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Which has a huge effect on the speed of innovation, the cycle time is such that making a better nuclear system takes much longer than solar. So comparing costs gives one result, comparing cost curves quite another

How does lesics arrive at that figure? In my turbine design course we were taught that the absolute maximum is around 57% else the outgoing fluid won’t have enough kinetic energy to get out of the way of the incoming

There’s a blast from the past. I played the associated online game back in the day, dang I’m old.

Anyone who complains about “toxic fandom”, particularly for a franchise they inherited (which includes all of marvel and Lucas film) is thumbing their nose, you can call it what you like but the behaviour is evident. It used to be, when an adaptation was bad, writers and execs would blame each other and audiences would sorta side with writers. Then game of thrones proved it was possible to make an adaptation that was both faithful and good cinema, so now writers and execs blame audiences when they fall short.

I really believe I have a good idea for this question[1]. There is no reason advertising couldn't be nagging me to do things I want to be nagged into doing anyway. But damn, the actual work to disrupt such an entrenched snakepit of self-justification is daunting. I don't think it's at all impossible to build something much better, just really hard to get the necessary mindshare from an industry built on taking mindshare.

[1] https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos/post/making-advertisin...

On the free market side of things, that is reasonable. The danger I see is that not working people will outnumber working ones so much politicians will cater to them at the expense of the working population. Taken to extremes, this could lead to such extreme wealth transfer that nobody working can afford a family, the feedback loop goes positive, and the culture self terminates.

Canada’s economy runs on unrefined natural resources and housing. Without a domestic manufacturing sector all more consumers can do is keep the housing party going a while, that’s hardly a long term strategy. Might goose the numbers in advance of the next election though.

I'd call that a proxy for what kind of parent you prefer your state to be, but it's probably complex enough that you could just as well start the feedback loop at gender role and work out from there.

"Chatgpt, write an email based on these bullet points!"

"Chatgpt, summarize this email into a few bullet points!"

Somehow, I doubt we'll notice. The reason we don't send the bullet points email today is that the receiver will think we're angry with them. In University the engineers all needed alcohol as a social lubricant, if chatgpt replaces it I expect we'll trade hangovers for higher electricity bills and carry on.

I find the only predicting factor in which policies the right or left will adopt to be what sort of parent would implement them- the right wing want the state to be a father, the left want it to be a mother.

By that lens, it makes total sense that the more seriously one takes the right-left polarity, the more one needs a parental figure!

given how hard it is to replicate studies in Psychology, maybe the 'rational economic actor' theory, while obviously wrong, still makes better predictions that any theory that more accurately models the humans involved? After all, one of the main things that makes real humans different from rational actors is our unpredictability.

Well, I think his position is more, "u simply pull the lever if you're sure you won't get caught", which logically might require telling other people you wouldn't pull the lever. So in that sense, one can speculate all kinds of things that he would do without telling others. I suspect his idea of proper obfuscation is more in a sense of double meanings - philosophers love those, and I think it was the basis of the 'noble lie' cited upthread.

I think in theory, there could be very different axioms that both have so many open questions that competing schools vie for the best talent to explore 'their' space. Whether that's a situation likely to ever occur I have no idea.

We already have a conveniently-placed fusion reactor that's boing to be operational for a few billion years.

And yet the birth rate keeps declining. Maybe we're collectively smarter than we fear.

I think they mean consensus about which axioms to accept. There could be competing schools of mathematics along those lines, I think there just happens not to be.

First time I’ve heard the 2027 number. Given current fossil reserves 2127 would probably be early enough for civilization to pull through.

Considering the overall tone of your comment 2027 comes across like a favourite straw man.

I always thought it was the shrinking population

Regarding the 'looks don't matter, class does' hypothesis discussed in the article, does anyone know whether attractiveness correlates with social class? Seems like a weird thing to assume is uncorrelated.

That in some patients there might be adverse health effects from the vaccine. That the us funded gain of function research in novel coronaviruses. That the virus would mutate faster than the vaccine rollout and Covid would go seasonal.

And you’re still avoiding the question.

you're avoiding the question.

that sounds interesting! I'm in eastern Canada and would more likely be helping out on my parents' permaculture homestead or planting extra berries in my own suburban yard than helping yourself, but if you're documenting the process I'd like to see it!

Applied to much more than your garden is very true. I related all the principles of permaculture to my jiujitsu class. Hard to say if they helped, since I already had been practicing them in a different 'bundle', but definitely speaks to how universal they are in systems with complexity and feedback.

They’ll be adding ‘minor attracted persons’ to the kiriarchy rubric any day now…

Not ridiculing xi is the regulation

there's a line of thinking that it's strange how many of our leaders are psychopaths. But for all we know, it's strange how few of our leaders are psychopaths relative to other cultures throughout history.

I agree that codons are probably the best basic unit to work off rather than base pairs or other units of organization. I'd say we agree on step one, I'd be interested in your feedback on how I approached steps two and three.

Where I disagree with a lot of existing approaches is that given the decision to assign sounds on the basis of codons, most people assign them arbitrarily. I think that gets stuck in the postmodern dilemma, where everything is subjective so there's no basis to compare one system to another. So I wanted an approach that had logic in the loop somewhere, even if it had enough subjectivity that someone else following the same logic would come to a different conclusion.

What I hit on is convergence of emotional associations. Individual neurotransmitters are associated with particular emotions, and also particular amino acids - therefore, one can assign emotions to a subset of codons. One can also assign emotions to musical elements, hence there's a basis for assigning sounds to codons in a non-arbitrary way, with emotional association acting as the cypher between the two languages.

that's what I consider 'step two' of the process. My thinking is, someone could come up with a better logic (not using emotion as the common known element) or apply the same logic using different musical elements (assign different tones given the same emotional targets). Unfortunately, most people I asked from a music theory perspective didn't have much interest in suggesting different approaches here, so I had to work off my own subjective sense. If you've ideas what chords should be assigned to which codons, I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts there (or anyone who's into music and logic puzzles).

Here's how I actually assigned them so people get an idea: I started with pentatonic scaling (G, C, A, B and D) and four major neurotransmitters (GABA, Serotonin, Dopamine, Acetylcholine) and assigned tones to the neurotransmitters based on which 'sounded' like the emotions those neurotransmitters give. So I started from a chart like this:

GABA Gminor

GAG 337hz

GAA

Serotonin Cminor

UGG 370hz

Dopamine Amajor

UAC 440 Hz

UAU

Acetylcholine Bmajor OR Dmajor (Acetylcholine has two precursor amino acids rather than one)

UCU 494

UCC

UCA

UCG

AGU 587

AGC

But even if one accepts the logic in step two, there's probably still better ways to assign sounds. I'd be interested in any suggestions from folks with more musical theory than myself.

I don't understand your second suggestion - pitch of a particular chord would be determined by how much variation there is in pitch around it? Could you give an example of how it would work?

Thanks! I'll check that out and see if it gives any insights.

sounds like a recipe for ensuring AI is used to entrenche the interests of the powerful.

speaking from my own experience, I got to leave on my own terms instead of worrying about making rent for any amount of time.