walkhour

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by walkhour 2y ago
What books in particular would you recommend?
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by walkhour 3y ago
This argument gives a 35% chance of AI "taking over" (granted this does not mean extinction) this century: https://www.foxy-scout.com/wwotf-review/#underestimating-ris... . The argument consists of 6 steps, as
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by walkhour 3y ago
The US military budget is 12% of the total. > I want affordable housing. Affordable healthcare. High speed rail. Better zoning laws. New subway lines. Are you saying we only need 12% of the budget to fix these things? Note that coinciden
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by walkhour 3y ago
This is just the beginning and we don't know what will happen. Some people will say creative destruction is happening and people will find other jobs. They may equate this to the horse drivers finding other jobs at the beginning of the
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by walkhour 3y ago
> Germany was especially vulnerable to the withdrawal of Russian natural gas supplies—the country used a disproportionate amount of natural gas for its heavy industry and gas-powered home heating systems, and in 2021, 55% of German natur
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by walkhour 3y ago
> found the digital keys to his crypto fortune hidden in a basement floor safe and a popcorn tin in the bathroom. Apparently he didn't voluntarily give away he's secrets, they were found around his place.
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by walkhour 3y ago
> Quinney should be entitled to compensation from the state. It isn’t immediately clear what the final number will be but it will stretch into the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Hundreds of thousands for eight years in jail, d
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by walkhour 3y ago
The fact that bureaucrats err on side of minimizing deaths caused by experiments is just a consequence of deaths being caused by experiments being unequivocally trivial to prove. Meanwhile finding out the number of deaths caused by extra ca
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by walkhour 3y ago
> No I don’t agree that heritability of IQ is well established > Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component ... You have written both statements ...
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by walkhour 3y ago
Someone said a few posts ago housing can't be affordable and a good investment. This is just madness, house prices are guaranteed to go up and affordability is likely to increase zero .
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by walkhour 3y ago
> Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component, it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis Sure, but this is not the claim I originally quoted. I was
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by walkhour 3y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man Doesn't this author have a terrible reputation? And he's known for standing by disproven theories? I'm surprised you didn't find a better exa
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by walkhour 3y ago
Jobs may even be outsourced from the cities to cheaper areas in US. Not many countries allow firing at will, and apparently this is needed every ~10 years for 20% of the staff.
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by walkhour 3y ago
That article is largely a pseudoscientific swindle, and it has repeatedly been rebutted, please see https://archive.ph/PCvgk . Overall I'd recommend not taking a single article and using it as something that can refute
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by walkhour 3y ago
> Most psychologists today believe that the supposed heritability was observed because of bias within the research. This is the crux of your comment and its a huge statement. Do you have evidence supporting this claim?
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by walkhour 3y ago
Same reason animals living in darkness lose their sight. There's a cost to keeping the hardware, and no rewards.
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by walkhour 3y ago
A non biased article would've mentioned how much Bitcoin mining accounts for the total energy used in US. And that would've been compared to the energy used in other industries. Take videogames for example. Just that datum would&#
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by walkhour 3y ago
The factual claims are accurate. The implications are not. Only one side of the story is told. You can outright lie with a stream of facts, and that's the approach of hit pieces like this. I said cold blooded because the authors are aw
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by walkhour 3y ago
Simply a cold blooded, profoundly biased, partisan piece of the most outrageous propaganda on Bitcoin. > By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly 40 people had died, some from the freezing cold. And you know what? These deaths may not have ha
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by walkhour 3y ago
The drop in attendance is not because schools are under funded, or the staff is burnt. It's pretty clear the biggest changes that have happened in US schools in the last years.
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by walkhour 3y ago
We also don't have examples of one of the two contemplated options, we haven't seen a technology that has destroyed the world either.
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by walkhour 3y ago
> If you don’t believe in crazy science fiction scenarios like these, fine. But then why are you so sure that it’s crucial to “win” the AI “race”? The whole point of the article is that either AI is not that big of a deal and like many o
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by walkhour 3y ago
AI is going to very early optimize this use case. I fear for the Dr's job because I can't see what many of them will be needed for.
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by walkhour 3y ago
Such a long post and you still haven't proven high car insurance costs are a root cause of poverty. This is the only thing that matters, not whether you personally find something bizarre or not or the non sequitur about young people an
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by walkhour 3y ago
I don't accept that dichotomy despite I see value in the argument. Since the invention of nuclear bombs, how many countries without nuclear weapons have lost their sovereignty of those surrounding Russia? Btw if it's either NATO o
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by walkhour 3y ago
This is an excellent deal for Finland, whose sovereignty is protected. Is it the same for the US? Do I want an attack against Finland to be considered an attack against the US? An attack against the US can unleash the end of humanity. I fin
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by walkhour 3y ago
Your haven't quoted me, and your original statement is still false. Please write precisely, write what you mean, so others don't have to realize you actually mean something else than what you wrote
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by walkhour 3y ago
Please quote the statement that I wrote that you think it's propaganda. I'll do the same: > Russia has gone backwards for a year now. This is false, Russia went backwards, and then went forwards. Maybe you meant to say "ha
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by walkhour 3y ago
Rusia has been inching forwards for months. That's just a fact. Propaganda has got to you.
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by walkhour 3y ago
Individuals like LeBron James do it — a self proclaimed human rights activist. Companies do it. I have yet to see a public entity who has a spine on this topic and is well respected. It's obvious this is a business decision, not some c

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