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Yes, of course I think about others. I would never go in with symptoms of any infectious disease. Were I asked to work in a building away from people that are high-risk or are regularly in contact with high-risk people I would easily oblige. There are multiple possible solutions that do not violate my bodily autonomy.

I agree with your assessment that major adverse effects are unlikely, but ultimately unknowns are impossible to quantify. I know the risk of COVID, I do not if I am being prescribed thalidomide.

Of course not. If I am sick I self-isolate.

I'm really upset with this decision. I have not gotten the vaccine as I prefer the known, extremely low risk of contacting COVID over the unknown longitudinal risk of the vaccine. My right to make these personal decisions regarding my bodily autonomy is extremely important to me. Under no circumstances will I yield that decision to my employer! Their demand only further reinforces my desire not to take the vaccine.

Which sucks, I like my job.

This is not the first Google paper on the question of energy efficiency. The ask was for Gebru to acknowledge existing Google work on the subject in her opinion paper. Her response to this ask is why she was fired, not the contents of the paper.

The right way to farm is to work with other plants and the weeds themselves to regenerate the soil. The idea that weeds are pests that need to be eliminated at all costs is antithetical to proper regenerative farming. Anything that enables or propagates industrial farming is genuinely a bad thing that we should not support as technologists, it is not at all orthogonal! "A little bit less of a bad thing" still leaves us in a bad place.

Tidbit: the term for this is "sortition."

Wonderful essay. I strongly recommend After Virtue as an introductory text to why virtue ethics is so important in the modern world. I find it very unfortunate that telos, the end-directed nature of people and our tools, has been wiped out by a focus on Darwinian evolutionary explanations.

Pure strain ressentiment.

> is precisely zero to indicate that such an NFT would increase in value with an artist's popularity.

That's definitely how art works in the real world, I don't know why it would change here.

> Also, precisely zero of that value increase would go to "support the artist" - all of the profit would go to the original speculator.

Hold up, this is exactly why NFTs are interesting. They're contracts. When minting ones, you can specify that you get N% of the purchase price when its sold again.

They respect the unique identity.

There are two parts of NFTs, a really cool development and what most people will see. The first reason to buy an NFT is to support the artist in a way that may have value down the line if the artist's work gets more popular. There are a lot of digital artists who I would throw $50 to get some digital print with that in mind, or multiples of that to own something unique of theirs. The second reason to buy an NFT is as part of an insane crypto-ponzi-pump-and-dump scheme. The latter will overshadow NFTs until things settle down / crypto implodes.

I'm looking to create a luxury co-living place with other engineers and automate common chores & tasks away. This post describes the reasoning and logistics behind this.

"Purely theoretical" is too weak. "Physically impossible" is better.

AI Safety guys really like using the physically impossible to advance their arguments. It's bizarre! Pure fantasy isn't something worth reacting to.

"Were I president I would use violence to political ends" is not a call for others to perform violence. It's a fantasy for the use of violence. These statements are not uncommon. It is normal and socially acceptable to wish for the death of sports teams, referees, your mother-in-law, billionaires, bankers, etc. etc. Here, take a look: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22kill%20billionaires%22&src=t...

The American people don't need to be protected from this. We aren't children.

I don't really understand what your coin flip metaphor is supposed to mean in the context of the paper. That Superdeterminism could be used in an entirely facile way doesn't really suggest anything about the theory itself.

When choosing Superdeterminism as an ontology it suggests different paths for doing research, paths that are unexplored and potentially full of insight. That's what is exciting about it to me.

Direct link to the paper this post sets up: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462

Always been a fan of Superdeterminism, happy to see actual physicists working on it.

I jumped to the last couple paragraphs of that piece as most of it appears to be issues that do not have proofs within the theory of evolution. Assuming these issues are presented truthfully, they are valid and should be addressed. If they cannot be addressed within the evolutionary framework this does indeed mean an alternate theory is needed.

The author's alternate theory is that "the basic laws of physics have been designed to generate a cosmos adapted for life as it exists on earth." This theory is not falsifiable. It does not provide any insight into why things are the way they are, while evolution provides incredible insight. I see zero reason to believe this work is anything but ideological.

> The proposed method is wasteful in terms of energy spent to get an answer, specifically in this step : ‘ sum the whole range of possible sizes‘,

Er, the entire approach is motivated by the fact computing p(u) is intractable. That summation is explicitly not done in active inference...

Jaynes is a delight to read if you like an opinionated style over the more usual dry prose of other textbooks.

Charter schools that want to have great metrics select students in ways that public schools don't.

The two most common types of surface mining are strip mines (where there isn't much up/down climbing) and open pit mines (where the loaded portion is going up). It's possible the mine in question is an open pit mine where your loaded descent to the dump site distance > the loaded climb distance out the open pit.

All cars use wiring harnesses, self-driving or no. You want to be able to remove and replace parts (wires included), so harnesses are necessary.

Why is that correct? Looking at their website they're currently running a lecture series/look back at the Russian revolution: http://www.wsws.org/en/special/1917/chronology.html

None of it seems to be conspiracy theory or low-quality material.

I'm unsure on the actual sizing but that wasn't exactly a rumor, that's when I was laid off. This was after a furlough and narrowly avoiding another layoff less than a year into my employment.

Needless to say I'm glad I'm gone, even if it wasn't my choice.

I'm in a similar situation and I'm planning on dominating in Stockfighter during that time :-)

I did look up the data, and saw what you saw. However, his daughter comment links an article that claims "whilst there have been gains in some areas, overall, most Black South Africans are materially worse off now than they were under Apartheid," which I took to be the actual point he was making.

Did the wealth and GDP per capita in the Southern US increase or decrease after the abolition of slavery?

Righting a terrible, terrible moral wrong should come regardless of the short-term economic costs. To suggest that economic concerns trump overturning codified racism is one of the most disheartening things I've read on this site. (I do hope I've misread your comment as a support of apartheid.)

For role models, Limor Fried (owner of http://www.adafruit.com/) and Vi Hart (http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart) are both super awesome!

I am completely in love with the fact that this thing provides a GPIO breakout (and Arduino compatible, no less!). That immediately takes this product from a "neat, but I don't think I have a use for it" to a "holy crap, what can I do with this?" for me.

So, so awesome. I hope more hardware companies start doing this.

ZenoArrow is talking about embedded SoCs though. While Kabini is a SoC, it isn't really suited for embedded applications. These chips usually have a ton of GPIO, built-in support for different communication protocols, analog to digital converters, a lower power draw, etc. etc.