empedocles

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by empedocles 2y ago
Fyodorov's philosophy is a key driver of the plot of the trilogy of novels by Hannu Rajaniemi, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief
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by empedocles 3y ago
I think that pansychism and determinism are interesting theories, but it is not clear to me what I will learn about them by reading ChatGPT potentially hallucinate about them?
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by empedocles 3y ago
I agree, though the cost of an exoatmospheric kill vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoatmospheric_Kill_Vehicle is probably high. And one way to avoid this is the other part of the hypersonic renaissance, which is
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by empedocles 3y ago
I always enjoy hearing Tory Bruno talk tech. The key missing information here seems to be how many of these satellites would be required to have constant coverage of likely trajectories. This depends on the distance at which the laser remai
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by empedocles 3y ago
There have been various successful multiparty moratoria in science e.g. Asilomar moratorium on recombinant DNA, and the (ongoing) moratorium on human cloning research https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcon
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by empedocles 3y ago
I am a big fan of https://merrysky.net/ which is explicitly trying to copy/rescue from the grave the Dark Sky look.
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by empedocles 3y ago
That was my experience, but I am glad that I tried again. Player of Games is much more explicit in the world building (almost too much), and then a good balance is found in Use of Weapons. So I always recommend reading those two first befor
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by empedocles 4y ago
We can dream, but somehow I suspect that the "painful choices" Hunt warns of will fall more on the North.
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by empedocles 4y ago
Not sure I would bet on the pipeline from Norway remaining secure. They have increased their level of military alert for a reason.
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by empedocles 4y ago
Unlike oil, LNG boils off while sitting off the coast, so this is not a long term strategy.
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by empedocles 4y ago
This is because companies buy long term contracts, which are still priced higher than the spot price on the, IMO reasonable, assumption that gas prices will rise again next year as the war continues (and Russia has more options to escalate
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by empedocles 4y ago
Clarence Thomas' concurrence explicitly calls for these cases to be re-examined "For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Ober
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by empedocles 5y ago
Still provides a good faith reason why an Amazon employee might see this and think "I need to apply the company policy on PII here" rather than a nefarious "you are making us look bad"
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by empedocles 5y ago
Larry Niven has a few e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time but I agree that realistic interstellar travel is more often found in older fiction, as we did not yet know how hard it was. What would be re
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by empedocles 5y ago
I would not be so certain that this would reduce the number of ships, rather lower costs for shipping further as they try and find new cargo.
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by empedocles 5y ago
There are some interesting start-ups betting on just that, that carbon capture to general hydrocarbons in a neutral way will outcompete electrifying certain sectors, e.g. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/