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Oh, I thought this was about Google encouraging the rampant consumerism that is causing so much environmental degradation...

Where are we going to get the additional electricity to power these virtual worlds in the short term? We're already in a climate emergency due to insufficient green energy to power existing demands...

There's Microsoft's Fluent UI: https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui

For those who prefer video there's Julia Galef's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-RZblnhjXK_krP1jDybeQ

She is a co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality & host of the Rationally Speaking podcast.

Unfortunately law enforcement don't have super-human powers and very often don't know who exactly is involved..

I'm not sure what the solution is.. Child abuse is an extremely severe problem. In the future encrypted-messaging may be used by terrorists developing some weapon of mass destruction like a virus. I'm concerned about privacy, but is it tenable to have true E2EE regardless of the harm? For better or worse it seems that human societies will prioritise physical safety over most things.

Even if we have true E2EE, a bad authoritarian regime in the future can simply make it illegal. It's more imperative than ever to prevent such a regime arising in the first place..

By "don't they do everything to avoid hitting civilians" do you mean the warning phone calls? They don't make such calls when their aim is to assassinate someone - for obvious reasons.. The IDF also has good information on who lives where - that's how they know where to bomb - so they know that many children will be killed/murdered - as they often are.. The aim is killing some terrorist leader - which is arguably rather dubious given that they'll soon be replaced and the additional hatred will help greatly with terroist recruitment..

e.g. see https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entir...

There's actually an entire field called Effective Altruism [1] that's dedicated to researching which charities put donations to good use - and there are quite a few of them [2]

Also, overheads like executive bonuses don't _necessarily_ mean that the charity is ineffective [3]

[1] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

[2] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

[3] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/choosing-a-charity/#a-note-a...

Of course that was gross criminality & basically mass murder from the IDF side, but they still used the excuse of Hamas using the protests as cover to attack, to breach the border, to fire flaming kites, etc. Nevertheless there was quite a significant international response and loads of reputational damage to the IDF. The difficulty is that the non-violence has to be deep and prolonged.. The current leadership of Hamas controlling Gaza makes things extremely sad/difficult & is a great gift to the Israeli militarists..

All Palestinian violence, especially by Hamas, is used very effectively to gain international sympathy for Israel and to excuse violent & unjust policies.

A much greater level of non-violence from the Palestinian side would result in far stronger international pressure, and also domestic American pressure.

Thanks! I've read before that org-mode is really featureful but what's holding me back is the time required to get proficient and smartphone support..

I'd also want to integrate notes & TODO - but also time-tracking, i.e. the ability to "click" on any note/TODO and log time against it. Perhaps a TODO can be a note with a tag like "#todo"/"#todo-important"/etc, and time-logs can be child notes..

As far as I know we already understand quite a lot about the neurological basis of addiction. Some treatments already exist but the main problems with them are social & political ones. Discovering better drugs would be really useful, but this can & is being done computationally. In addition, such research may also produce techniques for creating addictions & otherwise more effectively controlling human beings.

It's not just FMRI - what about blood tests looking at gene expression, computational methods, tissue engineering, and stuff that hasn't been invented yet? Regarding ICSS though, I've had a look and I really fail to see how this technique is benefiting humanity..? For example they've discovered more detail about where cocaine affects pleasure/reward neural circuitry - so what?

You're seriously underestimating human ingenuity if you think advances will stagnate for decades.

It's also possible more researchers would enter the field since many young people are probably disgusted by the prospect of having to do dubiously ethical experiments on animals.

I also want ALS And Alzheimer's solved as fast as possible, but perhaps the solution will be arrived at thanks to more advanced tissue engineering and computational methods, and we're 100,000,000 person-hours away from it. But resources are finite, so investment in animal experiments takes resources away from and delays us finding the actual solution. This is of course speculative, but thinking that animal testing will deliver the solution is also speculative, with career & institutional inertia also playing a role.

You could go a long way with the standard scientific method - make predictions, do measurements, compare.

Yes, I know we can't simulate a worm and that it's really hard - that's the point - much more brainpower and resources are required to make progress on the simulation front, but resources are finite and many of them are currently being spent on animal experiments - many of which are arguably not delivering value.

Lets also consider how much more money and brainpower would be redirected to the development of significantly more advanced technologies if experimentation on animals was to be even partially banned. Things like more advanced simulations, tissue/organ engineering and better non-invasive testing of humans. "Necessity is the mother of invention" and currently animal testing is often the "easy" and "obvious" way to do something.

If animal experiments were banned in neuroscience I think it's likely that would force the development of new technologies for studying the brain that would actually accelerate progress in neuroscience - "necessity is the mother of invention".

They have similar brains and experience basic feelings quite similarly to humans.

Prisma looks quite good but what held me back is the out-of-process "engine" that handles all queries and talks to the DB. I would imagine all this inter-process communication adds a decent amount of overhead.

I'd just want a PaaS with easy-to-use rate limiting and caching (e.g. for some routes use Redis if unauthenticated otherwise go to the backend, for other routes cache forever)

There's a really good book written by Chade-Meng Tan who was a software engineer at Google called "Search Inside Yourself". It includes quite a lot of content on empathy - e.g. that apparently the same "hardware" is used in the brain for both empathy & self-awareness, so developing self-awareness through exercises like mindfulness is likely to boost empathy as well.

They're injecting already-made Ψ, not any of the genetic instructions that would enable cells/viruses to make their own Ψ.

But the broader concern about advances in biotech being potentially very dangerous is I think a very good one..

Fascinating & inspiring that so many innovative techniques have gone into these vaccines. I wonder if any are patented?

Isn't this replacing the complexities of JS libraries like react/redux-saga with the complexities of these new server-side libraries..? Reduced bundle size looks like a big advantage & this will hopefully encourage the adoption of lighter front-end tech like preact/inferno/svelte. But the downside seems to be more resource consumption on the back-end, especially if using websockets, and so higher cost & more vulnerability to a DDOS? Also, what about offline support?

I wonder if there will be a "post-mortem" regarding why Microsoft didn't detect this attack earlier..? (similar question for other security vendors)

Perhaps you spent so much energy being kind to others that you forgot to be more kind to yourself?

I would also recommend checking out TestCafe.

It injects its testing code into the webpage via an http reverse proxy which means it doesn't require internal access to the browser and thus works for unmodified remote mobiles for example. One can simply get a URL that any browser can go to & start executing the tests. Many of the issues with using WebDriver or DevTools seem to be avoided.

Another part of the architecture I've found really useful is that test scripts execute in a nodejs environment outside the browser sandbox and thus have the ability to run external programs, make their own API calls, and so on.

Kubernetes is popular in data centres but just take a look at how much CPU a fresh install of microk8s uses with nothing running on it (I often see ~4%). The various monitoring systems & addons can only make it worse. It puzzles me why optimising such things isn't more of a priority given that in the cloud resources cost money, not to mention the environmental unfriendliness..