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AI Safety Arguments: An Interactive Guide(ai-risk-discussions.org)
3 points by lukastr0 4y ago|0 comments
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by lukastr0 4y ago
I'm confused. The title says this is about the pay gap among top CEOs. But all the charts in the presentation are about payment of board members EXCLUDING the CEO. Am I missing something, or is this title wildly inaccurate?
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by lukastr0 4y ago
But how would you convert from 23.976 to 24? Either you will have a repeated frame once every 1000 frames, or you would need to interpolate every single frame. Surely the first solution would be preferable. But it would still lead to more t
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by lukastr0 4y ago
I did something similar as participant in this study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.29.21265530v... The effects, with a 60000 lumen setup, were remarkable. Winter depression, which affected me on
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by lukastr0 5y ago
"Do not prevent spreading" suggests a kind of black-and-white perspective. This is not about fully preventing, it's about reducing the risk. Vaccines substantially reduce the risk of spreading or catching Covid. https:/
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by lukastr0 5y ago
The go-to book for this problem is "The Worry Cure" by Robert Leahy. The book starts out by explaining why many popular methods for fighting worry are actually ineffective or counterproductive - for example, trying to assure yours
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by lukastr0 5y ago
I found this summary of Long Covid research quite intriguing and nuanced: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-t...
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by lukastr0 5y ago
Reaction time is something entirely different from being able to notice latency. Read the article, it's addressed there.
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by lukastr0 5y ago
Small changes to personal consumption are not the best way to contribute to fighting climate change. A significantly more effective actionstep would be to donate a small portion of your income to highly effective climate charities [1]. I&#x
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by lukastr0 5y ago
Small changes to personal consumption are not the best way to contribute to fighting climate change. A significantly more effective actionstep would be to donate a small portion of your income to highly effective climate charities [1]. I&#x
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by lukastr0 5y ago
What do you mean? Why can't we receive signals from more than "100 hundred light year" away?
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by lukastr0 5y ago
The question is not the distance travelled but how quickly you need to react. If you're gimballing a rocket engine, this is not going to be a device that can do much movement within 20ms.
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by lukastr0 5y ago
It is surprisingly difficult to make timekeeping unavailable. There are many methods, besides the official timer APIs, to get timing - as outlined in the paper "Fantastic Timers and where to find them" from TU Graz: https:/&
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by lukastr0 6y ago
It's the same thing with helicopters, they need more power to hover than to fly forwards. It's called translational lift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational_lift
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by lukastr0 6y ago
Noise cancelling, in order to work really well, requires extremely fast processing and microphones that are directly on the ears. And then you need earphones with very well-defined frequency characteristics - which would make any approach w
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by lukastr0 6y ago
Wait, you're not talking about the same thing as the comment you responded to. Parent comment was about managed Nextcloud hosting.
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Decoding the Music of The Matrix(youtube.com)
1 points by lukastr0 6y ago|0 comments
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by lukastr0 6y ago
> It's actually suspected that the whole epidemic in Europe originated from the first confirmed infection in Germany. According to virologist Dr. Drosten, this idea has been mostly disproven. Some scientists believed it initially bu
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Why We Sleep – a tale of institutional failure(yngve.hoiseth.net)
2 points by lukastr0 6y ago|1 comments
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by lukastr0 7y ago
Perhaps it's a good idea to place copper tape on all door handles and other frequently touched objects. It's certainly very cheap to do so. Here's some discussion on that idea with more evidence: https://www.lesswr
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by lukastr0 7y ago
> Given crabs in general have been around adapting for 145m years, I do not think the current levels will be detrimental. That argument often comes up when discussing wildlife impacts of global warming. The problem is, the rate of CO2 in
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by lukastr0 7y ago
> Why is VC funding so down the rank compared to self funding, friends and family, angels and even debt? This is not a representative sample of all SaaS businesses out there. It was run by the founders of Microconf, and their audience is
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by lukastr0 7y ago
Then at the very least, you should be able to simulate a biological brain, neuron by neuron, and get an intelligent computer that way. If you agree that's possible, you also have to consider whether it's the most efficient approac
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by lukastr0 7y ago
According to a two-year-old study, the opposite will happen and climate change will weaken wind energy. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/global-w...
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by lukastr0 7y ago
There have been studies predicting the opposite. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/global-w...
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by lukastr0 7y ago
Pgloader is a great project, and I planned to use it for database migration of a small commercial product (from SQL Server). Unfortunately, I never go it to work. Tried three different distros (Ubuntu / Debian / Amazon Linux). Som