tehchromic

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by tehchromic 3y ago
My understanding of the uncanny valley is that it doesn't get better, it only gets worse!
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Fascinating. I think that the capacity of nuclear weapons and MAD decreased the likelihood of future world wars to so low as to be effectively none. But this article kinda opens the possibility of world war taking place entirely in the data
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by tehchromic 4y ago
I had heard the relationship between countries with better football teams having higher rates of t gondii, now it all makes sense
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Ugly business is industrialization. I suppose it's seems to be the most noble application of technology to avoid the techno-horrors of the past in the future. But there are always newer, greater techno-horrors emergent. In fact, one mi
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by tehchromic 4y ago
"Keep in mind that ideally, you want your market to be addicted to you. You don’t want to be addicted to your market." Brilliant
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Attention and ecological wealth
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by tehchromic 4y ago
What is their ethics and motive? This is #1 question regardless of smartness imo
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Ah, gotcha. Yes my risk assessment was prehensile.
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Risk perception. Clarify?
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by tehchromic 4y ago
I love this. I always wonder why I have almost no interest in novels now although I spent my entire youth buried in them. Occasionally I feel guilty. But I think life became the novel?
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by tehchromic 4y ago
I binge read Doestoeski at the end of highschool and he remains a major influence on me to this day. The reason is that, encountering life's most challenging experiences (which are always human in their origin), these novels are like a
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by tehchromic 4y ago
It's a well meaning article. My first thought is that it's generated by AI in the service of some moderate yet far reaching religious org. "Finding our intrinsic values is no trivial task, but something that forces us to star
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Humans are wiping out the planetary biome as predicted
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by tehchromic 4y ago
The big news in Science (big S for the institution of) is the existential crises of the Anthropocene, the art and technology of sustainably occupying planet e, radically transforming human culture around primary support for the ecological p
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by tehchromic 4y ago
With respect, I think you missed the point of the article! It's that we are all 10x engineers in the right context, even if that's providing the context for someone else to be 10x, which of sounds like you are 10x at!
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by tehchromic 4y ago
what is collapsing is the planetary ecosystem, thanks to industrial practice. Especially in North America suburban sprawl and industrial agriculture and waste have eaten into and degraded what was very recent a deep well of ecological wealt
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Others feel that weird is the greatest compliment.
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by tehchromic 4y ago
Use of the word conscious here is interesting. Is there any doubt that fungi are conscious of what they are conscious of? I think that we have to be careful. Speaking philosophically it's safe to say that we do not yet have a clear, de
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by tehchromic 4y ago
I think it's more that the geneticists have the sense of humor.
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by tehchromic 5y ago
No link because people who like to read about hackers might be offended? Ok
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by tehchromic 5y ago
Even in Davis CA which prides itself on being a primier bike friendy city and most people have bikes, it's similar to what I'm reading in the comments: bike lanes are painted in and irregular. Bikers second class citizens. Every f
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by tehchromic 5y ago
I find this absolutely fascinating, especially in the context of emergent technology. One could speculate: will persistent interactive mass media platforms eliminate or vastly reduce the rate of word replacement? Or will they accelerate it?
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by tehchromic 5y ago
We can and should call this a holocaust and we are the good Germans.
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by tehchromic 5y ago
I suppose as someone interested in cancel culture I would wonder respectfully why there's anything wrong with celebrating beauty as a feminine attribute, or with comparing a beautiful camel to a beautiful woman, (if in fact that's
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by tehchromic 5y ago
Love the name
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by tehchromic 5y ago
It's not likely to be a popular opinion with technologists as AI's potential has lit the technopopular imagination, however this question has bothered me for a long time. I think strong emergent AI suffers philosophical problem th
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by tehchromic 5y ago
I see the artist's experience of family including comedy, tragedy, pleasure, pain, all expressed in the beautiful language of modernist paint which is cryptic and multiple in meanings but simple and direct in material.
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by tehchromic 5y ago
I think science is in a crisis today for the same reason society is: the underlying ethics is a scientific realism have yet to be established. That's to say science, or the advancement of organized knowledge and the corresponding cultu
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by tehchromic 6y ago
Agreed. My point tho is not that mercenary interests are not willing to go to war to exploit resources, it's that the their interest in those resources has more to do with their persuit of status than with an underlying need for resou
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by tehchromic 6y ago
I'd counter and say that natural resources are one, probably the most significant symbol of status with which wars and their outcome are negotiated. But the war outcome itself, rather than diplomatic or market solutions, is specificall

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