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by jjk166 3d ago
No it isn't. Guidance systems are perfectly legal. The FAA has some common sense restrictions like "you can't fly it at an airplane" or "you can't fly it over a crowd" or "you can't attach an exp
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by jjk166 3d ago
Did those dumb bombs tossed out of biplanes lack software because the software was difficult to write or because there was no hardware in the world capable of running software? Given that missile guidance systems predate the very notion of
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by jjk166 3d ago
Well if we found current or fossil life with a common ancestor on other bodies it would certainly demonstrate that it arrived via debris; whereas if we find life with no common ancestor or find no evidence of life at all that would reject t
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by jjk166 6d ago
That's not what KYC being illegal means. It means it should be illegal to impose KYC laws. Just like state religion or warrantless searches are illegal.
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by jjk166 8d ago
> I think the intellectual position "it should be illegal for institutions transmitting money between two parties to identify either of those parties" might require some kind of logical argument behind it. This is both a straw
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by jjk166 8d ago
Did you know they can just beat you with a wrench anyways? The "maybe if we do what they say and don't make a fuss they'll be appeased and stop" strategy fails when matched up against those who will never be appeased and
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by jjk166 11d ago
"If men learn this [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of
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by jjk166 13d ago
> All the emphasis these companies place on technological progress is a distraction from dealing with the climate crisis, said Gregers Andersen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark who has written a forthcomin
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by jjk166 13d ago
A user's hardware represents the worst case scenario they want to be able to handle, not their preferred nominal settings. Most people aren't changing their screen refresh rate when they switch between playing a game and reading w
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by jjk166 14d ago
Yeah, just like no one would ever buy a lead-acid battery. I don't think many people are concerned about their batteries being safe for ingestion.
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by jjk166 14d ago
The purpose of a teacher is not to be a challenging conversational partner.
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by jjk166 14d ago
If the kids don't want to learn, and the schools aren't looking for anything beyond their ability to produce an answer, that's not an AI problem.
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by jjk166 14d ago
> No manager/CEO would say “hey, due to AI my workers get the same work done in 30h for which they needed 40h before - let’s cut their working hours down to 30h with same salary”. Why not? The moment anyone offers this option, they
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by jjk166 14d ago
Productivity per capita has already 5Xed since the 40 hour workweek was implemented. The resources required to comfortably raise a family in a suburban home can be generated with only a few hundred hours of labor per year. Everything they h
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by jjk166 14d ago
> There's an assumption buried in Chesterton's Fence: somebody built the fence. It didn't grow there by itself, so whoever put it there presumably had a reason. Code has traditionally worked much the same way. Even if the
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by jjk166 14d ago
> "A computer" in the first statement is IMO obviously intended in the common usage sense of the term, i.e. the brain is not a desktop computer No one has ever thought that a brain is a desktop computer, and that is not the com
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by jjk166 20d ago
> Nobody is banning legal immigration. It's being restricted. No it has been banned. There is no legal way to do it. Even if it is a temporary ban, it is a ban. If you support indefinitely pausing legal immigration, you are anti-leg
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by jjk166 21d ago
It most certainly is hypocritical. You can not be simultaneously pro-legal immigration and support banning legal immigration. If you support banning legal immigration, you are by definition anti-legal immigration. > Being anti-illegal im
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by jjk166 21d ago
> it is hard to hide the scale of building and power usage from international watchdogs. Because nothing consumes tons of energy and doesn't output tons of product to sell except for nuclear material refinement for weapons. Until da
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by jjk166 21d ago
If the bad actor has centrifuge technology and access to low enriched uranium, they are already weeks away from achieving weapons grade material. If a country with Iran's enrichment capabilities had a sufficient LEU stockpile swapped f
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by jjk166 21d ago
> What has changed here to make them competitive again? Nothing. This is a company that specializes in making medical isotopes, which is something Calutrons are good for - you need high levels of enrichment in a single step, you don&#x27
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by jjk166 21d ago
It's actually the opposite. Centrifuges are a cheaper and easier enrichment method. A single uranium centrifuge is on the order of $10,000 to $20,000. It's economical to run lots of centrifuges, but you could in theory get up to h
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by jjk166 21d ago
"We're not anti-immigration, we're only anti-illegal immigration!" * indefinitely pauses legal immigration *
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by jjk166 21d ago
For context, a US coal plant on average causes 3 deaths per year due to air quality. If we're not calling a coal plant a major source, wtf would we refer to as a major source? It doesn't matter that the aggregate air pollution of
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by jjk166 21d ago
I'm talking about the intelligence claim. There is nothing surprising about a gene having a molecular effect.
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by jjk166 21d ago
I'm referring to the link with intelligence. The e coli experiments has nothing to do with that. > that doesn't mean they're correlated to each other, let alone causal, of course, in either direction. Which was my point.
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by jjk166 21d ago
I was referring to the correlation (or lack thereof) with intelligence. The e coli work is a non-sequitor.
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by jjk166 22d ago
It depends on intended use. If it is to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent a medical condition then it is a medical device that may need approval. If it's not intended for anything medical, it doesn't need FDA approval. For example
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by jjk166 22d ago
Blood glucose levels affect lots of health functions. Diabetes represents an extreme end of the spectrum where the body's ability to regulate these fluctuations fails, but just because your body can get your levels in control eventuall
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by jjk166 22d ago
A world where investors have grown accustomed to absurd levels of growth.

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