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by gooseus 10mo ago
Because the collapse of complex societies is real - https://github.com/danielmkarlsson/library/blob/master/Josep... Unbounded increases in complexity lead to diminishing returns on energy investment and
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by gooseus 10mo ago
I can't help but agree having read the books umpteenth times... even in retrospect I find it more likely that Tolkien added Rosy into the narrative simply to make it clear that Sam was a heterosexual and that Frodo was merely an asexua
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by gooseus 10mo ago
I remember reading The Guardian back in the oughts when they were winning awards for their UX and they were my go-to answer to the front-end interview question of "Which websites do you admire?" Ha, they even have their "Webs
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by gooseus 10mo ago
When it comes to his Antichrist schtick I say "takes one to know one". Also, Thiel seems like the sort of guy with the money and connections to pop the AI bubble whenever he believes it'd be advantageous, whether that is the
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by gooseus 10mo ago
This is funny because I remember having to pay a euro to take a leak at public train stations, and telling people that if they tried to implement this at Port Authority or Penn Station that people would lose their minds at the indignity.
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by gooseus 11mo ago
By Portuguese authorities, not US. Which is why the title says "seized", and not "torpedoed".
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by gooseus 1y ago
> Disney reinstating Kimmel doesn't necessarily mean his show will immediately appear on all ABC-affiliated networks. Conservative broadcaster Sinclair said last week that "regardless of ABC's plans for the future of the p
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by gooseus 1y ago
Same, and I've never had to replace a phone or screen once... I wouldn't need two hands to count the number of times I've even had a scare. People need to get a grip. ;)
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by gooseus 1y ago
January 6th was in 2021, 4 years ago today Trump was 9 months out from having perpetrated the Big Lie about the 2020 having been stolen, attempted to alter the results through spurious legal means, and incited a mob to storm the capitol in
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by gooseus 1y ago
That was a great question to ask 4 years ago, but I feel like we've already gotten an answer at this point.
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by gooseus 1y ago
It is painfully obvious that this administration and their party do not care about the Constitution, or even the principles they were willing to die to defend just 2 years ago. If Trump wants Wikipedia gone he'll just sue them or open
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by gooseus 1y ago
Funny, I'd say that for all of SpaceX's innovation and successes, Starship and its owner represent of some of the greatest expressions of humanity's flaws and challenges.
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by gooseus 1y ago
Because if the future household names don't want to be referred to as "not good" people forever, they ought not sacrifice being a good person for their fame and success.
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by gooseus 1y ago
Neat, but it still fails my Forth simulator test, albeit a bit better than the last time. I hope they didn't have to raise the temperature of the ocean by too much to get these marginal improvements that definitely aren't even cl
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by gooseus 1y ago
Seems cool but disappointingly has nothing to do with sauce, hot or otherwise.
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by gooseus 1y ago
https://ia801604.us.archive.org/27/items/everything-is-bulls... > We exchange diamond rings as part of the engagement process because the diamond company De Beers decided in 1938 that it would like us to. Prior
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by gooseus 1y ago
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDqAMTjWrw Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/02783649251344...
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'Crash-Proof' Hybrid Drone Can Move Between Flight and Ground Operation(thedebrief.org)
2 points by gooseus 1y ago|1 comments
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by gooseus 1y ago
Everyone knows it's mostly bullshit, but that _someone_ is going to end up coming out as the Amazon-level winner. Every single one of these "fake it till you make it" AI CEO/Founders are betting they are the Amazon.com a
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by gooseus 1y ago
I'm curious if any sci-fi authors were knowledgable and prescient enough to write this into their world building? If not, it'd make for a pretty cool plot device if done well.
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by gooseus 1y ago
Gonna take this opportunity to recommend Sovereign. Imho it's the best of the movie of the year, and one big reason is because it is NOT this.
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by gooseus 1y ago
It's because killing unarmed soldiers during war is not a war crime. Rule 3. All members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict are combatants, except medical and religious personnel. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org&#
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by gooseus 1y ago
I heard of the play originally from Chapter 10 of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder: https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-t... Which I did post top-level here on November 7th - https://news.
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by gooseus 1y ago
I've never thought ill of Scott Aaronson and have often admired him and his work when I stumble across it. However, reading this article about all these people at their "Galt's Gultch", I thought — "oh, I guess he&#
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by gooseus 1y ago
But at what cost? And I don't mean the "human cost", I mean literally, how much will it cost to use an LLM as your "operating system"? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every useful LLM being operate
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by gooseus 1y ago
The point I was trying to make was that the Sam Altman's of the world make a whole lot of unfalsifiable claims about the nature and capabilities of his AI, while just hand-waving a bunch of things away. In my merry state last night I d
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by gooseus 1y ago
Lol, 1-1, though guessing my gender on HN doesn't really count for much.
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by gooseus 1y ago
Without habeas corpus, laws aren't worth the paper they're written on.
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by gooseus 1y ago
Well, he drained the swamp, now he's doing what he does best, paving it over and building a soon-to-be-failed casino. Say what you will about "the swamp" (not a big fan myself), but as a metaphor it kinda works since a swamp
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by gooseus 1y ago
I recently published this library for routing messages within an application using the same kind of wildcard semantics that NATS uses - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gooseus/natsrun Currently just test driving it

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