ago
> where as in North American they are predominantly company specific... Why do you think that? I'm fairly certain this is incorrect. AFAIK, North American unions are not generally company specific. They are trade specific in most
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by catskul2 3y ago
Heres a video on what they're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24GzTaOll0
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by catskul2 3y ago
The claim is because you can represent many more fractions without irrational numbers.

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