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What this is really saying is that hardware is a necessary precondition for, but not determinative of, intelligence. If you have a human brain worth of neurons firing randomly you don't get consciousness. The structure and instruction set is crucial. And we are perhaps 20 years away from figuring out how to structure the compute power we have to get the consciousness of a human adult.

The President of the United States has sole nuclear launch authority. To stop him would either take the cabinet and VP invoking the 25th amendment and removing him from office, or a military officer to disobey direct orders.

If public ownership means we give one guy a button to end the world, I'm not sure how's that's a meaningful difference.

Suddenly there's no incentive to build in all areas.

It's the result of protectionist government policy. The policies are protectionist not just against foreign entry but also against entry of new products into the market. The government picks technology winners. Unsurprisingly, the government doesn't do a great job of this. Infamously it mandated usage of ActiveX and Internet Explorer for banking long after ActiveX had its time in the sun (the government made this the mandate in 1996 and didn't reform it until 2021!)

Internal monologue (or dialogue, as it can play out as imagined conversations) is an apt name for it. Imagine reading a play. Everything is expressed as language, and ideas and concepts are expressed through that language.

Adds historical context as to a duration of an extremely long-lasting problem?

Not sure about this case specifically, but its possible to sell shares in a private company (with some restrictions), and for companies like Stripe that have very high valuations its not that hard to get liquidity.

- Also in NYC (Roosevelt Island) have every building hooked up to pneumatic tubes and suck it all into a central collection location.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539304811/how-new-york-s-roos...

A tab is roughly a standard dosage. One problem is that LSD is such an extremely potent chemical (the effective dose is measured in micrograms) that it is difficult to be confident in your dosage when it hasn't been produced in a rigorously controlled pharma environment. So even one tab might be actually several times stronger than you're expecting.

I've seen bad trips, I've even seen one case of psychosis. My personal opinion is that the positives still outweigh the negatives. The negatives are also easily mitigated by providing a safe and positive setting (and would be even more so with standardized production); clinical administration would be quite safe. Benzodiazepines are effective in stopping the anxiety spiral of bad trips.

That's really not what the article is about, it focuses heavily on the evolutionary history and adaptation of the orchid and talks very little about its resonance with the human experience.

Statistically, factually, there is no recession. If anything a big chunk of the media likes to pick out anecdotes like this and say there is a recession when there isn't.

The vast majority of US weather data and forecasting comes from the National Weather Service, and you can access it directly at www.weather.gov

It's not profit earning. Unity lost almost a billion dollars last year. This is a move of desperation.

Are you thinking of lacrosse or squash? Searching for High School sports pages on this turns up very little.

The authors are supposing that dark matter at this stage of the universe has its own particles and antiparticles and they are annihilating each other, the energy released by that annihilation is generating the heat.

This was illustrated by comparing his written argument, which was compelling, to the ChatGPT transcripts, which were insipid and bland, even when given the germ of an interesting point.

Maybe in a year ChatGPT will be retrained on a million AI thinkpieces and it will be able to construct an essay with some interesting points. But humans need to come up with and communicate those interesting points first.

Humane by who's standards? Should the government be mandating how to raise children? Maybe the government would think compelling church attendance is a humane policy to protect children. Or we could let parents decide how to raise their kids.

Never mind that the policy here is actually not about protecting children at all, since its banning an app entirely where the vast majority of users are adults.

This is America, we follow through on our threats of violent aggression, no matter how far away other countries are. And when we ban speech, it's not authoritarianism, it's Freedom.

Before Uber (around 2010) LA County mandated that Taxis accept credit cards. I don't think I ever managed to get in a cab where the credit card reader wasn't mysteriously "broken."

The goal of the police is to have secure jobs with a decent salary and benefits, and ideally be meaningful in some way (could be promoting public safety... could be exerting power over others).

Often enforcing the law helps secure budgets (especially when it comes to enforcing drug laws with lucrative civil forfeiture seizures), but more recently many police departments have tried a different tactic when budgets have been threatened: actively refusing to enforce the law, in order to increase crime and prompt political change.

Bah, humbug.

His lawyers fired him because he wouldn't shut up. https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-bankman-fried-lawyers-quit...

I'm not sure how you'd read this as a puff piece. The reporter described his reaction to the interview as "appalled".

The "increasing demand" lever also reduces affordability over longer timescales as prices rise faster than wages, so people without a home are priced out of ever buying one.

They would definitely not be publishing results of the power increase on the same day of the increase. These experiments take a lot more time than a day to perform and analyse.

Have you tried not paying taxes?

Our entire dev team switched from MacBooks to laptops running linux.

30 years ago in order to navigate somewhere you had to ask someone for directions and write down notes. If you missed a turn, god help you. We fundamentally move through the world vastly differently thanks to digital maps. Many people (and in a few years, the majority) are doing so in cars that use electric motors instead of internal combustion engines.

One way to tell whether you're in an 80s house would be to look around for reference books, encyclopedias, rolodexes, filing cabinets. If you wanted to know more about something, you probably had to go to a library, which might not even have a book on the topic (maybe if you were particularly determined to know the answer you'd wait a few weeks for an ILL).

Its a bit sad to me that you look at this enormous sea change in how we interact with the world and see Angry Birds.

In the US, the required reserve ratio has been 0% since March 2020. I personally wouldn't view the traditional financial system as about as trustworthy as things get.