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Nthringason Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration

you're saying you don't want neighbors?

Nthringason Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea

actually, my argument is against digital rights management meaning digital exclusive property

I'm aware that's a bit of a leap to get from "lowering quality" to "drm sucks and is a terrible idea", but as I see things, drm defeats the purpose of having an internet

and it is an even bigger jump (at least 16-bits? ahaha) to understand the connection between twich and south korea (who pays for the bits?)

it's remarkable how you critizice my 'lack of perspective', because your comment requires that I narrow my perspective enought that I can fill in the gaps in my own opinion such a way that you get what I'm trying to say

Nthringason Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule

if governance were a technical field (which it is)

that idea would be like a theorem

the remaining puzzle is who is really "ruling" the balkans?

Nthringason The valve at the end of the world

the idea is that life and dead are both a side of the same figurative coin

Nthringason The valve at the end of the world

I wouldn't call that a minimum, MRIs are a higher dimensional signal representation

all people in the world should have access the state of the art medical chat AI already, but this would "crash" the medical "industry"

but medicine should not be an industry because that creates incentives to make people have poor health

Nthringason A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay

back to invertebrates, turning into worms

Nthringason A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay

funny how one "the" flips the meaning of the sentence

I thought I was being paranoid until I started reading the article

I choose to believe this is a freudian slip, which means they're trying to cause tooth decay while pretending to do the opposite.

If I were dentistry as a business, I wouldn't like this permanent (final) solution to tooth decay because of my unreasonably suspicions that the odontological treatment I received as a child was unconsciously intended to make me continue to need 'dental care' instead of fixing anything. Last time I was at a (very expensive private) dental clinic the treatment they pushed on to me was killing my tooth so I would buy one. I'm pretty sure some hugely powerful branch of dentistry is betting on people in my demographic (who get their teeth killed off) buying a full set of teeth from them in the future.

But I would only accept Thompson teeth, the only teeth capable of chewing other teeth

Nthringason OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft

that would not settle it "once and for all"

it would merely settle "for now" becuase as soon as either of them get succeded you will have to repeat the contest

Nthringason Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads

i'm pretty sure that's only a legit business model in the usa

Nthringason How to think about the OpenAI Q* rumors

I'm most certainly calibrated differntly than you

what I actually think is way crazier than that. if you asked me (which you didn't) I'd say that I think that behind the scenes what all these llm and ai companies are doing is licensing chinese tech

i regard the timing for the openai fiasco right after the apec meeting in sf as too good for this all to be true

Nthringason OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft

the only way to settle this is to sum the market cap of both companies over their entire history while adjusting all values for inflation

keep in mind that IBM[0] is over a hundred years old, and microsoft isn't even half of that [0]

[0] wikipedia

Nthringason How to think about the OpenAI Q* rumors

ah, so your comment leads me to conclude that this is part of some hype marketing campaign to get high-level investors to throw money at openAI

...which faintly smells rotten because of them "lack of a moat" arguments

Nthringason Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time

my argument is more philosophical than scientific, so I can offer no evidence

time is asymmetric BY definition. if time weren't asymmetric I would have to call it space instead. (seems like I'm using asymmetry and monotonicity as synonyms)

in my definition, passing is all time can ever do, and it must do it only in the 'same direction'.

finally, in my view it is space which enables backwards and forwards motion.

Nthringason OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft

I'm factoring in their legacy and history

i.e. since they're older they're bigger

Nthringason OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft

because IBM is both bigger and slower?

Nthringason 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

for a while I've been counfounded by the connection between "they're really smart, they do great quality work" and the simple fact that maybe, they just spent way more time doing the work

Nthringason A lost X-Files song

the public (open?) internet is dying

i wonder if there are any nuances between public and open

Nthringason Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time

you should learn how to do humilty

Nthringason Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time

lucky you, mine blew up over a decade ago, nonetheless it's still brand new!!

Nthringason Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time

IMO, the fact that GR is time-symmetric is actually a quality of the math underlying the physics

i.e. the theory, not reality, is where time symmetry comes from. and this is also exactly why those theories have predictive capabilities

but reality is still asymetric in the temporal dimension

Nthringason Researchers have discovered magnetic monopole quasi-particles

their magnetic monopole quasi-exists

seems like some sort of virtual or model-like result based on emergen properties

Nthringason Spotlight: Sentry for Development

it looks to me like it covers the same funcionality as browser developer tools

but I am also pretty sure those are going away soon, which will mean the only way to inspect websites will be using tools like this (+ WASM binary formats + google controlled web-runtime[0] means the open web is not open anymore)

[0] https://thewebshowcase.withgoogle.com/bring-code-from-platfo...

Nthringason Painting is Terribly Difficult

sorry to say that "paint" meaning colored inks are a technology

further, machines which churn out fine painting after fine painting already exist and are old boring technology by this point

the least old instance of this tech is inkjet printers

Nthringason Bring code from other platforms into the browser

I was recently appaled by the text editing exprience in gmail... but this is what I get for not using chrome.... clearly I'm doing it wrong

lagging input, the cursor would skip to seemingly random places as I tried to navigate with keyboard arrow keys; but that is what I get for using a keyboard instead of a touch input device

Nthringason Wikifunctions

so we will need to learn to read gzip (and other compressed binary formats) as if they were not compressed

this is also related to how 2 hour long movies will diminish into a niche... and movies of the future will be more like [0]

this observation is on the same trend as operas; which way back would last all evening (over 3 hours was typical)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Asx_XhPH80

Nthringason Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

close enough

I must add that "good politics" are all about compromise.

In my somewhat grim perspective the best outcome of good politics means none of the constitutents are happy and none are desperately angry.

politics are all about the completely bland and boring averaging

but I come from a land of historically terrible, awful politicians and leaders

Nthringason Argentina's Javier Milei faces airline privatisation backlash

should've learned to make ariplanes first

Nthringason VMware is now part of Broadcom

I think this also has something to do with the whole OpenAI debacle

but I can only guess....