whearyou

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by whearyou 1mo ago
I recall reading the Arab world was a major refuge for escaping Nazis. Egypt had WW2 Nazi aces flying against Israel unless I'm mistaken? I wonder if the Arabs got nearly as much milage out of Nazi scientists as the Americans or Soviet
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by whearyou 2mo ago
I haven’t found I need to plan way too far ahead of time as long as I’ve defined the interface between the tasks
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by whearyou 2mo ago
Straight out of Echopraxia. Will be interesting to see how strong the controlling forces can be - enough to make you miss things in direct perception like in the book, or only softer effects further up the cognition layer stack
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by whearyou 3mo ago
Feels like the run up to the "current world" in a Peter Watts novel
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by whearyou 5mo ago
Like for the ACLU it seems driven by the personalities that entered the organization. The type of people who in the most recent generation become professional activists are also those looking for an all encompassing ominicause/ideology
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by whearyou 7mo ago
Per Turchin model, the declining population in China has created conditions for more elite-adjacent positions for all those STEM PhDs, preventing overproduction
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by whearyou 7mo ago
I think I have comments going back about 10 years no?
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by whearyou 7mo ago
So interesting I've mostly noticed the fishy seeming anti-Israel accounts, I think mostly because what they say gets up so upvoted
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by whearyou 7mo ago
Posted by a 48 day account that mostly talks about Israel. This has felt like a super postmodern interaction
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by whearyou 7mo ago
What are the chances that HN is getting astroturfed these days? Are mods strict about it? I lots of relatively new accounts coming with what seems to me extreme, but altogether pop-culture acceptable opinions
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by whearyou 7mo ago
Preach brother. Collective trauma traps us all
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by whearyou 7mo ago
Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026134 on the front page it feels, yet again, like we’re speed running to living in a Peter Watts novel
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by whearyou 10mo ago
“It's creating a strange feedback loop: students use an LLM to write the essay, and teachers use an LLM to grade it. It ends up being just one LLM talking to another, with no human intelligence in the middle.” This was the plot to a re
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by whearyou 10mo ago
Israel’s always been strong at “terraforming”. I wonder what unexpected consequences will be encountered though. Eighty years they drained the coastal lowland swamps making central Israel broadly livable - prior it was a morass eg Roman gen
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by whearyou 10mo ago
May we all have this man’s network
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by whearyou 11mo ago
If/when this gets tossed - does the have grounds to sue (and who would he be suing) on wrongful arrest, or something else?
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by whearyou 1y ago
Agreed. Don’t know how we balance decentralization with the planetary civilization/economy’s complexity, which requires some kinds of centralization. That’s doubly difficult because the complexity is what lets the system produce so muc
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by whearyou 2y ago
And great write up on your part. It corresponds with the qualitative observation that violent revolutions are usually led by the “middle class”. This itself corresponds with versions quantitative theories like Turchin’s Structural Demograph
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by whearyou 2y ago
It seems to me the assumption of consensus with disagreement coming from small fringe factions mirrored much of the American experience during the TNG era.
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by whearyou 2y ago
I agree. But it has a similar aspirational quality, to me, as well thought out proposals for eg Moon colonization. I suppose the question left is overcoming the blocking path dependence - the method of mass action to get there.
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by whearyou 2y ago
Great example. In the theory-land of Solarpunk, pretty much all the more fleshed out example I’ve seen imagined also have a similar issue with reality. In particular I’m thinking of KSR’s (otherwise great) novels. It’s a shame because I thi
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by whearyou 2y ago
If anyone here is a fan of strategy games and found this as totally awesome as I did, check out the game Terra Invicta on Steam. I’m embarrassed to admit how many hours I dumped into it.
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by whearyou 2y ago
It was an interesting point to make 30 years ago when the orthodoxy did not include much of that perspective and general society didn’t think much about it. At this point is it the orthodoxy, suffusing pretty much everything in intellectual
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by whearyou 2y ago
It’s a minor effort compared to the hundreds of millions Iran, China, and Russia have spent for a decade on influence operations. Those get little air time in hard progressive or far right spaces since these anti liberal influence operation
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by whearyou 2y ago
From the evidence I’ve seen this is the explicit goal of anti-liberal forces in the world, particularly PRC, Russia, and Iran. I understand those a-hole’s objectives and can emotionally write them off as a-holes, but the way people in the W
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by whearyou 2y ago
Agreed. Other external actors (in particular the Soviets) and internal actors played mayor roles as well. Castigating only the US paints an inaccurate picture of the realities, leading the public and future policy makers to learn partial le
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by whearyou 2y ago
For a case study, Israel vs eg Egypt. Though, for Israel that is changing for the worse - less trust in the government and each other.
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by whearyou 2y ago
This seems effective - trying now and will report back
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by whearyou 2y ago
One of the last living artifacts of the internet that was, the internet that could have been.
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by whearyou 2y ago
I find these kinds of comparison difficult to parse, especially since even aside from inflation the economies in which these spends are embedded are growing. I think it would be clearer to express these costs as percentages of the global &#

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