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by skew-aberration 4d ago
Drinking culture changed more dramatically in English-speaking countries in late 1800s/early 1900s (temperance movement) than elsewhere.
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by skew-aberration 5d ago
I'm not convinced this is an alignment or technology problem. If my boss vibe coded an app for the customer and then assigned me to get it working, it would be impossible to maintain. If he gave me enough AI tokens to vibe code the MVP
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by skew-aberration 6d ago
Sure, but to clarify the article is describing formalization (writing a correct program), not verification (compiling said program). The author is not making the same comparison. Verification is also open ended (not sure about lean specific
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by skew-aberration 6d ago
Downvotes? Just drag South America or Australia onto Africa and tell me it changed more than a few percent in size. Barely perceptible. North America is not 21.3 but 24.7e^6 m^3 according to google, so the ratio is 4:3. Asia to Africa is 3:
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by skew-aberration 6d ago
Continents are in truesizeof btw. Asia is much bigger than Africa, North America is only a little smaller. When you account for the Sahara Desert of course, there is more usable land in North America.
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by skew-aberration 7d ago
I don't get why people say this / focus on Africa in this conversation. I've never thought Africa was small and was taught about the Berlin Conference, etc in school. All the large continents are near the equator and hence th
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by skew-aberration 7d ago
Viruses probably too hard but I think small scale bioterrorism is much easier and doesn't require fancy enzymes. I think this is actually the best argument for regulation of current models. It's even happened pre-AI https:/&
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by skew-aberration 7d ago
The second field can probably be created by changing the first field while the piece is still cooling down.
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by skew-aberration 7d ago
Textile manufacturing was dominated by Western countries until the 60s/70s btw. Berkshire Hathaway was a textile mill when Warren Buffet bought it. Besides, if people are living in the same conditions today as the presumably Dickensian
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by skew-aberration 8d ago
Starvation due to conflict due to changes in economic relationships, not due directly to unemployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines Almost every mass famine in the mid to late 20th century was caused b
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by skew-aberration 8d ago
Past changes to economic relationships haven't replaced labor either, yet they have led to conflict and starvation. You are setting an incredibly high bar here, essentially a strawman. If people feel disenfranchised due to their dimini
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by skew-aberration 8d ago
> I’m not interested in wild theories about AI driven labor market disruptions leading to widespread starvation Changes in political and economic power balance leading to unrest, conflict, death and deprivation is not a wild theory. It i
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by skew-aberration 8d ago
Many also claimed altruistic motivations for continuing their work, sharing technology with the Soviets
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by skew-aberration 9d ago
'classical economics doesn't know how technology affects the wage' - ridiculous, classical economists were addressing exactly how technology was changing society and economic relationships. they didn't have accurate&#x2F
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by skew-aberration 9d ago
Land value tax / citizens dividend here is different to the UBIs sometimes proposed in contemporary US politics. The idea is that you tax and redistribute the profits on the scarce inputs to the economy, rather than the redistributing
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by skew-aberration 9d ago
This is a topic I'm interested in, but the presentation and exposition on the website leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, it does make you sound like a crank. Almost all of the theory and predictions presented seems to be those of regular
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by skew-aberration 10d ago
What happens if the outcomes were obtained instantaneously, and without effort on your part? Would it be more enjoyable for you? Besides, I don't think you can be driven by thousands of outcomes, by definition, as you can't be in
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by skew-aberration 10d ago
I've heard this argument many times, there's a grain of truth and I strongly agree RE 'arhythmic and atonal trash', but it strikes me as disingenuous. Classical music was somewhat elitist even at the time, coexisting wit
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by skew-aberration 12d ago
I definitely agree. And the common performance optimization metaprogramming (like 'do it this way for this type of input') works so much better with multiple dispatch, tag structs. Way ahead of C++ expression templates and much mo
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by skew-aberration 13d ago
It was once called 'natural monopoly'
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by skew-aberration 13d ago
It kinda feels like Julia competes for the people who write the libraries for R and Matlab. Writing fast and elegant ODE solvers, etc in Julia seems to be easier than the others and they've attracted a lot of academics for that reason.
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by skew-aberration 16d ago
What you describe is very normal in telecom and has been for a long time. 4G, 5G, etc are all totally dependent on every device syncing to the one higher up in the chain. These days typically a digital control loop is used to tune a high fr
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by skew-aberration 16d ago
'All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them' If knowing was the valuable part, then nobody would need a PhD. You could know more by just reading textbooks. Research mathematicians res
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by skew-aberration 17d ago
Delimited continuations? Though I'm not totally clear what you're asking for. Semantics or syntax?
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by skew-aberration 20d ago
I don't think that's necessarily unlikely, but people making this argument rarely seem to understand just how radical a change is required to make that a possibility. e.g most small business rent their premises, and buy goods and
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by skew-aberration 20d ago
Maybe there will be unhackable hardware one day, but it's likely impossible with modern CPUs due to the alarming number of side-channels hidden in the silicon. They might even have intentional guest escape vulnerabilities...
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by skew-aberration 21d ago
Yet people vote time and again for regulation which makes the performance numbers more objective and transparent for cars, white goods, electronics, etc. They pay for reviewers who give them the information and comparisons the marketers won
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by skew-aberration 21d ago
The assumption that optical or analog will be more efficient for a given accuracy though is not grounded. Any non-linear optical phenomenon requires multiple photons interacting in matter, or interacting sequentially with the same matter, a
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by skew-aberration 22d ago
60lb premixed concrete bags are $5 in the US, and getting it delivered would be cheaper at this scale - the slab could cost under $500. The other costs sound normal -> materials + markup + labor. The more realistic money saving would h
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by skew-aberration 22d ago
Note that this is still a significant undercount, as European countries import a large fraction of their carbon footprint as embodied carbon in manufactured goods. For Netherlands, it seems like the proportion is quite high, with approx 4-5

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