rad88

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by rad88 3y ago
That hardly strikes me as more obvious, to say the least. But then again perhaps no thing has ever struck me at all.
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by rad88 3y ago
I'm saying that it's unscientific nonsense. Bolstrom has predicted that the number of people potentially in the future is between approximately 0 and 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This isn't an estimate tha
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by rad88 3y ago
Actual people are vastly outnumbered by entropy fluctuations in the long run, according to any number of valid cosmological models. Their total population is greater than 10^35 by far, and does not depend on whether superintelligence is pos
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by rad88 3y ago
It doesn't seem that crazy. Working from a simpler analogy first -- if an alien can read 95% of written English, but completely mischaracterizes the remaining 5%, would a reasonable scientist conclude that they can't read at all a
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by rad88 3y ago
Blowing up buildings, murdering jews, plotting assassinations etc. is substantially damaging. It is "extremist".
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by rad88 3y ago
Why is it amazing that it left the pad?
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by rad88 3y ago
Natural phenomena do tend to make sense when investigated scientifically. It seems rather that not all cosmologists and mathematicians have an obligation to develop scientific theories: - Blackhole Cosmology, Eternal Inflation: unscient
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by rad88 4y ago
The really implausible thing about reversing a broken egg is not that it works itself back into the "original" state, but that it takes the same energy back from the environment (thrown off as heat in the forward direction) and co
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by rad88 4y ago
The figure at the center of all of this, when he was banned, literally just said whatever and started a competing social media site. Concerns about this topic have picked up over the last decade; "we'll carry anything" compan
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by rad88 4y ago
There is no meaning of "housed" that implies "owns a house".
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by rad88 4y ago
Might the lighter O2 naturally rise away from the organics layer? It may then be able to oxidize metals and meteors sprayed into the upper atmosphere, eventually falling back down with those compounds to fertilize the substrate.
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by rad88 4y ago
Long-term we could plant massive new floating plant species in the atmosphere to decarbonize it and form floating soil layers, which eventually would compactify and metamorphosize and spread out latitudinally to form a ring around the plane
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by rad88 4y ago
It's not an epistemic problem. Twitter has to address their users' toxic behavior turning the whole place/world into a dump. Rather that the confrontation taking place in replies and quote tweets and spreading all over the ne
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by rad88 4y ago
That is a very incisive analysis of "software engineering". I don't know how you did it.
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by rad88 4y ago
$1B+ interest payments but no market for the debt. It is as of now a massive high-risk loan (though perhaps it wasn't in April).
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by rad88 4y ago
The most popular topic is so often the post title.
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by rad88 4y ago
[Video clip of a Tesla EV, on fire from battery damage after Hurricane Ian. A fire crew is dousing it with water. Someone observes that they've put 1,500 gallons on it already.]
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by rad88 4y ago
https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1578050503279316992
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by rad88 4y ago
What are you talking about?
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by rad88 4y ago
He starts with a "Webster's dictionary defines" kind of premise and most of the rest is rhetoric. Not one single "woke social justice warrior" values philosophy? That's not blunt, it's extremely lazy think
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by rad88 4y ago
The comparison is with blowing up hundreds of tons of fuel below and around a capsule filled with people, like half a dozen times. Give them a little flexibility on building codes. NASA rockets explode and catch fire due to weather and norm
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by rad88 4y ago
We already live in a tsunami of "passable" algorithmically generated content as it is. The problem is that as a people we are fully in the grips of media culture. We might as well brace for the continued existence of the televisio
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by rad88 4y ago
I was (totally) wrong, but can't delete or edit the comment.
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by rad88 4y ago
The reaction doesn't "require" 120C, that was simply the first experiment they described. They began by confirming that this reaction actually takes place and discovering which PFAs were neutralized by it. To that end they bo
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by rad88 4y ago
The first hot dog man provided nice white gloves for his customers to hold the wieners and toppings with. They were supposed to be returned after use, but evidently they were too fancy and many customers would hang onto them. His wife sugge
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by rad88 4y ago
I believe you. If you know it influenced you though, that means you didn't ignore it or not even realize you could change it, which is the idea I was replying to. Again, it would be surprising if it didn't matter at all, but not u
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by rad88 4y ago
The hacker news banner color doesn't matter and few have ever wanted to change it. But your financial position and needs, what % of your salary you can afford to money-hole until retirement, does matter and is pretty individual. It doe
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by rad88 4y ago
Transhumanism still just seems like the mix of Cartesian logic with absolute fantasy. A purposeful argument for literally losing your mind and grip on reality, after which anything goes, so let's consult fiction...
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by rad88 4y ago
It was, at the least, an unnecessary medical procedure that resulted in someone's death. So you arrest him for homicide, seize the equipment and reveal the fact that it is just some kind of electric chair. It'll go to trial and th
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by rad88 4y ago
My guess is you don't know this woman or even live on the same continent as her? This is a thread of 500 comments from strangers, more or less unanimously condemning the tiktok media culture that led to her abuse. It's possible mo

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