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by eb3c90 6y ago
I've found my writing has stagnated due to lack of feedback. Unfortunately my friends and family don't seem interested enough in my writing to engage with it.
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by eb3c90 6y ago
I suspect it is still important to get to know people and build trust in the flesh, even if having a remote leader can be good.
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by eb3c90 6y ago
> I'm more scared of the stagnation world I feel ultimately goes straight to apocalypse. What apolcalypse is he worried about? Or is it the breakdown in politics, due to the stagnation, the problem? Why should the breakdown lead to
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by eb3c90 6y ago
> The claim is largely that voters started to care more about politicians implementing their favorite policies than being the recipient of trickle-down graft. For me graft is a more acceptable in good times. When things are booming it do
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by eb3c90 6y ago
Could you be more precise in what you are responding to?
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by eb3c90 6y ago
> When you look at how many bad decisions have been taken these past few years despite plenty of access to good information, this sentiment seems pretty out of touch… I'd argue we have lots of good information about what is going on
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by eb3c90 6y ago
I've been thinking about these kinds of things a bit. PDE and FEA seem core to lots of interesting simulations. From chemistry and climate to engineering. Firedrake [1] and Fenics [2] seem like interesting approaches to this. I know th
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by eb3c90 6y ago
It can, but lots of interesting philosophy can need collaboration. Good philosophy of mind stuff should be informed by neuroscience.
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by eb3c90 6y ago
One of my wishes is that it would support a hardware token like the yubikey for storing the private key, to make leaks less likely (although it might not be super performant).
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by eb3c90 7y ago
>“ According to Maistre, any attempt to justify government on rational grounds will only lead to unresolvable arguments about the legitimacy and expediency of any existing government and that this in turn will lead to violence and chaos.
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by eb3c90 7y ago
This is one benefit of democracies. People can form alternate leadership structures with different strengths and focuses, without them trying to wrest power at unpredictable times.
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by eb3c90 7y ago
I'd rather not be rich or famous. If I happened to become either I'd try and leverage them in some way to help or form organisations that can navigate the hot mess of our societies next few decades.
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by eb3c90 7y ago
For me trying to negotiate with people playing super hardball (ignoring social norms etc) makes me think they will not honour any agreements made. Because those rely on social norms too. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal etc.
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by eb3c90 7y ago
I've not found it super useful myself. Maybe I was trying to use it for the wrong things? It seems like a good way of creating better understanding for yourself, a less good way of building a community. That seems to be best done off-l
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by eb3c90 7y ago
> The world is a giant ship with 8+ billion each with their own oar in the water. A vessel like that turns very slowly and with a danger on the horizon as complex and difficult to understand as climate change, we should not expect everyo
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by eb3c90 7y ago
I've been thinking about how best to get people the information they need to deal with the climate crisis. I'm thinking about a community run portal to try and match person to the correct advice. E.g. someone with investments shou
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by eb3c90 7y ago
I wonder if you can monitor energy usage (with an external chip) and compare it to what is expected to catch major changes. So for the FPGA you could load it with a risc-v arch and then run that arch through some performance load. If the en
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by eb3c90 7y ago
> I bet that changes in society will accelerate. Nothing is the same except for change, but I argue the that second derivative of change is going to exponentially skyrocket. Whenever people talk about change, I look at my flush toilet w
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by eb3c90 7y ago
> We’re now in a post-individual human world. We’re now in a world that is controlled by these emergent goals of the corporations. I don’t think there’s any turning back the clock on that. We are now in that world. One of the things that
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by eb3c90 7y ago
> So herding rabid cats seems to be the core skill. Cat herding only makes sense if you have an idea of what should be done. Herding for the sake of keeping everyone 'on the same page' can be harmful. If you are trying to get a
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by eb3c90 7y ago
I would also argue that supporting efforts to understand where the methane is coming from would be good. For example Methane Sat[1] looks like it can cover a wide area and is coming on-line in the time frame to do some good (2020). [1] htt
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by eb3c90 7y ago
> And regardless of morals, it's an inherently insecure paradigm. As well as this I think it slows communication of important issues and undermines trust. We need to be better at these things globally so that we can tackle the impor
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by eb3c90 7y ago
> The reasoned response to climate breakdown is to start taking it seriously at a global level. Agreed! That should be the number one priority. I also agree that it is unlikely that AGI will fix climate change for us in time. What it mig
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by eb3c90 7y ago
Apparently vehicle to everything [1]. The car industry seems to love V2* terminology. V2H is connecting an electric vehicle to a home to provide power in an emergency. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/v2x-v
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by eb3c90 7y ago
Trying for agi could be part of a reasoned response to climate breakdown. But I am not going count on getting a reasoned response any time soon.
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by eb3c90 7y ago
It depends how much you worry about society going south because of climate breakdown (and how much you expect AGI to help or worsen the situation). My current view is that the current political hot potato status of AGI means it won't
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Ask HN: Getting into computer architecture design?
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by eb3c90 8y ago
I think the trouble is the majority of those things are not new industries creating consumer goods or services. The majority of them are public goods that are hard to monetise. So they get neglected. Assuming those things can create more jo
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by eb3c90 8y ago
I could do with a sceptical take on some of my views on AGI. I think it somewhat predictable, taking into consideration some old/new ideas. Interested in an off-ycombinator discussion?
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by eb3c90 8y ago
I'm thinking about an AI safety index. Where a think tank rates governments on their AI readiness and preparation against threats (amongst other things). That soft of thing might be part of the answer.

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