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by csee 4y ago
How do these IEMs with their passive seal compare to active noise cancelling headphones for the purposes of unwanted noise attenuation
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by csee 4y ago
Sure, if we're talking about sampling, which is analogous to co-pilot copy and pasting chunks of code verbatim (which we've seen happen). But the complaints about co-pilot go far deeper than that. Quoting from the tweet: "it
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by csee 4y ago
I don't understand the difference between Co-Pilot on the one hand and Moderna (on the shoulders of medical research) or SpaceX (on the shoulders of physics knowledge and cumulative rocket engineering knowledge) on the other. They all
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by csee 4y ago
This is how it always works, though. Moderna is standing on the shoulders of centuries of cumulative human knowledge without compensating all the sources of that knowledge. Musicians learn from other musicians and imitate to an extent, whic
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by csee 4y ago
Your comparison fails a test of facts. Yandex actively censors any perspective not approved by the Kremlin. Google does not do anything comparable to this.
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by csee 4y ago
It'll be as falsifiable as many other questions that historians grapple with (e.g. did famine X lead to conflict/instability Y?), but only once the warming has happened and we're looking retrospectively. The best we can do no
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by csee 4y ago
It's not just on the apps. Evolutionary psychologists have a bunch of empirical studies that tease this out. We also see this in our genetic lineage, more female ancestors than male ancestors. The evolutionary theory behind it is prett
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by csee 4y ago
> I can also assure you perpetual futures would not be allowed to trade on any exchange inside the legitimate financial system. I don't disagree that the point of perpetual futures on crypto exchanges is primarily to facilitate spe
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by csee 4y ago
It's happening, though, so it's not impossible. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-cyprus...
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by csee 4y ago
> For short term storage (hours/days) batteries are far more efficient. Is that expected/known to be true even as the tech gets cheaper in 5-10 years? What's the level of confidence of this statement?
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by csee 4y ago
The alternative is the way things were 15 years ago, where people found mates via their physical networks, work, family, hobbies, religion, and day to day life. The criticism is similar in nature to the criticism of Twitter and Facebook. Th
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by csee 4y ago
That is the only way out on a local, personal level, since that's all we have much control over. But how is it not the app's fault? When Twitter and Facebook create social dynamics that encourage outrage and division, I blame them
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by csee 4y ago
You give good advice but I was commenting on the well documented asymmetry and inequality in outcomes that cut across gender lines which are likely magnified by these dating apps. It's not bitterness to point out objective facts that a
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by csee 4y ago
Maybe not that extreme but it's a super well documented phenomenon across evolutionary psych and studies of dating app stats.
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by csee 4y ago
For the top few percent of men.
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by csee 4y ago
You make a good point about discarding the source of random noise that the one-time pad is being applied to, and just focusing on the thing that's generating that one-time pad. But I still don't know where to draw the line and how
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by csee 4y ago
If the observable universe is too small, what about the observable universe sampled at multiple points in time? Or just an iron bar that's repeatedly sampled along a time interval, with the desired encoding changing between each sample
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by csee 4y ago
What about the arguments outlined in the article? You first dismissed the arguments because an iron bar couldn't have enough physical states. But we both accept that there are physical objects which do have enough physical states, even
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by csee 4y ago
"To achieve a persistent mapping for a significant time you'd probably need an iron bar something like size of the observable universe" But the observable universe exists. So why can't the observable universe app
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by csee 4y ago
Why do you think it's absurd? If we do eventually create an AGI that is significantly smarter than us in most domains, why is it that we should expect to be able to keep it under control and doing what we want it to?
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by csee 4y ago
Are they observer independent? From the article: "Of course it is simplest to build a computer where the high voltage states correspond to 1s and the low voltages states 0s or vice versa. But there is no requirement that we build o
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by csee 4y ago
"AI is not going to ... destroy the world." Bare assertion fallacy? This question is hotly debated and I don't believe it can be so easily dismissed like that. It is not obvious that aligning something much smarter th
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by csee 4y ago
WW1 and the famines after the revolution were more of a humanitarian low point for them than 1991. Even after considering the dip in life expectancy and the financial crises and the kleptocratic corruption, the 1990s doesn't compare
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by csee 4y ago
I was with you until you started with the credentialism stuff.
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by csee 4y ago
Being underestimated increases the probability that the enemy will miscalculate and decide to wage war against you, which leads to a lose-lose scenario. This has happened many, many times in the past. It is best to project strength (to dete
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by csee 4y ago
It's not about actual vulnerabilities (although it may also be), it is about the general public's confidence in the legitimacy of the election. Voting machines do not instill confidence, and that is a bad thing for a democracy
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by csee 4y ago
Safe to install random add-ons like this?
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by csee 4y ago
> I think it much more convincing that social values determine the direction in which a country allows government to rule them. There's some truth to this, but you can do event studies to show that economic conditions play a very la
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by csee 4y ago
Islam is hugely important for explaining the failures of the US and Soviet Union in being able to exercise influence in the region. It provided ideological resistance to the spread of communism which largely explains communism's failur
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by csee 4y ago
Technically true, but this reeks of false balance fallacy. The US recognizing that Yatsenyuk will inevitably take power (given that he was the most popular opposition politician by far ) and strategizing about factional politics following

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