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by cjcole 29d ago
He could have also used some kind of chemical reaction contained within a rigid tube to transfer the energy to a projectile, but I think he just really likes trebuchets in particular.
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by cjcole 2mo ago
It's mere slander. It reminds me of the Smithsonian's insistence that punctuality, hard work, objectivity, and politeness were aspects of "white dominant culture" and "white supremacy". https://web.a
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by cjcole 2mo ago
Find a Church which still does this: "There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales, and lay them at the apostles’ feet for distribution to any
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by cjcole 4mo ago
"So I'd like to engage AI risk from both these perspectives. I think the arguments for superintelligence are somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions. But even if you find them persuasive, there is something unpleasant
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by cjcole 5mo ago
"John wore a T-shirt that featured a smiley face with a bullet hole in the forehead from which trickled a few drops of blood" Sounds like a Watchmen Comedian logo t-shirt. It could be construed as a bold choice but was probably ju
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by cjcole 5mo ago
"but I can't help but see parallels between today and the Industrial Revolution" You're not the only one. The current Pope Leo XIV explicitly named himself after the the previous Leo, Pope Leo XIII, who was pope during t
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by cjcole 7mo ago
I'm not an enthusiast. I'm a Butlerian. Imagine hearing pre-attention-is-all-you-need that "AI" could do something that Donald Knuth could not (quickly solve the stated problem in collaboration with his friend). The idea
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by cjcole 7mo ago
Maybe. “The laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations.” - Paul Dirac “It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realisation in external nat
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by cjcole 7mo ago
"humans" Donald Knuth is an extremal outlier human and the problem is squarely in his field of expertise. Claude, guided by Filip Stappers, a friend of Knuth, solved a problem that Knuth and Stappers had been working on for severa
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by cjcole 10mo ago
Nov 16 Update: Rebecca Heineman - Organizer It’s time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless. So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my keyboard, Pixelbreaker! So I can make a worthy entrance for
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by cjcole 2y ago
> > IQ is compute speed, not storage. > Says who? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mathematical_... Von Neumann's mathematical fluency, calculation speed, and general problem-solving ability
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by cjcole 2y ago
Thanks! (My son loves to play.) BTW, the old Windows installer runs great under Crossover on Apple Silicon. I'm going to try running this native. I'll file issues for what I can't readily fix.
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by cjcole 3y ago
“Our clients understand that a two- to three-minute ad load is more valuable than a nine-minute ad load,” says Mark Read, head of WPP, the world’s largest ad company and Groupm’s parent firm. It's appropriate that even the chief of the
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by cjcole 3y ago
Then it's a shame that society has largely decided to discard as outdated longstanding philosophies whose tenets do teach the intrinsic value of each human independent of their economic output. https://www.pbs.org/faith
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by cjcole 4y ago
The intersection of "AI", "I won't harm you if you don't harm me", and "I get to unilaterally decide what harm is" is going to be wild.
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by cjcole 4y ago
A fair summary (based on information from Open Secrets) would be that the vast preponderance of contributions were to Democratic and/or progressive candidates or funds ($36,846,356), plus relatively insignificant ($240,200) contributio
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by cjcole 4y ago
Yes, please. Thank you. I'm not sure which is the better argument: that they are a safety menace due to distraction from driving (video billboards?) or that they are profoundly ugly (including but not limited to aesthetically). Either
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by cjcole 4y ago
Diplomacy is a species of high-stakes asking. 'Mr Herapath, I understand that you wish to visit the whaler, and you have my permission to go. You are no doubt aware that there is a great deal of ill-feeling between the United States an
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by cjcole 4y ago
First of all, I wish you luck with your effort to have children. It's almost a cliche at this point, but the prefrontal cortex isn't mature until between 25 and 30 on average. "One key part of that trajectory is the developme
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by cjcole 5y ago
Their business model is literally profiting off of poor customer service (as a service). Get your credit card from a local credit union with at least one physical presence near you. Do your own backups or contract to an independent company
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by cjcole 5y ago
"Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"
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by cjcole 5y ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-to-offer-booster-sho... Three months, available to all adults. "All adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three mon
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by cjcole 5y ago
It seems apparent that the US government is pursuing a novel strategy to route around the Bill of Rights: Steps: * Allow (and encourage) private sector monopolies to form * Use its leverage and influence to "encourage" those monop
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by cjcole 5y ago
That "just" is doing a lot of work. It seems to me that many of these "rationalize all the things" schemes tend to bottom out at and build onto an "incorruptible kernel of truth" which, if corrupted, causes the
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by cjcole 5y ago
Hanson says regarding national metrics: 'Well, now we’re going to authorize this same sort of agency to estimate number like GDP except we’re going to tell them to put more things in the number. Bills before Congress would say, “Count
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by cjcole 5y ago
What allows this tactic to work is the size asymmetry between very large companies and smaller companies. It is much less effective against similarly sized companies. Very large companies have much more buffer (reserves of capital, talent,
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by cjcole 5y ago
This is true. We are being psychologically manipulated by extraordinarily skilled operators to redirect our attention from our family, friends, and local community toward these non-local (more lucrative) concerns. This makes the manipulator
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by cjcole 6y ago
Ok, this makes sense, thanks. Still, this is a horrible message to show a user who is in that situation and who did not place a sell order themselves (message wording from the article): “We’ve received your order to sell [#] shares of [st
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by cjcole 6y ago
I was once directed to appear at a Las Vegas hotel lobby at 7 AM sharp. I was to drive various poker celebrities from shoot to shoot around the city for a movie. Included was a detailed itinerary. I recognized the names from various TV poke
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by cjcole 6y ago
It's likely a paraphrase of the Jean Rostand quote: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a God." It's in the same category as the ancient "

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