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Yes... The ones who 'run' it. Mid level government employees are worker bees, they aren't setting policy.

Women in smaller tribal units might have experienced less threat than they feel now.

It's so interesting that people assume the color of sodium lamps is the color of night just because that's the color technology made it at one brief moment in time. Just goes to show that illumination is culture, just like everything else

I'll take that bet. Care to formalize?

The expensive part is not assembly, it is validation and documentation of that design and the lack of ability to spread those costs over multiple units. Site built units are fine so long as the design is sufficiently decoupled from site conditions that it can be exactly reproduced.

You're conflating internet prices with cost of living when it's almost entirely unrelated. You live in one of the more densely populated areas around, that is significantly more important. I pay more than $100usd for 100mb bonded DSL because there are probably fewer people in my county than a Singapore city block.

I think we've barely scratched the surface of available 'evil' applications for AI that will be immensely powerful. Building, for example, an application capable of building personalized emotionally targeted advertisements based on a user profile would be incredibly effective and probably expensive but I bet it would pay dividends.

You're making the mistake of supposing that since you are often extroverted you assume that many or even most people must be similar, just on a gradient. This is quite an extroverted think to think, so I believe you :)

I'm here to tell you that you are most certainly wrong on this point. People exist that view this kind of thinking as so bafflingly alien that they can't understand how someone would think it.

Social interactions require enormous expenditure of energy for me. They are not pleasant or energizing, they are rituals that must be accomplished to help me blend into a world that is not designed for me. I am most assuredly not being convinced of this by books I have read.

It's amazing how comparing 1kw of power to vastly more than 1kw of power results in skewed results!

Great, sounds like youve planned for the 1/3 of the electrical load that residential usage represents.

This will in fact not happen. There are no models that result in 90% population depletion in less than 100 years

Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra

I guess that is technically correct, but I'm not sure that's a weakness of the underlying protocol

I think ENS basically solved this already. Turns out nobody really cares about the problem much.

SPR cannot meaningfully lower prices at the pump. It's simply not big enough. The only thing that does that is an end to the war.

its a small club, and you ain't in it friend. No matter how many boots you lick.

high functioning sociopaths are still sociopaths. The domination and power are the point, not just something they are doing to make some cash.

It's becoming increasingly clear that AGI is what you call a thing until you understand enough about it to see why it isn't AGI. I think AGI will always recede the closer we get to it.

That's a neat project and cool hardware but it's almost effectively paper, right? Slightly harder to use paper?

Not sure if woosh or meta-meta-meta troll...

And was famously the only person to use the phrase Cambrian explosion, ever

This policy only makes sense if legislative action is effective against orgs outside the US. Otherwise it's not even worthless, it's worse. It moved more development outside the grasp of regulation.

Yes, those dirty foreigners are clearly causing all of Europes problems.

The irony of this in a post about how nonsensical this policy is in Japan is stunning.

And the first most hated man made some really cool rockets too and was a great innovator in the realm of tiny little moustaches.

People can simultaneously be terrible humans and accomplish positive things while doing it.

It doesn't make them a better human.

Oh boy 1.5 billion, that is almost as much as the cost of the cardboard boxes that their GPUs ship in!! Surely this will make a substantial difference and prevent any future occurrence of this crime.

It would be shocking and outrageous if this was a case of this being 'the cost of doing business' for the big guy and a life-ending judgement for the little guy. Luckily our justice system is clearly allowing individual citizens the pleasure and honor of eating cake.

It's also entirely possible that by telling the model it's a human you are instilling human motivations like self preservation, which could be just as bad.

Classical understanding, yes. Black holes have no 'hair'. You can measure charge spin mass that's it

An Alcubierre drive is not a new idea either, but if someone demonstrated one I would be mightily impressed.

That is an extreme example for multiple reasons, of course, but the point is that the gulf between idea and working thing is often monstrous. Ideas are cheap, implementation is hard.

In my area of the country there is one very simple modification manufacturers could make to ensure their vehicles are wildly more useful: add diesel heaters. Heat the batteries and the people during the winters rather than using onboard power to do it. It would sip diesel and contribute hugely to utility. I am in the process of building my own because nobody makes one

I'm not sure if you think the two are equivalent ...