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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Thanks. Outside weight-class or aesthetics-driven sports, it’s hard to imagine any scenario where a GLP-1 analog creates a net advantage. In endurance disciplines the binding constraint is almost always fuel throughput: if an athlete can’t
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Fax is still acceptable in parts of healthcare for a reason — privacy under low-tech constraints is an actual requirement. Dial-up was slow, but at least the internet still felt human. Fiber gave us speed, not soul. Sometimes I miss yelling
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I’m not an expert, but GLP-1 is a hormone. Wouldn’t using something like this trigger anti-doping concerns if an athlete took it? In sports, manipulating appetite or insulin pathways sets off red flags immediately. It’s interesting to see t
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
If you compare the viewership of Game of Thrones with the readership of the original novels, the gap is enormous — not because one is “better,” but because different media win different kinds of attention. Most people are never choosing bet
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
If Jim Keller says it, I’ll believe it. My Ryzen agrees — the fans just spun up like it’s hitting 10,000 rpm.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Exactly — if we want redundancy, we should plan and build it. That’s why I offered one possible implementation as a hypothesis, not as a law of nature. If you have a better non-ideal, real-world design in mind, I’d be interested to hear it
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing this. It made me wonder where a future goes when it keeps trying to define both barbarism and normalcy. As a small tribute in return, three films came to mind: Bicentennial Man, Gattaca, Fight Club. I’ve always preferred
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I get the intuition behind fully socializing it, but I wouldn’t go that far. Single-operator systems lose redundancy fast, and that’s dangerous for infrastructure. A layered mix — county-level public utilities, some private operators, and s
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
The long version would take us far off-topic, so here’s the short one: if the tax-paying base collapses, none of this matters. At that point the debate isn’t about pricing — it’s about survival of the system. I could outline the full method
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
My point was simply that electricity has a “civilization tax” aspect to it, and lower baseline access feels closer to the kind of future-proof system we should be aiming for. If the floor is gentle, people can actually reduce usage without
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
That makes sense — but it feels like the balance could be better. If we treat baseline access as a kind of ‘civilization tax,’ the pricing shouldn’t feel punitive for low-usage households.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
It’s strange that in 2025 we still don’t have even a minimal, per-capita baseline tier for electricity. If a household uses less than the monthly per-capita average, why not cap that baseline at something like $10? Yes — that gap would need
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I might be missing some procedural detail, but if there’s no formal “warning → fixed-window for correction → penalty” sequence, isn’t that just state overreach? If the issue has existed for years, retroactively jumping straight to fines fee
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Which one ends up being more accurate — quantum-computing forecasts or fashion-magazine trend predictions?
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
If the official time drifts by 4.8 microseconds, should I worry about my VHS timer recordings?
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
When I buy clothes, I always “choose” the outfit the mannequin is already wearing.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Statistics about humans only work if the population equals the sample, if every respondent tells the truth, and if the quantitative definitions are correctly specified. If any one of these fails, the meaning collapses.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I prefer “rare” to “well-done” — in steak, and in life. Algorithms tend to optimize us toward well-being as “well-done”: predictable, consistent, uniformly cooked. Safe, measurable, repeatable. But human experience is closer to “rare”: unev
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
If a model eventually scores perfectly on every benchmark yet ends up practically useless, what’s the next step? Benchmarks measure competence inside a predefined problem space, but real scientific and engineering work isn’t bounded — it ke
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I wasn’t talking about human reinforcement. The discussion has been about CoT in LLMs, so I’ve been referring to the model in isolation from the start. Here’s how I currently understand the structure of the thread (apologies if I’ve misread
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I might be mistaken, but as far as I know there is currently no other LEO broadband provider that is meaningfully comparable at a global scale. Starlink is often treated as the reference point not because it is perfect or fully resilient, b
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Ultimately it just becomes a question of where you want the choke point to live — in a state actor, or in a private operator. Neither option is risk-free; the failure modes simply differ. A government can shut you off for political reasons,
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
The analogy breaks at the learning boundary. Humans can refine internal models from their own verbalised thoughts; LLMs cannot. Self-generated text is not an input-strengthening signal for current architectures. Training on a model’s own ou
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Winning on a particular objective function never guarantees long-term or general adaptability. It only proves success under one set of constraints — not the ability to survive when the landscape itself shifts.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
If anything, this just highlights the need for Starlink-style connectivity and off-grid power. Of course, once jamming enters the picture, even that lifeline disappears.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Chain-of-thought is a technical term in LLMs — not literally “what it’s thinking.” As far as I understand it, it’s a generated narration conditioned by the prompt, not direct access to internal reasoning.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
I still love the era when everything online was text-based.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
Isn’t this just the stock price going up by 10%? There’s no deeper meaning beyond that.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
We keep optimizing systems, but human life doesn’t necessarily optimize along with them. When a society becomes fully efficient, people start craving the slow, the physical, the intentional.
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by ursAxZA 9mo ago
It might function as a kind of cogeneration-style buffer, but CO₂ still gets emitted in manufacturing and maintenance — and I’m not sure the volumetric efficiency is all that compelling. Still, if we ever end up with rows of these giant “ba

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