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Physicist does the math on Star Trek's "Picard maneuver"(arstechnica.com)
9 points by quantified 6d ago|0 comments
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by quantified 7d ago
> “several individuals involved in incidents reported to police were already being tracked by Anthropic security.” Comsider the tracking potential. Now consider that they can perform textual analysis at a scale large enough to figure out
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by quantified 15d ago
America has a worse problem with it than Israel does, it sort of is America's problem. It's not the Israeli army taking lead or Israel's diplomacy taking a hit.
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by quantified 15d ago
100k in debt as a 30 year old? Sock it to those college-educated fools.
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by quantified 15d ago
Do note this is a Koch Bros pro-fossil publication. It'll call out some externalities but not others.
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by quantified 19d ago
Not baffling at all. Wasn't he against the two-button mouse?
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by quantified 20d ago
Ingesting since 8? Not advised for growing brains. It's not that it's too strong. Anyone can take weak flower and make strong edibles pretty easily. It's just available.
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by quantified 20d ago
[ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471295 ] over there. Not much to it.
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by quantified 23d ago
Things that come to your attention as a fait accompli after your representatives sold you out under NDA are generally to be hated. If you see that the land was bought by straw purchasers, you saw deception at work. There's much in the
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by quantified 26d ago
Brings up the question of what the intelligence is used for. Humans exploited intelligence for competition. With each other to wipe out other Homo species, mate more and collect resources, with other animals to limit predator impact and gai
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by quantified 27d ago
> “Terrible,” he says. “Geologists are just as cliquish as AI nerds, with their own set of ingroup tells and shibboleths. And they won’t stop using the word ‘lode-bearing’!” I fear that humans will start to speak in Claudish. Perhaps it&
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by quantified 28d ago
A positive spin would be "hey, we went to war about it and got rid of it" (mostly, except for prisoners, and we can discuss what counts as punishment/penance separately). But that sort of runs aground on how clear the record
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by quantified 29d ago
I've had a hotel cancel me and lie to my face that I called in. I was on a plane at the time they claimed I cancelled. It totally happens.
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by quantified 29d ago
People have their priorities, and putting the data centers into their mix isn't what they asked for. To say "resource abusers think this is a resource abuse" isn't really a counter argument.
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by quantified 29d ago
Similar principle as "cash back" credit cards: make everyone else pay more for you to get your points, if everyone does it, you and they pay about 3-4% more than they would with cash but they happily do so.
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by quantified 1mo ago
Ain't going to happen and you know it.
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by quantified 1mo ago
Fyi it's a video hosted at wsj.
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by quantified 1mo ago
Is there a haveibeenpwned.com for fake comment attributions?
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by quantified 1mo ago
Without reading the article (also paywall), it's helpful to be woke because that's basically now just "caring about others in general, not just selfish" but not required. You could be a selfish racist socialist, for exam
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by quantified 1mo ago
If you have entered Gemini to try to figure out how to turn it off, you're also part of the cohort. A blast of gmail messages from Google has announced how it's part of everything and given instructions on how to find out the litt
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by quantified 1mo ago
A stopped clock is right twice a day, Zuck might be right about something for now. They didn't hate AI solely because of Zuck, they had many good reasons to regardless, and Z's embrace of its slop is a fine reason. And they have p
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by quantified 1mo ago
No tech leader believes that. They would never let their own staff work less than before.
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by quantified 1mo ago
In the abstract, yes, things can be created through applying energy to matter (e.g. transforming land, timber, mortar, sand and metal into a house). Wealth via debt is the financial abstraction/technology, the things that pay the debt
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by quantified 1mo ago
It's his ship and his responsibility, or if nothing else his choice of captain and crew. Definitely reflects on him.
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by quantified 1mo ago
How do you ever choose your boss at work? Never. Oh, by quitting that job and getting another? That's called "moving" when applied to politics. Which is super unattractive in much of regular life, unless you don't need p
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by quantified 1mo ago
Why does anyone believe more tech makes less work? It makes different work, but the 50-hour week remains. More AI will never bring less work much less "abundance".
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by quantified 1mo ago
Sorry, which objection are you referring to?
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by quantified 1mo ago
For a mutual insurance company, everyone is betting that it's going to happen somewhere sometime, that's why they pay the premiums. There is also not "winning" and "losing", there is no particular event like a
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by quantified 1mo ago
This is one of the huge problems with allowing betting. Of course, people could collude without the formal marketplace, but just as social media provides really painful detrimental cons along with its pros, so do betting platforms.
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by quantified 1mo ago
Cargo e-bikes seem like the ideal platform for fair-weather suburbia.

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