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I was gonna make this comment.

Is there a law that states that any competitive activity becomes akin to poker at a sufficiently high level?

I remember looking up how people solved the problems on project Euler and there would always be a J answer for the first problems taking less than a few dozens characters.

At the time my own answers in C would take dozens or even hundred of lines. I didn't know J existed and thought people posting those absurdly small solutions were just trolling or running a scam.

Man was I left dumbfounded when I learned this thing actually runs and produces the correct answers.

SFW. But this (probably) won't get me promoted!

I might be wrong, but people don't generally consume their date :o)

And then there's HN's side, which is all about enumerating the sides.

I can think of a few.

An offensive one would be to post fake offers to trade government/military intelligence on the dark web writen in the style of the politicians backing up this measure, so that they are put on the feds list and thoroughly investigated.

A better analogy would be a fake construction worker lying about a street being closed and a bunch of people (the press) spreading the lie to the whole town without checking if it is any true.

The fake construction worker has to go, but that's only half the problem.

> No, there are no good schools.

Wew. I find this remarkable that someone has been in every school of the world and is now posting here to report back on his experience.

That"s understandable. HN was launched in 2007 :o)

> Finally, nobody talks how the situation at the Zaporizhzhia is an illustration of the significant security implications of nuclear.

It's in Putin's interest to entertain fear of nuclear in occidental countries. Him moving troops and shelling around Zaporizhzhia could be construed as his latest plan to prevent us from building more nuclear plants.

Anyway the point is moot since Russia is closer to Zaporizhzhia than the EU is and would suffer firsthand from a nuclear incident, so it's not in Putin's interest to actually act on it.

Excuse this rethorical question, but is there any context where being overweight is something positive?

I agree that shaming people for being fat is counterproductive. But dismissing honest attempts at breaking the status quo under the pretense that it is insulting to fat people is really doing them a disservice.

It is actually the most elegant answer to why we're here.

I know Occam's razor is not a valid scientific argument, but supposing that everything just exists removes the arbitrariness of it all, our subjective view of the world in particular. It's the simplest explanation of it all.

I also believe that the simplest axiomatization of this theory would be a paradox. From a false postulate, any true (and/or false) statements can be derived. Including that which describes/corresponds to our reality.

It only takes 0 == 1 for everything to exist, but that's something we cannot logically prove, nor use at our advantage. It's a useless theory of everything, but a neat one.

> Nuclear has a limited future.

Nuclear power is such a dead end China plans to build a hundred of them https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli.... Russia, over 20 https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil.... Japan, probably concerned about what's brewing over the Japanese sea, is going back at it as well https://www.ft.com/content/b380cb74-7b2e-493f-be99-281bd0dd4..., despite Fukushima's disaster.

> It was in transition and couldn't reasonably have been expected to predict gas would be switched off overnight

Except maybe for the war in Dombas plaging us since 2014?

> No one credible called renewables the holy grail.

You are correct.

I'm sorry but let me just drop this reality check here real quick:

Nuclear provided 50 years of low cost energy to France despite an uphill battle in the public opinion. Renewable energy is failing to save Germany this winter despite being hailed as the holy grail for the past few decades.

Everytime you listen to environmentalists talk you'd think we're already there, that countries are already covered with batteries for long term energy conservation, that a continental-wide energy grid has already been deployed (or will in the incoming week) so Finland can get electricity from solar pannels in Spain, that solar panels or wind turbines are great for our sovereignity when they're being produced in China, that they are infallible ecologically when they require rare materials and aren't systematically recycled.

No, green energy is not there yet, and it definitely won't before quite a bit of time. People failing to realize that and fighting teeth and nails against nuclear are gonna cause our demise if they keep at it.

Excellent article.

I am 100% convinced the way forward in AI is finding the right data structure(s) that allows us to bridge between rigorous but inflexible symbolic algebras and dynamic/fluid but blurry probabilistic networks (like DLs).

One thing that I find of concern is that maybe the right way to do it implies building a network that builds the sylbolic algebra itself like suggested in the article. I feel that this approach would require tremendous amount of computation to yield results, much like the genetic code that makes our brain required hundreds of millions of years of trials and errors accross trillions of creatures around the whole planet to get to where it is now.

Maybe there are ways to short circuit this costly evolutionary process. But I cannot think of a simple, elegant one.

Oh, you mean just like what they've done in Germany for the past decades?

Yep, that should totally do the trick.

> I don't plan to secretly monitor any conversations but I think I'll stress that I don't consider online and messaging communications to be private and they will be monitored.

So you'll be lying to your kids?

> (or could be)

So which is it? Because this is what makes the difference.

You seem to have opted for the first option in the rest of your post but never mention why.

>It's our internal jiggly bits that are important too.

For this I just have the right solution: extremely rich iron diet.

That idea is so silly and simplistic I have a hard time believing people at MIT came up with it, let alone spread the word on the web.

We haven't been on the moon a second time yet and you want us to believe that we are capable of deploying a mega-structure the size of Brazil in space?

Just because you can do napkin calculations of something does not make it relevant.

I was a 6.3 as I stepped out of bed.

I took a shower, shaved, brushed my teeth, put on a nice shirt, fixed my hair and offered a good angle of my best smile at the camera. I was now a 9.

>Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a global grid having sun 24/7 and robust to seasons due to production on both hemispheres.

That's pretty cool but I'd rather we achieved energy independence this millennia.

This happened to me years ago with Facebook.

I had never used Facebook during my earlier school years and wanted to jump on the (late) train to help socialliaze with other students at my uni.

I already hated Facebook at that time, but I seriously needed to make friends. I was planning never to upload anything of myself and only use it to check on social events and stuff like that.

I was reluctant to give them the usual personal information during registration, but those were generic info I already gave to lots of other websites so I complied.

After registration, I logged out and back in again, only to find out that there had been some kind of problem and that NOW I was required to upload a personal picture of myself so they can verify it really was me (despite me never having sent them any photo).

I knew they were trying to manipulate me with gambler's fallacy. I went this far giving them some info, surely it wouldn't hurt giving them a single personal picture?

This behavior felt so disgusting to me that I did not complete the account "recovery" process.

The funny thing is that if they had been honnest right from the start and required I uploaded a picture during the registering process, I may actually have used FB.

Reflecting back, I'm glad I did not use it. FB is a sinking ship that did more harm to society than good. And I did not need it to make friends at uni anyway.

> Yet people see to be claiming that LaMDA does just this, and is therefore not conscious.

Plot twist: that article was written by LaMDA.

> Dramatically reads to me like one or more orders of magnitude, but it seems it reduced power consumption by 50%

That's an order of magnitude... in base 2

You will not convince me there is nothing you can do in an instance of school shooting that will reduce the victim count.

Even if school shooting drills were merely performed as a special case of evacuation with special procedures (in a format free of presenting anything graphic or scary for kids) that would be better than not doing anything about it.

You can argue active shooter drills are not being performed in an appropriate manner, but arguing you don't need them is quite debatable.

Fire accidents in schools kill far less people than school shootings, and yet we have fire drills.

No...

The only documentation that specific would be the code... plus the documentation!

I believe those translate nicely to the "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches people often refer to when tackling difficult problems (like brain mapping).

If word gets out that fullfilling those requests does not get your data back, no one would do it after the first attempt.

For a no profit hack, honoring the promises would lead to funnier/more interesting situations.